henry501

It's hard to say that something is going to scale smoothly up an order of magnitude until you're there. 900K requests is a lot of room for things to go wrong.

Thank you. I think I'll try Diamond Age -> Cryptonomicon -> Snowcrash based on the recommendations here.

Any in particular? I see The Clockwork Rocket for $3.99 and Zendegi for $0.01 on Kindle.

I'm assuming there are many NS fans on HN, so I'll ask this here.

The only NS book I've read is Anathem, and while I enjoyed the story his writing style seemed too self-indulgent for me to really get into. Renaming/redescribing major mathematical and philosophical theories in a parallel dimension? Look how smart NS is. Quantum monk space ninjas? Oh man that's so cool can they be pirates too?

That being said, he's been lauded so consistently that I'd like to read more of his work and figure out what I'm missing. What would HN'ers recommend?

Despite the typos, it does look interesting.

Is there anything similar for Android?

Competition is good.

Honestly, it's just another symptom of the depersonalization in the employment market. As long as there is a surplus of qualified* workers, then there is little reason to treat people humanely.

*for values of qualified from "keyword-rich resume" and up.

Knew a guy in college who named every physics assignment.

"A brief treatise in radioactive decay, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the α particle."

Love TileMill, love TileStream, love the tilesets. One day I'll move to DC...

Maybe a price filter? Let us manually set the minimum to $1k.

And if you can identify the last 20%, eliminate it and you become 4x more efficient.