wqfeng's comments

On: Freelancing: A 6-Month Retrospective

[wqfeng]

Are there some online sites to get a freelance job?

On: Live CERN Higgs Announcement in 20 Mins

[wqfeng]

The 404 page looks great.

On: Kids should be building rockets and robots, not ta...

[wqfeng]

I think Udacity does a good job on this learning by making.

On: JavaScript Language Reference(MSDN)

[wqfeng]

IE should disappear from the world. But it has to take a long time. IE always catches me when some standard JavaScript methods don't work or behave a little different. For example, I use anArray.splice(0) to empty anArray. It breaks in IE. Then I find that the second argument is required only in MSDN's JavaScript Language Reference.

I think I have to work with IE first and hopes it work in any other browsers.

[vezycash → wqfeng]

don't count on it man. Windows 8 is showing some highly complicated plays by microsoft, they really mean business. Trust me when I say in a few years after 8 is common place, they'l level the playing field between IE and Chrome.

On: Getting the closest string match

[wqfeng]

I think this algorithm was covered by the final exam of CS101 of Udacity. Any udacitians come to confirm this?

On: Ask HN: Best book you read in 2011

[wqfeng]

Is it necessary to be books published in 2011? If not, Calculus Made Easy is the best book I read in 2011.

[alinajaf → wqfeng]

This is on my todo list. "Maths and stuff" is a big gaping whole in my intellectual toolbox and I've been meaning to get it sorted out for a while. I'll probably pick something like this up, right after I'm done with "Speech and Language Processing"

On: Stanford AI Notes（All Units）

[wqfeng]

It does help for students whose mother language are not English, and those who are blocked by government's firewall.

[dlo → wqfeng]

Yes, I agree that these are helpful as transcripts. I was merely stating that they make poor notes.

On: Understanding "Prototypes" in JavaScript

[wqfeng]

I like the author's writing style very much. It's the best explanation on prototype I've ever read. His another article on this is great too.

On: Understanding JavaScript function invocation and "...

[wqfeng]

Yes. I also find this tutorial is great.

On: Google: Les Pauls 96th birthday

[wqfeng]

same in China.

[p4bl0 → wqfeng]

Same in Netherland and France.