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I'd have to recommend the Manifold trilogy by Stephen Baxter. I know it's not a book, but as a whole entity, it deserves to be looked at.

I just finished the Manifold series by Stephen Baxter. The series is a look at the (solution to, reason for, questions surrounding the) Fermi Paradox through three potential lenses…

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I'm currently working my way through Stephen Baxter's Manifold trilogy. His writing is incredibly insightful and psychedelic. I'd also suggest the Time Ships (only authorized Time …

The Time Ships, by Stephen Baxter The depth of his exploration of the human condition through the continuation of H.G. Wells' classic just floored me. My jaw was dropped practicall…

Have you tried Droid Sans Mono Slashed? I find that the slashed 0 helps readability quite a bit.

Another, similar thread here on HN today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8084866

If you know any journalists, I'm sure they'll have ideas -- They are (in my limited experience) intelligent and incredibly busy people, leaving them with little time to really dive…

Is there an equivalent program in Denmark or elsewhere in Europe?

Look for information you would want to see in your available media -- find a dataset and build it into a useful app to be filtered and queried in different ways. Map data points to…

If the technology were there to have a workable version of Glass as a contact lens, I'd wear it all day every day. Augmentation of the senses is the next logical step, right?

I've been finding that just simply mocking up the sites/apps I'm building or even just pieces of their functionality has helped me refine what I feel is implementation of good user…

I'm very excited to try Angular. Your tutorial, however, is not compatible with the suggested server experience where Apache is not installed, as Node has updated to v0.8 and not o…

I and a friend of mine launched http://www.brandonacademy.com We'll be releasing frequent UX and content updates over the course of the next couple months as we develop new feature…

Thanks for the feedback! Currently there are about 1000 songs in our database. We plan on adding more, and more instruments, soon.

Thanks for the feedback nik! I'm glad you like the idea. Personally, I can't wait to add more videos and more instruments so the appeal and potential audience of the site grows. I …

I think a proper response to this question would be in the form of another... What would happen if the US doesn't default? I was raised to think that my parents tried their damndes…

Though the rest of the features are relatively mild, I'm definitely a fan of the "hangout". I was just on a chat earlier with 4 friends - I'm in the pacific northwest, three of the…

Hope I can be helpful with this. I believe in active meditation, for lack of a better term. All of my activities I take in stride, paying attention to what I'm doing instead of jus…

This is great! One of the reasons 2010 has been so wonderful for me is because of the lack of fear I've had! It took awhile for me to get over all of this... half of 2008, all of 2…

A big part of me got over my past failures and just moved on. For me this is big and has allowed me to successfully take on new clients and explore the larger world of a freelance …

My condolences. My father plays a huge role in my life. He's got Parkinson's Disease and has had it for well over a decade now... it will eventually kill him. So I've had time to t…

Hit up @abraham. Good friend of mine. He's moving to the bay area and actively looking for a place now. Good luck!