vzhang's comments

vzhang | 9 years ago | on: The Collapse of the Unix Philosophy

Evolution is never clean.

vzhang | 9 years ago | on: Writing an editor in less than 1000 lines of code, just for fun

cough cough fewer than... cough cough...

vzhang | 10 years ago | on: Chinese parliament holds 83 Billionaires (2013)

Google News link (no pay wall) - http://goo.gl/1ha6Kv

vzhang | 10 years ago | on: Webmaker for Android

I downloaded the app, signed up and played with it. This is from the welcome email - "Welcome to Mozilla Webmaker! Thank you for joining us to discover, create and share the Web. I'm looking forward to seeing what you create."

Still not sure what it does. :-(

vzhang | 10 years ago | on: The Myth of the Flat Earth (1997)

OK, fine, but spherical earth is six thousand years old, right?

vzhang | 11 years ago | on: Amazon Dash Button

Good luck to the people with cats!

vzhang | 11 years ago | on: Amazon Dash Button

good luck to the people with cats.

vzhang | 11 years ago | on: No-IP's Formal Statement on Microsoft Takedown

If I keep getting spam emails from a Hotmail account, should I file a motion to take down the whole Hotmail domain?

vzhang | 12 years ago | on: ‘Rice Theory’ Explains North-South China Cultural Differences, Study Shows

Social "science."

vzhang | 12 years ago | on: China Unveils New Native Operating System

In light of how much we know about NSA, if I were a leader of a nation of the size of China, I would want my own OS.

vzhang | 12 years ago | on: Super successful companies

Number one reason you didn't mention - they are lucky.

vzhang | 12 years ago | on: Nassim Taleb: We should retire the notion of standard deviation

I'm seriously questioning some people's reading comprehension - he NEVER said STD is not useful! He's only saying the name "Standard Deviation" is badly chosen.

vzhang | 12 years ago | on: How China's Xiaomi Does In A Week What Apple Does In A Year: Update Devices

If their products are crap, who cares how often they release them? But take a look at what they are offering for $300:

Specs: http://www.gsmarena.com/xiaomi_mi_3-5678.php

Design: http://www.gsmarena.com/xiaomi_mi_3-pictures-5678.php

vzhang | 12 years ago | on: Why Microsoft Word must die

“The reason I want Word to die is that until it does, it is unavoidable.” I don't know what he would think about air with this hipster mentality.

vzhang | 12 years ago | on: Cameron Proves Greenwald Right

Duh.

vzhang | 13 years ago | on: Sorry Google; you can Keep it to yourself

If Google kills Reader, http://ifGoogleKillsReader.tumblr.com/