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by menloparkbum 17y ago
I used to buy math and science books all the time. I probably read 25% of the books I bought. I quit buying books in general after I moved. Moving 500 books sucks. Now I only buy math and science books if I actually plan to work through the
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
I used to be a prolific ranter with an interest in Lisp. Running into Eric's posts inspired me to give that up - I didn't want online rants to be my legacy. Related, Xah Lee's crazy writings inspired me to take my social life seriously and
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
This is how I got started programming professionally. During my freshman year, my CS prof had funding for a climate research project and he first set me up as a UNIX admin then a C and Perl programmer. In addition to learning UNIX and progr
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
He seems to use it to deflect the TDD crowd. Personally, I found it boring.
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
Repeatedly mentioned by whom? Rich Hickey.
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
There's no: you broke the law, but factor X and Y should increase our leniency. Actually you're completely wrong. The legal system is there to look at factors X and Y and determine if and how they should affect the ensuing penalties or aw
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
It's too early to search for anything besides large expo sized events. Smaller events are often only announced a month or even a week before they occur.
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
You really do think the worst of everyone don't you. I wonder what that says about you? :/ That he's either Danish or Australian?
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
I like James R. Newman's "The World of Mathematics." It's a four volume set and you can often find it at a used bookstore for next to nothing.
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
I miss Bozeman, MT, but this is one of the reasons I'll never be returning. I guarantee that most of the population there doesn't see why this would be a big deal. Drunk driving is a forgivable offense, actin' up on the internet is not.
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
Incidentally, having personally written the software behind an irc network that's bigger than freenode From what I've read in your comments in the past, I'm assuming you used Twisted for the IRC backend. I was wondering, if you were start
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
It's an encyclopedia of essays on math topics. It's very comprehensive and well edited. However, while it's a cool book, speaking as a former math tutor, it isn't the most helpful from a self study perspective.
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
I want some recommendations on good math books on: calculus, discrete math, probabilities, statistics Calculus Made Easy by Silvanius P. Thompson (Feynman taught himself calc with this book) Concrete Mathematics by Knuth, Graham, Patashn
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
Google wants to own a piece of a biotechnology company because it is owned by the wife of one of the founders Still, I've always wondered why this was an investment by Google, rather than having the money come out of Sergey's pocket.
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
Having sequoia and NEA also helps a lot beyond the dollars. How do they help beyond the dollars? I did two startups backed by Sequoia and they didn't provide any help besides the money.
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
There is a theme park aspect to Silicon Valley but the Detroit analogy isn't a very good one. Plus, wasn't Digg in The City? The SF startups have traditionally been sillier and more prone to the party and gossip scene than the ones in the S
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
Actually, they do profess to be experts at building accounting systems. Accenture was spun out of an accounting firm and as you mention they've been building accounting systems since 1953. Building payroll and other accounting systems is on
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
Heh. Well, I dunno what to tell you. You can probably do some sort of auto-forward + reply-to: address kludge to fake it. It sucks, but to be honest I personally don't mind. I've been making apps with the push API and beta testing the AIM c
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
is there some good reason I can't get mail pushed to me? It's because Apple wants you to pay for MobileMe. Not necessarily a "good" reason, but I suspect it's "the" reason.
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
It's interesting that he read all the books on his list (he has notes about each one) and was still a success. Most of the people I know who have reading lists like this are a personal and professional mess. On the other hand, I've never me
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
The co-working spaces in SF are for the weird startup crowd. It turns out most of them are for the weird social media consultant crowd, because that is who runs them and they tend to be cliquey. They aren't business incubator spaces. I'm
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
You submit a binary to the app store, not source code.
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
Coffee, power outlets, a price that isn't ridiculous like the current co-working spaces in SF. Maybe some sort of programming quiz to keep out the weird "social media consultant" crowd. Also 24 hour access. Most (all?) coffee shops in SF cl
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
Well, legally you have to be 35 to be president, and 30 to be a senator. Many states have age restrictions on governorships, too.
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
I haven't seen one of these Dwell-Magazine-Modern-Prefab inspired cottages, but an old girlfriend of mine lived in a studio cottage in the Bay Area. I also checked a couple of them out when I was looking for an apartment a few years back. S
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
The carb sources you mention have very different GI loads. Potatoes are very high, Grapefruit is low. The rest are in between.
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
I've been using Clojure for about a week and out of the issues mentioned in the article, I find the stack trace and import issues the most annoying. Also, since it's built on the Java ecosystem, clojure seems to have inherited all the confi
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
In the music industry, don't you have to pay an advance back? Wouldn't that mean an already rich songwriter can pay it back, even if he bombs?
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
1) This is impossible. What exactly is impossible? Getting anyone to use it. How will you get users?
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by menloparkbum 17y ago
It's too meta. It's also impossible. HN and Digg and Reddit are not going to implement your universal reputation system. This has been tried before by at least a half dozen companies and you've never heard of them because they all failed. L

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