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34 points by henning 865 days ago | link | parent

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.

47 points by hazchem 865 days ago | link

Paul Graham is so good, he always tips using $2.56 cheques made out by Donald Knuth.

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34 points by drm237 865 days ago | link

Paul Graham can divide by zero.

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37 points by imgabe 865 days ago | link

and the answer is "Paul Graham"

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33 points by zyroth 865 days ago | link

Paul Graham was written in lisp that itself was written in Paul Graham.

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29 points by nr 864 days ago | link

Paul Graham doesn't need Viagra. He is NP-hard.

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27 points by big-j 864 days ago | link

Any sufficiently complicated developer contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Paul Graham.

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29 points by jdrake3 865 days ago | link

Paul Graham needs no forks to dine with Philosophers.

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24 points by cetaganda 865 days ago | link

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

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22 points by mkull 865 days ago | link

nerds

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23 points by viergroupie 865 days ago | link

Paul Graham is the current continuation.

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21 points by cetaganda 865 days ago | link

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

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4 points by Xichekolas 863 days ago | link

... and Al Gore was written in Blub, which was itself implemented in Arc ...

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22 points by cysh 865 days ago | link

Bjarne Stroustrup once tried to look upon Paul Graham, but was driven mad. Thus was born C++.

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20 points by ptn 865 days ago | link

Paul Graham could get Hurd to work

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20 points by Xichekolas 865 days ago | link

Paul Graham is so good, the parenthesis match themselves.

Paul Graham is so good, it's hard to defun him.

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36 points by ptn 865 days ago | link

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

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6 points by ptn 864 days ago | link

Here's Paul while hacking:

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

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3 points by eru 865 days ago | link

Three keys are redundant.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/ajwatson/cat-powered.gif

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1 point by eru 865 days ago | link

Anything but the Church Numerals is below him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_numeral

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7 points by gensym 864 days ago | link

Paul Graham can derive S from K

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10 points by breck 865 days ago | link

Paul Graham is so good, he yelled at the hackernews server and it fixed itself.

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8 points by iamwil 865 days ago | link

Sounds like we should have a Paul Graham Facts, like Chuck Norris.

Paul Graham's so smart that inside his brain is another brain.

Paul Graham once matched /(x+x+)+y/ in logarithmic time.

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11 points by rms 865 days ago | link

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

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7 points by neilc 865 days ago | link

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

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4 points by yinzhen 865 days ago | link

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

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2 points by riffraff 864 days ago | link

NP-complete problems are for sissies. Paul Graham can solve any problem in the Arithmetic Hierarchy in O(1).

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7 points by MasterOfLambdas 864 days ago | link

Matematicians searching for P=NP or P!=NP proof should wait until Paul Graham decides which of these statements is true.

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7 points by icey 864 days ago | link

It's a little known fact that the P in P=NP actually stands for Paul Graham.

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6 points by dfranke 865 days ago | link

All lambda expressions terminate in logarithmic time when evaluated in Paul Graham order.

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2 points by eru 865 days ago | link

Paul Graham is so good, he does not recurse. He uses the y combinator - in Continuation Passing Style - with both hands tied behind his back.

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1 point by eru 864 days ago | link

What's so bad about the y combinator?

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20 points by Nate 864 days ago | link

Paul Graham is a default constructor. He takes no arguments.

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3 points by mango 863 days ago | link

He is also pure virtual class, which needs no overloaded virtual destructor implementations. All dispatches are written doubly, and there are no leaks, whatsoever.

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17 points by loumf 865 days ago | link

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

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15 points by icey 865 days ago | link

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

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35 points by icey 864 days ago | link

Hmm, I just thought of another.

Paul Graham named his fists: "(" and ")"

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16 points by alaughramp 865 days ago | link

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

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13 points by geezer 864 days ago | link

Paul Graham can put n > m pigeons in m holes, each hole having no more than one pigeon.

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12 points by SwellJoe 865 days ago | link

Paul Graham's tears have been acquired by Google for an undisclosed sum.

