jinonoel

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Core Banking Is a Terrible Idea. It Always Was(andrewbaker.ninja)
3 points by jinonoel 7mo ago|1 comments
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Azure Outage in Southeast Asia(azure.status.microsoft)
6 points by jinonoel 4y ago|1 comments
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by jinonoel 4y ago
>If China is allowed to gain upper hands on the United States, it will result in broad scale societal problems which I couldn't even begin to estimate. Imagine a world where Russia is allowed to take Europe. Imagine a world where th
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by jinonoel 4y ago
One fact that blew my mind recently is that Cleopatra is closer to our present time than to the creation of the pyramids.
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by jinonoel 4y ago
Makes sense. I'm not sure there's a job I wouldn't leave for 3 months free money. Especially if I was confident of my talent and abilities as an ex-Twitter engineer.
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PayMaya raises $167M to launch digital bank in the Philippines(techcrunch.com)
2 points by jinonoel 5y ago|0 comments
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Philippines ‘buy now, pay later’ startup Plentina raises $2.2M seed round(techcrunch.com)
2 points by jinonoel 5y ago|0 comments
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Singapore’s Grab to List in U.S. in Record $40B SPAC Deal(bloomberg.com)
1 points by jinonoel 5y ago|0 comments
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by jinonoel 6y ago
I can't wait for inevitable Billions episode about Gamestop. Dollar Bill is probably going to lose it :)
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Singapore is poised to become Asia’s Silicon Valley(techcrunch.com)
1 points by jinonoel 6y ago|0 comments
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by jinonoel 6y ago
Mesh Wifi. I used to have 3 base stations scattered around the house with different names and it was a hassle just connecting to the closest wifi point all the time and also switching between wifi points when I move around the house would r
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Alibaba Is in Talks to Invest $3B in Grab(bloomberg.com)
1 points by jinonoel 6y ago|0 comments
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by jinonoel 6y ago
My company has been WFH since mid-March. I've loved being able to just start working instantly after waking up and finishing my morning routine, but one thing I've really missed is the 30minute drive home after work. That period o
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Jack Ma’s Ant Group Files for IPO in Hong Kong and Shanghai(bloomberg.com)
2 points by jinonoel 6y ago|0 comments
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by jinonoel 6y ago
Was planning on getting a new Mac laptop this year to replace my old 2013 Macbook Pro. Would it be better to get one of the last Intel Macs or wait a bit and get in early on the upcoming ARM Macs?
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Facebook and PayPal invest in Southeast Asian ride-hailing giant GoJek(techcrunch.com)
1 points by jinonoel 6y ago|0 comments
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Grab Asks Staff to Take No-Pay Leave to Cut Costs(bloomberg.com)
47 points by jinonoel 6y ago|18 comments
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by jinonoel 7y ago
I really, really miss Dashboard. It was a nice quick way to have access to my stickies, a calculator, the weather, and a calendar all in one place
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Manila-based payments processing startup PayMongo raises $2.7M in funding(techcrunch.com)
2 points by jinonoel 7y ago|0 comments
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The widow of Steve Jobs is proving to be a savvy investor(smh.com.au)
1 points by jinonoel 7y ago|0 comments
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The Surveillance Program IBM Built for Philippine Strongman Duterte(theintercept.com)
2 points by jinonoel 8y ago|0 comments
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Grab Confirms $1.46B Investment from SoftBank’s Vision Fund(techcrunch.com)
1 points by jinonoel 8y ago|0 comments
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Tencent backs fintech firm Voyager to battle Alibaba in the Philippines(techcrunch.com)
2 points by jinonoel 8y ago|0 comments
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by jinonoel 8y ago
I had a really good time and learned more than I thought I would during my postgrad studies. However if you would be paying full tuition there's probably cheaper ways to get into AI though.
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by jinonoel 8y ago
Had a quarter-life crisis, so decided to quit my job after working 5 years as a software engineer and get a masters degree in a foreign country in 2010. Had to choose a specialization, and chose AI/ML only because I liked reading sci-f
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by jinonoel 8y ago
Startup 1 (2 years): $0. Acqui-hired for less than total investment raised. I had long left by then but had vested shares which were wiped out. Startup 2 (6 months): $10k. Mainly from the profit-sharing of the startup incubator, not from ac
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by jinonoel 8y ago
A PhD is something I plan on doing much later in life too (35 now), a bucket list sort of thing once I've achieved financial independence and my kids are a bit older. The hard part I imagine will be hanging out with mid-20-year olds ev
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by jinonoel 8y ago
"Why join a startup #1: Acccess to jobs you're unqualified for" Had a good laugh at this, because it's completely true in my case. 7 years ago became the "data scientist" at a 4-person startup before I even kne
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by jinonoel 8y ago
I really miss the top-right button in classic Finder windows, the one that resizes the window to just the right size to show all it's contents.
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by jinonoel 8y ago
>“Perhaps Facebook should consider not aggressively getting more people online through its free internet program, and on its platform, until it has fully realized the scope of various ways it impacts a society, and often the whole nation

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