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89 karma · joined April 2, 2009

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/alexg0; my proof: https://keybase.io/alexg0/sigs/BGUEO1kmyArtsWOak3PIxIhhYuPtaLBrZP-9RTcLc_I ]
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alexg0··on My Forgotten Language: the brain can lose and reclaim an abandoned mother tongue
Get a Russian speaking nanny or Russian daycare. There got to be those where ever community is large enough.
alexg0··on Stop Calling it ‘Identity Theft’
That Wrigley Field, for those not from Chicago.
alexg0··on Fitbit will lay off 110 employees amid challenges in wearable market
AutoSleep app does a decent job of retrofiting sleep tracking into the apple watch. With a data lockin, I have an Aria scale, and Sync Solver is good at extracting Fitbit data into the HealthKit.
alexg0··on 40 year old study could have reshaped American diet, was never fully published
Avocado oil, butter, ghee, lard, beef tallow
alexg0··on You can't win the game, it exists only to destroy your mind
Damn you. Life was much better before we knew about "The Game".
alexg0··on Your Mechanic (YC W12) Wins TC Disrupt
Congratulations to Art. Great job!
alexg0··on Acunote (YC W11) Takes On Project Management With A Gmail-Like Interface
Would be curious how contractors respond to using Acunote. You may need to explain to them that tasks are like a punchlist.
alexg0··on IAmA a malware coder and botnet operator, AMA
Use AmEx.
alexg0··on Extremely rare Apple Macintosh 128K with 'Twiggy Drive' listed for $100K on eBay
That Mac should have a black and white screen. Anybody cares to come up with plausible reason how come in photos looks to be color?
alexg0··on Tmux, for fun and profit
C-a F will resize screen window to size of your terminal.
alexg0··on Paul Graham: SOPA Supporting Companies No Longer Allowed At YC Demo Day
Not American Express either.
alexg0··on IPhone 4S: A5 chip, 8MP camera, and Siri voice recognition
Really, they let me upgrade from 3G to 3GS to 4. And I waited to get 3G few month after it originally came out.

See this article on from 2009: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10266781-37.html

update: Based on my recollection, with 3G and 3GS, AT&T only asked for 1 year contract, not two. When new iPhone was released, sometime in June or July, anybody with contact renewal through October was marked as elegible to sign new contract, and received contract pricing on the newly released model if iPhone.

alexg0··on IPhone 4S: A5 chip, 8MP camera, and Siri voice recognition
AT&T has consistently let it's best customers upgrade to new iPhone releases without enforcing the contract -- charging subsidized prices to upgrade to newer iPhone models. Will Sprint and Verizon done the same, or is switching to Sprint now will commit one to sit out next iPhone?
alexg0··on Apple's 'Let's Talk iPhone' keynote liveblog
Think Sprint may still be able to sell that big chunk of phones they committed themselves to. I can definitely see going back to Sprint, if they get reasonable roaming deals, particularly on international data.
alexg0··on Urban Airship: Postgres to NoSQL and back
This has a pretty decent, if dated list: http://sql-info.de/mysql/gotchas.html

Few of the items on that list bit me personally.

alexg0··on VMware Fusion 4 Released
As a new Mac convert, why would one use this, instead of VirtualBox?
alexg0··on Deft -- easy note taking for Emacs
I appreciate you creating simplenote.el. I understand disagreeing with direction platform taken, particularly if you are personally unable to take advantage of it.

As far as forking, would you consider merging in tag support into your version, if someone were to send you a patch?

alexg0··on Deft -- easy note taking for Emacs
But that does not run in Emacs
alexg0··on Deft -- easy note taking for Emacs
I use https://github.com/cefstat/simplenote.el to synchronize with simplenote service and on mobile device and Notational Velocity.

Deft seems little more refined, and simplenote.el has not been updated for a while, but would be nice if it synced with simplenote.

alexg0··on 10 Hackers Who Made History
Surprised Alan Turing is not on the list.
alexg0··on Groupon has no viable business model
Wow, turns out the expired groupons I have sitting around are worth something. Thanks.
alexg0··on Airbnb Nightmare: No End In Sight
That's actually fairly easy. Host should declare coverage limits. Does not make sense to artificially lower the limits, since insurance will not pay for what's not declared. Thinking somewhat similar to insurance that FedEx and UPS are happy to sell.
alexg0··on OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store
Can't say, I am recent OS X convert. Took me a second to figure out why all the stuff I installed with brew stopped working. Turned out git somehow got uninstalled/disabled, and brew relies on being able to find gcc in the path, and it was no longer there. Updated to newer XCode to get gcc back, and all is happy.
alexg0··on OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store
What is worth mentioning, if you had an earlier version of XCode installed, upgrade to Lion breaks it.
alexg0··on In Lisp, should lists be replaced with trees?
The rotor on top has been done. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-22_Osprey
alexg0··on How Bin Laden Sent and Received Email
One would hope terrorist organizations don't have technical expertise to code review PGP.
alexg0··on Help Ron Conway Abolish Stock Option Taxes in SF
I would think much more effective approach would be to vote with your feet. Move your office out of the city, and let the distributionists in the city hole make their own decisions. Maybe send them a letter informing them you moved and why.
alexg0··on Top Secret Stealth Helicopter Program Revealed in Osama Bin Laden Raid: Experts
Kill-Flash addon for Chrome makes these pages browsing so much more pleasant.
alexg0··on Wall Street's Cult Calculator Turns 30
What is the right iPhone emulator? There are so many choices, from $3 to $15.
alexg0··on The daily lunch delivery of India's dabbawallahs
I been to that store, it's a high end furniture store. Nothing there is 'within reach' for most people, or particularly good value.
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