lzm

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https://github.com/lessandro

lessandro at gmail dot com

lzmon Russian legislative elections 2011 - statistical evidence of vote fraud

I don't see how that is possible. Aren't election results released as number of votes per party, instead of percentage of votes?

lzmon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2011)

SEEKING WORK - Remote or Brazil.

C#, C++, Python, Java - mostly back-end or non-web programming. ACM ICPC world finalist. Contact info in profile.

lzmon Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?

I'm in Vitória and I really doubt there's another HN user from around here.

lzmon Chrome Web Store have a new look

Front page looks good, but I don't really like the popup format for the apps. It feels too cramped.

lzmon Ask HN: What Android apps do you use?

  - Amazon Kindle, for reading books on the bus
  - DI Radio
  - OI Notepad
  - OI File manager
  - Aix Weather widget, has a temperature/precipitation graph

lzmon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancers? (September 2011)

SEEKING WORK - freelance or fulltime

C#, C++, C, Python, PHP, Java. ACM ICPC world finalist. Living in Vitória, Brazil, but very willing to travel or relocate (worldwide). Contact info in profile.

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That only works immediately after I close the tab. If I close one tab, close another tab, navigate to some other site, browse it for a while, and then decide to reopen that two closed tabs, then I can't do that.

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I know about that, but those arrow keys are so tiny. It becomes even more awkward if I want to select text (e.g. shift-fn-left).

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I'm having the same experience. I got a 2011 Air (my first Mac) and Lion seems pretty decent. Scrolling feels natural, and everything seems to work as it should.

My only complaints are the keyboard (as a programmer I really miss home/end/page up/page down), and that I can't reopen closed tabs in Safari.

lzmon New Visual Proportions for the iOS User Interface

Fascinating article for a non-designer like me. Things like visual rhythm and baseline grids hint that designing isn't just having the talent to know what looks good; there's also a whole science behind it.

lzmon Stanford "Intro to AI" course to be offered online for free

I'm really glad it's free. Where I live, $20 pays a month of lunch or public transportation. Even if it were $1 or $0.01 it would exclude people without international credit cards.

lzmon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2011)

SEEKING WORK - freelance or fulltime

C# (wcf, asp.net), Python, PHP, C/C++. ACM ICPC world finalist. Living in Vitória, Brazil, but very willing to travel or relocate (worldwide). Currently learning Android and iOS. Contact info in profile.

lzmon Tame.JS: Flow-control by the makers of OkCupid.com

The next version of Visual Studio will have something similar: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/async.aspx

lzmon Estimate your English vocabulary size

18,100 words, 24 years old, non-native speaker. I've never read a fiction book in English, only technical ones.

lzmon I Want To Teach Web Design For Free

I'm seriously considering spending 2x my monthly salary on a Mac, just because us Windows users are now second-class citizens on the internet.

lzmon Poll: How much do you make as a programmer?

Any tips on how to find a job in those regions?

lzmon I Want To Teach Web Design For Free

'Cardo' 16px: http://i.imgur.com/Ox8F8.png

Garamond 17px: http://i.imgur.com/ajLUj.png

lzmon I Want To Teach Web Design For Free

It's basically unreadable on Windows: http://i.imgur.com/qukor.png

lzmon PuTTY 0.61 released

Has anyone ever tried to use mintty with msysgit? I couldn't get ssh and vim to work.

lzmon Brazilian government signs up to develop OpenOffice and LibreOffice

Taxes are so high, yet we have little to no infrastructure. It's a shame, I really with I was born somewhere else.

lzmon Brazilian government signs up to develop OpenOffice and LibreOffice

Factor in the average income of a Brazilian family and you'll wonder how on Earth electronic gadgets get sold here at all.

lzmon Childish behaviour

Political correctness aside, names like 'pantyshot' and 'upskirt' do pose a practical problem: search results about these terms have the risk of being NSFW, and might be even blocked by your company's firewall.

lzmon So You Got a Google+ Invite... now what?

I've been trying to use my invite for at least 8 hours with no success. Perhaps Google is limiting registration selectively? (e.g per country/region)

lzmon Can bcrypt’s computational expense be reduced on the server side?

Not in this way. The bcrypted hash effectively becomes your plain text password, nulling the purpose of a hash in the first place.

lzmon The Architecture of Open Source Applications

Very nice. Your article made me want to read the entire book.

lzmon Payment Gateway in Latin America

PagSeguro might be an option. But I believe they only operate in Brazil, and to be honest I've never seen a store that accepts it.

lzmon Zynga Sues The Hell Out Of Brazilian Clone Vostu

It isn't even Brazilian.

A comment from the article: "Vostu is an american company founded by former Harvard grads, with development studios in Argentina and targeting the biggest market for social games in LATAM, which is Brazil. JFYI."

lzmon UseTheSource: a job board for hackers

I fear this website will be forgotten after a few days.

It may have a chance if people keep posting links to jobs there on their profiles or relevant comment threads.

lzmon Forrst now uses GitHub auth to let developers skip the invite queue

I have two inactive repos and still got in. I don't think I deserved this privilege.

lzmon Unlocked iPhone 4 up for sale

That's still very cheap. It won't go for less than 1300 USD in Brazil, which really feels like 10000 USD if you take in account our average salary.