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Stock Trading API

yen223 — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 11:20:52 +0800

Are there any brokers who provide APIs to retrieve stock quotes, and to execute trades on Bursa Malaysia? Something like what Interactive Brokers does, but for the Bursa.

[WTB] Second-hand treadmill

yen223 — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 20:21:22 +0800

If anyone is looking to sell your treadmills, please PM me your best price

Malaysian Electoral Map

yen223 — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 11:31:14 +0800

Does anyone know how and where I can get a copy of the Electoral Map for both the upcoming election, and previous elections?

Programming Languages

yen223 — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 09:02:37 +0800

It seems to me that almost every programmer in Malaysia uses some form of C/Java/VB/PHP (heck I'm a professional C# coder). I know that Perl is used in certain scientific communities, but that's the only example I know.

Are there companies in Malaysia which uses languages like Python or Perl on a regular basis? Or even languages like Haskell/Scheme/Lisp?

iOS ViewControllers

yen223 — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 13:25:27 +0800

To all the iOS sifus out there

Is it possible to embed a ViewController inside another ViewController? Something like this:

Salary negotiation

yen223 — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:23:18 +0800

Just thought I'd share this interesting article on salary negotiation with everyone

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/

I particularly like this quote:

QUOTE

They already deal with every employee that they’ve ever had who was not a doormat at negotiations, which includes essentially all of the employees they really value. Ramit Sethi (more on him later) introduced me to a concept that he calls Competence Triggers: basically, if you have to judge someone’s skill based on a series of brief interactions, you’re going to pattern match their behavior against other people who you like. When people with hiring authority think of winners, they think of people like them who live and breathe this business thing. They negotiate things as a matter of course: that is a major portion of the value they bring to the company. Volunteering a number when asked says the same thing to people with hiring authority that flunking FizzBuzz says to an engineer: this person may be a wonderful snowflake in other regards, but on the thing I care about, they’re catastrophically incompetent. It will also cause them to retroactively question competencies they’d previously credited you with.

Windows Phone 7

yen223 — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 14:22:21 +0800

For the WP7 early adopters, is a Windows Phone 7 phone good? Better than iPhone/Android?

4 Chords that you need to be a star~

yen223 — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:53:31 +0800

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Browser Wars v2

yen223 — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 17:28:42 +0800

The last "Vote for your favourite browser (Link here)" poll is over 2 years old, and doesn't include Chrome, so I decided to open a new poll.

Please vote for your most-used browser, and add any comment

Internet Explorer
Latest stable version: Internet Explorer 8 (Website)

Mozilla Firefox
Latest preview version: Firefox 4.0 Beta 12 (Website)
Latest stable version: Firefox 3.6.11 (Website)

Opera
Latest stable version: Opera 10 (Website)

Google Chrome
Chrome: http://www.google.com/chrome
Chromium (Chrome Nightly Builds, for advanced users):http://dev.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/getting-started

Safari
Latest stable version: Safari 5 (Website)

Others
Maxthon: http://www.maxthon.com/
Avant Browser: http://www.avantbrowser.com/
Seamonkey: http://www.seamonkey-project.org/
Flock: http://www.flock.com/

NOTE:
Trident-based = based on the Internet Explorer engine
Gecko-based = based on the Mozilla engine
I forgot to add Webkit-based browsers , but I don't think there are a lot of those anyway (major ones are Safari and Chrome).

Google slow~

yen223 — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:35:42 +0800

Is anyone having any trouble accessing Google sites? I can't seem to get into Google Reader, and Gmail + Google searches take a long time to load...

Strange part is every other website seems to be fine...

THE MOST AWESOME AD EVER!

yen223 — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:15:19 +0800

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Best pickup line

yen223 — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 20:23:20 +0800

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riTmalXedUA&NR=1

EDIT:
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idiots

yen223 — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 23:01:13 +0800

HIV women forced into sex for treatment in India: report

Sat Dec 22, 1:29 AM ET

HIV-positive women in the northern Indian state of Punjab were forced by technicians at a medical institute to have sex in return for tests and medicines, a report said Saturday.

Police were investigating the allegations against employees of the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in state capital Chandigarh, the Times of India said.

The women who complained of abuse were mainly young patients from city slums.

