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Re: YC News Unavailable...

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Post by loumf » Fri, Sep 28, 2007, 3:20 PM UTC

henning wrote: post #11

johnrob wrote: post #8

Time to rewrite the site in Blub?

Paul Graham is so good, Arc is Blub for him. Paul Graham is so good, he does just simply walk into Mordor. And then he checks into a hotel.

After a few iterations, Rule 30 draws a picture of Paul Graham

Re: YC News Unavailable...

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Post by alaughramp » Fri, Sep 28, 2007, 3:23 PM UTC

henning wrote: post #11

johnrob wrote: post #8

Time to rewrite the site in Blub?

Paul Graham is so good, Arc is Blub for him. Paul Graham is so good, he does just simply walk into Mordor. And then he checks into a hotel.

Paul Graham can write an essay entirely composed of sweeping generalizations.

Re: YC News Unavailable...

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Post by icey » Fri, Sep 28, 2007, 3:36 PM UTC

henning wrote: post #11

johnrob wrote: post #8

Time to rewrite the site in Blub?

Paul Graham is so good, Arc is Blub for him. Paul Graham is so good, he does just simply walk into Mordor. And then he checks into a hotel.

Paul Graham beat Duke Nuke'em Forever on Nightmare mode using only Arc macros.

Re: YC News Unavailable...

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Post by yters » Fri, Sep 28, 2007, 3:45 PM UTC

wensing wrote: post #48

yters wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Paul Graham is so good, good was defined as (+ Paul Graham good), and implemented with tail recursion.

Except that + takes two arguments, not three--unless you've altered the definition.

Ok, here's a better one:

Chuck Norris wanted to be like Paul Graham, and tried to learn tail recursion. The best he could do was a roundhouse kick.

Re: YC News Unavailable...

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Post by cetaganda » Fri, Sep 28, 2007, 3:58 PM UTC

henning wrote: post #11

johnrob wrote: post #8

Time to rewrite the site in Blub?

Paul Graham is so good, Arc is Blub for him. Paul Graham is so good, he does just simply walk into Mordor. And then he checks into a hotel.

Paul graham is so good, he multiplies 850 * 77.1 and gets 65,535

Re: YC News Unavailable...

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Post by cetaganda » Fri, Sep 28, 2007, 3:59 PM UTC

henning wrote: post #11

johnrob wrote: post #8

Time to rewrite the site in Blub?

Paul Graham is so good, Arc is Blub for him. Paul Graham is so good, he does just simply walk into Mordor. And then he checks into a hotel.

Al Gore didn't invent the internet, Paul Graham did. And then he invented Al Gore.

Re: YC News Unavailable...

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Post by sciolizer » Fri, Sep 28, 2007, 4:00 PM UTC

Novash wrote: post #53

henning wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Paul Graham is so good, Arc is Blub for him. Paul Graham is so good, he does just simply walk into Mordor. And then he checks into a hotel.

Pretty sure he must be laughing itself out right now reading it. PG, you're a hero for many people, you know? How about you giving your own contribution to this list? By the way, I just noticed that there is no way to recover a password if you lost it?

Paul Graham doesn't reset passwords. He decrypts them without a key.

Re: YC News Unavailable...

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Post by imgabe » Fri, Sep 28, 2007, 4:14 PM UTC

drm237 wrote: post #47

henning wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Paul Graham is so good, Arc is Blub for him. Paul Graham is so good, he does just simply walk into Mordor. And then he checks into a hotel.

Paul Graham can divide by zero.

and the answer is "Paul Graham"

Re: YC News Unavailable...

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Post by yinzhen » Fri, Sep 28, 2007, 4:17 PM UTC

neilc wrote: post #30

rms wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Paul Graham is a general algorithm to solve the halting program.

Paul Graham can solve NP-complete problems in polynomial time.

Paul Graham's brain is a nondeterministic Turing-machine.

Re: YC News Unavailable...

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Post by ptn » Fri, Sep 28, 2007, 4:30 PM UTC

ptn wrote: post #17

Xichekolas wrote: post #13

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Paul Graham is so good, the parenthesis match themselves. Paul Graham is so good, it's hard to defun him.

Paul Graham is so good, his keyboard only has three keys: 0, 1 and Return. No Backspace, because he doesn't make mistakes.

Here's Paul while hacking:

http://www.voguehost.com/ims/u/ptn/ptn/pg_hacking.gif