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Re:Google can be used as a graphic calculator by tluyben2 on Monday December 05, 2011 @07:08PM (#3317149)
Offtopic observation: when Wolframalpha first appeared everyone on sites like Reddit and HN were falling over eachother to explain, in detail, what kind of an arrogant d*ck & loser Stephen Wolfram really is. Ignoring the Wolframalpha product features and going directly for the person behind it and his book and so on. Now seems like everyone loves his product and, subsequently, never mentions the guy behind it anymore. Anyone else noticed that?
Re:Google can be used as a graphic calculator by wx77 on Monday December 05, 2011 @07:25PM (#3317203)
I believe you are remembering wrong:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=611656

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=607532

Not to say it is uncommon to call Stephen Wolfram egotistic, I swear there was a thread about Wolfram remembering Turing and people counting how many times Wolfram mentioned himself but it may have been killed as I can't find it.

Re:Google can be used as a graphic calculator by gbak on Monday December 05, 2011 @10:31PM (#3317715)
The discussion you are looking for is this one:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3080470 (Wolfram on Steve Jobs)

Re:Google can be used as a graphic calculator by wx77 on Monday December 05, 2011 @11:22PM (#3317864)
Actually it was probably this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1454373 and I am remembering the amount of disdain wrong