Puzzles
May 3rd, 2008Find the secret messages. You need to understand Japanese to solve number 3 and 4.
1)Five
2)Hoshizora(starry sky)
3)Ages become uncontrollable, see the dead?
4)Saigo no kakera (the last piece)
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My programming story
March 23rd, 2008Everyone has their own story about programming. How they stumbled upon a new language, fell in love with it and maybe breaking up with it. I’ll share mine.
Visual Basic is my first programming language. I was in standard 6 when I discovered my father’s book - Using Visual Basic 3.0 when I was playing upstairs. Finding it interesting, I tried copy and pasting a few codes into VB5 installed in my WIN95 pc. Of course I didn’t learn much at that time but at least I had my own working calculator.
When I was in Form 2, Mr.Affendi taught us VB6 in his class. Again in Form 5, I relearned VB from my computer teacher. My thesis project was also using VB. At the end of 2005 I realized that VB actually is not a good language. Why? Because it’s not portable. You can’t run any VB made software in Mac or Linux(minus WINE). Then I started looking for a new hope.
I didn’t know much about Batch programming until my friend showed me his works. Actually it was nothing more than a few line of code that can copy, delete files, etc. I found it interesting and learned a few basics.
It was my father that introduced me to PHP and SQL. He bought a two inches thick book about PHP&SQL in 2005. That book however, became my bedtime storybook until I decided to relearn PHP in early 2007.
Talking about web development, I created my first website when I was in Form 1. You know, MS Frontpage + Geocities=crap. At that time, I learned basic HTML but not yet JavaScript. I only get back to JavaScript when I read an article about XSS a few years back. Then I dived into basic AJAX when I was test writing a XSS worm.
I wrote my first C program when I was in 2nd year JAD. It was damn hard at first, but after understanding the concept, coding becomes much easier. In the same year, I learned PIC, a language to program microcontroller. In my case, autobots robots.
I did try to learn Perl but I think that it doesn’t suit me. So sayonara Perl. Then I stumbled upon an article saying that Ruby is going to be popular due to development of RoR. I gave it a try but it end up like Perl. I guess that I’m allergic to gems.
After reading a book titled CODE and scanning few articles about software cracking, I decided to try coding Assembly. I downloaded a trial version of Asm editor and played with it for a few weeks. When the software expired, my interest expired too. Maybe because it’s too hard or maybe I’m not ready with something radical.
Demn I forgot to mention about CSS. For a simple guy like me, I thought that CSS is nothing more than a language of eye candy or maybe ice cream of the web. I knew I was totally wrong when I realized that men and beauty can’t be separated, same goes to HTML and CSS. For the sake of my noobness, I end up learning CSS late compared to any other guys that you can find over the net.
P/S:Should I add Autoit into the list?
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Why Japanese sucks at English
March 17th, 2008We already know that Japanese really sucks when it comes to English, both speaking and writing. The question is, why?
1)Late start
Japanese start learning English in junior high school(~13 years old). Luckily, We Malaysians start at average 7 years old or maybe younger. You might be asking..So what are they learning during primary school?
Simple answer, memorizing Kanji.
2)Twisted tongue
Japanese can’t pronounce ‘L’ very well. They usually read it as ‘R’. So light becomes right, flight becomes fright. Some other examples are -ing(timing->taiminggu), -ter(computer->konpyuta) etc etc.
3)SVO vs SOV
The Japanese language structure is Subject-Object-Verb. Compared to English, it’s totally an up-side down world. I’m glad that Bahasa also using SVO. Imagine talking to your mum like this;
I yesterday school didn’t go. I caught cold because.
4)They don’t need English
Why learn English if they already have everything in Japanese? Name any scientific term from superconductor(超伝導) to DNA(デオキシリボ核酸), you will have them written in Kanji. That’s how powerful Chinese character is.
Whether they sucks at English or not, they are still one step ahead us.
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