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by rauljara 16y ago
"...he faced prosecution by the British government because he was gay. In 1954, Turing committed suicide at age 41 after being forced to undergo hormone therapy to “fix” his sexual orientation." I don't know how I never heard of that before
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by rauljara 16y ago
Virtually no hobbyist would be able to compete against big financial firms' hardware and algorithms. It might be a smart move for a large high frequency trading firm to put out these sorts of tools for free. An incredibly easy to use free
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by rauljara 16y ago
I do not believe that anywhere in the article she calls you a "sexist boy"? She calls the tech industry "by and large a boy's club". And I'm not just being pedantic when I say that's not the same thing at all. Complaining about the state
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by rauljara 16y ago
The piece of insight that I think was missing from the post is this: If you can get to $10 million and still not feel secure, there's something very wrong with the way you are living your life. $10 million, with a 1% annual return on inve
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by rauljara 16y ago
I know it's not new, but I still get a kick every time I see "Zombie Detection" listed on the features page and I re-realize it's not a joke. "Zombie Detection: Hard-to-find application errors and crashes can be trapped within Instruments w
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by rauljara 16y ago
If the basic argument is that apple's margin are too high, I agree completely. They are a massively profitable company; they don't need to be charging what they're charging. If the argument is that there is something immoral about them cha
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by rauljara 16y ago
With macvim I sometimes end up using cmd-c on a visually selected area, the cmd-v in the other window. It works, even if it isn't built-in. I also avoid having multiple windows open as much as possible (tabs and splits ftw) but when it do
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by rauljara 16y ago
Really smart tutoring tool. I've seen other tutorials with editable javascript examples, but I think the combination of well chosen examples, use of asserts, and nice design brings it to a whole new level.
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by rauljara 16y ago
I'm sure I'm not the only person on Hacker News to have taken advantage of OpenCourseWare. If any of the MIT folks are reading this thread, I'd just like to offer my sincere thanks for the good work you do.
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by rauljara 16y ago
The editors I've seen for iOS all have issues with special characters so I had been really curious to see how the emac folks would deal with that. I was pretty disappointed when I found out they didn't. The gestures were pretty cool anyway
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by rauljara 16y ago
Identifying the first place i and j are used is a start, but it doesn't really answer the question. The question is "why?", not "where did it start?" Of the explanations on the SO page, the fact that i is the first letter of index seems li
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by rauljara 16y ago
Don't get me wrong, I fall squarely on the side that Ruby's power is well worth it's danger. But let's not kid ourselves, monkey-patching Object is dangerous. In this example, exposing all of an object's methods to the web means that anyo
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by rauljara 16y ago
Depending on your point of view, this is a perfect example of either what makes ruby so amazing or so awful. I don't know of another language that gives you the power to so concisely potentially screw yourself in such a creative way.
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by rauljara 16y ago
Ruby 1.9.2 has been released since August. Was the poster confused in thinking it had just been released? Or was the poster making a point about people needing to upgrade already? some past discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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by rauljara 16y ago
I think it's helpful to have criteria like this out there, so that we can discuss them. That said, what's with the bias against capital letters? maxphysaddr is more readable than MaxPhysAddr? godisnowhere is more readable than GodIsNowHe
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by rauljara 16y ago
A lot of the services offer credit, which seems like a good way to go. Some of them offer a couple of months of subscription, however. New Relic in particular has a little note that says you "can down / upgrade afterwards". Which sounds
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by rauljara 16y ago
"The application Rawkets by would like the ability to access and update your data on Twitter. Sign out if you want to connect to an account other than ________." Not _necessarily_ damning, but it certainly does look suspicious, doesn't it?
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by rauljara 16y ago
I understand where you're coming from, but touch changes how you interact with a device. I personally wouldn't want people judging my work based on their experience dealing with an interface I never designed for. Everything about the proj
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by rauljara 16y ago
"I know nothing about the entertainment industry..." Then maybe you shouldn't speak about it as if you do. I have heard the same advice in this article from a number of people working as tv writers (either reading articles, or as part of m
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by rauljara 16y ago
The best part is what the first message was: "LO" Short for LOGIN. They only got through the l and the o before the system crashed.
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by rauljara 16y ago
"Criminalizing business will mean that only crooks will want to run businesses." What an absurd sentiment. We already have corporations that brazenly break laws with the understanding that the penalties they suffer will be less than the pr
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by rauljara 16y ago
First: it is a single course, and it does not appear to be a required one. No one is being made to study it. Students are being given the option of studying it. Second: All manner of art is studied in college, from novels, to sculpture, t
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by rauljara 16y ago
If only... the year of the Linux Desktop was also supposed to be the year of the open operating system. I have nothing but nice things to say about the android that google makes, but the custom versions of android that manufacturers ship
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by rauljara 16y ago
Whether or not Stephen Hawking's position is philosophically sound, this response certainly isn't. The question is where does the universe come from? The author's argument is that something can't come out of nothing. You can't use the law
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by rauljara 16y ago
The essay itself is a pretty wonderful merging of form and content. At its very best, form helps to convey content. As seen here.
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Reanimated ‘Junk’ DNA Is Found to Cause Disease(nytimes.com)
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by rauljara 16y ago
Be careful with the word 'everybody'. Surely someone would prefer higher contrast, the ability to change foreground/background color, and faster page turning (without that annoying black flash) over crisper text. Me? I still prefer print.
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by rauljara 16y ago
All the music in the iTunes store is drm free now. If you would rather have an mp3 than an AAC version of the file, you can use iTunes itself to do the conversion.
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Then the much more accurate stories should have been posted with the call for the NYTimes to apologize, and not the single tweet. It was the headline I took issue with. In general, even if what you're saying is true, that doesn't excuse h
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by rauljara 16y ago
While the Times may in fact be wrong about this, I think it ought to take more of a statement than a single tweet to make a news organization issue an apology.

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