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jcarden··on Whose Weil? Simone, Patron Saint of Everyone
I agree wholeheartedly. It's become one of my goto resources for learning about the history of various topics from science to literature. The episode on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is fantastic.
jcarden··on Ask HN: Whats the most challenging book you have ever read?
On this topic, you may want to check out How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now by James Kugel. It provides a historical overview of how the implicit and explicit interpretations of the old testament narratives have changed with respect to scholarship. Great read.

http://www.amazon.com/How-Read-Bible-Guide-Scripture/dp/0743...

jcarden··on FarmLogs (YC W12) Nabs $10M Series B from SV Angel, Sam Altman and Others
Great job guys! Keep pushing the field forward.
jcarden··on Beyond Light Table
One can imagine a tremendous number of useful applications something like EVE would enable. Working in a top notch cancer research lab, I can think of several instances where an exceptionally talented lab biologist needs some computational work done but doesn't have the slightest idea of how to get started. Hopefully, EVE will bring down some of those barriers and change this. This is exciting.
jcarden··on Show HN: Native apps for the browser
Have any plans to support Linux or Windows ?
jcarden··on Show HN: Virtual Machines in the Browser
I believe this is technically accurate.
jcarden··on Cap'n Proto beta release 0.1 is ready for Real Work
Nice!
jcarden··on Light Table 0.4 released
This is awesome! Way to go LT.
jcarden··on Meteor 0.5.7 released
Yes, new DDP.
jcarden··on Old McDonald had an app: FarmLogs lands $1M to modernize farm management
Awesome job guys. Way to go.
jcarden··on I want to start a synthetic biology company, now what?
What is required to start synthetic biology company from 0 depends on what problem you are trying to solve commercially. If you do not have a problem in particular, then you need to evaluate the current research and commercial synthetic biology space, approximate the gaps in services and identify a problem you would like to address. Once you have a better idea of the problem, then you will have an idea of where to start. What did you have in mind ?
jcarden··on Stripe Checkout
Awesome! I'm ready to use this.
jcarden··on Ask HN: Rooms for engineers in the Bay Area?
Check out www.Chezjj.com
jcarden··on Ray Kurzweil joins Google
This might be of some interest. http://fora.tv/2012/10/14/Stuart_Armstrong_How_Were_Predicti...
jcarden··on Transcriptic - outsourcing basic biology research work
Way to go guys!
jcarden··on The Aha Moments That Made Paul Graham's Y Combinator Possible
As have I
jcarden··on Live stream of Light Table in the Node.js Knockout
This is awesome! I can't wait to watch.
jcarden··on Meteor possibly seen in Silicon Valley
Where are the pics ?
jcarden··on Lockitron: Keyless entry using your phone
Lockitron user here. Love it!
jcarden··on Tell HN: Startup school 2012 invites are out
If anyone is looking for room/board be sure to check out http://chezjj.com/

Several YC alum stay/stayed here.

jcarden··on Harvard chemist talks about the problem of solving problems
I believe your link is for the MIT Technology Review India version of the article.
jcarden··on Ridejoy for iPhone
Ridejoy levels-up. Awesome jobs guys! It looks fantastic.
jcarden··on Synthetic biology is heading for the cloud
Nice! This is good to know.
jcarden··on FarmLogs (YC W12) Letting the Cloud Watch Over the Farm
Congrats to Jesse and Brad. Way to go!
jcarden··on Light Table is in YCS12
Awesome. Way to go Chris!
jcarden··on Show HN: AutoGlance
Nice! You guys are definitely heading the right direction in terms of information architecture, UX and UI. I would like to see a overall price distribution reference with the results (i.e. of the total returned results, n fell within range a, n fell within range b, etc.) The ability to sort by price would be nice too. Good job and keep iterating.
jcarden··on Show HN: Meteor, a realtime JavaScript framework
Interesting. I may be in love.
jcarden··on How to Prevent Other Financial Crises
Reading Taleb should change the way you think about most things.
jcarden··on TechCrunch’s Picks: The 10 Best Startups From Y Combinator Demo Day
Carsabi is great. I really wish they would have been around a couple of years ago when I was looking for a nice used car. I can't recommend them highly enough.
jcarden··on Tagstand Relaunches NFC Task Launcher App, Makes NFC Way Less Geeky
Nice job Kul. Way to go.
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