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New comment by ripitrust in "Incident with Actions and Pages"

ripitrust — Tue, 26 May 2026 15:03:43 +0000

I initially thought it was because I ran out of action minute, and was about to upgrade my plan Lucky I came here before hitting the confirm payment button

The Computer-Science Bubble Is Bursting

ripitrust — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 15:45:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/archive/2025/06/computer-science-bubble-ai/683242/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44347837

Points: 3

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Ask HN: How to find a post upvoted long time ago without the exact name

ripitrust — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 10:00:09 +0000

I have recently came across a lot of ideas and knowledges that I saw in HN post very long time ago, but I have difficulties remembering the title, so It is very hard to find them Any suggestions?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30986641

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by ripitrust in "Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?"

ripitrust — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 13:07:37 +0000

I agree on that, I would like to add that for some of the time, consuming helps us create better. Different kind of consuming activities actually have different leverage on creating value

New comment by ripitrust in "Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?"

ripitrust — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 13:05:55 +0000

yeah it is not a reflection of causality, it is just that to sell is to create

New comment by ripitrust in "Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?"

ripitrust — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 12:47:38 +0000

https://blog.tjcx.me/p/consume-less-create-more

This article inspired me on two things :

1) Lots of the things I do in everyday life is just to consume: buying, watching, following, etc. These things either consume my money, or my time. These things make me feel good, but it does not generate real value. In order to get rich, I need to create things. I also start to realize that great people are great because they started to create things at a very early stage of their life (but not consuming things as they advocate, think about celebrities, entrepreneurs etc), so they are able to practice and perfect the value creating skills to the extreme.

2) I start to realize that the world is binary in nature : I create to sell, I buy to consume. I either at the buyer side, or at the seller side. And in this current society, there is a huge buyer side trap, the whole idea of consumerism and social media is to trap you inside the buyer side, so you keep buying, you keep consuming. I really need to break free from this trap.

This blog post was written before COVID-19, but the idea feels even fresher during this pandemic era

New comment by ripitrust in "Welcome to Nestflix"

ripitrust — Sun, 15 Aug 2021 19:01:48 +0000

So happy to finally see Jan quadrant Vincent from inter dimensional tv

New comment by ripitrust in "Select a muscle and it provides the exercises to workout the selected muscle"

ripitrust — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 06:27:27 +0000

How interesting, I have the exact same idea about one month ago so glad to see it been developed

Ask HN: What's the current status of Web Development

ripitrust — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 09:55:24 +0000

Been away from web development area for around 4 years, now I am picking up for my own company and projects

would like to ask HN what's the current status of the web development ?

Specifically, what are the backend API framework, what are the frontend Framework, what are the CSS frameworks

(ps: before I left, I was working on React + python flask + bootstrap )

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24696179

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Singapore Airlines to Launch World's First Blockchain Loyalty Digital Wallet

ripitrust — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 08:18:43 +0000

Article URL: http://www.singaporeair.com/en_UK/sg/media-centre/press-release/article/?q=en_UK/2018/January-March/ne0518-180205

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16307388

Points: 1

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Kim Jong-un's half-brother was assassinated

ripitrust — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 12:10:44 +0000

Article URL: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/kim-jong-un-half-brother-killed-kim-jong-nam-malaysia-north-korea-leader-a7579246.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13642948

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ripitrust in "Ask HN: What's the best computer science book you've read recently?"

ripitrust — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 13:10:02 +0000

SICP

I read it twice and it is still a gem

Ask HN: As a developer, how is your performance measured

ripitrust — Thu, 15 Dec 2016 16:07:09 +0000

Is it measured by how much code you ship, how many on-call problem you saved, or how much OT you willing to take?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13185516

Points: 4

# Comments: 5

World’s First Self-Driving Taxis Hit the Road in Singapore

ripitrust — Thu, 25 Aug 2016 08:22:57 +0000

Article URL: http://www.wsj.com/articles/worlds-first-self-driving-taxis-hit-the-road-in-singapore-1472102747

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12357582

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Why Developers Never Use State Machines (2011)

ripitrust — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 17:02:51 +0000

Article URL: http://www.skorks.com/2011/09/why-developers-never-use-state-machines/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12204038

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by ripitrust in "Elon Musk Reading List"

ripitrust — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 16:31:33 +0000

I was just about to mention this

For reference, he mentioned this book in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0871VJfvD1c (13:46)

New comment by ripitrust in "China’s Cheating Husbands Fuel an Industry of ‘Mistress Dispellers’"

ripitrust — Sat, 30 Jul 2016 15:01:03 +0000

You are in fact very right, but there is one critical issue here. If we are talking about marriage. Culturally there is a "lifespan" of value to both genders. A Man's valuable lifespan can be well over 20 years, from age 20 all the way to age 40.While a woman's valuable lifespan maybe only less than 10 years, from 20 to 30.

This is because of the "stake" people are seeking when looking for a marriage between genders. Women are seeking wealth, social status, personality and whatever it may take to maintain a stable marriage ( family). While men, in most cases, are looking for prettiness, good-looking or whatever superficial. This kind of value lifespan and marriage purpose mismatch is the whole problem of marriage issues in China.

A divorced, less pretty (compare to those in 20s), mid-aged woman is very hard to find another marriage. Even if they did not even marry before, it is still hard for them. A lot of women in China who are well-educated, well-paid, in their 30s still have problems in finding partners (This is what Chinese society called sheng nu, or "women that left behind":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheng_nu).

Statistically speaking, women are indeed more than men, but the mating process is not statistic.

New comment by ripitrust in "China’s Cheating Husbands Fuel an Industry of ‘Mistress Dispellers’"

ripitrust — Sat, 30 Jul 2016 14:44:00 +0000

Thanks

New comment by ripitrust in "China’s Cheating Husbands Fuel an Industry of ‘Mistress Dispellers’"

ripitrust — Sat, 30 Jul 2016 14:43:49 +0000

Yeah I heard about that, it is sad that Japan women are suffering from this too.

New comment by ripitrust in "China’s Cheating Husbands Fuel an Industry of ‘Mistress Dispellers’"

ripitrust — Sat, 30 Jul 2016 14:08:10 +0000

I doubt that this will ever work in countries other than China because women (and marriage) in other countries are mostly protected by law, while in china, women are not so well protected. Also, culturally speaking, a divorced woman is very hard to get marriage in China. While a divorced man is easy. In society, People think that "divorce" somehow depreciated the value of a woman, while "divorce" means nothing (sometimes positive thing) for a man. Also, after marriage, Chinese woman will not focus mostly on work or career promotion but rather on family, so in the long term, they are 1) financially attached to the husband 2) emotionally attached to the husband. This makes them want to "fix" the marriage rather than abandon it, even if the fix is superficial and (maybe) temporary.

But as more and more young women (born after 80s and 90s) are married, this kind of issue may be mitigating. Because young women tend to be much well-educated and wealthy