huu | 12 years ago | on: Google Bus blocked, window smashed in West Oakland
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huu | 12 years ago | on: Why Apple Should Not Buy Nintendo
For anyone wondering why the author felt compelled to write this article, there is no answer.
This should hopefully save some Googling. There is no official talk of an Apple purchase of Nintendo.
huu | 12 years ago | on: Two Harvard University Alumni Win Salesforce $1M Hackathon Prize
Do you have a link for this? I can't find any information on it.
huu | 12 years ago | on: Researchers at MIT develop a shape-shifting table surface [video]
"So they basically made a machine the size of a room to do calculations any fourth grader could do? Probably loads of fun, but honestly I'm having trouble seeing the use. Find the sum of 2 + 2 isn't exactly a day-to-day event, and is probably better accomplished with pen and paper."
Technology this nascent probably aren't the best subjects of this type of argument. I think we should wait and see what this can become.
huu | 12 years ago | on: After 180 Websites, I’m Ready to Start the Rest of My Life as a Coder
Pretty much everyone is guilty of using outside resources. She explains in her blog post that she used a lot of Google, SO, etc. Maybe she doesn't give exact citations for every piece of code she uses/takes inspiration from, but no one really does.
I don't think it's helpful to speculate as to whether she had someone in particular helping her throughout the lifetime of her project.
I suspect that if a similar project were done by a male, no one would question if it was a solo venture or not. I think the fact that Jennifer is a woman makes people suspicious enough to inspect the code and say things like, "it just seems like there was some outside help".
Maybe there was, maybe there wasn't. It's as disprovable as it would be if Jennifer was a man instead of a woman, yet only a woman would get called out on it.
huu | 12 years ago | on: After 180 Websites, I’m Ready to Start the Rest of My Life as a Coder
Just make sure you don't live in those cities proper :P
huu | 12 years ago | on: After 180 Websites, I’m Ready to Start the Rest of My Life as a Coder
She said that it -has not- given her a comprehensive understanding of software development, not that it has.
Also agree with the other comments, this is pretty elitist. There's just no reason to comment and say, "well I'm not impressed".
huu | 12 years ago | on: Kal – a clean JavaScript alternative without callbacks
Is it possible to cut out some of the explanatory comments in the examples or to consolidate them somehow? It's difficult to see at a glance how the code looks, especially without any syntax highlighting at this stage
huu | 12 years ago | on: Harp – Open-source web server with built-in pre-processing
organized*, not orginized
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Edit: Yeah, this actually did happen. Picture of the broken window: https://twitter.com/craigsfrost/status/414121201754468352/ph...