"I was helped by a technician there. He provided me medicines and other testing facilities without any problem," a 27-year-old widow who was diagnosed with HIV in 2005 told the paper.

"But this was all for his sexual gratification.

The woman said she was also asked to procure other girls for workers at the institute's AIDS testing and counselling centre.

Stigma and discrimination against HIV-positive people are widespread in the country of 1.1 billion people, where an estimated 2.5 million people are infected with the virus, according to the United Nations.

The number of estimated AIDS cases in India came down sharply this year from estimates of 5.7 million cases in 2005, reflecting an increase in testing and better statistical sampling methods, the UN said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071222/wl_st...hindiaaidswomen

Those technicians must really be desperate

COMEDY is dead ~~

yen223 — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:43:10 +0800

RIP

dota 6.44b

yen223 — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 13:19:11 +0800

QUOTE

6.44b Changelog:
================
* Fixed Pit of Malice tooltip
* Fixed issue with Templar taking Geomancer's spot as an Agi hero in -allagi
* Fixed a bug with Storm's Overload that made its attack counter inaccurate at higher attack speeds
* Fixed the issue that caused a checksum error to appear
* Killing a courier's image no longer announces the message as if it was real
* Fixed a bug with respawning that would respawn you faster if you had boughtback right before dying again
* Clarified Plague tooltip
* Fixed Cleave, Scattershot and various other spells from affecting Psionic Traps
* Fixed Boots of Travel working on Psionic Traps
* Fixed Vacuum from working on various exploitable areas
* Improved Plague visual effect
* Nerfed Plague damage amplification by 5% and changed the duration from 7/9/11 to 7/8/9 seconds
* Reduced Reverse Polarity mana cost and cd per level
* Lowered hp/armor on Raise Dead summons and increased bounty a little
* Fixed a bug that caused Plague to slow more than intended and said in the tooltip
* Displayed the player name when a tower is denied instead of his team name
* Clarified Life Break tooltip
* Nerfed str gain on Dirge
* Reduced Dirge model size very slightly
* Fixed Electric Rave from triggering Essence Aura, CotS
* Fixed Plague from giving the kill credit to the Dirge instead of the damage dealer
* Improved Luna base damage
* Fixed some issues with Meld
* Clarified Soul Rip tooltip
* Inner Vitality manacost is the same at all levels now (a nerf)
* Rebalanced Dark Portal. Aside from stat changes such as manacost/channeltime/duration, it cannot be cast from/to base and you can only transport through it once, not back and forth.
* Reduced the pause effect on vacuum considerably
* Added visual effect to transporting units through Dark Portal
* Changed the Storm soundset
* Fixed misc other minor issues

QUOTE

6.44 Changelog:
================

==[Heroes]==

* Added a new Scourge hero: Dark Seer
* Added a new Scourge hero: Pit Lord
* Added a new Scourge hero: Undying
* Added a new Sentinel hero: Storm Spirit
* Added a new Sentinel hero: Templar Assassin
* Added a new Sentinel hero: Sacred Warrior (39888)
* New heroes are disabled in -lm/-xl
* Queen of Pain -> Reduced attack range from 600 to 550
* Queen of Pain -> Rebalanced how Shadow Strike levels up
* Dwarven Sniper -> Slightly increased base mana
* Ursa Warrior -> Is now a proper melee hero (recent patch fixed the issue, 137702)
* Shadow Priest -> Removed the duration nerf on Shallow Grave (it will now last until the target dies). Reduced cooldown. The respawn speed is nerfed instead.
* Troll Warlord -> Removed Berserker Rage mana cost
* Alchemist -> Increased casting range on Unstable Concoction a bit
* Alchemist -> Improved level 1 Chemical Rage health regeneration by 5
* Alchemist -> Minor buff to the damage on Unstable Concoction
* Doom Bringer -> Reduced Doom's Scepter upgrade duration by 2 seconds
* Moon Rider -> Eclipse no longer depends on Lucent Beam level
* Chen -> Increased movement speed from 290 to 295
* Spiritbreaker -> Nether Strike no longer depends on Greater Bash
* Bristleback -> Reduced max Quill Spray damage stack
* Bristleback -> Reduced movement speed by 5
* Bone Fletcher -> Changed Searing Arrows cooldown from 4/3/2/0 to 4/3/0/0
* Magnataur -> Improved his cast animation time
* Doom Bringer -> Due to popular demand, Level Death deals it's bonus damage on level 25 as well
* Syllabear -> Level 3 Spirit Bear has regained Entangle

