mikeliu's comments

mikeliu | 16 years ago | on: US Patent #7,650,331: System & method for efficient large-scale data processing

Patents should just be made with a set of interpretable expressions, that way no one will have to read it except a computer.

mikeliu | 16 years ago | on: Not enough women are arrogant self-aggrandizing jerks

And then, as I get over my annoyance, I realize that, by overstating their abilities, the student has probably gotten the best letter out of me they could have gotten.

What's wrong with a good recommendation, as long as it comes off believable? I feel the whole point of a recommendation letter is so that the person you are recommending achieves the goal she/he set out to achieve. Don't agree to the recommendation at all if you think they are not qualified. Afterall, it's called a recommendation, not an evaluation.

mikeliu | 16 years ago | on: Linode and the Google Cyber Attacks

Except to pay for one of these, you still pay via credit card, paypal, etc. that links to real identifiable info. I was wondering why, if one of the attackers instances were discovered by google, they didn't just hand it over to the authorities and have them get a subpoena for the account info? or maybe they did

mikeliu | 16 years ago | on: A new approach to China

I think this is the best thing that ever happened to Bing, not Baidu. Google users in China will not switch to Baidu, they will switch to Bing; they use google because they feel it has more unbiased results coming from a non-govt backed entity. To a chinese google user, Baidu is an ad search engine and a govt lapdog. I wouldn't be surprised if google's market share got snapped up by Bing if they do leave.

mikeliu | 16 years ago | on: HTML 5: Could it kill Flash and Silverlight?

I think what he meant was a text editor is useless for frame-based animation. Flash programmers are "visual programmers." I don't think there's any good way (at least not now) to program animations without a visual ide -- and I don't mean simple transitions in a javascript webapp.

mikeliu | 16 years ago | on: Opera Unite reinvents the Web: a Web server on the Web browser

Didn't Windows Home Server do this a long time ago? They also had easy file sharing and gave you your own subdomain with a web interface to get at your content. Although Unite is a lot easier to configure/start and you don't need a dedicated device, I still don't think the core audience is the average user.

It's a little awkward if you need to leave your laptop on 24/7 for your friends to access...For the average user, an internet service is more than enough.

mikeliu | 16 years ago | on: Google Voice’s Secret Weapon: Number Portability

Show of hands for those that want to be spared of M.Arrington's ever-lasting songs of praise for all things Google.

mikeliu | 17 years ago | on: Evaluating Bing with Mechanical Turk

As the article concluded, the difference was small (to me they're pretty much insignificant). It doesn't really matter to me if the target is the first link, as long as it's on the first page.

I think better comparisons would be who has the better infrastructure, who can deliver results faster, serve more queries, use less energy, and crawl faster? I think google is hard to beat here, and i think it's where the others have to think harder about.

mikeliu | 17 years ago | on: Minimalistic (vim-like) web browser based on Webkit

sure. what do people use on a non-touchscreen phone?

mikeliu | 17 years ago | on: Nokia's Ovi app store goes live

Is it just me? I find all the ovi services cluttered and hard to navigate. It just does not attract me as a user to spend time there learning their services or shop for apps. It looks and feels like any other corporate website. As much as nokia wants to concentrate on internet services, i just don't see it happening from the user's perspective.