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40 points by kirubakaran 865 days ago | link

They bought "Paul Graham's tears" options. Paul Graham doesn't cry.

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12 points by MasterOFLambda 864 days ago | link

Paul Graham is not afraid of going bankrupt. Going bankrupt is afraid of Paul Graham.

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8 points by gameguru 843 days ago | link

Paul Graham only drives a car when his cdr is in the shop.

Paul Graham can be written in ten lines using macros.

Paul Graham can make NaN finally equal itself.

Paul Graham will resurrect Usenet on Judgment Day.

Paul Graham is the World Champion in Ambition.

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8 points by jey 864 days ago | link

IN SOVIET RUSSIA, PAUL GRAHAM.... wait, what?

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6 points by Xichekolas 863 days ago | link

In Paul Graham, Soviet Russia... er... what?

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8 points by ptn 865 days ago | link

When Paul Graham hacks, the Rocky Theme Song starts playing.

Paul Graham can find Waldo. Always.

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6 points by MasterOFLambda 864 days ago | link

Paul Graham directly experiences Platonic world of ideas and finds an investor for each of them.

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5 points by kirubakaran 864 days ago | link

John McCarthy sent his son Paul Graham to save the world from Blub.

(I am agnostic. I googled for this biblical verse... uncannily, it is from the book of John.)

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5 points by rubyruy 864 days ago | link

Paul Graham can compress ANY data by at least 1 bit, including binary 1.

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6 points by ivankirigin 864 days ago | link

I have a very reliable lossy compression algorithm for you if interested. It's extremely computationally scalable as well.

I just map all values to 0.

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5 points by Nate 864 days ago | link

Paul Graham's memory is so good that he doesn't need to have a search box on Hacker News because he can remember all the topics and urls.

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5 points by BobCat 845 days ago | link

Paul Graham can give three young men only $6000 for a whole summer of 'work'.

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5 points by MasterOFLambda 864 days ago | link

Paul Graham doesn't date Jessica Alba. On a first date, she didn't know how to implement Lisp in itself.

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4 points by lst 864 days ago | link

.tfel ot thgir si GP

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5 points by pius 865 days ago | link

Paul Graham when quined is Paul Graham when quined.

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5 points by MasterOFLambda 864 days ago | link

Paul Graham partitioned the Banach-Tarski ball, reassembled it back to two identical copies of itself and then sold the other copy to Yahoo for 100 million bucks.

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4 points by MasterOFLambda 864 days ago | link

Paul Graham funded Kurt Godel's startup and it turned profitable.

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3 points by PStamatiou 865 days ago | link

Paul Graham is so good, he regularly comments on Hacker News.

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2 points by ww 862 days ago | link

Doctor Who has a real name, but Paul Graham encrypted it.

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2 points by MasterOFLambda 864 days ago | link

Lisp programmers call Paul Graham a "godfather" of their "family" and for every parenthesis they use, they pay him a buck for "protection".

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2 points by rugoso 864 days ago | link

Paul Graham is so brainy, he has 2 left brains, and uses 0.3% of one of those to emulate Picasso's right brain, only with a better interface.

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2 points by Goladus 864 days ago | link

When Paul Graham goes to the cafeteria for lunch, he doesn't sit at a table. All the tables sit at Paul Graham.

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3 points by MasterOFLambda 864 days ago | link

Paul Graham is the sentence that consistently asserts itself.

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3 points by synthespian 864 days ago | link

Paul Graham is so good, he can recurse infinitely. Twice. Just kidding. ;-)

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2 points by bluishgreen 864 days ago | link

Paul Graham is so good he can count up to 32 just by counting up to 16.

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2 points by andyn 865 days ago | link

Paging tongue-ass extraction to item #60357!

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2 points by BobCat 845 days ago | link

Paul Graham ith tho thmart, he hath hith own dialect

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1 point by zandorg 863 days ago | link

Paul Graham is so good, he carries a needle to burst Dotcom bubbles as he's not affected by them.

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1 point by thomasswift 863 days ago | link

Some of these are great.

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2 points by depleater 864 days ago | link

Paul Graham can find a third factor for a prime number. And more, if he feels like trying.

