vzhang

21 karma · joined February 21, 2013

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vzhang··on The Collapse of the Unix Philosophy

Evolution is never clean.

vzhang··on Writing an editor in less than 1000 lines of code, just for fun

cough cough fewer than... cough cough...

vzhang··on Chinese parliament holds 83 Billionaires (2013)

Google News link (no pay wall) - http://goo.gl/1ha6Kv

vzhang··on Webmaker for Android

I downloaded the app, signed up and played with it. This is from the welcome email - "Welcome to Mozilla Webmaker! Thank you for joining us to discover, create and share the Web. I'm looking forward to seeing what you create."

Still not sure what it does. :-(

vzhang··on The Myth of the Flat Earth (1997)

OK, fine, but spherical earth is six thousand years old, right?

vzhang··on Amazon Dash Button

Good luck to the people with cats!

vzhang··on Amazon Dash Button

good luck to the people with cats.

vzhang··on No-IP's Formal Statement on Microsoft Takedown

If I keep getting spam emails from a Hotmail account, should I file a motion to take down the whole Hotmail domain?

vzhang··on ‘Rice Theory’ Explains North-South China Cultural Differences, Study Shows

Social "science."

vzhang··on China Unveils New Native Operating System

In light of how much we know about NSA, if I were a leader of a nation of the size of China, I would want my own OS.

vzhang··on Super successful companies

Number one reason you didn't mention - they are lucky.

vzhang··on Nassim Taleb: We should retire the notion of standard deviation

I'm seriously questioning some people's reading comprehension - he NEVER said STD is not useful! He's only saying the name "Standard Deviation" is badly chosen.

vzhang··on How China's Xiaomi Does In A Week What Apple Does In A Year: Update Devices

If their products are crap, who cares how often they release them? But take a look at what they are offering for $300:

Specs: http://www.gsmarena.com/xiaomi_mi_3-5678.php

Design: http://www.gsmarena.com/xiaomi_mi_3-pictures-5678.php

vzhang··on Why Microsoft Word must die

“The reason I want Word to die is that until it does, it is unavoidable.” I don't know what he would think about air with this hipster mentality.

vzhang··on Cameron Proves Greenwald Right

Duh.

vzhang··on Sorry Google; you can Keep it to yourself

If Google kills Reader, http://ifGoogleKillsReader.tumblr.com/