Jim Zhou

Hold on, someone can't be both a non-coder and being comfortable enough with code to do code review that is meaningful, i.e. actually debug the code, at least in this context. You can certainly do it in the reverse-engineering context, but that's because most reverse engineering work are black box and you have the file for dynamic analysis already anyway. Here, you don't have a reference copy...

Security. That is, if you already have an idea of what you want to build.

I hope that your terms were not written by an actual attorney, because boy does it make no sense when applied. I have a lot of unique fieldwork (in the vein of James C. Scott, et al) about the governance, economy, and challenges faced by splinter de facto independent nation-state-level entities in Myanmar, like the Wa and Shan states. But like any responsible person should, I read your ToS and...

Hey there. Full disclosure: I've been diagonosed with ADHD repeatedly (when I'm overseas it's a bit hard to get medicated when doctors don't speak the same language). And the effects of the medication I take versus what happens when I'm unable to obtain the medication - a very common problem in the US thanks to rampant DEA agents acting like doctors under the color or law and limiting...

I practice black magic, but for good, mostly my own good.

The subscription model for alternatives like justwatch or reelgood are, afaik due to the fact that they license the official data and aggregate them (and also, have native apps for Apple TV and Android and the web and even Tizen if anyone still uses it). They have free tiers, and Trakt, Plex, and Kodi are all to varying degrees on the same mixed model. Mostly, the odd thing about this app is...

Absolutely not legal unless you are cool with not having attorney-client privilege available in an adversarial setting. If you happen to live in a jurisdiction that does not have said privilege to begin with or an adversarial system (or somewhere with no rule of law period, for that matter), then feel free to disregard. But if you are in a jurisdiction that does, then the privilege is almost...

Is mentioning Wechat/Alipay too low as far as low hanging fruit goes? It's hard to get more "super app" than those in pretty much any conceivable way. The caveat of course is that everything that enables the duopoly to have such market share and widespread use can be traced back to authoritarianism and the lack of private property, consumer credit, or the rule of law. So, they exist in spite of...

Hey, even though you guys are clearly still pretty early in terms of adding features I signed up for a paid sub anyway since I think there's a fair bit of potential here, mostly in the gap between the tools that are focused on simplicity so much that you can't even add much of your own code and a full featured IDE. Not that I think you should aim to make it only for that beginner+ market, but...

What's a weekend? For reals though, it's actually liberating to not have set schedules, bosses, or customers to worry about, at the expense of not having anyone but myself to blame if the code I wrote is bad and can only attributed to my own lack of due diligence or incompetence. After working in a customer-facing, highly technical, underpaid and literally thankless job out of idealism only to...

In all fairness, since alcohol withdrawals have physical symptoms, thanks to the GABAgeric nature of ethanol and the voluminous scientific research on what withdrawal may cause, including seizures and a host of, generously speaking, terrible effects not dissimilar to benzodiazepine withdrawal, it would surely be a good idea to at least have some sort of disclaimer in the case where someone...

I am probably in the minority at this point but... for the small percentage of us who hunt products that for whatever reason are very useful or cool that we didn't make ourselves, the platform feels more and more created not for discovery but for self-promotion almost exclusively. Self-promotion isn't a bad thing, since if you can't promote your own product it says a lot about the readiness of...

It just occurred to me that somehow this site was never hunted even though it has been around for a bit and it's likely that in some manner, by virtue of reading news sites, you've even unknowingly seen what the site has to offer, or at least a slice of it. Whenever there's a lawsuit, or an arrest, or a court decision of note, journalists frequently directly link to PDFs hosted by the site. And...

I always knew, but not until fairly recently, that I get a lot more work done with Football Manager open. After all, I recorded 6,000 hours of it played on Steam while I was in law school. And I had an internship in addition to school. The game is really zen for me and really keeps me focused, unless I suddenly see both of my keepers injured in the same game and my Sheffield United is about to...

That's interesting, for reals. I'm gonna have to dust off my jailbroken iPhone 8 that's still on iOS 13 and load it up hoping it would run. I am curious about a few things that is probably in the app somewhere but perhaps belong in the FAQ section: a) To determine how much you won, you need odds, obviously. There are many sportsbooks and the most prominent ones don't simply copy from other...

I've tried quite hard to meet and hang out with some ghosts. My college was purportedly haunted af and I tried my best to jam myself into nooks and crannies late at night and managed to see jack squat. Although, it's also possible that I saw a ghost but did not realize it, as popular depictions of ghosts in mainstream western society is pretty different from the conceptualization I was raised...