albertyw's comments

albertyw | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?

https://www.albertyw.com/

albertyw | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Best ways to use old iPad as dashboard

I set up an old iPad Air to show https://www.codemancer.com/ for the last two years. It's got a clock, weather, and appointments and is readable from across the room. I've also run into crashes from Safari, which I resolved by automatically refreshing the page once an hour.

albertyw | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is the most amazing python script you ever wrote to save your time?

I built git-browse: https://github.com/albertyw/git-browse

After getting tired of constantly searching github and phabricator, I built a small tool that would open git repositories, files, branches, and commits in the browser.

albertyw | 10 years ago | on: GitHub Changed the Contributions Activity Graph

Pretty sure it was just for Halloween (a US holiday) and they've changed it back now. I guess they also changed it internationally too?

albertyw | 10 years ago | on: Show HN: AirCSS – Distributed Asset Delivery

How is this different from a regular CDN like Akamai, Cloudflare, etc.?

albertyw | 10 years ago | on: Gigster (YC S15) Does The Dev Work To Turn Your Idea Into An App

I agree with your message, but that quote could be applied to any company ever. Case studies would be more useful.

albertyw | 10 years ago | on: Gigster (YC S15) Does The Dev Work To Turn Your Idea Into An App

"If the project is behind schedule, Gigster just assigns more developers to it or fires under-performing ones so it gets done on time." - Somebody hasn't read Mythical Man-Month.

albertyw | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Which video hosting services scale well?

Disclosure: I'm working on a video delivery network company called Dendrio (www.dendr.io).

You're pretty spot on about AWS. Storage is super cheap, but data transfer can be really expensive. Also, depending on your users' habits, you'll likely want a CDN to serve your files, especially if you want to serve international markets, and I can tell you that most CDNs are very expensive for video hosting. Third party hosting like Youtube and Vimeo have limits for how you can use them which are easy to go over while full-service video hosting/analytics/monetization like Brightcove and Ooyala will cost you a house.

Shameless self-promotion: you should check us out at dendr.io. We're working on a peer to peer CDN that runs on top of your existing hosting provider (whether you do it yourself, or a CDN) to decrease your costs and give you other benefits. Feel free to email me at "albert@" our domain.

albertyw | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why are there no programming books on Brainfuck?

Brainfuck is just a set of symbols that map to the actions a Turing machine can make. I believe that the symbols themselves were chosen to make it difficult to read and write much like Whitespace. As for Turing machines, I'm sure there are programming books about them but I'm pretty sure their point is about studying computational theory rather than practical use.

albertyw | 12 years ago | on: Why does GitHub let me commit as other people?

I think this is a use case of signed commits. They would allow for verification of the commit's author's identity.

albertyw | 12 years ago | on: Maze Tree

Invert the colors - white is paths, black is walls.

albertyw | 12 years ago | on: Mathematical Equations That Changed the World

Fourier Transform equation is wrong. Integral from infinity to infinity? That doesn't make sense. It should be negative infinity.

albertyw | 12 years ago | on: How I published a fake paper, and why it is the fault of our education system

Another red flag - Is it just me, or is the header image on the conference website an image of Las Vegas?

albertyw | 12 years ago | on: Google Compute Engine is now Generally Available

Amazon EC2 vs Google CE - Fight.

albertyw | 12 years ago | on: Circuit Scribe: Draw Circuits Instantly

From the article they published in Advanced Materials, it seems the ink actually contains silver (the element) nanoparticles in a colloid. I'm surprised that the resistance is still that high.

albertyw | 12 years ago | on: Julia for Numerical Computation in MIT Courses

Making some overgeneralizations here, software written by scientists aren't going to be as good as software written by software engineers. Their usual purpose (and their training/background) is to publish papers and writing code is just a means to an end.

albertyw | 12 years ago | on: Typhoon Haiyan kills 10,000 in Philippines

Maybe not on high alert continuously, but with satellites now, they must have seen this hurricane coming for days if not weeks.

albertyw | 12 years ago | on: Check to see if you're in the Adobe user data leak

Love how "well connected" HN commentators are.

albertyw | 12 years ago | on: Square talking to banks about possible 2014 IPO

As a person who isn't in this space, why do you say that? Is it because of increasing competition or something to do with Braintree/Paypal?

albertyw | 12 years ago | on: Inputs.io hacked – 4100 BTC stolen

Anybody wondering how long it will take for Bitcoin to gain enough respectability for the FBI or Secret Service to get involved after hacks like this? If the same amount of money was stolen from a normal bank, it'd likely be covered by every news outlet.