weilawei

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by weilawei 14y ago
What primary operating system? I use whatever fits the bill at the moment, and I have enough computers to run 'em all. Operating systems are a tool. All problems are not nails.
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by weilawei 14y ago
3rd gen, my family is full of programmers.
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by weilawei 14y ago
19 years (a few months shy of 20) and I'm 23. I started with my dad's Commodore 64 and the BASIC reference manual. Flashing colors on the screen, followed by very simplistic text adventures.
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by weilawei 16y ago
Simply saying that they were wrong doesn't make it so. The original post had hard numbers. If you're going to say that those numbers were in error, I want to see the numbers that back it up.
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by weilawei 16y ago
0 days is about the time it would take to rank in the top 3 results for the keyword 'anonymous'. Other Interesting Tidbits for this keyword: 0 sites are already indexed. -1 is the average Page Rank for the top results.
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by weilawei 16y ago
0 days is about the time it would take to rank in the top 3 results for the keyword 'xkcd'. Other Interesting Tidbits for this keyword: 0 sites are already indexed. -1 is the average Page Rank for the top results.
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by weilawei 16y ago
Program more.
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by weilawei 16y ago
I saw this today and wished I'd heard about it sooner. I learned to program way back when I was 4, using PET BASIC. Why did great work in the community, really encouraging people to learn and get over their fears about programming. I first
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by weilawei 16y ago
I'll second that. I find Objective-C nice to work with. The real issue is the lack of cross-platform compatibility (think Cocoa). The rest I write in C. That or a dynamic language. Ruby, Javascript, Python--they're all pretty much equivalen
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by weilawei 16y ago
I used to receive the Sun-Chronicle. Pretty decent paper from what I remember, although it's been some years. I'll be interested to see if it works. An idea: what about using Hashcash instead?
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by weilawei 16y ago
It's not that any one thing is bad. It's that lots of things are bad.
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by weilawei 16y ago
Good, cheap, fast. Pick two.
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Even rally drivers have co-drivers.
5 points by weilawei 16y ago|8 comments
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by weilawei 16y ago
Steve Jobs' response irks me because he equates (by association) "freedom from porn" with "freedom from programs that steal your private data" and "Freedom programs that trash your battery," "Yep, freedom," itself. "[...] their world is sli
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by weilawei 16y ago
Asking groups of people if they want something is generally a useless idea. It only tells you that some don't, some do, and others are undecided.
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by weilawei 16y ago
It was not always this way. Tides change.
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by weilawei 16y ago
I definitely recommend keeping sketchpads, graph paper, and a chalk/whiteboard around. It gives us a new mode of thinking in addition to plain old code.
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by weilawei 16y ago
This article really hits the mark. I wish more companies would adopt a pair programming discipline. My experience with it has been largely positive. It takes some getting used to, at first, especially getting down a good system for reading
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by weilawei 16y ago
Hear, hear! I really dread sitting through this, because it makes me cringe and squirm and want to correct them. On the other hand, it teaches patience. Patience is worth a lot. When I first began tutoring comp sci students, I learned that,
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by weilawei 16y ago
"From what I can tell, nothing is more frustrating to an engineer than a non-engineer asking for something complex, and treating it like it’s trivial." Yes, yes, and more yes. When programmers say "possible," they mean before the heat death
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by weilawei 16y ago
This looks great! I'm going to give it a try. Edit : 30-second overview: I enabled automatic updates and sent in the requested anonymous system profile--but both are strictly optional. The default hot-key selection is excellent (Shift+Co
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by weilawei 16y ago
While it's cool to note that Obama's involved in social media, his appearance in this essay seems a bit tenuous. Roger Caillois is repeatedly quoted and torn down again. His definition of a game is suspect. I don't think immediately think
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by weilawei 16y ago
Your comment about taking a quick nap is really insightful. I have a little experience with this. From my parents, I acquired the habit of taking small naps. Riding as passenger in a car puts me instantly to sleep (luckily, the same does no
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by weilawei 16y ago
I commonly use file:// and other protocols. How will it handle those?
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by weilawei 16y ago
Definitely, the accompaniment was a great idea. Also, who doesn't like zombies?
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by weilawei 16y ago
Thanks, I'll have to check it out on Windows... Just let me boot it up here.
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by weilawei 16y ago
Round #3: I've dropped the Feynman quote, cleaned up the explanation, moved things out to other pages, and got rid of the redundant headlines. The sizing of the headline/drop caps is an issue on other pages that I'll be addressing shortly.
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by weilawei 16y ago
It's a tongue-in-cheek personal portfolio I'm putting together. I haven't done an illustration for a logo yet--not exactly my strongest skill, although I like drawing. I'm looking to see what areas people think are in need of work. (EDIT: T
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Ask HN: Feedback on A Map of the Cat?(amapofthecat.com)
3 points by weilawei 16y ago|6 comments
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by weilawei 16y ago
"You're right. Man should not be a slave to technology. The 'tail shouldn't wag the dog'. But that's idealistic and unreal. Technology always has its own limitations and parameters. It's not the first time technology has shaped the alphabet

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