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fokz | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Books you read in 2016?

Is "The Subtle Art of not Giving a f*ck" good? In what way does it affect you?

fokz | 9 years ago | on: From Chrome Apps to the Web

Developers can continue to build Chrome apps and eventually Android apps for Chrome OS, when Google Play store is brought to Chrome OS. However, I agree there is the problem of losing incentive to maintain a native Chrome app from the developer POV.

fokz | 10 years ago | on: Intuit sells Quicken to private equity firm in management buyout

I've been using Mint for this purpose and so far it almost meets my expectation. The automatic categorizing works well.

fokz | 10 years ago | on: Show HN: Instantly generate 50 bite-sized flashcards to help you learn any topic

I was able to try some topics, but now the flashcards gone and I just see the random fact page. Anyway, I like it!

fokz | 10 years ago | on: “Tsundoku,” the Japanese Word for the New Books That Pile Up on Our Shelves

I have the same problem. Then there are so many tabs and I have to use a Chrome extension to automatically save and close inactive tabs. Guess I should set some time to look at that limbo place.

fokz | 10 years ago | on: Embedding D3 in an IPython Notebook

I was wondering if your page menu accept input, and it really does. So cool!

fokz | 10 years ago | on: Show HN: Phishing as a service

This is a useful service. But I imagine there will be some nontrivial issues regarding spam filtering, server reputation, legal, etc.

How do you do email authentication? What are the headers that you put on your email?

fokz | 10 years ago | on: Life paint

I think visibility decreasing mostly stem from new bulky airbag system, especially that driver's side blind zone in front of the car.

Making airbag system smaller seems hard. I wonder if having cameras and screens for all the blind spots would work.

fokz | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you familiarize yourself with a new codebase?

Thanks for sharing. I often get lost in large projects. Blindly jumping around is quite inefficient and frustrating.

How hard do you think it is to write a tool to draw dependencies map for a specific language?

May be there're built-in code analyzing tools in compilers for popular languages that I'm not aware of?

fokz | 10 years ago | on: Fighting spam with Haskell

I am under the impression that a large part of engineering effort at established companies go into porting existing components to a deemed to be more appropriate language for that task.

Is it plain impossible to pick the best fit language without implementing a solution in the first place and fleshing out the requirements and challenges that specific to the problem space? Or do the problems evolve fast enough that no matter how well you design the system, it will need to be deprecated once in a few years?

fokz | 10 years ago | on: You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss

I also thought of Valve when reading that sentence. Being anarchic is a compelling idea. There are some conditions to be met though. You would need highly autonomous people who have good grab of the big picture to drive the group forward.