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patternexonon Ask HN: Recommended books and papers on distributed systems?

A Distributed Systems Reading List -https://dancres.github.io/Pages/

patternexonon Typeclassopedia - THE tutorial to understand typeclasses in Haskell

I did read http://learnyouahaskell.com/functors-applicative-functors-an... and found myself unsure if I had understood anything at all. (Not a reflection of this book - which I do agree is fabolous.) And now am reading both (last 5 chapters) and this wiki in tandem.

patternexonon Show HN: I launched my first solo side project

Congratulations. It looks very polished.

patternexonon Ask HN: How do you read HN on your mobile device?

Opera on the iPhone works for me.

patternexonon U.S. Government Compels Google To Hand Over Wikileaks Volunteer's Gmail Data

Don't they already ? Every multi-billion $ business has lobbyists that dictate the law.

patternexonon Programming languages worth checking out

This is a more interesting list than the OP's. Thanks !

patternexonon Richard Dawkins: A Knack for Bashing Orthodoxy

Why they feel the need to answer it, and why they need to answer it in a shout

I think that is what Richard Dawkins does in a way which makes him popular - and in the end thats what the OP is about popularity/notoriety.

patternexonon Rimino - A Human Touch on Mobile Experience

Agreed, whats more human about this than any of the other UIs ?

patternexonon 8 start-ups that are changing the world

You are sceptical that what he is doing good because it leads to overpopulation ? I think you went a little too far in trying to prove your point. I understand that any of the startups in the OP's list are not paradigm changing. And I also admit that I too would have greater appreciation for someone who would 'dig a well' - that is get dirty at the grass root level of any social movement. But this response to Bill Gate's immunization drive is either racist or social darwinism or both and I think thats wrong. Every single child born should be immunized - we as a people have solved a very basic problem of human survival and no one should be denied that. And if you are really skeptical about overpopulation how about we selectively immunize children all over the world from a lottery system ?

patternexonon Open letter to BlackBerry bosses: Senior RIM exec tells all as company crumbles

Blackberry does not have the same end user as the iPhone. Blackberry's end users are corporations - its the default device that is shelled out to every single employee of large banks and consultancies. The 'Enterprise End User' thats what BB has to retain and capitalize on. RIM should look for synergies with other enterprise application providers. A cool looking twitter application is not the answer to their woes. Its seamless integration of a enterprise Yammer with the BB mailbox or an application that makes it easier to navigate ugly sharepoint sites.

patternexonon Accenture picks up Symbian development from Nokia

That may be the strategy here - Symbian means the knowledge of building an OS that works for a wide range of models and specially lower end of cellular phones that rest of the world is catching up to.

patternexonon Ask HN: What Are the Best Non-Fiction Books of 2010?

Ask HN: Best book you read in 2010 and briefly why -http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1973516

patternexonon Ask HN: Swag on a budget?

Browse Etsy http://www.etsy.com/category/geekery

patternexonon Ask HN: Scenic, Remote, wired locations?

Barbados or Trinidad. They have good net connections and are very picturesque

patternexonon Ask HN: I have 15 years of horse racing data what should I do with it?

Share it!

patternexonon Ask HN: Best field for a computer engineering PhD?

If you are going to a PhD, do it in something you like to do, even if it does not pay (then or later).

patternexonon Ask HN: Examples of beautiful, nontrivial, code?

I think the JUnit code is well written. http://github.com/KentBeck/junit

patternexonon Ask HN: Please, Simple Review of my Site www.mcsquare.me highly appreciated.

http://mcsquare.me/

patternexonon Ask HN: Please name two of your most favorite books.

I agree, after reading Fooled by Randomness, black swan was a let down, repetitive and ironically snobbish for a book thats about understanding the unknown

patternexonon Ask HN: Please name two of your most favorite books.

1. One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich 2. The Soul of a new machine

patternexonon Ask HN: Best Mathematics book for complete noobie?

Concepts of Modern Mathematics

http://www.amazon.com/Concepts-Modern-Mathematics-Ian-Stewar...

patternexonon Ask HN: light mathematical/scientific reading with computer exercises?

One Two Three... Infinity by George Gamow