==[Misc]==

* Various minor terrain improvements requested for league play
* Added hotkeys for all basic items (only a few had them before)
* Changed piercing damage to heavy armor to 75% from 100%
* Added -roll command (133304)
* Added a few new weather effects (-weather moonlight/wind)
* Added -weather random that will randomly change the weather for you (and only you) every 5 minutes
* Rewrote some item manipulation code to fix some exploits
* Added creep spawn modes -notop/-nomid/-nobot (-nt/-nm/-nb)
* You can now team kill units in other damage over time abilities like Curse of the Silent and Shadow Word
* You have to be below 25% health for an ally to be able to start denying you (assuming you can be denied of course)
* Removed the last melee creep count upgrade (the rest of the changes from last version are still the same)
* Recoded various resource intensive abilities for increased map stability
* Added new command -noswap (-ns)
* Satyr Trickster -> Increased movement speed

==[Item]==

* Wards -> Reworked Observer and Sentry wards again
* Bottle -> After rune usage, it returns a 2/3 Bottle instead of a fully refilled one
* Tango -> Price from 80 to 90
* Flask -> Heals over a period of 10 seconds instead of 20
* Flying Courier -> Removed Boots of Speed from requirements
* Flying Courier -> Added new ability (Courier Shield) and lowered vision

==[Cosmetics]==

* World Tree -> Added a new model (provided by Janzak @ janzak.deviantart.com)
* Chat messages now show hero name
* An announcement is now made when a tower is denied
* Considerably improved End Game Scoreboard and Observer Scoreboard presentation and content (total gold row coming in near future)
* Wrote gold cost on basic items like they are on recipes to allow for price checking before you go back to base
* The game now displays a kill message when a chicken dies
* End Scorescreen now lets you know when someone is no longer in the game
* Scoreboard now colors players differently if they have left the game
* Slithreen Guard -> Added new Sprint visual effect (126186)
* Goblin Techies -> New Remote Mine model (130285)
* Flying Courier -> Added unique scourge flying courier model
* When a team mate denies an ally, it now says his name (127161)
* Crystal Maiden -> Crystal Maiden's Scepter upgrade now gives a unique visual effect (128977)
* Chaos Knight -> Chaos Bolt now shows the random stun duration (130088)
* Keeper of the Light -> Added a new and more accurate Illuminate Wave effect provided by eva00r
* Shadow Fiend -> Added a special effect when Nevermore gains a soul (132731)
* Morphling -> Added text overhead to show the damage dealt by Adaptive Strike
* Camera now moves to the throne/tree when it dies. Added 1-2 second delay before scoreboard appears to show the death animations
* Added more flavor text to various items (130384)
* Added new icons for Freezing Field, Viscous Nasal Goo, Drow's Silence, Lightning Storm, Blur, Global Silence, Plague Wards (thanks snork and switch)
* Added new icon for Mirror Image (73303)
* Changed second secret shop name
* Improved visibility of scourge fifth recipe shop when not in base
* Improved movement speed items' tooltips (130948)
* Courier -> When purchasing a courier, Sentinel will get a random selection of Chicken, Raccoon or Penguin, while Scourge will get a random selection of Carrion Beetle, Dune Worm or Fel Boar.
* Listed damage type for Arcane/Impetus/Glaives
* Improved Demon Witch's Impale tooltip (107362)
* Changed the default missing icon on the scoreboard from the eye to another one
* Battle Fury -> now lists it as a melee item (139040)
* Sanity's Eclipse -> The damage dealt to units is now listed as an overhead text
* Added more flavor text to various abilities
* Improved various item tooltips to make it more user friendly
* Added reminder in -mm regarding hero switches
* Updated Bottle Tooltip to make it more obvious that rune bottle refilling is not a bug!
* Reduced how long the warning about disassemble lasts on the screen
* Improved dozens of tooltips
* Thanks to Eva00r and JetFango for various icons/effects

