Olifante

"This may be the laziest question yet on HN. Opening the main page of the Apple Store (http://store.apple.com/us) immediately tells you what is the cheapest mac: Mac Mini at $599 -- and from your question, it seems you already knew the Mac Mini existed. Is that so hard to figure out by yourself?" - Olifante

"I used an older edition of O'Reilly's Learning Python and found it to be very accessible and well written -- I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned before: http://oreilly.com/catalog/978... O'Reilly's Programming Python is not bad, but it's not a great book, either for beginners or journeymen. Python in a Nutshell is more suitable as reference book, although I suppose you could use it to learn Python. For a Python reference book, I found David Beazley's Python Essential Reference to be more informative and better organized: http://www.amazon.com/Python-E...... As other people have mentioned, Guido's online tutorial is pretty good, and you don't really much else to start programming in Python:http://docs.python.org/tutoria... I'm always puzzled by people recommending Mark Pilgrim's Dive into Python. I don't find it a good choice for Python beginners." - Olifante

"Probably the best non-fiction book I read in the last 10 years. It puts forward many reasoned arguments for the Eurasian historical supremacy (the Guns, Germs and Steel of the title), but as you say, the crux of it is that Eurasia is the continent with the largest contiguous area of similar climate. In other words, Eurasia is wide, while North America is narrow, and South America and Africa are both tall and narrow, resulting in very large climatic diversity, and smaller ecosystems adapted to each of those climates." - Olifante

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"beautiful article! Best introduction to continued fractions and their properties that I've ever read." - Olifante

"This discussion prompted me to post my latest piece on my blog. Here's "Fidec", a simple piano piece with a slightly unusual chord progression: http://olifante.blogs.com/covi... -- also available here: http://www.myspace.com/olifant..." - Olifante

"If you want to skip the humorous intro, the juicy stuff starts after 20 minutes or so." - Olifante

"Only five developers? THREE testers?" - Olifante

"Like Hebrew, Arabic script is not an alphabet, it's an Abjad (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...). It is inadequate for most non-semitic languages, and barely adequate for Arabic. Even fluent Arabic readers read less efficiently than readers of more phonemic scripts. Having said that, the linked article is very sloppy and would convince nobody." - Olifante

"Like Hebrew, Arabic script is not an alphabet, it's an Abjad (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...). It is inadequate for most non-semitic languages, and barely adequate for Arabic. Even fluent Arabic readers read less efficiently than readers of more phonemic scripts. Having said that, the linked article is very sloppy and would convince nobody." - Olifante

"That's the best reddit comment EVER!" - Olifante

"That's the best reddit comment EVER!" - Olifante

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