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Riemann for Anti-dummies: Introduction and Critique

geniebusters.org·25 pts·asciilifeform·
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HyperCard: What Could Have Been.

wired.com·27 pts·asciilifeform·
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PlantBot: Humans Provide Gift Of Greater Mobility With 'Skrodes'

technovelgy.com·1 pts·asciilifeform·
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Dear PG: Please post a canonical list of editorial guidelines for HN.

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Formalizing Human Ignorance: Collision-Resistant Hashing without the Keys [pdf]

eprint.iacr.org·4 pts·asciilifeform·
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Ask HN: Concrete examples of honest people with anything to fear from the GPL

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In the 1950s, one could buy a miniature electron microscope.

smecc.org·19 pts·asciilifeform·
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Earl "Madman" Muntz: forgotten American Inventor/Industrialist

lupoleboucher.livejournal.com·10 pts·asciilifeform·
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"KeyFixer" Firefox Plugin: Forces correct behavior of HOME/END keys on the Mac.

heisencoder.net·13 pts·asciilifeform·
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Business schools redefine hacking to “stuff that a 7-year-old could do” (2005)

blogs.law.harvard.edu·82 pts·asciilifeform·
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"The coppers smashed my father's printer when I was eight."

craphound.com·1 pts·asciilifeform·
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Phosphorous, The Popular Lisp [pdf]

jfm3.org·41 pts·asciilifeform·
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"Is that a real program or is that something somebody wrote?"

lists.canonical.org·187 pts·asciilifeform·
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There are two kinds of student: those with ability, and those who need lectures.

groups.google.com·8 pts·asciilifeform·
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How Inventors Always Get Screwed

informationweek.com·12 pts·asciilifeform·
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"Man Of High Fidelity: Edwin Howard Armstrong" - Full Book

archive.org·2 pts·asciilifeform·
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Computer Science: "an Alzheimer's patient who has forgotten more than he knows."

lupoleboucher.livejournal.com·7 pts·asciilifeform·
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"Steam was our nuclear power and computer technology combined."

lupoleboucher.livejournal.com·1 pts·asciilifeform·
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The Mighty Airship

lupoleboucher.livejournal.com·2 pts·asciilifeform·
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Make Magazine: Manual of Anti-Inventiveness

lupoleboucher.livejournal.com·3 pts·asciilifeform·
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"The Edwardian era was the last era of high civilization."

lupoleboucher.livejournal.com·7 pts·asciilifeform·
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Earlids (John McCarthy)

www-formal.stanford.edu·1 pts·asciilifeform·
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Context Free: a program that generates images from a grammar.

contextfreeart.org·14 pts·asciilifeform·
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"Problem Solvers" vs "Theory Developers": The Two Cultures of Mathematics. [pdf]

dpmms.cam.ac.uk·24 pts·asciilifeform·
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A 1940 Letter of André Weil on Analogy in Mathematics [pdf]

ams.org·11 pts·asciilifeform·
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Writing externalized memory. The computer externalized procedure. What's next?

everything2.com·1 pts·asciilifeform·
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Furball: The Linux Equivalent of DOS's 'debug.com'

modest-proposals.com·23 pts·asciilifeform·
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The Physiology of Willpower: Linking Blood Glucose to Self-Control

psr.sagepub.com·80 pts·asciilifeform·
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The (Unspeakable) Ultimate Machine

kk.org·29 pts·asciilifeform·
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UNIX: "...this is a disaster and it won't get fixed."

mindspring.com·1 pts·asciilifeform·
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