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lintiwen

10 karma · joined September 10, 2012

https://www.mvpfastlane.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiwenlin/
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lintiwen··on In rich and poor countries, researchers turn to Sci-Hub
science papers should be free to the public, at least the money should go to the researchers, not publishers.
lintiwen··on Ask HN: How do I write a resume after five years of a startup?
You don't need that. Anyone with basic understanding of how business works will know that you have far more profound experiences than most corporate ladder climbers.
lintiwen··on NPM and Left-Pad: Have We Forgotten How to Program?
I see two kinds of programmers here.

Good programmers understand the risks of making your system depend on something you don't have control really well; They know how keeping system complexity low is like an good investment which makes your life later easier (low maintaining costs).

Bad programmers stacks up technical debts such as including unnecessary dependencies until the system no longer works.

lintiwen··on Disabling npm's progress bar yields a 2x npm install speed improvement
same issue here. this non-deterministic behavior is really fxxked up. there's one time that our building process suddenly begin to fail, spend a few hours on the issue, and it turned out to be one of the babel-core patch release is broken.

some of the very fundamental designs of npm is seriously wrong.

lintiwen··on Learn to play chess online
can't even sign up after login with facebook. frustrated and go back playing chess on my ipad.
lintiwen··on Show HN: JS library to make your website instant
I have problem understand "instant website",

can you provide some specific definitions? thank you