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Re:Ask YC: Best cheap or free screen sharing solutions? on Sunday August 10, 2008 @12:19PM (#272419)
You are mistaken. See here: http://aperiodic.net/screen/multiuser
Re:Ask YC: Mid-sized, livable, hacker-friendly towns? on Thursday February 07, 2008 @05:10PM (#111453)
You might want to consider Montreal, Quebec. It's a very lively city. It's more populated than what you're asking for (1.6M), but it has 4 universities, and the city itself is on a mountain (mount royal, not a very big mountain), which is itself on an island (the island of montreal).

You can e-mail me if you want to know more about this city. iratsu at gmail dot com

Re:Learning Math on Wednesday February 06, 2008 @01:09AM (#110160)
One thing I would recommend looking at is Category theory. MarkCC has several blog posts about category theory at the Good Math Bad Math blog (http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/goodmath/category_theory/, in general i would also recommend looking at MarkCC's other blog posts as a source of math inspiration).

Wikipedia also has a nice article about category theory. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_theory), and I will also recommend 2 books on the subject:

First is, of course, Category Theory for the Working Mathematician by Saunders Maclane. It is an excellent book, but I must also warn that it is not an easy book and probably requires a fair bit on mathematical maturity.

Second is Basic Category Theory for Computer Scientists by Benjamin Pierce. It is much more of an introductory book and provides many examples in Computer Science which are useful to those doing theoretical CS.

Re:Ask YC: Recommend a hosting company. on Wednesday February 06, 2008 @12:37AM (#110148)
You might want to take a look at tummy.com http://www.tummy.com/Hosting/ You can e-mail them to ask about your needs