mirabilis

In Jordan Spieth's annus mirabilis 2015 he was by far the best putter from 20-25 feet on tour.

Plenty of sloppy crap gets peer reviewed, and, for example, none of Einstein's annus mirabilis papers did.

We seemed to know more and more about the ontology of the world up to and perhaps slightly after the annus mirabilis.

He was 26 when he had his annus mirabilis (1905) in which he published 5 ground-breaking papers in physics, including the Special Theory of Relativity.

Pretty big chance that a programmer once offered an ICQ job is on HN these days and would comment in a thread about the Mirabilis purchase.

I remember I paid $600 or so to Mirabilis around 1996 to buy their http server library to save the development time.

He worked in a patent office, while working on his ideas and in 1905 publishing his four groundbreaking *annus mirabilis' papers, and also getting his PhD in 1905.

None of Einstein's annus mirabilis were peer reviewed.

Nullsoft (Winamp), Mirabilis (ICQ) and Netscape (Navigator) quickly come to mind, but I guess there's more, including their own ecosystem with keywords and promotional websites.

> As for Einstein, he had a PhD at the time that four of his Annus Mirabilis papers were published False.

> Originally developed by the Israeli company Mirabilis in 1996, the client was bought by AOL in 1998, and then by Mail.

As for Einstein, he had a PhD at the time that four of his Annus Mirabilis papers were published, though it is not that uncommon for PhD students to also have papers published.

They did all of the above - you could connect to the open Internet from AOL starting around 1996, they started marketing themselves explicitly as an "ISP + proprietary content" around 1998, they bought Netscape and Mirabilis and several other leading Internet companies.

The idea that Dylan got stuck between "Bringing it all back home" (March 1965) and "Highway 61 Revisited" (Aug 1965) is laughable – that was the middle of the greatest creative rampage of his career, his annus mirabilis.

This quality was well known to Renaissance and Enlightenment era mathematicians and physicists, as well as to the ancients as the "spira mirabilis", or "marvelous spiral." But it seems to have lost favor in the modern era to a mythos surrounding the Golden Ratio Phi and the Fibonacci sequence.

If you think that the pace of change is so radically different, consider that in the twenty years following patent 37435 the world got aircraft, motion pictures and Einstein's Annus Mirabilis.

Founders cashing out after the equity event seem to be a constant death-blow to acquired properties; Snapple, CompuServe, Bebo, Mirabilis, Xoom, AOL, Excite, MySpace, GeoCities.

I'm more of the opinion, that the difference when it comes to estimating between programming and professionals in other creative pursuits, can be found in the fact that Frank Gehry was in his 50's by the time he started to become a rock star, Michelangelo was in his mid thirties when he began the Sistine Chapel, and Einstein was too old to be a brogrammer in the Annus Mirabilis.