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there is a bug if you try to change direction by rolling over left and right at the same time or up and down at the same time. hitting uo/down together and left/right together when…

It's just jargon. I really don't know why the title isn't just "Conversations with a six-year-old on functions" and "f(x) = x - 3." You lose nothing, increase your audience 100fold…

This is really just a conversation about functions...

I imagine if they started at wildly different speeds it would still converge but the convergence would take longer.

how does that make more drivers come to a specific place/time where demand is outstripping supply?

Aren't all serious Math and CS papers free on the arXiv anyway?

For this purpose mathematicians use OEIS (oeis.org). Check it out.

PG, I'm glad to see you're at least willing to engage in the discussion. The main point was not what end-point you're aiming (large exits, which btw, are yet to be realized for eit…

I won't give out specific names of course. The brainwashing is mostly around the cult of personality around pg. Everything he writes or espouses becomes gospel. Now, we all know he…

Just read Parts I and II of that article. Really interesting perspective. I've been talking to some recent YC "grads" in the valley and the amount of brainwashing they seem to have…

If you're actually willing to engage in this discussion, then here's your answer. YC and (other "incubators" like it) are basically opportunistically exploiting cheap/free labor of…

"Ok, may I humbly ask..." "with great respect, may I ask you.." "With all due respect PG..." "While I don't want to second-guess your judgement..." And these are the comments disag…

I have no doubt that pg doesn't like the article Here's a quote "...smart young people have been conned into thinking that starting a company is akin to buying a lottery ticket or …

"one helped me out without intending to by talking about why one feature probably wouldn't work without a tweak because they found out it doesn't work without X." Didn't you just d…

That's a weird dude. That's all.

"Scalia was joined in AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito." Big f ing surprise.

I'm disappointed. Ars is usually pretty good about these things but in this case it sounds like a techcrunch'y over-sensationalized headline as a result of over parsing some casual…

The basic decision to not require account creation (and hence no login/password) is a key design decision that makes the app onboarding experience so pleasant. Now given that as a …

Is Paul Graham the reincarnation of Abraham Lincoln ?

Is this the right thread ?

To reduce round trips and ease of use for the ultimate consumer. A typical whatsapp consumer is decidedly not the geek/hipster hanging out on HN. Out of the 100+ million installs t…

Heh... fanboy much ?

Bah... I'll wait until Apple invents this technology about five years from now. I never buy non-apple product or technologies because I'm creative.

"What makes me angry about the AdBlock plugin is that the author – while happy to destroy our revenue stream – is also profiteering from the very same free content model by asking …

The extra USD 200 for the 4G model are not all about hardware you know. I doubt 4G chipset and the 32GB flash chips are costing that much.