Hacker News: tjalex

New comment by tjalex in "About the irrationality of e=2.718... (1840)"

tjalex — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 17:58:55 +0000

Check out the annotations on the side of the document for more details -- you can extend the proof to e^2 easily with c = 0.

New comment by tjalex in "Star Citizen and Squadron 42 are using Amazon’s Lumberyard game engine"

tjalex — Sat, 24 Dec 2016 16:39:05 +0000

Are you serious? Have you actually even tried the game?

New comment by tjalex in "Visual Studio Code 1.7"

tjalex — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 22:37:18 +0000

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=donjayam... is fantastic, and I haven't felt the need to install anything beyond that (for Python specifically).

New comment by tjalex in "Visual Studio Code 1.7"

tjalex — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 22:26:34 +0000

I was so excited, but it turns out there's still no middle click for block selection :(

New comment by tjalex in "2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV"

tjalex — Mon, 31 Oct 2016 15:44:26 +0000

They covered 238 miles on a trip w/ 34 miles indicated remaining, so if they went ~250 miles total on 60 kW-h that would be equivalent to a ~140 MPG car.

New comment by tjalex in "The “432 Hz vs. 440 Hz” conspiracy theory"

tjalex — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 17:32:28 +0000

I think they mean that chose to major in , with music as a second (additional) major.

New comment by tjalex in "Hard Tech Startups"

tjalex — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 20:30:17 +0000

From the footnote in the original post:

[1] I use ‘hard tech’ to mean a startup where there is doubt that the technology can be built at all.

New comment by tjalex in "Visual Studio Code 1.5"

tjalex — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 03:07:35 +0000

Same; can't load any extensions. Issue has been posted: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/11702

New comment by tjalex in "Essential Electron"

tjalex — Thu, 25 Aug 2016 12:31:54 +0000

I've tested opening a few ~15MB log files (no syntax highlighting) with VS Code and Atom... I'm amazed that one editor will load within 2-3s and the other will take 15s (or more!) when they are both built on Electron.

New comment by tjalex in "Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?"

tjalex — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 02:15:31 +0000

Just added $25/mo more :) awesome, awesome idea!

New comment by tjalex in "Hello world in every programming language"

tjalex — Fri, 20 May 2016 12:06:44 +0000

https://github.com/leachim6/hello-world/blob/master/b/blub.b...

Some of these are so nonsensical, it's fantastic

New comment by tjalex in "Can a 700 M.P.H. Train in a Tube Be for Real?"

tjalex — Thu, 19 May 2016 19:57:29 +0000

Service between LA, SF, and the Moon by 2020!

New comment by tjalex in "Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks"

tjalex — Thu, 19 May 2016 19:31:15 +0000

Mine feels like it's slowly turning into a paperweight. :\

New comment by tjalex in "Chrome removes Backspace to go back"

tjalex — Thu, 19 May 2016 13:05:49 +0000

Agreed -- I am surprised (/disappointed?) they didn't add a replacement shortcut e.g. Alt+Backspace or something similar.

New comment by tjalex in "An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat)"

tjalex — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 17:57:39 +0000

You're not missing out, don't sweat it :-) I went to a similar university, and one of the best things about working in tech is that the culture is so similar to that environment.