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By: QOTD: An iPod With a Cell Phone and Browser…Now There’s an Idea…

QOTD: An iPod With a Cell Phone and Browser…Now There’s an Idea… — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:47:13 +0000

[...] “Hackers and Painters” author Paul Graham answers the question “If the the Mac was so great why did it lose?”–back in [...]

By: David Hora

David Hora — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:03:39 +0000

TIME TRAVEL IS POSSIBLE! If it weren’t for the invention of time travel (at some point in the future), Paul Graham would not have been able to travel back in time, slip up and mention the idea for the iPhone, which apple would then run with to change the course of history… FOREVER (see butterfly effect). Thanks Paul.

By: Venky

Venky — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:51:07 +0000

@Sean O: The statement on Javascript was not a prediction. It was a comment on the state of affairs as they were at that point in time. The statement on Apple was a prediction.

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Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:51:51 +0000

[...] The most prescient footnote ever >> Oddhead Blog Paul Graham wrote it. He thought in a way that a lot of people did, but expressed in an interesting way. [...]

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pinboard July 21, 2010 — arghh.net — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:02:27 +0000

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By: QOTD: An iPod With a Cell Phone and Browser … Now There’s an Idea … | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:28:37 +0000

[...] Hackers and Painters author Paul Graham answers the question “If the the Mac was so great why did it lose?” — back in 2004 [...]

By: AP

AP — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 23:11:50 +0000

P.G. is so opinionated on anything that he is bound to get some things right and some spectacular one at that, but if you had to tell the good ones from the bad ones in 2004, the value of his essays was I guess close to 0. Keep also in mind that In 2004 there was a thing called the Treo 650 that had a phone, music player and browser in it, it just was a lot clunkier to use than the iphone. So if one could Treo + iPod … And P.G. gets kudos even when he is wrong, like the Ajax quote. When he backpedals on it in 2005, he is again a visionary. I would have been called a flip flopper. It’s the teflon thing. Oh, and I am waiting for lisp/arc to take over the world.

By: Monday Medley « No Pun Intended

Monday Medley « No Pun Intended — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:02:42 +0000

[...] Paul Graham writes some great essays. And, he has arguably “the most prescient footnote ever.” [...]

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 14:32:21 +0000

@FT: Graham says “Basically, what ‘Ajax’ means is ‘Javascript now works.”, but I don’t agree with this, and I belive there is many people who dont agree with this citation. JavaScript is really powerful client scripting language.

By: hadi

hadi — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 09:02:43 +0000

i like mix =dj