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2 points by MasterOFLambda 864 days ago | link

Lisp programmers call Paul Graham a "godfather" of their "family" and for every parenthesis they use, they pay him a buck for "protection".

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2 points by terr 864 days ago | link

There are only 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand Paul Graham, and those who don't know binary.

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1 point by eru 862 days ago | link

There are only 3 types of mathematicans on the planet. Those who can count, and those who can not.

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1 point by rhyde 864 days ago | link

Who would win? Paul Graham or Jack Bauer?

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12 points by ivankirigin 864 days ago | link

Paul Graham's face is always too pixelated for Jack Bauer's image enhancement programs.

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2 points by jaymaj21 864 days ago | link

Paul Graham is so good, he can make the tower of babel from oatmeal and fingernail clippings.

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1 point by nextmoveone 864 days ago | link

Paul Graham is so good, he can beat corporate death into a submission with his bare hands.

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1 point by birdman 865 days ago | link

Paul Graham is an 8 foot tall beast-man who showers in grain alcohol and feeds his baby shrimp scampi

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2 points by Novash 865 days ago | link

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?

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11 points by sciolizer 865 days ago | link

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

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5 points by benhoyt 864 days ago | link

Paul Graham is so good, he's written 735 contributions to this list but hasn't even been tempted to send them.

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1 point by yters 865 days ago | link

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

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-3 points by wensing 865 days ago | link

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

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11 points by yters 865 days ago | link

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.

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0 points by yters 864 days ago | link

Aw cummon! I thought this was the ultimate cap - tail recursion? roundhouse kick? Chuck Norris? haha?

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10 points by rms 865 days ago | link

Paul Graham is always a single argument.

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7 points by paulgb 865 days ago | link

No, + takes any number of arguments.

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1 point by edu 865 days ago | link

Paul Graham is so good, he will skip this piece of news.

Paul Graham is so good, his DNA has an implementation of Lisp.

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1 point by jradis1337 473 days ago | link

Paul Graham isn't lactose intolerant, he just doesn't put up with lactose's shit!

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1 point by Morshwan 575 days ago | link

The first virus was a poorly implementation of Paul Grapham's cell.

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1 point by qwqw 789 days ago | link

Paul Graham is so good he somehow managed to take the credit for this paper. http://robotics.stanford.edu/users/sahami/papers-dir/spam.pd...

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1 point by arun 863 days ago | link

Paul Graham is a CIA experiment that went very very wrong....and he has an 'arc' chip embedded in his brain

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1 point by choas 863 days ago | link

he just writes (paul graham) and yahoo will buy it

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1 point by jaymaj21 864 days ago | link

Paul Graham made the world in six days, and sold it on the seventh day to become multi-millionaire.

There is no god but Paul Graham, and Paul Graham is His prophet.

Creationists are baffled by the question: "Who created Paul Graham?"

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1 point by tejaswi 864 days ago | link

Paul Graham's laptop was built by Cray.

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1 point by CHIEFARCHITECT 864 days ago | link

Paul Graham is so good, that C++ is called PG++

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1 point by FeepingCreature 864 days ago | link

And it's 0. Bignum Overflow.

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1 point by weiser 864 days ago | link

There is an infinite number of primes, but Paul Graham is the greatest prime.

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1 point by zandorg 863 days ago | link

... And he is also, at the same time, the smallest prime.

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-2 points by russ 865 days ago | link

Paul Graham is so good, he's not falling for your WFP ass-kissing attempts.

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-3 points by jrcapa 865 days ago | link

Paul Graham was a hacker and now is a businessman.

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-4 points by lst 865 days ago | link

Paul_Graham(R), the well-known Registered Trademark, has finally found how not to die, and integrated and evaluater for this into his brain/organism.

So there's really hope for Arc to be finished in his life time, now!

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-1 points by ardit33 865 days ago | link

wtf was this?

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0 points by ardit33 864 days ago | link

hey, Why I did got negged? Seriously, people, chill out.

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-3 points by lst 865 days ago | link

tohu-wa-bohu

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