Viewing profile — papersmith

>If you've ever seen the film Away We Go, well, one of the families in that film were the spitting image. Just curious, which family in the film are you referring to? I only have a…

"Can someone talk Steve Jobs into building a consumer robot?" Chances are he will talk you into buying an espresso machine instead. :)

It's actually 詹姆斯·邦德. 007 is just easier to say.

I think for that you'll have to use the ltree index, rather than regular string index, else it'll sort like this: 1/2/3 11/2/3 2/2/3 I wonder if there're ltrees for other DBs.

Personally I just sort everything in memory like reddit, since I need to traverse all branches to calculate weighed scores, which is a balance of vote counts and age. I think reddi…

Most, if not all pay-as-you-go plans have an expiration date.

"One could argue that was more craftsmanship than innovation, but there's a strong connection between making things well and making better things, and China isn't famous for qualit…

Though from certain POV these devices exist despite government policies, as the phenomenon has certain anti-authority connotations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanzhai

I'm trying to wrap my head around how the whole thing works. On one hand, mundane stuffs are monitored, on the other hand, you have stuffs like these freely discussed: http://trans…

Another thing is that scrolling is kinda sluggish in Chrome on my 2007 Mac Mini. Google docs PDF reader seems to scroll much more smoothly. It's still a big improvement over the fl…

Apple actually has a giant physical store in Beijing. http://www.apple.com.cn/retail/sanlitun/ I know it because of this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8vqSJAOC7I They're a…

"A couple years ago you’d have stories about kids in Manchester textile factories putting up with pure hell. It’s simply the nature of the beast." "A couple of years ago" in this c…

Or by a 25 year-old on myspace today.

I wouldn't say they have no marketing. The Signal vs Noise blog, Ruby on Rails, and their books are very effective marketing tools. That being said, the quality of their products d…

Well, evolution doesn't always mean improvement. I think the personal computer will split into two branches, with power users keeping today's form factors, while average users who …

A bit off topic, but [Warring States]( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warring_states ) happens to be the golden age of Chinese philosophy, akin to Europe's Age of Enlightenment. The …

I was reading a popular Chinese forum (tianya.cn) thread on contaminated food, and I was surprised at how anti-government the tone was. (think reddit, but more extreme) There were …

I wonder if you can achieve similar effect by projecting a video shot with fisheye lens onto a concave screen.

Not saying his points are without merit or anything, but Gordon Chang is a well-known neocon writer. He regularly contributes to the Glenn Beck show. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G…

That makes sense. Though I wonder if the problem of freelance match-making is similar to the problem of online dating.

I am actually thinking of making a web app for this, perhaps along with non-freelance profile/job postings, if anyone's interested. :)

[TeX]( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX ) was released in 1978, though I'm not sure as to the time line of the other developments.