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Weiran Zhang

Hi, I'm Weiran Zhang. I work as a Senior Engineering Manager at Capital One. I have a passion for technology and building thriving software teams. This blog is where I write about things I find interesting. You can follow me on Mastodon.


Aaron Swartz was not the super hacker breathlessly described in the Government’s indictment and forensic reports, and his actions did not pose a real danger to JSTOR, MIT or the public. He was an intelligent young man who found a loophole that would allow him to download a lot of documents quickly. This loophole was created intentionally by MIT and JSTOR, and was codified contractually in the piles of paperwork turned over during discovery.


The 787 Dreamliner has been vexed since its inception.

The company was convinced by one or more management consulting firms to outsource design and production of the 787’s components. While this idea might make sense for sourcing coffeemakers, it was a nonsense approach to assembling perhaps the most complicated and potentially dangerous machines shy of nuclear reactors.


The guys at The Wirecutter have cut out all the bullshit from CES and compiled a list of best gadgets in the show into one article.


Today we found out that CNET writers don’t have the independence from their parent company CBS after they banned them from letting Dish’s…


Samsung spends over ten times more than Apple on advertising and marketing.


At least 20% of the comments left on the Guardian website each month come from only 2,600 user accounts, who together make up just 0.003…


“What do you think?” he asked. I honestly didn’t know what to think. My mind was a blank because I just didn’t expect it. The name seemed to…


Basically, fragmentation is still a problem especially if your app is CPU or GPU intensive. If you look at the amount of energy we spend on…


Two million iPhones sold in three days. But because there wasn’t country-wide riots like previous iPhone releases, the press thinks it’s a…


This affects the Samsung Galaxy S2, S3, and Note 2. It gives malicious apps downloaded from the Play store root access to your phone and all…


I’m sure the press is straight onto this story like the similar one about Apple Maps a few days ago. Any moment now.


Horace Dediu on John Sculley’s speculation that Apple is moving to a six-month product cycle.