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hohohmm | 8 years ago | on: The secret negotiations behind the Hong Kong handover

>The people of Hong Kong were not party to the discussions, nor were they consulted about the final decision, which had a profound effect on their futures and freedoms.

I just cannot find a better example of double thinking than this. So UK grabbed a piece of land from China, and now they discuss the return of this piece of land. Suddenly UK created this moral failure on China to involve this piece of land into the discussion. Let's stop creating new countries and races in this hypocrisy of democratic regional self-determinism narrative with mindless and idiotic public voting. No land is only the land of its residents, but by the people of that country.

hohohmm | 10 years ago | on: A man overrides his camera's firmware to bring rare pictures of North Korea back

Pictures are okay if not just generic NK photos, definitely not rare, and the captions, wtf?

"At night, the elderly Chinese dance in the streets in unison avoiding any displays of individuality." What is this? To avoid any display of individuality??? I just marvel at this wishful thinking. They do that in unison because it's fun to do activities with other people sharing the same interest. If i'm playing Starcraft with a bunch of friends, am I avoiding display of individuality? Why can't the biased eyes just state the obvious that the elderly are just enjoying themselves.

Honestly I've seen way better NK photos and way better wishful NK journalism. Why is this even on Hacker News?

hohohmm | 10 years ago | on: Quiver: Programmer's Notebook for OS X

I asked a question last year about whether there is an app like Evernote but more tailored to the programmer's need. Quiver's developer answered my post then but the app was lacking one major functionality - cloud sync. Let's see if it's addressed now :D

hohohmm | 11 years ago | on: I need a product

Neat idea, but I'm afraid it may interfere with certain type of documents. I want it to be versatile first. Probably different modes? like normal text, auto text, ext.

It still needs a native client!

hohohmm | 12 years ago | on: Dynamic Code Injection for Good

The biggest problem that forces you to run through all the pre-setup UI views and other stuff is that often time you need those to recreate states, and when you have a bug, more often that not, you have a corrupt state, which will stay corrupted with or without code injection. dyci is definitely a very neat method but of limited use.

hohohmm | 12 years ago | on: I want a text editor that is a pain in the ass

Try it on Java and say you still want a dumb editor. It's like saying you want to do rocket science while doing all the math by hand. Why drive a car. Why not walk to grocery so you could reflect carefully on what you want to buy and feel your muscle twitching after carrying 30 pounds of grocery back. Tools are there to help out with the labor and free up your mind for the more important. There is nothing wrong with understanding all the details, but there is no point repeating it all the time once you do.

Edit: That post also mentioned the fear of exploding complexity. The whole point of abstraction is to manage complexity. The fact that you have a function being called at a hundred places and you don't keep track of them all in your mind is not something to fear, if you do the abstraction right. The fact that the previous fact makes you feel unsettling, should make you feel doubly unsettling.

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