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by alexggordon 11y ago
Do you have a source for that? It's really hard to differentiate between some guy on twitter and some guy that happens to work for SpaceX on twitter.
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by alexggordon 11y ago
I think given the discrimination of gay people in the world, it's very hard to make claims like "the rate of homo/bisexual individuals of their preferred gender is far lower than the rate of heterosexual individuals, giving t
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by alexggordon 11y ago
I think the ethics situation can easily be answered by asking the question: Given the small chance of a genius or otherwise brilliant person arising from a cognitive disorder, would you voluntarily give that person autism? I do believe that
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Being Sneaky in C(codersnotes.com)
158 points by alexggordon 11y ago|88 comments
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The interesting thing about the increasing correlation between something scientifically measurable (age in this case) and autism, is that means something physical is changing. If something physical is changing from parents to children, th
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by alexggordon 11y ago
It's always interesting to see how these companies can progress in a year[0]. Regardless though, for those curious, there's a great presentation by the CEO, Dr. Leslie Dewan on what TPT does differently[1]. The big selling point f
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by alexggordon 11y ago
I know I'm a little late to the party, and I know this is a little off topic, but I've always wondered why bands didn't function more like companies. I spent a lot of time recording music in highschool and college, for myself
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by alexggordon 11y ago
I think the takeaway from this is that people associate "odd" fonts with different things (but rarely professionalism), which makes them scary to use in a professional context. Similar to how most of us are "afraid" of
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by alexggordon 11y ago
I've been working on a Sublime Text database client. Database clients are usually not that great to use, specifically because the text editor can have difficulties, and they're not that customizable. We decided that rather than ad
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by alexggordon 11y ago
> Drawing from the same law that regulates legacy phone service, net neutrality prohibits the sharing of your subscriber records with third parties unless you give explicit permission to your carrier. For those wondering about the "
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by alexggordon 11y ago
Not sure if you factored this in but don't forget about the federal renewable energy credit[0]. For the solar panels alone, it's a $6051.6 credit. [0] http://energy.gov/savings/residential-renewable-energy-tax
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by alexggordon 11y ago
I agree with you that we've trained users to expect UITableView Cells to be swipeable, yet I'd argue that the comments on MiniHack don't fit into a "standard" UI for cells (they don't look like a table view cel
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by alexggordon 11y ago
Gotchya. I was tapping the root comment, and not a child comment. I'm surprised there isn't a "collapse" button when tapping the root comment. Usually I don't reply or comment to HN on my phone, which is probably wh
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by alexggordon 11y ago
You're on Minihack right? This is what mine[0] looks like. [0] http://i.imgur.com/Tgaa1ep.jpg?1
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by alexggordon 11y ago
To be honest, I didn't know you could collapse comments. Since there's not a way to "discover" it in the UI, I figured that it didn't exist. While I'm not sure of the implementation, I think it would be a benef
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by alexggordon 11y ago
Looks like they custom rolled a bunch of custom stuff on top of Node, if that's what you're referring to.
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by alexggordon 11y ago
When I see tools like this, that allow children and adults to make things, using the same platform, I can only think Microsoft is it literally investing in the future. It's so easy to get wrapped up in what a tech company can produce n
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by alexggordon 11y ago
Well researched and typed article. This is a little tangential, and maybe I'm just now noticing it, but as of late the New York Times seems to have drastically shifted where it's journalistic effort is going. I've always been
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by alexggordon 11y ago
I know I'm coming to this a little late, but I'd be really interested in knowing what the Node creators think is happening with node currently. The current top comment here[0] cites an active community with iojs, and a not so acti
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by alexggordon 11y ago
Given Microsofts recent endeavors, I also have very little doubts that the editor will be open sourced once it's released. I think keeping something closed source in beta like this is a good way to force Devs to objectively evaluate th
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by alexggordon 11y ago
This website is great. However, this doesn't actually touch on the real issue. I work at a MSSQL shop, and all of us know and are convinced that PG is better. Most of us use PG for our side projects and some of the dev's don'
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by alexggordon 11y ago
Currently studying to take the test next weekend. There's actually some really great free resources for anyone looking to learn[0][1]. That said though, a couple guys at my work have really gotten into it and have started volunteering
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by alexggordon 11y ago
Thanks for the article! I will agree that my mom should not try and install Arch. However, if you work in the development community, want to learn more, and have an environment that encourages learning and experimenting, Arch is really an u
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Cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://... I'd actually argue a different point from the author. If you're a beginner at Linux, and want to learn more I would highly
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by alexggordon 11y ago
A slight tangent, but as a lover of rails and a user of websockets, I can't recommend Tubesock[0] highly enough. I think regardless of your opinion on event machine, Tubesock is a better engineering match for rails, than websocket-rail
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Along those same lines, I think eventually we're going to be able to drill into earths crust, or some other incredibly high pressure place and possible just mine the diamonds from there[0]. That said though, I haven't heard anythi
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by alexggordon 12y ago
I've always wondered if there's a space for some serious disruption in this industry. One of the things I've always seen, having gone to lots of auctions as a kid, is that you can buy diamond rings for a fraction of the price
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Ranger: CLI File Manager(rosipov.com)
3 points by alexggordon 12y ago|1 comments
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This article title is incorrect. The correction at the bottom of the article reads: Correction: This post originally said Microsoft would be investing $70 million in Cyanogen, but the company will be taking part in a $70 million investm
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by alexggordon 12y ago
Open-sourcing your code is a big step, and in doing so, you're essentially gambling on the fact that the services you provide are what's worth money, not the platform you do it on and even if someone else had your tools, you could

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