AlexC04

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by AlexC04 15y ago
I was a high school ICT (computer) teacher in the UK for five years. Unless there are some serious changes to the political climate, programming will never fit well in schools. The biggest reason being that programming is hard... which mea
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by AlexC04 15y ago
That wouldn't work for me I'd always wind up trying to debug Amyloidosis.
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by AlexC04 15y ago
Wow. You're right. Even as early on as the abstract, the "conclusion" of the study seems to be the complete opposite of what I think is more accurately described as a "policy document" --- > This report describes results for a study o
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by AlexC04 15y ago
I too thought he was being sarcastic, but then I noticed there was a complete lack of smilies and rejected the notion as absurd.
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by AlexC04 15y ago
Under "Plan Types" you've used a checkbox when the actual behavior is a radio button. Plan Types HMO (15) PPO (79) What was the reasoning behind that? Are there other options that aren't mutually exclusive that sometimes show up dynamica
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by AlexC04 15y ago
<quote>WHAT IS THIS? An image with a transparent background is like a painting on a window: you can see all sorts of exciting things behind it, but you can’t reach through to touch them. αlphaPun.ch changes that! αlphaPun.ch will tr
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by AlexC04 15y ago
I don't know if I saw this on HackerNews or Reddit, but this one has a graph that goes well with the link in the parent post. Left behind in America: Who's to blame for the wealth divide? http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20102289-5
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by AlexC04 15y ago
I'm personally of the opinion that there's a finite number of times that I'm willing to tolerate "histrionic linkbait" headlines. From tech crunch and a number of other providers that find themselves in the top spot on HN I've personally
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by AlexC04 15y ago
> In this series I will present a few opinions of mine that go against what most other software developers think. A straw man to be sure... where's the evidence to that? I'm not sure what the author's background is, but his argumen
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by AlexC04 15y ago
What would you replace PHP with? Are you suggesting static files ?
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by AlexC04 15y ago
Does anyone have a link to the other classes? I see from the spreadsheet there are DB (database?) and ML (machine language?) classes as well ?
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by AlexC04 15y ago
Think he and Steve Jobs are heading out to launch a stealth startup?
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by AlexC04 15y ago
oooo... fulltext search yet? (scrambles off to read the notes).
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by AlexC04 15y ago
I too thought it was brill. Next, lets play "if PHP were cockney"
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by AlexC04 15y ago
Honestly I think the real answer is "if you're asking that question, it's time to find a new job" I've been through this very same ringer recently and strongly believe that changing from within is far more trouble, far more stressful and fa
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by AlexC04 15y ago
Even if it's not the best implementation, it could be considered as scaffolding upon which to improve. While you clearly have enough experience with A* to tell the difference between a good and bad implementation, I've not got the same back
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by AlexC04 15y ago
and on that $2.95 your profit is $1.50 a month ... that doesn't buy a lot of "taking shit".
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by AlexC04 15y ago
http://celtx.com/index.html is a very good, free and open source writing package that may be of interest to anyone who wants good writing software. It has a lot of that sort of index-card functionality like in Scrivener. It's often listed
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by AlexC04 15y ago
neat. I wish I had a bit more time to play with your TOS gist. Unfortunately, I just skipped my morning workout to get what I got in the comment there, and now have to run off to work. (boo) Oh well... that's why they call it a gist righ
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by AlexC04 15y ago
Reviewed by the NYT in Jan and discussed here about 6 months ago http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2077312 But it had been popping up ad-nauseum for a couple of months before its December 2010 release. It's an old story.
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by AlexC04 15y ago
That was my first thought actually. Problem is, do you want to be the company who holds the liability of a false negative? How do you manage that risk? Otherwise, yes a wallet STD test would be a fantastic little thing to have available i
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by AlexC04 15y ago
I was a bit annoyed to find it was an article about a book that came out 9 months ago ... and was discussed to death at the time.
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by AlexC04 15y ago
I tried sending a reverse resume to Google. I sent in cupcakes with the URL of the custom-domain-resume-website on it. Got lots of hits from Mountain View and Atlanta on the day, but in the end didn't even an email saying "no thanks". Oh we
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by AlexC04 15y ago
Oh my god. What's even funnier is like the last panel of that comic, I actually sent cupcakes in with my resume to the local google sattelite office. I thought it was really clever. I bought a domain "google____.com", wrote a custom resu
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by AlexC04 15y ago
"Job Creators" is an interesting term. Apparently recently adopted by the political language surgeons. This is a fantastic example of how language can be used to change the intent of a phrase. Here's John Stewart's light hearted take on th
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by AlexC04 15y ago
That has really improved since the last time it was posted here. I'm blown away by this full page editor option. http://www.aloha-editor.org/demos/3col/
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by AlexC04 15y ago
Every time I click on a title like "Why I'd never work for Google, Twitter, or Facebook" I keep expecting it to be a great big 96 point for page saying "Because they wouldn't fucking hire me" So far, I've only been disappointed by these tro
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by AlexC04 15y ago
Oh man! If this was "Step Up 3d" the entire room would have erupted into cheering and shouted stuff like "You got served yo!" and "Damnnnn" Jeff Schnitzer was just completely awesome! I loved that. :)
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by AlexC04 15y ago
Yeah - wouldn't it be interesting if the Google news style grouping of all articles on a topic also had a single threaded discussion about the topic as well? (complete with upvotes or +1's of exceptional comments and analysis from the us
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by AlexC04 15y ago
Can you really be a Software Engineer without a degree? Developer, yes, but the term "engineer" has a certain level of professionalism associated with it that an autodidact computer programmer wouldn't necessarily have. For point of refer

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