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Re: "The Best of edw519" is now free. Reverse Happy Birthday

#14

Post by edw519 »

6ren wrote: post #7

> 87. What got you "hooked"? Loved this story, and I enjoy coding the more I do this. The problem is to keep it focussed on "productive" output - otherwise you end up like that guy who wrote TeX instead of The Art of Computer Programming; or Blart Versenwald III¹; or 6. It automatically classifies unread comments based upon similarity to classified comments and some rules. (The idea was to classify the first 300 comm…

...it would be nice if titles linked to their comments...

I purposely omitted references to the original Hacker News threads because I wanted the book to stand on its own.

Hope this helps:

http://edweissman.com/index-from-the-best-of-edw519-to-the-o...

[Many thanks to everyone in this thread for the well wishes. You guys are helping to make my day!]

Re: "The Best of edw519" is now free. Reverse Happy Birthday

#17

Post by chanux »

trobertson wrote: post #15
chanux wrote: post #12

Hope you are not angry with me for taking it through readability, saving it to pdf and converting it to mobi. Wishing you a very happy birthday!

Could you possibly upload that? I'd love to read this on my Kindle.

Since I'm not sure what edw519 would think of me sharing his work online, I did the less wrong thing. I'm pretty sure you've got mail.

Re: "The Best of edw519" is now free. Reverse Happy Birthday

#18

Post by tea-anemone »

chanux wrote: post #17
trobertson wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you possibly upload that? I'd love to read this on my Kindle.

Since I'm not sure what edw519 would think of me sharing his work online, I did the less wrong thing. I'm pretty sure you've got mail.

Can I get some mail too?

Re: "The Best of edw519" is now free. Reverse Happy Birthday

#19

Post by 6ren »

edw519 wrote: post #14
6ren wrote: post #7

> 87. What got you "hooked"? Loved this story, and I enjoy coding the more I do this. The problem is to keep it focussed on "productive" output - otherwise you end up like that guy who wrote TeX instead of The Art of Computer Programming; or Blart Versenwald III¹; or 6. It automatically classifies unread comments based upon similarity to classified comments and some rules. (The idea was to classify the first 300 comm…

...it would be nice if titles linked to their comments... I purposely omitted references to the original Hacker News threads because I wanted the book to stand on its own. Hope this helps: http://edweissman.com/index-from-the-best-of-edw519-to-the-o... [Many thanks to everyone in this thread for the well wishes. You guys are helping to make my day!]

Thanks! I actually meant links to the comments lower down on the same page (eg for clarity: 87. What got you "hooked"? ... 87. What got you "hooked"?), and then people could link to specific entries - but I like your interpretation better.

[I had trouble expressing this in the GP, and went for over-conciseness, as "comment" is ambiguous. I still can't think of a brief but clear way to say it - there's probably some TeX typesetting terminology for it].

Re: "The Best of edw519" is now free. Reverse Happy Birthday

#20

Post by Ixiaus »

chanux wrote: post #17
trobertson wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you possibly upload that? I'd love to read this on my Kindle.

Since I'm not sure what edw519 would think of me sharing his work online, I did the less wrong thing. I'm pretty sure you've got mail.

I would appreciate a copy as well: ixmatus at gmail
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