leehanxue - Slashdot User

Comment OSX apps (Score 1) 531

by leehanxue on Monday March 03, 2014 @02:11AM (#46385851) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Software Can You Not Live Without?

On OSX, these are the apps I installed first:

Homebrew and Homebrew Cask - Almost every application I need, effortlessly installed / updated / uninstalled

Chromium - Mainly synchronising web sessions across machines

TextWrangler - Free, simple editor that can handle most common programming languages very well.

VLC - opens just about any type of video files

Fluid - generate native OSX apps for websites. I use it for Google Tasks

IntelliJ - most productive IDE for myself

Nosleep - prevents Macbook from going to sleep when closing the lid, great for moving around within the office, presentations

Tarsnap - backup with encryption and deduplication

ImgurBar - drag and drop to share images

Comment Nothing New (Score 1) 154

by leehanxue on Wednesday December 18, 2013 @08:25PM (#45731967) Attached to: 'Approximate Computing' Saves Energy

Politicians and journalists computes approximately most of the time.

Comment Stephen Elop will do it (Score 1) 535

by leehanxue on Tuesday September 03, 2013 @12:28PM (#44747371) Attached to: Official: Microsoft To Acquire Nokia Devices and Services Business

Steve Ballmer is simply incompetent. 13 long years and Microsoft is alive and kicking. Worry not, dear shareholders. Stephen Elop has a proven track record in Nokia.

Comment Re: Citation Needed (Score 1) 354

by leehanxue on Sunday June 30, 2013 @01:18PM (#44148053) Attached to: Node.js and MongoDB Turning JavaScript Into a Full-Stack Language

In the grand scheme, Node and Mongo are still quite new; for the most part, ace JavaScript developers who can write brilliant code on both sides of the request transaction have yet to emerge, but if and when they do, the things they build could be jaw-dropping.

Can any real developer explain why having a javascript backend would be any different to any other backend in such a way where something jaw-dropping could only be the result of the javascript backend?

Not so much the Javascript backend; but the fact that node.js is highly scalable, as well as event-based and non-blocking IO features.

Comment Re:Conversion (Score 1) 595

by leehanxue on Monday April 15, 2013 @01:39PM (#43453635) Attached to: Is Bitcoin Mining a Real-World Environmental Problem?

Most of the people who made lots of money in the market were not bitcoin miners (though that has probably changed if anybody has half a brain). It was the speculators. People who bought bitcoins hoping their market value would go up.

FTFY

Comment Startups that disrupt the hearing aid market (Score 1) 549

by leehanxue on Monday October 29, 2012 @02:51AM (#41801771) Attached to: Why Can't Industry Design an Affordable Hearing Aid?

Good news is we have startups such as http://www.embracehearing.com/ that sell sub-$1,000 hearing aids.

Submission + - ARM, Intel Battle Heats Up 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 19, 2012 @05:01PM

An anonymous reader writes: Low-power processor maker ARM Holdings is stepping up rhetoric against chip rival Intel, saying it expects to take more of Intel's market share than Intel can take from them. With Intel being the No. 1 supplier of notebook PC processors, and ARM technology almost ubiquitously powering smartphones, the two companies are facing off as they both push into the other's market space.

"It's going to be quite hard for Intel to be much more than just one of several players," ARMs CEO said of Intel.

Submission + - MS will remove OEM 'crapware' for $99 (zdnet.com)

Submitted by

walterbyrd

on Saturday May 19, 2012 @01:20PM

walterbyrd writes: "Microsoft even offers up numbers to show how detrimental this OEM-installed crapware is to your system. Microsoft claims that Signature systems start up 39 percent faster, go into sleep mode 23 percent faster, and resume from sleep a whopping 51 percent faster compared to their crapware-ladened counterparts. (A "Signature" system is one without crapware). But now, Microsoft will offer customers the opportunity to give their Windows 7 PC the Signature treatment by bringing it to a Microsoft Store and paying $99, according to the Wall Street Journal."

Submission + - Nikola Tesla Wasn't God and Thomas Edison Wasn't the Devil (forbes.com)

Submitted by dsinc on Saturday May 19, 2012 @09:36AM

dsinc writes: Forbes' Alex Knapp writes about the Tesla idolatry and confusing his genius for godhood: "Tesla wasn’t an ignored god-hero. Thomas Edison wasn’t the devil. They were both brilliant, strong-willed men who helped build our modern world. They both did great things and awful things. They were both brilliantly right about some things and just as brilliantly wrong about others. They had foibles, quirks, passions, misunderstandings and moments of wonder."

Submission + - Twitter confirms support for Do Not Track (arstechnica.com) 1

Submitted by oyenamit on Friday May 18, 2012 @08:44AM

oyenamit writes: In a significant boost to online privacy, Twitter has announced that they will officially support the Do Not Track feature in browsers. While this is a good news for privacy advocates and users in general, it leaves Twitter to use only the information that is handed over to them by the users for advertising purposes.

Comment 1 Dollar (Score 1) 650

by leehanxue on Saturday April 28, 2012 @02:56PM (#39833073) Attached to: WW2 Vet Sent 300,000 Pirated DVDs To Troops In Iraq, Afghanistan

Come to China/Thailand/Indonesia/Vietnam/Cambodia/Malaysia/Taiwan. Copy-protection free DVD for USD 1, or USD 0.50 if you look like one of us ;-)

Comment We need thieves, arsonists, rapists and murderers (Score 2) 56

by leehanxue on Thursday March 15, 2012 @04:47AM (#39361889) Attached to: Internet Crime Focus of Black Hat Europe

... so that the fire brigade, police and other law enforcement officers will not be out of work.

Submission + - Yahoo Ousts Half Its Board (itworld.com)

Submitted by

itwbennett

on Tuesday February 07, 2012 @09:32PM

itwbennett writes: "Yahoo's restructuring continued Tuesday with the ouster of 4 board members, including chairman Roy Bostock, according to an IDG News Service report. The move follows the resignation of Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang in January and gives investors something they'd been calling for, says analyst Greg Sterling: 'Investors have felt for a long time that the board was just rubber stamping what the leadership was doing. They want a reinvigorated board with some independence. People will wait to see what's different but I think this will be seen as a positive.'"

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