Kevin Chiu

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• Kevin Chiu 6:58 am on September 29, 2007 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Personal ( 18 )   

  Mahjong 

  
  I won a game of Mahjong last night after some kind person taught me how to play. It was luck – I started with a nearly complete hand and kept on drawing the exact pieces I needed.

   

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• Kevin Chiu 3:33 pm on September 28, 2007 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: academic ( 80 )   

  Is Choice an Illusion? 

  

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  • Andy Hou 7:46 pm on September 28, 2007 Permalink

    I’m not seeing this. Is it a photoshop?

• Kevin Chiu 9:07 am on September 28, 2007 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Apple ( 56 ), iPhone ( 7 ), programming ( 42 )   

  iPhone Hacking 

  

  I got pretty far on installing the toolchain, but then it botched up some of my programming homework.

  I’m moving my coursework to a virtual machine.

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  • Andy Hou 10:35 am on September 28, 2007 Permalink

    Don’t update to 1.1.1, it breaks all third party apps.

• Kevin Chiu 12:38 am on September 19, 2007 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: academic ( 80 ), productivity ( 5 )   

  How to Edit LaTeX with TextMate 

  Installing LaTeX

    The TextMate website lists two ways to install LaTeX. If you have MacPorts installed, then you simply need to run sudo port install tetex. If you don’t have MacPorts installed, I would highly suggest installing it, since the alternative officially sanctioned way of getting LaTeX, through i-Installer, is no longer actively maintained. 
  

  Installing TextMate

    TextMate is one of the most highly regarded editors on the Mac OS X platform. It was popularized by DHH of Ruby on Rails fame and has spawned several copy cats, such as E, a TextMate clone for Windows. You can pick up a copy of TextMate at Macromates. Once you have TextMate installed, enable Cutting-Edge updates by going to TextMate > Preferences > Software Update > Watch For: > Cutting-Edge.
  

  Installing Skim

    Skim is the spiritual successor to PDFView. It has many noteworthy features, including, but not limited to note-taking and annotation features, highlighting, and TextMate / pdfsync integration. Once you have Skim installed, activate Skim > Preferences > Sync > Check for file changes. TextMate should already be entered as the default editor. 
  

  Configuring the new LaTeX bundle

   To configure the new LaTeX bundle in TextMate, go to Bundles > LaTeX > Preferences … and set your viewer to Skim. Now you should be all set to write LaTeX documents in TextMate!

   

• Kevin Chiu 6:50 pm on September 16, 2007 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: academic ( 80 ), Apple ( 56 )   

  You’re not going to believe this. 

  I’ve been hired into a really cool research project involving development for mobile platforms.

  The basic premise goes something like this. The university buys me an 8GB iPhone and I get to hack it…

  Did I mention this goes towards fufilling my master’s degree?

  Awesome.

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  • Andy Hou 10:37 pm on September 17, 2007 Permalink

    That’s awesome!
    Are they paying for your service too?

  • Kevin Chiu 11:08 pm on September 17, 2007 Permalink

    Unfortunately, no. That would have been even more awesome!

  • Kevin Chiu 12:00 am on September 20, 2007 Permalink

    Oh wait, I thought you meant my service as a hacker, not ATT’s service. I hope they’re paying for ATT, but I haven’t checked.