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I hope I'm not raining on your Christmas, but if you register at FanFiction.net, you can subscribe to get an email whenever a new chapter is posted. That way you find out about new chapters quickly, and you don't have to check manually. That's what I do, anyway. There's also an unofficial RSS feed: http://demented.no-ip.org/~feep/rss_proxy.cgi?5782108
Oh, I know about the RSS feed, I just prefer it this way. :-)
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As someone who also reads a lot of fiction, I think this fic is in great need of a good editor... but that after the normal publication process it would be as good as anything Asimov or Heinlein wrote.
Have you read Asimov recently? In the cold light of adulthood it is unfortunately not as good as my inner child remembers. Nowhere near as bad as Rowling, who is an awful writer, but still pretty bad. To be fair to Rowling her first book actually introduced some good ideas, the rest were pretty much universally crap. Some of Asimov's themes and ideas are also feeling very dated now too, he seemed to be heavily influe…
I really thought Hacker News was a more intellectual place, than to condone empty blanket statements like "their writing is crap".
Please, if you are going to state something, especially in a thread regarding rationality, please back it up.
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Actually, it happens to be true that all eleven-year-olds attending wizarding school read preprints of theoretical computer science papers.
. Though your statement does feel a bit like dereferencing a NULL-pointer, as in GetAllElevenYearOldsAtWizardingSchool()->doesReadTheoreticalCompSciPapers() should blow up... (Well, at least in the world of bare-metal C, any sane language will of course return an empty collection, and not a NULL pointer to the first function....)
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As someone who also reads a lot of fiction, I think this fic is in great need of a good editor... but that after the normal publication process it would be as good as anything Asimov or Heinlein wrote.
Have you read Asimov recently? In the cold light of adulthood it is unfortunately not as good as my inner child remembers. Nowhere near as bad as Rowling, who is an awful writer, but still pretty bad. To be fair to Rowling her first book actually introduced some good ideas, the rest were pretty much universally crap. Some of Asimov's themes and ideas are also feeling very dated now too, he seemed to be heavily influe…
Recently re-read it myself. A tip for new readers -- if you find this version of Harry insufferable, yet the basic concept makes you keep reading, wait for around Chapter 20, where a much-needed mentor helps him learn some self-control.
Thanks for the tip. I'm slowly reading this aloud with my wife, and she's pretty distracted with Harry's flaws.
She must have had a hell of a time with JK Rowling's version then...
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As someone who also reads a lot of fiction, I think this fic is in great need of a good editor... but that after the normal publication process it would be as good as anything Asimov or Heinlein wrote.
Have you read Asimov recently? In the cold light of adulthood it is unfortunately not as good as my inner child remembers. Nowhere near as bad as Rowling, who is an awful writer, but still pretty bad. To be fair to Rowling her first book actually introduced some good ideas, the rest were pretty much universally crap. Some of Asimov's themes and ideas are also feeling very dated now too, he seemed to be heavily influe…
It sounds crazy, but as someone who reads a lot of fiction (and very little fan fiction, because most of it's crap), I sincerely think this is one of the best things I've read in years. I'd personally rank it up with Asimov or Heinlein at their best. If you're the kind of person, upon discovering a 'wizarding world' would: - Look into establishing arbitrage between the wizards' fixed ratio of Gold/Silver currency and…
If you like his writing, see also "Three Worlds Collide": http://lesswrong.com/lw/y4/three_worlds_collide_08/
If you're not careful when you read it, you miss the True Ending: http://lesswrong.com/lw/yb/true_ending_sacrificial_fire_78/
Wish I could find a single page to read offline.
It adds buttons that allow you to put the entire page on one story. Hope that helps.