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Re:Ask HN: What is the most influential not-technology book(s) you hav...
on Saturday August 16, 2014 @04:50PM (#8187525)
The Bible. Harold Bloom's "Western Canon", Knausgaard's "Min Kamp", "The World According to Garp", Robertson Davies Deptford Triology, "Anna Karenina", "Consilience of Knowledge", "House of Leaves" "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz" All these books messed me up to varying degrees.
Re:Ask HN: Ways to increase mental sharpness or intelligence?
on Saturday August 16, 2014 @02:34PM (#8187055)
Exercise and cutting out carbs is good for avoiding inflammation. I don't use nootropics yet either, keeping the others in line takes a lot of work.
Re:Ask HN: Ways to increase mental sharpness or intelligence?
on Saturday August 16, 2014 @12:34PM (#8186682)
sleep/exercise/nutrition/hydration/nootropics
Re:Ask HN: How do countries get out of poverty?
on Saturday August 16, 2014 @08:44AM (#8186050)
I think it is energy? I live in Canada and our middle class has the highest income in the world but we also use the most energy per capita. That's the simplest, other than entropy, life is about reducing entropy, richer people spend more money on insurance. Civilization tries to reduce surprises for its citizens.
Re:Oracle Cranks Up The Cores To 32 With Sparc M7 Chip
on Wednesday August 13, 2014 @10:03PM (#8175754)
One of the better write ups, since the Hot Chips presentation.
Re:Mono 3.6.0 is out
on Tuesday August 12, 2014 @06:51PM (#8170632)
I've got a safaribooks online account, and found "Real World Functional Programming with examples in F# and C#" the most useful of the f# books I've read. The author has a blog, http://tomasp.net/ But I got something out of all of the books.
Re:Ask HN: Replacement for VIM
on Thursday August 07, 2014 @12:18PM (#8148521)
tmux with vim