spyckie2

48 ms·

421.
by spyckie2 9y ago
Allowing this to go through screams to me that there's no objective design leadership in the company. How did something so awful manage to get past however many employees, executives, design reviews, and into the press? Steve Jobs who
422.
by spyckie2 9y ago
GoodNotes [ http://goodnotes.com ] | Lead backend engineer, iOS developers | Full time | Hong Kong ONSITE, VISA GoodNotes was created from our founder's frustration of taking readable and reusable notes on his first iPad. We
423.
by spyckie2 9y ago
Disclaimer - I'm an Asian American living in Hong Kong. As someone who is American born and raised, I notice a LOT of cultural differences in SEA (South East Asia) and China. One thing in particular I notice is a desire for "the u
424.
by spyckie2 9y ago
I wanted to mention that these two views were actually just the philisophies of differencent personality tendencies but felt that it was a side point.
425.
by spyckie2 9y ago
For the sake of stronger definitions I have clarified the sentiment to express this point.
426.
by spyckie2 9y ago
In my personal observation a lot of discourse over personality stems from the fact that there are two differing ideas that both use the same word - personality - to define themselves. One idea defines personality as an innate wiring of your
427.
by spyckie2 9y ago
Here's a great start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good Take a look at the third paragraph talking about free rider and negative externalities. This is a strong intuitive explanation of the need for larger
428.
by spyckie2 9y ago
Didn't know that - now I do. Don't really agree they are the same observations, but do see the similarities.
429.
by spyckie2 9y ago
I actually really like this point. Market forces make it difficult to sustain long periods of vastly above average standards of living. If a place has high standard of living, competition to live there will make people willing to pay more t
430.
by spyckie2 9y ago
It's not being aware of someone else's situation - it's being aware that your own situation is not as good as it could be by comparing your situation with others out there. In smaller societies, you have less people to compar
431.
by spyckie2 9y ago
The glass half-full version of this is humans have an increased awareness and participation in pushing the limits of innovation, novelty and progress. But yes, the half-empty version is the depressing awareness that you're not really &
432.
by spyckie2 9y ago
I think this and many other problems are just too new. It's not that we can't cope - human beings have amazing mechanisms to adapt to harsh situations - but rather so many problems are new enough that there is little prior societa
433.
by spyckie2 9y ago
I'm convinced that our decision for how much effort to exert on work is not governed by the rational part of our brain. It's part primal - fear of insecurity and belonging to a social structure - part ego - accomplishment as confi
434.
by spyckie2 9y ago
GoodNotes [ http://goodnotes.com ] | Lead backend engineer, iOS developers | Full time | Hong Kong ONSITE, VISA GoodNotes was created from our founder's frustration of taking readable and reusable notes on his first iPad. We
435.
by spyckie2 9y ago
This phenomena is much more obvious with physical assets. If you're a country that natural ore, oil, farmland, etc, you will prosper. If you're a country that has few natural resources and is land-locked, you'll suffer. The i
436.
by spyckie2 9y ago
"Time spent thinking" is actually a great metric for getting smarter. However playing mental chess is probably way too difficult for her and the majority of the population. A great way to understand how to get mentally fit is to l
437.
by spyckie2 9y ago
GoodNotes [ http://goodnotes.com ] | Senior software engineers (backend, frontend, iOS) | Full time | Hong Kong ONSITE, VISA GoodNotes was created from our founder's frustration of taking readable and reusable notes on his f
438.
by spyckie2 9y ago
If you're interested in (read: addicted to and love all things) chess, one of my favorite places to learn is chessnetwork on youtube. He is a lot of fun to watch especially playing bullet, does great commentary of professional games, a
439.
by spyckie2 9y ago
Terminal 1 | Hong Kong | Full Time | Onsite Terminal 1 is a tech recruiting startup. We partner with fast growing, profitable startups with strong engineering cultures in the Hong Kong area. We're currently recrutiing for the following
440.
by spyckie2 10y ago
Actually a pretty interesting article. The ease at which you can 'fool' machine learning right now adds an additional layer to practical machine learning in the wild - risks from malicious attacks. Imagine someone putting up a law
441.
by spyckie2 10y ago
Yes. Recently I've been realizing that humans can live off of very little but we pay for a lot of things that aren't so obvious. For instance, the people in the village were paying to get iron sheets for roof covers, and if you ex
442.
by spyckie2 10y ago
The article's title is misleading - it is not about not working, it's about giving money directly to poor villages for 12 years to provide what is similar to basic income but meeting fundamentally different needs in a very differe
443.
by spyckie2 10y ago
Having skimmed it over, this book summarizes a couple of traps that you can fall into if you're thinking too binary about meaning. The world is not 0s and 1s from a meaning standpoint. The best way I can describe it is a quantum theory
444.
by spyckie2 10y ago
for d) it could be a combination of rfid, closeness, and cameras detecting who grabbed it.
445.
by spyckie2 10y ago
Here's my speculation on the technology behind it: Tracking. A lot of tracking. You don't need deep learning and car sensor technology to do simple rfid tag pick up/drop offs to detect what you have in your cart. No, this tec
446.
by spyckie2 10y ago
To address your need for marketing - I strongly think this is a red herring. Don't spend effort or money to grow your website until you've validated that your website actually solves a real problem and does it well. It doesn'
447.
by spyckie2 10y ago
You are not at the branding and promotions stage - you are at the UX and user studies stage. Your user experience is ... void of any considerations for your user. No way to search for a particular set of projects, no way to see potential ma
448.
by spyckie2 10y ago
My reading of the article: 1) "Tech industry" is infrastructure that leads to mass efficiency at scale. When this happens it means that individuals can now compete on a cost basis with corporations. Brands will retain their power
449.
by spyckie2 10y ago
I've read many complaints about how linkedin is a tool that has so much potential if it was just done right... and no one here is entertaining the possibility that MS is thinking the same way? I know MS has a bad track record for acqui
450.
by spyckie2 11y ago
I think it is fine for Sam to post something like this. It's not illegal and people will think twice before opportunistically suing companies that are backed by Sam. Anyone with power that flexes it will be accused of abusing it. In th

More ›