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What you look like may determine where you are seated in a restaurant(mashable.com)
2 points by wbsun 11y ago|0 comments
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Wolff: The End of Yahoo(usatoday.com)
3 points by wbsun 11y ago|0 comments
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by wbsun 11y ago
Yes, it is a great book. Trust me. If you are scared by the lexing and parsing algorithms, skip them because it is highly unlikely you will write them on your own. You don't need to refer to other sources to implement your own language
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by wbsun 11y ago
No worry about pregnancy. I am pretty sure the interviewers won't ask any question about it :) It is very un-googly and prohibited (and illegal) to take that into account when they evaluate your candidacy. If anything make you feel unc
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by wbsun 11y ago
The problem with bike in US is that everybody drives, the roads were initially designed for cars, not bikes. Simply converting part of a drive lane to a bike lane makes cars and bikes still share the road, which is very unsafe. Blind spots
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by wbsun 11y ago
Yeah, searching for indie/freelancer jobs may get a bunch of websites claiming they are seriously building such a bazar. But none of them is well-known enough to attract most posters and freelancers.
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Ask HN: Where is a good place to find IT contract or indie jobs?
6 points by wbsun 11y ago|3 comments
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by wbsun 11y ago
Any link to by-pass the pay wall? ps: it is funny that this is posted by 'IBM' :)
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by wbsun 11y ago
An (probably) easy way is to connect a switch to a GPIO pin, then watch for special patterns of on/off sequences as cheat codes :), and you end up programming a computer in binary code.
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by wbsun 12y ago
Hmm, I am glad to know so many people stop at the boundary of compiler's restrictions and abstractions. btw, please do not misuse and misinterpret John's blog sooo, he is one of my most respected professors.
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by wbsun 12y ago
Why down vote? I don't think anyone who disagrees with this really knows C, or more accurately, how most computers work. Can down voters name something that can't be converted to any others? Unless you are using a Harvard architec
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by wbsun 12y ago
Aren't everything equivalent in C?
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by wbsun 12y ago
Agree. I think the mobile world is facing a very hard problem: how to show meaningful and relatively large amount of content in an elegant way on a 5" screen. Squeezing the content of a 13" laptop screen into a 5" phone scree
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by wbsun 12y ago
Ohhh, the good old days :)
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by wbsun 12y ago
I appreciate such work that people are working hard on, but how can this last long? Google was started with Ad-free too. The search will need money to run anyway. Have you figured out a better idea to get money without Ads?
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by wbsun 12y ago
So what's the problem :)
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by wbsun 12y ago
Actually I think both the processing capability and communication capability are almost reaching their limits regarding the sequential performance, I bet that's why multicore and bandwidth are what producers advocate, and also people a
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by wbsun 12y ago
What are the benefits of using HTTP rather than TCP directly? I guess one of them is easy to pass firewalls. Anything else makes HTTP better than raw TCP for RPC?
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by wbsun 12y ago
After reading the HN comments, I just realize that the 'apartment' has really different scales for married (or family) and unmarried people. Unmarried people are likely sharing units and hence pay much less than married or familie
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by wbsun 12y ago
That is an awesome deal!! $700 for the entire townhouse or just a single room?
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by wbsun 12y ago
Looks like Mac is still the best choice of a good quality *NIX laptop that works out-of-box. PC still has a long way to go.
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by wbsun 12y ago
Behind the paywall?
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by wbsun 12y ago
This post shows the best of hacker news: comments are often way more better than the original post! I'd agree with one of the comment got downvoted: the post itself is really 'manipulating' and like an ad of nonsense: the onl
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by wbsun 12y ago
The OP already did this for ML too. Read the title again, "every programmer", don't you think people doing ML are programmers? :-D
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by wbsun 12y ago
Linux Device Drivers: http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/ The best and free kernel book.
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by wbsun 12y ago
How fancy and efficient the underneath runtime library, memory management, process scheduling, network stack, block I/O, device drivers have been designed and implemented so that someone can just write naive code to achieve such a high
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Ask HN: fast and easy way to set up a personal website with blog
2 points by wbsun 12y ago|6 comments
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by wbsun 12y ago
Python threads, aren't they just single threaded execution?!
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by wbsun 13y ago
Solution: native numeric computing library in ART?
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by wbsun 13y ago
I bet at that time there will be new workloads and tasks that demand even more computing power, like today.

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