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John Walker, founder of AutoCAD and programming demi-god, has a reading list that will blow your mind: http://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog I've been tipped off to several good books here.…

Alan Kay is the greatest genius alive. Period.

That's brilliant, amichail. Thanks.

I think the next step is to pick up which fingers are being pressed and moved. You can keychord to make 1024 letters, number, and commands. And by detecting the curl of the fingers, control a mouse …

... the achievements of Bill Gates ... Exactly.

And this is how you can tell it really is a bubble: people talking about becoming billionaires. It's silly and smacks of a get-rich-quick scheme. If a bubble is best defined as irrational exuberance …

From the article: ... the commander of this "great force". Despite his having preached "enlightened moderation", President Musharraf ... How I understand it is this: in British English you don't place…

Only if you're American. If you're British, it's correct as it is.

It's "whoever", not "whomever".

Heroes

Yes, I meant the blue plane. (It's an old presentation -- I didn't watch it again -- but an important one.) The people are: Alan Kay himself, Charles Simonyi, and a company I'm affiliated with called…

Completely stagnated. In another great quote from Alan Kay he says, "Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS…

There was nothing angry about it. The culture around here borders on a personality cult around Paul Graham, which explains all the "how to get a co-founder" threads. Thanks for the great essay.

Anemach; a new way to create software

I think the article is silly. One, there's nothing close to a scientific method used -- and this from NewScientist (how embarrassing). He should try to correlate "work" with "results". I'm assuming…

This is an interesting topic and yet the author does it a disservice by simplifying it. Mozart was prolific, it's true, but he could write a symphony in one go. Literally, he would just sit down and…

He just got a five-year, $10 million, grant to look for it. Charles Simonyi is looking for it. And I know of a group who, after 12 years of research, has recently found it. I think you'll hear more…

I completely agree. This guy is hiding from himself. This isn't about achievement; it's about running away from a reflection. I already find it sad.

Thanks for bringing up that equation, Alex. When I said a "cake walk", Paul, I was talking about the opportunity variable. And I absolutely agree with you that culture drives the other two variables…

I don't blame the educational system and I don't blame the parents or kids. I blame human nature. America is ending one the most successful runs of any nation in recorded history. Cheap raw material…

I don't know, http://programming.reddit.com is lightyears better than http://developers.slashdot.org I would rather dig through (no pun intended) fifty articles a day for five good ones, than have…

And I have to say that I disagree. The Web 1.0 bubble wasn't based on the way in which people found the money to buy these stocks or the hubris in the expectation that these stocks would always go up.…

This article really hits the nail on the head with why I think there's a Web 2.0 bubble. People are not starting firms because of they think they can bring something both unique and compelling to a p…

This one: > European countries don't have so many super poor people as the US, which makes their average numbers look better Your statement that the most productive people are in the US, is anothe…

... which is OK if the example criticism has no valid measurement parameters. There's a reason Forbes doesn't list the 100 most productive people.

God, no! Something good this time. :-)

That's a fair response. (And I apologize if I came across mean.) But I can mathematically prove you wrong. (I'm sure you'll prefer that, right? :-) If you look at average incomes and median incomes…

> Why do people make ajax websites like that? Because it's a get-rich-quick scheme. > This is capitalism at its finest. Twitter? Facebook? I absolutely agree. > There is an idea that the…

Congratulations, Marc! You've made your money, now do something important.

I've always read and enjoyed Steve's posts, but here he comes off smug (despite the self-depricating jokes) as if he's summoning enlightment for the audience, when the talk is simply obtuse. Is a tra…