chriszhang (u/chriszhang)

chriszhang commented on How I Write Code: Pen and Paper noteflakes.com/articles/2... · Posted by u/ciconia

rramadass · 5 years ago

Pshh ... Don't use Pens!

Use Mechanical Pencils. No leaking/drying/wastage and you always get to marvel at the ingenuity that goes into making some of these gadgets.

Plus it gives you an excuse to indulge in another collection mania :-)

chriszhang · 5 years ago

I tried pencils but I find text written pencils to be too faint. I find it uncomfortable to read. But pen writes text in bright blue color which is more pleasing to read.

chriszhang commented on Sputnik V: fraudulent clinical trial data forbetterscience.com/2021... · Posted by u/renaudg

xvilka · 5 years ago

This link overly politised and does not offer technical details about these problems. The Moscow Times article [1] makes a better job.

[1] https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/08/20/leaked-sputnik-v-r...

chriszhang · 5 years ago

Moscow Times article does not load on my phone. It appears to reload itself again and again. Then it error out. Anyone facing same issue?

chriszhang commented on Tell HN: Protonmail is no longer private, sharing user info with US authorities · Posted by u/hammock

chriszhang · 5 years ago

My last straw with Protonmail: I created an email account in Protonmail. Used it to send and receive emails as usual. Then one day suddenly their "algorithms" suspended my account because the "algorithms" found that my account was being used for abuse. That was the end of Protonmail for me. Back to GMail. I know people lose their GMail accounts too. But in the last 17 years, I had 0 issues with GMail and 1 issue with ProtonMail and that 1 issue disrupted my life for a while.

I now find me asking: What is a good reliable email provider out there? I know I can host my own email in my own server under my own domain name but on HN we have seen articles about people losing their domain names too. Is there truly no good way to have permanent email address?

chriszhang commented on Comparative unsafety flak.tedunangst.com/post/... · Posted by u/lionkor

AndrewDucker · 5 years ago

This has the most toxic UI I've seen in my life.

Switching away from my browser and back again causes the page to re-render, losing my place as it did so. Just awful!

chriszhang · 5 years ago

If I try to search something within the page with Ctrl + F that also causes the whole page to re-render and display "loading ..." and "rendering ..." progress bar.

chriszhang commented on 7% of Americans don’t use the internet. Who are they? pewresearch.org/fact-tank... · Posted by u/ipsocannibal

chriszhang · 5 years ago

I wish I could limit the use of Internet to 1 hour per day. Like the olden days in the early days of internet.

Internet was given in our university for only 1 hour per day. It was possible to live in this manner even when I used to do programming. All programming documentation was available as PDFs or downloadable copies. I remember the MSDN documentation for C++ could be kept on the local machine. For Python I used to keep a PDF copy of the tutorial and reference i think.

These days I don't know anymore if that style of working will still work. Software has become so complex and error messages have become so many and so complex that I think we need access to internet all the time while programming. To see resolution to strange errors in Stack Overflow or on GitHub issues.

I wish all software developers did not assume that I am connected to the Internet all the time. It will be good if we can have a world where local-first internet-optional style of programming is still there.

chriszhang commented on Show HN: Redbean – Single-file distributable web server justine.lol/redbean/index... · Posted by u/jart

chriszhang · 5 years ago

Someone please be kind and explain to me how this works? Don't different executable formats need different headers?

Don't ELF need "0x7F ELF" header? Don't Windows executable need "MZ" header? How is it fulfilling both requirements simultaneously?

chriszhang commented on Python’s tug of war between beginner-friendly and advanced features aroberge.blogspot.com/202... · Posted by u/aroberge

bobbylarrybobby · 5 years ago

Scheme is great. It has basically no syntax to bog you down and you can focus solely on the algorithm side of programming.

chriszhang · 5 years ago

I came here to say the same thing. A lot of the discussion with modern languages focus around syntax. Why not use a Lisp which has very minimal syntax and focus on solving problems instead?

Do you have an opinion about Common Lisp? I know that Scheme is more minimal and cleaner but since you recommend Scheme I want to know what your opinion about Common Lisp is.