Disqus - Latest Comments for Chui

Re: The Bible Is Fiction: A Collection Of Evidence

Chui — Sun, 13 May 2007 18:44:53 -0000

The link between traitors in Buddhism and Christianity is a rather long shot. I mean stories about traitors are always in the news. One day it's a Chinese American who passed on secretes, another day it's a black sheep of a family who shames himselfs and harms others, at other times you have politicians who challenge their party leaders. C'mon, having traitors in tales is pretty common.

Re: The Ultimate Response to “Do You Accept Jesus as Your Personal Savior?”

Chui — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:23:35 -0000

It's probably more polite to summarize your arguments on the blog and ask them to read it there.

If you add some Google ads, you might even make some money.

If somebody clicked on a Google ad everytime they try to convert you, you'd be a Googlionaire.

Re: How Does One Explain SQL Injection to a Non-Techie?

Chui — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:30:35 -0000

Tell them it's like Bart Simpson making a prank call to Moe's

Bart: (with Lisa) Is Mister Freely there?
Moe: Who?
Bart: Freely, first initials I. P.
Moe: Hold on, I'll check. Uh, is I. P. Freely here? Hey everybody, I. P. Freely!
[the customers laugh] Wait a minute... Listen to me you lousy bum. When I get a hold of you, you're dead. I swear I'm gonna slice your heart in half.

Moe should have checked that he is not going to say something unintended. In fact, most website defacement exploit's Barts trick against Moe the Webmaster.

Re: The first Microsoft Seinfeld ad

Chui — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:27:50 -0000

It's quite good. A cross between British and Japanese humour.

Re: Research Assistant Required - The Search Wars

Chui — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 20:19:59 -0000

No where is it more apt to repeat the mantra "Think Global, Act Local". In the overall pyramid of businesses, there are not that many which are global brands that could benefit from a world wide audience.

Case in point is a second-tier search advertising engine, where a recent commentator said that he was getting tonnes of CPC traffic from Korea, non which converted.

In any case, Google groks advertisers, and has been giving away conversion tracking tools to help advertisers fine tune their pitches.

Re: Open Social : The FaceBook Killer?

Chui — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 00:06:59 -0000

The loser is actually Microsoft, who has been trying to persuade users to come back to Windows, which used to be a platform, if anyone remembers. Windows was supplanted by the browser, and now giant APIs which use HTML and javascript. This is going to make it even harder for rich client apps to gain traction.

Re: ICustomFormatter and the ToString( IFormatProvider ) method of Enum

Chui — Thu, 11 May 2006 20:07:51 -0000

You are out of luck.
Decompiling using reflector for Enum type:

[Obsolete("The provider argument is not used. Please use ToString(String).")]
public string ToString(string format, IFormatProvider provider)
{
return this.ToString(format);
}

[Obsolete("The provider argument is not used. Please use ToString().")]
public string ToString(IFormatProvider provider)
{
return this.ToString();
}

public string ToString(string format)
{
if ((format == null) || (format.Length == 0))
{
format = "G";
}
if (string.Compare(format, "G", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) != 0)
{
if (string.Compare(format, "D", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) != 0)
{
if (string.Compare(format, "X", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) != 0)
{
if (string.Compare(format, "F", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) != 0)
{
throw new FormatException(Environment.GetResourceString("Format_InvalidEnumFormatSpecification"));
}
return Enum.InternalFlagsFormat(base.GetType(), this.GetValue());
}
return this.ToHexString();
}
return this.GetValue().ToString();
}
return this.ToString();
}

Re: What can't you do in a browser?

Chui — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:24:56 -0000

It's 2009, the browser chews up more RAM than MS Word, yet I can't paste a picture into FCKEditor and have it saved into the cloud.

Re: Time to Rethink Mobile Marketing?

Chui — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:57:29 -0000

It's not so much that ads on mobile devices are annoying but it takes so much effort to ignore. You virtually have to manually delete it. Would be much better if mobile devices automatically expire ads when you move out of range, or after a minute or two.

Re: Warner Bros says “No More Female Lead Characters”?!

Chui — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:13:41 -0000

It doesn't mean that movies with female leads shouldn't be made. It means that WB shouldn't be producing movies with female leads. They should just stick to rabbits and little black ducks.

Re: The Bible Is Fiction: A Collection Of Evidence

Chui — Sun, 13 May 2007 18:44:53 -0000

Re: The Ultimate Response to “Do You Accept Jesus as Your Personal Savior?”

Chui — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:23:35 -0000

Re: How Does One Explain SQL Injection to a Non-Techie?

Chui — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:30:35 -0000

Tell them it's like Bart Simpson making a prank call to Moe's

Moe should have checked that he is not going to say something unintended. In fact, most website defacement exploit's Barts trick against Moe the Webmaster.

Re: Is Content Still A Business?

Chui — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 06:17:28 -0000

Check out this one about piracy and how pop stars in China cope with it:

http://mncc.com.my/ossig/lists/general/2003-03/msg00056.html

Re: Free Software, The Religion

Chui — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 21:55:03 -0000

A healthy free software movement is important if we want to raise the level of abstraction that everybody works off. I can point a couple of developments that wouldn't have taken off if not for the way GPL is written.

a) hosted web applications, including Google
b) scripting languages, where definition of dynamic linking is pretty loose

Re: AJAX Reality Check

Chui — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:22:51 -0000

The desktop apps do have something to learn from the browser.

1. Bookmarkable applications. I can send you the URL of a particular screen, or a particular record.

2. This opens up applications to easily implement Most Recently Used Feature, or Most Recently Accessed Data

3. It makes it easy to add annotation-like features to an app (through mashups).

4. You can create mashups easily, e.g. treat an application as a component for free

5. Back button (MSMoney-style UI), although the caching of application screens on browser make this somewhat broken, but desktop apps will be able to address this.

Disqus - Latest Comments for Chui

Re: The Bible Is Fiction: A Collection Of Evidence

Re: The *Ultimate* Response to “Do You Accept Jesus as Your Personal Savior?”

Re: How Does One Explain SQL Injection to a Non-Techie?

Re: The first Microsoft Seinfeld ad

Re: Research Assistant Required - The Search Wars

Re: Open Social : The FaceBook Killer?

Re: ICustomFormatter and the ToString( IFormatProvider ) method of Enum

Re: What can't you do in a browser?

Re: Time to Rethink Mobile Marketing?

Re: Warner Bros says “No More Female Lead Characters”?!

Re: The Bible Is Fiction: A Collection Of Evidence

Re: The *Ultimate* Response to “Do You Accept Jesus as Your Personal Savior?”

Re: How Does One Explain SQL Injection to a Non-Techie?

Re: Is Content Still A Business?

Re: Free Software, The Religion

Re: AJAX Reality Check

Re: The Ultimate Response to “Do You Accept Jesus as Your Personal Savior?”

Re: The Ultimate Response to “Do You Accept Jesus as Your Personal Savior?”