==[Various fixes]==

* Fixed the desync bug that happens when observers leave a game, causing some other players to disconnect
* Fixed another very rare respawn glitch
* Fixed Ignis Fatuus scepter upgrade not being on autocast by default
* Fixed a bug that caused sprout trees to sometimes respawn trapping the hero again
* Fixed Lothar's Edge icon(132136)
* Fixed a bug with custom replay data winner field
* Fixed Holy Persuation not showing level in tooltip
* Fixed Midnight Pulse killing mines
* Fixed Clarity Potion buff icon bug
* Fixed Mask of Madness buff icon (126834)
* Fixed Drunken Haze tooltip typo
* Improved some internal Observer Mode code
* Fixed Wrath of Nature typo
* Fixed a bug with Black Hole pulling in mines
* Fixed some memory leaks with Time Lapse and Poison Nova
* Fixed a rare bug with Toss
* Fixed Chronosphere tooltip
* Clarified some TDA quest menu rules
* Compressed various icons (thanks PGRu-Unexpect3D)
* Fixed a bug with Phantom Edge giving extra evasion
* Lots of optimizations to how Impetus/Glaives/Arcane abilities were coded
* Fixed Helm of Iron will giving 2 hp regen and not 3 hp
* Fixed the game clock continuing after the game has ended
* Fixed a rare bug with Adaptive Strike
* Fixed Rampage buff tooltip
* Fixed a rare bug with Greater Bash
* Fixed some bugs with -dm and various abilities that depended on unit state
* Fixed Silencer from stealing an INT from an ally deny
* Fixed Shockwave from hitting wards
* Gave unique codes to the following abilities make replay processing more straight forward: Phantom Assassin's Shadow Strike, Venomancer's Shadow Strike, Queen of Pain's Shadow Strike, Stealth Assassin's Blink Strike, Chaos Knight's Blink Strike, Lion's Voodoo, Rhasta's Voodoo, Razor's Frenzy, Viper's Frenzy, Sven's Storm Bolt and Leo's Storm Bolt.
* Fixed some item buying cooldowns that were still at 5 sec instead of 1
* Fixed Necromastery tooltip
* Fixed various other buggy tooltips

-- Thanks to all the fans for being patient in this long release.
Thanks to the following beta testers:
-very active: iNCQRiT, BeamCannon, unHOLYdoNUTS, LulaLula, Beast_Pete, Ro-Coco, Warsoft, Zethal, KI-HunterKiller, Apocalypse, sSerenity, StokesII, heftig, LordDready, kugelkind, arthur5863, Genosis, SokZ, eldorquo, Nova
-active: DarkMist67, IEatDeadPeoples, Infrisios, Dimitrii, Beary, Trozz_, Wretchingwretch, u-nL-ike, Severas, Naz), jmesch04, Zagruss5, 4nTr4xX, TheKitchenSink, Sarkahn, eBoS, Jewified., Switch, Kesy, HarbingeR-2.0-, HunterX2, HolyHuman, Gorzerk, Calf85, Shimmy]BT, Capnrawr, Damican., Qu33nZR3p1n9, phssy_galore, Terrorblaze, Idejder, Casperkid0923, GnS.Gauss, Minotaar, whifra, M3Th0dz, feared.slayer, 28awg, Rororo, CouchCushion, ThunderBolt_ and Tota-Domi

-- I am dedicating this version to Terrorblaze, Naz, Wuffle, Eva00r, arthur5863, Trystero and the late OzoneX for all their contributions to the overall DotA community.

-- If you find any bugs or have any comments, please let me know.

-- Once again, much thanks to all the beta testers that helped make this big release a possibility.

updated.

food and freedom

yen223 — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 22:28:40 +0800

A journalist had to do some research for his article on food and freedom, so he decided to go to India, where he saw a skinny, starving old man. He asked the man

"In your opinion, which is more important, food or freedom?"

The old man replied, "What is food?"

The journalist realized that this was futile, so he went to Myanmar, and asked a young sweat-shop worker

"In your opinion, which is more important, food or freedom?"

"What is freedom?"

Frustrated, he decided to go to a place where the people actually know what food and freedom are. He went to Singapore, approached a healthy-looking man and asked

"In your opinion, which is more important, food or freedom?"

The Singaporean answered, "What is an opinion ah?"