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by mingyeow 11y ago
"Move fast and break things" - the "things" here refer to _code_ and _features_, which can be fixed with a single deployment. Not breaking people.
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by mingyeow 11y ago
is it too much to ask for facial recognition? :)
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by mingyeow 14y ago
PG - are you serious? you seriously think that their decline in growth comes from anything other than facebook users seeing through their scam and facebook itself shutting off their spam channels? You think that there is any chance in hell
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by mingyeow 14y ago
The founders will be writing a ton of articles, giving a lot of talks, and advising a lot of companies on how to build successful companies and products. Just do not expect them to be anything but honest.
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by mingyeow 15y ago
"There is a bug where a_user was not cleared on logout. We will be fixing that today." PR speak. This seems much less like a bug to me, more like a poorly contemplated decision. What seems more likely is that they were contemplating what th
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by mingyeow 15y ago
This is a poorly researched article that takes a few anecdotes from him, his observations about his friends, and choice quotes from random articles that support his viewpoint. I would wager that from a data point of view, facebook page view
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Windows 8 for tablet hands on (engadget.com)
151 points by mingyeow 15y ago|138 comments
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by mingyeow 15y ago
WOW: His father told the press that at the age of two, during a family gathering, Tao attempted to teach a 5-year-old child mathematics and English. According to Smithsonian Online Magazine, Tao taught himself basic arithmetic by the age of
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by mingyeow 15y ago
This is awesome. I develop quite a bit on facebook, but turn to SO for most of my needs. The forum is terrible, but it really does not make sense for them to build a new system from scratch.
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by mingyeow 15y ago
I agree that hours are bullshit, but I have always found a morning standup to coordinate goals and objectives to be exceedingly useful. But i often run into opposition by the "free and easy" types. Thoughts?
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by mingyeow 15y ago
they are lucky this is happening at the same time as the US debt ceiling. on a slower news cycle, this would have been on the nytimes front page
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by mingyeow 15y ago
i live in both sf and singapore (50/50), and i am actually very much in support of these rules. my only grouse is the suppressed political scene, and i am glad that even that is being lifted in a slow but steady manner. and trust me, 90% of
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by mingyeow 15y ago
Good comment. I am also impressed by this particular path - it indeed seems to be a wholly different way of interacting - if they get their cloud stuff right, i would actually give it a spin
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by mingyeow 15y ago
This is an amazingly detailed preso with great insights. The only thing is that the conclusions could be more clear cut.
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Top notch engineer / product dude looking for gig
3 points by mingyeow 16y ago|0 comments
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by mingyeow 16y ago
Yes. It is like violating their own freaking TOS
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by mingyeow 16y ago
I just feel kinda sad for all the Kevin Rose fans out there. it is almost like being a Lindsay Lohan fan
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by mingyeow 16y ago
Agreed, but the order is wrong. The truth is that you will almost certainly buy way more kindle books if you actually have a kindle
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by mingyeow 16y ago
Think about allowing powerpoint uploading. turn it into a way for various people to collaborate around specific slides
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by mingyeow 17y ago
from my own testing, it seems that people will sometimes say "that does not feel right", and when i switch it over to the other, they go "ah, that is better". just my own experience, which is why i find this so interesting
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by mingyeow 17y ago
Loved this article. Amazing how such a subtle difference can cause such a big difference in visual impact
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Arial versus Helvetica(swiss-miss.com)
104 points by mingyeow 17y ago|54 comments
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70% of journalists say they use social networks to assist in reporting(prweekus.com)
1 points by mingyeow 17y ago|0 comments
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3 Pillars of a Delightful Experience: Playfulness, Usability, & Context: (userexperience.evantageconsulting.com)
1 points by mingyeow 17y ago|0 comments
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Top Ways to Kill Innovation(delphiinstitute.com)
3 points by mingyeow 17y ago|10 comments
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by mingyeow 17y ago
actually me too. it seems like a reasonable way to compare UI's
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by mingyeow 17y ago
i think these are still pretty complicated. i could understand russel's link in 2 minutes, but I still do not know how to use ACT-R and cogtool.
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Great Idea: Empirical User Experience Design Through Action Costs (russellbeattie.com)
7 points by mingyeow 17y ago|5 comments
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How to Make the Free-to-Play Model Work for You : Great examples from Gaia(freetoplay.biz)
1 points by mingyeow 17y ago|0 comments
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by mingyeow 17y ago
and techcrunch gets the most points

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