http://byandysu.com/blog Life is trivial, make the most of it. Sat, 10 Oct 2009 07:29:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So, I'm back in school again, to finish of my degree I suppose. Taking some excellent design courses - Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Compilers. Since school started I've been swamped with homework and non-business related things. I'm pushing to graduate early so I'm taking a little larger courseload than most. And ... http://byandysu.com/blog/?p=103 Following up my last post (over a month ago), I have been working slightly on pastacodes.com. This site is still in development. It is a really easy site to build but I obviously have my priority set to school and indinero (the main project I'm making with Jessica Mah). Last ... http://byandysu.com/blog/?p=99 So it's been 6 months since I first started programming. I now know c, c++, java, mysql, php, ruby on rails, xml, a little python and some server side management crap. I can learn a new programming language in less than three days and I feel like I can ... http://byandysu.com/blog/?p=96 High school student alone in a summer afternoon. What brought me into the world of entrepreneurship was one of those adolescent phases we all go through. What's my purpose in life, what's my future. No matter how I thought about it all I was left with was death or some miracle ... http://byandysu.com/blog/?p=87 Your first PHP project. This project will let random people subscribe to your "site". This project pretty much just aggregates a bunch of emails so you can email them your "rant of the day" or something random like that. First you need to get php working on your mac or pc. I'm not ... http://byandysu.com/blog/?p=83 It may seem like a lot, and when something doesn’t work, you feel violently pissed off. But, it feels SO good when it works. 1: Get apache to work. Update your version of mac os and go into system preferences. That's the thing with the gears - very important to your mac. ... http://byandysu.com/blog/?p=42 I had a really hard time figuring this out. I still probably don't have it down completely. First, what is programming? People talk about programming as languages and they are literally correct. Learning programming is just like learning a language. You don't know how to say something? Fine, write it down in ... http://byandysu.com/blog/?p=19 Internshipin is the latest company that I've worked on. It got started quite fast and I learned a lot from it. Here's practically how it started. Two weeks after moving into Berkeley, I met Jessica Mah. After finishing our discrete mathematics howework that day, we started talking about making a company. ... http://byandysu.com/blog/?p=9 Today, Jess and I went to a private party hosted by Andreas Weigend, a stanford professor. There, I met lots of really smart and admirable people in tech. Everyone seems really smart and their work were all so fascinating. I haven't met so many interesting people in one night since ... http://byandysu.com/blog/?p=14 From School: High school 1: Calculus (somewhat useful, easy concept people just don't know how to teach.) 2: Chem, Physics, Bio - Oh yeah, very useful. Well, maybe Bio for chatting up about global warming. 3: 300 ways not to write an essay (haven't found a way to write a good one yet). 4: How ... http://byandysu.com/blog/?p=7