samzhao

Hey startup founders! I'd like to volunteer for your startup either in office or remotely for 3 days. I live in Vancouver Canada, and I'm currently a university student at SFU; so when I can't commute, I'll work for you at home.

I do web development, including design and programming (HTML, CSS, JS, Ruby on Rails). And I also play music and have performed in numerous contests and competitions (live looping; beatbox and guitar).

Email me at zhao6518[at]gmail.com if you are interested.

Thanks!

Hello everyone,

I'm currently in Canada and I would like to bring my Galaxy S II (in 3-year contract with Bell Canada) with me to China. I had an online chat with a sales rep about what I need to do to have it working in China without paying for roaming. She told me that I need to unlock my phone for $75 in order to get rid of the International restrictions that comes with any new customer's plan. I thought a phone has to be unlocked in order to take foreign sim cards. However, from my understanding of the sales rep's explanation, I CAN use my phone with a foreign SIM card with no problem, but I need to pay roaming afterwards. So what do I have to actually unlock in order to have my phone working in China (with local a sim card) without having to pay roaming?

Thanks.

Does anyone know how Threadless prevents frauds from their voting system? I posted this question earlier on stackoverflow, but somehow it got deleted.

For Threadless, users are part of their business model. Threadless prints shirts based on its users' votes, at least from my understanding, so they can eliminate any unnecessary costs on producing products that few people demand. That makes the voting system one of the most important features on the site. And if that's the case, wouldn't bots/frauds be a serious concern to Threadless's voting system? I mean, the only way I can think of to prevent people from voting designs multiple times are either using IP log or cookies (or both). But I've already seen bots that bypass these restrictions on some other sites. So how does Threadless actually prevent bots/fraud which can potentially bring the company down?

Just read about light table IDE. Really love it's realtime output feature. Has anyone seen an IDE that supports real-time Python? That would be very helpful to the project I'm working on right now.

I have a decent amount of basic jQuery knowledge, and I would like to develop a web app using Backbone.js. Should I start from scratch and learn vanilla javascript first, or is my jQuery knowledge enough to get me started?

An interesting discovery I found today: the smoothness of my pen actually affected my creativity when I was writing an essay for school. I don't know if this is based on any scientific facts, but I could definitely write more and make more sense when using a black pen which is very smooth (although a little too dark).

Does anyone have the same experience as I do?