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by richchan 15y ago
I agree that coding is generally not "taught" in lectures or recitations, but, like the article says, we learn from other people -- other people's code, their comments on our code, etc. In fact, I feel like that may be the only way to learn
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by richchan 15y ago
link to "copy factory": http://shanzhaioff.com/
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by richchan 15y ago
I hope there isn't a flash app on Facebook that is using just that to decide whether to show an employee/admin interface.. Will be quite easy to spoof the result of that page if it is client-side.
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by richchan 15y ago
The main goal of the web app is to have a shell-like environment with files in the cloud as the "file system" (currently only Dropbox, may add Google Docs later), so we can write scripts that interact with these files easily. Please leave a
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Shell.js: a javascript shell around files in dropbox(shelljs.com)
3 points by richchan 15y ago|1 comments
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by richchan 15y ago
It probably doesn't even need to be "good" code. Just study any code and think about why it is written that way, and what circumstances makes it good. Any correctly written code can probably be considered good. The rest is about how well it
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by richchan 15y ago
I think he meant the business-oriented marketplace: http://google.com/enterprise/marketplace/
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by richchan 16y ago
Alternatively, perhaps we can let users select (follow) a set of like-minded people and make the up-votes of the people they pick weigh more on a "customized" front page. But then people may have not like having their up-votes be so transpa
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by richchan 16y ago
I would love to say that I made a very sophisticated automated tool for this.. but it was mostly just me hacking a simple script that lets me manually select coordinates and preview the lines; while console.log()ing the coordinates and copy
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by richchan 16y ago
Done! As a bonus, you can now dynamically change the parameters while it is drawing.
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by richchan 16y ago
Yep.. Apparently calling jquery ui's disable method doesn't disable the handler -- guess I should've read the docs... Anyway, thanks for pointing it out. I will try to fix it when I get home. Before then, have fun with the "interesting effe
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(Literally) Drawing the HTML 5 Logo in Canvas with Javascript(richwchan.com)
47 points by richchan 16y ago|13 comments
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Botnets on Android phones(technologyreview.com)
3 points by richchan 16y ago|0 comments
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by richchan 16y ago
Other easter eggs: http://www.google.com/search?q=anagram http://www.google.com/search?q=ascii+art
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A study on the First Mover Advantage by MIT Media Lab professor(psychologytoday.com)
4 points by richchan 16y ago|0 comments
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by richchan 16y ago
The video doesn't say much about what the app does exactly, but it sounds like they targeted a really good niche. Who knew an app for finding shoe boutiques would have so much demand?
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by richchan 16y ago
As confirmed by wiki's twitter account: http://twitter.com/#!/wikipedia .. and the thousands of tweets coming in about it.
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by richchan 16y ago
Unless he meant the stock - it did go down a bit in the afternoon today. =p
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by richchan 16y ago
From what they have on the wiki, it sounds like it may not necessarily slow down the performance by that much. It looks like they are really only putting a web frontend on top of eclipse, so all the computation heavy stuff happens on the ba
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by richchan 16y ago
The idea does sound interesting - so it looks like they are trying to reduce the amount of network handshaking by imposing a stricter isolation. I am not sure I am convinced by their results though. They say their deterministic system seems
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by richchan 16y ago
Has any one heard anything about the Kindle Development Kit? Looks like they are still in private beta. I wonder if there will be Kindle apps (and app store??) coming any time soon.
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by richchan 16y ago
Sounds like there could be a trade-off between using resources on your own server to keep track of these analytics versus just having Google do it. But then maybe it is insignificant. Anyone has some stats on how much hit on the server it i
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by richchan 16y ago
Hm.. has any one hacked up some fancy visualizations using their framework yet?
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by richchan 16y ago
Looks like social gaming really is the "big thing" this year. At least that's what Google seems to think.