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Asus ZenBook 3 vs MacBook: Has Apple Met Its Match?
With its upcoming ZenBook 3, Asus is the latest company to compete with Apple's superthin 12-inch MacBook. Due out later this year, the 12.5-inch laptop is even slimmer than the MacBook and one-ups Apple's offering with a faster CPU and a range of fashion colors. Though we haven't been able to test the ZenBook 3 in our labs yet, we've studied the specs and spent some hands-on time with the slim system to learn about its capabilities. So based on what we know today, which superslim not...
ZENBOOK 3,PREMIUM LAPTOP,MODEL WITH 8GB,ASUS 2016-06-07 01:15:56
Advice From An Old Programmer
You've finished this book and have decided to continue with programming. Maybe it will be a career for you, or maybe it will be a hobby. You'll need some advice to make sure you continue on the right path, and get the most enjoyment out of your newly chosen activity. I've been programming for a very long time. So long that it's incredibly boring to me. At the time that I wrote this book, I knew about 20 programming languages and could learn new ones in about a day to a week depending on how w...
Advice,Programming,Python,Old programmer 2012-03-08 13:51:11
How to Seem (and Be) Deep
I recently attended a discussion group whose topic, at that session, was Death. It brought out deep emotions. I think that of all the Silicon Valley lunches I've ever attended, this one was the most honest; people talked about the death of family, the death of friends, what they thought about their own deaths. People really listened to each other. I wish I knew how to reproduce those conditions reliably.I was the only transhumanist present, and I was extremely careful not...
Deep,Work,Smart,Work style,Study 2011-10-23 11:46:11
Penrose Tiling in Obfuscated Python
Here’s a Python script which renders some Penrose tiling. Yes, this is valid Python code: _ =\ """if! 1:"e,V=100 0,(0j-1)**-.2; v,S=.5/ V.real, [(0,0,4 *e,4*e* V)];w=1 -v"def! E(T,A, B,C):P ,Q,R=B*w+ A*v,B*w+C ...
One interesting story about Chinese software development
I have once seen an interesting complaint written by one foreigner about Beijing South Railway Station (China) on foursquare. It says: "There is simply no way to buy a ticket at the machine unless you have a Chinese ID. What the hell they have English interface for then?" Apparently,the foreigner cannot buy ticket because he doesn’t have Chinese ID but there still presents an English interface for foreigners on the vending machine. Because of my profession, I find this awkward situation w...
Software design,User experience,Importance 2012-03-26 14:42:50
Alphabet chooses the domain extension .xyz
Google has been restructured and it now has a parent company which is called Alphabet. This new company will fully own the original "Google". Larry Page will be the CEO of Alphabet and Sergey Brin will be the president of the new company. Sundar Pichai will be the new CEO of the new Google. The new Google will continue its current business with some slimmed changes. While Alphabet will focus on working on the next generation of Internet and creating more billion user companies and services...
Google, Alphabet,XYZ, Domain name 2015-08-10 20:18:33
Intel disclosed more configuration details of Win8 Tablet PC
Intel disclosed more hardware configuration information for future Windows 8 Tablet PC in a conference in Beijing on Thursday Tablet PC equipped with Microsoft new operating system is expected to be released in the second half of this year.Intel shows a Win8 Tablet PC model with Clover Trail platform Atom Z2760 processor, the dual-core processor support "burst mode" (burst mode, when needed to quickly improve performance) and Hyper-Threading Hyper-Threading can make dual-core chips in some...
Intel,Win8 Hardware comfiguration 2012-04-14 00:20:47
Some thoughts about competitive programming
Many programmers may have experience in participating different kinds of coding competition while they are in college. Many of them are hired by top IT companies for their excellent performance during these kinds of coding competitions. There are some famous competitions organized by IT companies such as Google Code Jam, Facebook hackathons etc. Coding competitions are places where programmers can show their talents in programming and the skills they have. Usually programmers will solve some to...
Coding,competition 2014-03-02 07:26:21
Crazy: 90 Percent of People Don't Know How to Use CTRL+F
This week, I talked with Dan Russell, a search anthropologist at Google, about the time he spends with random people studying how they search for stuff. One statistic blew my mind. 90 percent of people in their studies don't know how to use CTRL/Command + F to find a word in a document or web page! I probably use that trick 20 times per day and yet the vast majority of people don't use it at all."90 percent of the US Internet population does not know that. This is on a sample size of thousa...
Ctrl-F,Shortcut,Common knowledge,Confusi 2011-09-02 11:16:48
Unfortunate Python
Python is a wonderful language, but some parts should really have bright WARNING signs all over them. There are features that just can't be used safely and others are that are useful but people tend to use in the wrong ways. This is a rough transcript of the talk I gave at my local Python group on November 15, with some of the audience feed back mixed in. Most of this came from hanging around the Python IRC channel, something I highly recommend. [update 2011-12-19: improved "array" cr...
Python,Defects,Deprecated methods,Warning 2011-12-20 08:27:36
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