Category Archives: About Software
A new understanding on life
Note: This is a repost of a book outline with a new title and a little addition in the content. Our science so far hasn’t developed sufficiently to provide a proper understanding of human consciousness and development of human society. … Continue reading
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Social consciousness, software, and our future society
Note: a newer version is available. Note: Based on my review of 2008 posts, I added more posts, and some introduction for the parts and chapters. I am thinking of publishing this as a book. I haven’t thought a good … Continue reading
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A better way to understand web2.0
Note: there are various definitions of web2.0, with the most quoted one (http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html) being provided by Tim O’Reilly. But I feel all those definitions fall short of hitting the true nature of web2.0. I have articulated my understanding of web2.0 … Continue reading
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Computer Science is Life Science
Computer Science (CS) is not a science of computers. CS is a science of life. It is a bridge to connect the physical science with human science. Here I take the word life as what is meant by C.A. (Christopher … Continue reading
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Software programming for everybody
When software programming is made so easy, it is a revolution. I am referring to python and its web frameworks. Programming with python is like writing articles. Instead of writing things down, I just write them into software directly. In … Continue reading
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Managing common property is a challenge
In our time, there are a lot of thinking that many resources should be managed as common properties instead of being privatized. For example, I just watched the documentary Flow the other week: http://foodandwaterwatch.org/ As I came from China, a … Continue reading
How to take back our democracy Part 2: Democracy, Money, Social Products, Local Services, the Power of Consciousness
This is to follow up with the part 1 The power of politics is the power to make laws to govern. The law should be minimum. Otherwise it becomes a tool to restrict people’s freedom instead of facilitating it. So … Continue reading
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Blogging is like writing software
One thing about blogging is that it is like writing software. I am able to get articles out quickly so readers who want to get an early look can read them. Usually before publishing them, I will proofread twice to … Continue reading
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Why I choose New York
When I graduated from school, I was faced with a decision: whether to go to Scillicon Valley or go to New York. Since this is time of Web2.0 Expo at New York, I would like to write a little about … Continue reading
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Software like buildings
Columbia has quite some beautiful buildings. I got inspired by them and felt it quite applies to software as well. When I look at those buildings, I know instantly that there are a lot of complexity there. But I feel … Continue reading
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What is life
While programming, objects emerge from context and circumstance. It is an abstract on a higher level, encapsulating a few lower level functions and is independent and self-complete. A good model of objects emerged from the context have the potential to … Continue reading
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Comments on Whither the World
http://libcom.org/library/whither-the-world I like this article. I agree with his view on capitalism and most of his analysis. I agree with him that capitalism is a historical advancement. A lot of things in capitalism can be justified. The real change in … Continue reading
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Why IT/Software makes our world more human
When we are choosing the topic of the first CBSA Panel Discussion, we mainly hope to use this chance to introduce IT world to the business students. So they can have a general picture of the IT world and such … Continue reading
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