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smanek

8,005 karma · joined October 10, 2007

I'm a programmer (fluent in Common Lisp, Javascript, Java, Python, and Perl). I've dabbled in Haskell, Scala, C++, and Objective-C - but still have a lot to learn about them.

I've worked on a few fun projects, including satellite defense for the DoD, a couple of big Lisp webapps, and large distributed systems.

If you need to reach me: {myusername}@gmail.com

Some of me online:

    https://github.com/smanek
    https://twitter.com/smanek
    http://arantaday.com/
My PGP Key is at http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x9526096E
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Transitive Closures for Non-Mathematicians (Part I)

arantaday.com·3 pts·smanek·
0

Plans for Prometheus Device (lets you shoot fire)

picasaweb.google.com·13 pts·smanek·
4

Most of Slicehost is Down

status.slicehost.com·42 pts·smanek·
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Ask Hn: How to create an iPhone App demo video?

7 pts·smanek·
3

The Lightswitch That Might Explain a Lot About Java

globalnerdy.com·1 pts·smanek·
0

Ruby on Rails Workshop for Women

blogs.law.harvard.edu·10 pts·smanek·
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The Web will dismember universities, just like newspapers

thebigmoney.com·35 pts·smanek·
59

Technology Startup Compensation Study

scribd.com·2 pts·smanek·
0

MS Donates to Charity if you upgrade to IE8

browserforthebetter.com·4 pts·smanek·
2

Ask HN: How to estimate (best case) early user growth?

11 pts·smanek·
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Ask YC: Know a good startup lawyer near Cambridge?

2 pts·smanek·
0

Ariely's Painful Lesson (MIT Prof. and author of 'Predictably Irrational')

web.mit.edu·1 pts·smanek·
0

Common Solecisms - Words you are almost certainly using incorrectly

economist.com·73 pts·smanek·
66

Ask HN: What comes after we hit the 16nm barrier?

16 pts·smanek·
31

The Original Lambda Papers (Guy Steele and Gerald Sussman)

library.readscheme.org·21 pts·smanek·
3

Total Functional Programming

jucs.org·2 pts·smanek·
0

The Fallacy of High Level Languages

netsplit.com·10 pts·smanek·
4

Ask HN: What headphones do you use in the office?

11 pts·smanek·
30

Beautiful Full Length Movie Released under Creative Commons

sitasingstheblues.com·50 pts·smanek·
7

The Right of Websites to Link

slate.com·3 pts·smanek·
0

The Intelligent File Format: Bootstrapping, Self Documenting, Portable Files

akaimbatman.intelligentblogger.com·1 pts·smanek·
0

Insightful (non-trolling) criticism of Linux

linux.slashdot.org·3 pts·smanek·
5

Is your ISP throttling you?

measurementlab.net·2 pts·smanek·
0

Ask YC: What kind of desktop to buy?

2 pts·smanek·
5

The Universal Algorithm

sciencenews.org·4 pts·smanek·
1

The Power of The Functional or: I’ll bet you can’t do this in Java

arantaday.com·15 pts·smanek·
29

The power of Slime (Emacs Lisp devel. mode)

common-lisp.net·2 pts·smanek·
0

Ask HN: Anecdotes about the current job market

31 pts·smanek·
29

500 Exabytes per Raindrop

math.ucr.edu·68 pts·smanek·
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The Bogdanoff Affair: Gibberish in Peer Reviewed Physics (a la the Sokal Affair)

math.ucr.edu·9 pts·smanek·
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