akhleung

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by akhleung 9mo ago
For about a year back in 2003-2004, I only had dial-up internet, no TV, and no social media (because it didn't exist yet). It was the most productive and creative time of my life. Then I got broadband, and I never reached those highs a
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by akhleung 1y ago
I once was the victim of an empty box scam when I purchased an expensive item off Amazon a few years ago (luckily I got a refund), and since then I've used Amazon much less, and only for inexpensive things. Maybe enough people have red
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by akhleung 1y ago
> The speaker ultimately chooses one, leaving the other behind with the > thought that they might return—though deep down, they acknowledge that > choices lead to new choices, making it unlikely they’ll ever revisit the
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by akhleung 4y ago
Luckily, Pepsi products are much cheaper in my area; 2L bottles regularly go on sale for 3/$5, or even 4/$5. Coke seems to be the super premium brand around here for some reason.
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by akhleung 4y ago
I've noticed it mostly at the supermarket. E.g., Coca Cola products are much more expensive than they were at the beginning of the year, and they're never on sale anymore. Certain meats and vegetables are noticeably more expensive
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by akhleung 5y ago
I’m in a senior role working for an SF company, and my permanent address is in the Bay Area. Although I haven’t relocated per se, I work from the EU for months at a time because my partner lives there. It’s occasionally inconvenient for me
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by akhleung 5y ago
You might be thinking of the Kuleshov effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuleshov_effect
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by akhleung 5y ago
I think the analogy is that software engineering used to be like carpentry and woodworking, but now it's more like assembling Ikea furniture. Sure, the final result is the same from a purely practical point of view, but if you learned
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by akhleung 6y ago
I think you might be overlooking the fact that bias comes in different forms against different groups. E.g., a hypothetical racist might be comfortable around Asians because he thinks they're subservient and weak, whereas he might be u
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by akhleung 8y ago
I use chopsticks to eat potato chips. I find that it works pretty well for keeping my keyboard grease-free. (And spoons are good for popcorn, btw.)
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by akhleung 8y ago
Heh, when I was a kid I used to draw a lot, and I remember being bothered that I didn't know how to draw a bike, so back then I explicitly memorized the shapes (parallelogram in the back, and another line for the front wheels). Wonder
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by akhleung 12y ago
LibSass maintainer here -- it's really great to see another project pick it up, and although we're aware that we still have a fair bit of catching up to do, things like this give us all the more incentive!
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by akhleung 13y ago
Ah, that's because Travis is running all of the "to-do" tests as well. Reorganizing the tests and making Travis happy is ... well, it's on the to-do list.
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by akhleung 13y ago
We do want to support the indented syntax eventually (and I believe it should be possible with a relatively simple pre-processing step), but it's still a low priority compared to reaching feature parity with the canonical implementatio
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by akhleung 13y ago
We did a lot of development during the summer (including a rewrite that was long overdue), so there were a few segfaults back then. The library should be pretty stable now though -- we've embedded it into our SDK and build system, and
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by akhleung 13y ago
Thanks, I'll give it a try and benchmark it. Also, pull requests are welcome for this sort of thing!
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by akhleung 13y ago
Yes, playing catch-up with Ruby Sass has been difficult (the sophistication and subtlety of some of Sass's features are impressive), but we're hoping to make some big leaps by the end of the year!
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by akhleung 13y ago
On huge projects, Ruby Sass can be quite slow, taking several seconds or even minutes to compile. If you have an interactive, iterative workflow where you're constantly refreshing the styles, having a faster Sass compiler can be a gods
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by akhleung 14y ago
I once wrote a toy video-player program, and I was able to implement robust, interactive playback controls fairly cleanly by structuring it as a state machine.
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by akhleung 14y ago
There's a proof-of-concept Ruby gem, which will mature as libsass matures. https://github.com/hcatlin/sassc-ruby
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by akhleung 14y ago
Actually, I'm the primary developer of the library (I work with hcatlin). Large Sass projects can take a long time to compile (more than several seconds), so the performance increase should not be dismissed. Also, providing a C/C++ library