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andy-wu | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are some of the best documentaries you've seen?

Netflix’ Icarus had me on the edge of my seat. Details the Russian doping scandal.

andy-wu | 7 years ago | on: Datasets for Machine Learning

Surprised that CIFAR wasn’t mentioned under Images. I feel like that’s one of the standards, even more so than some of the ones that are listed.

andy-wu | 8 years ago | on: Blind since birth, writing code at Amazon since 2013

I'm a disabled student, not blind, but I work extensively with my university's Student Disability Center. For a blind student, common accommodations are extra time on the exam and a scribe to note the answers down.

andy-wu | 8 years ago | on: It’s time to give Firefox a fresh chance

Yep, I experience the same issue on a 2015 13" MBP. Appears to be an issue w/ FF and OS X scaled resolutions (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?format=default&id=...)

andy-wu | 8 years ago | on: It’s time to give Firefox a fresh chance

I tried Firefox on OS X but it maxes my CPU frequently, doing simple tasks like scrolling or loading small gifs on Reddit, slowing my system down significantly. I noticed my fans spinning much more frequently than Chrome. It appears to be linked to using scaled resolutions [0]. Until this is fixed, Chrome is significantly faster for me, which is disappointing because I like everything else about FF.

[0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?format=default&id=...

andy-wu | 8 years ago | on: Facebook Container Extension: Take control of how you’re being tracked

Is there any way to make the standalone Messenger open in the FB Container? The way I see it, the two are intrinsically linked since using Messenger requires an FB login.

Edit: After playing around, this also breaks the back button. If anyone from Mozilla is here, I think it would be better if an FB page opened in a new tab while keeping the original open.

andy-wu | 8 years ago | on: The Shortest Papers Ever Published (2016)

There's an excellent Numberphile on this topic, most of the papers in the post are mentioned in the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvvkJT8myeI

andy-wu | 8 years ago | on: Tupper’s Self-Referential Equation

There's a great Numberphile video on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s5RFgd59ao

andy-wu | 8 years ago | on: Interview with GoCardless CEO Hiroki Takeuchi after paralyzing accident

This is really incredible. I'm a quadriplegic student and you don't really see people in my position in tech, and definitely not in executive roles so this means a lot in terms of proving it's possible.

andy-wu | 8 years ago | on: Cal State will no longer require math and English placement exams

A quick Google search tells me the closest Cal State to me, Sacramento, has a 67.3% acceptance rate. Slightly higher than the national average of 64.7%, although I'm not sure how trustworthy those numbers are.

andy-wu | 8 years ago | on: As Computer Coding Classes Swell, So Does Cheating

At my university, most of the profs that teach our entry level programming courses use MOSS. One prof I had said that it's really good at detecting plagiarism and he automatically refers any infractions to SJA.

I always work alone so I've never been caught, but looking at the grade sheets, it seemed like almost 25% of the students were referred every assignment. I can understand the desire to catch cheaters because as I've progressed into my more advanced classes there's always a few students that really shouldn't be there because they didn't learn anything in the prereq classes.

andy-wu | 9 years ago | on: Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results 2017

  We will publish additional analysis related to respondents’ disability status in the coming weeks.

As a student with a severely limiting physical disability, I'm looking forward to this. I'm really interested to see what roles those in my position are in.