None of us need to have the whole solution, we just have the part, together we can make it whole
This is a data-packed presentation on where the tech trends are and where we are going in 2030. See the presentation https://www.ben-evans.com/presentations Quote from Evans: The most exciting themes in technology today are transformative visions for 2025 or 2030: crypto, web3, VR, metaverse… and then everything else. Meanwhile, hundreds of start-ups take ideas from the […]
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My wife’s family celebrated the birthdays of 3 people, my 6 year nephew, my father in law and me! This card I received gives me such joy!
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After 7 years, my investment in a sushi restaurant has ended with a buy out from the primary investor/owner. My best friend, chef/owner wanted to keep running the restaurant, but it no longer fit my long term investment of time and money. What I learned from this experience Running a restaurant is very difficult because […]
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We have bought a 2nd home in Hawaii! My wife and I have decided to not wait until we retire or until it’s the “perfect” time. There really isn’t the right time to make a life altering move, might as well take the step and see where things go! So far, this is best decision […]
Read More…Very inspiring profile of Tracy Chou’s journey to build Block Party tool to combat online harassment. https://www.fastcompany.com/90686948/inside-the-life-of-a-tech-activist-abuse-gaslighting-but-ultimately-optimism
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Cheryl Ainoa’s talk https://vimeo.com/628586581 I love how she goes back and forth between management or IC looking by evaluating what gives her energy.
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I’ve argued that building software is much more of an Art than Science. The teams who follow the agile manifesto strictly over plan this artistic endevor of birthing software from nothing with T-shirt sizing, rule of thumb and or fibonacci numbers in 2 week increments of a sprint. What I’ve observed in the real world of software engineering in 20 years is that during the planning and estimation process:
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See this post from Casey Newton’s Platformer newsletter about Twitch engineers leaking the entire source code. I wonder if there any effective way to prevent this from happening?
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I wanted to share a great visual diagram of the learning path of a web developer. click through for the original image https://www.ladybug.dev/episodes/web-developer-learning-path
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I spend a lot of my weekend time working on improving the AntennaPod podcast app to contribute features and bug fixes in order to help make my own podcast listening experience better. Also it helps me learn Android development. That was WHY I started contributing. In this journey, I also learned how to work in […]
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Music stand for my laptop that I move around for Zoom meetings and I can stand or sit. Double monitors Art for inspiration 2 Pots of flowers to keep my happy Books to keep me learning A garden to keep me grounded
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Being older feel like I have spent a long time with the people in my life consistently, spending 30 years honing my engineering craft. I have internalized more of this world and becoming a little more wiser. I have built small but tight communities around my passion areas. I look forward to learning more, playing […]
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We don’t even know this problem exist. How do we know it is even needed? How do we get to a better state with these unknown unknown problems? My co-worker Michael L. wrote an internal page about how he thrives on these type of Unknown Unknowns problems. I’m reminded recently that I get a lot […]
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If you want to be an effective engineer in our industry, get ready be good at the following Basics 0 – This is the basic toolbox as an engineer Be proficient in your favorite IDE (Visual Studio Code seems to be the most popular right now) – my personal favorite is still VIM. git – […]
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How do you think about productivity?
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” Do what you love” is for amateurs. “Love what you do” is the mantra for professionals.
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Angela Duckworth : When you quit on a good day. As said on Guy Kawasaki’s podcast. Guy Kawasaki’s Remarkable People: Angela Duckworth MacArthur “genius” grant winner, researcher, and author of Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance. https://cdn.simplecast.com/audio/5179940e-b8f5-4d80-ab1a-d23cb4bed0b0/episodes/20edc8b3-a3a0-4867-b506-603c8e607457/audio/8a452c24-ba43-46e8-8bb6-1652667262ed/default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=A7fI4ltj [00:45:36]
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We are learning to work differently No daily stand-ups, just unblocking meetings – so that people with different schedules can be flexible Do short demo videos (< 3 mins) instead of meeting face to share and do them frequently – high fidelity info 1 weekly demo – realtime meeting – where we sync up where […]
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Nuri Farmer in Korean makes these beautiful dried persimmons, http://nurifarmer.com/ But you might be able to get them here https://japanesetaste.com/products/hoshigaki-ichidagaki-japanese-dried-persimmons-premium-high-quality-kaki
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5th and Mission Podcast defends our great city by the bay. https://chtbl.com/track/5A8B9F/traffic.megaphone.fm/SFO3142218045.mp3 [00:00:00]
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For far too long, contractors, people of color, H1B visa holders are treated as second class workers with no way to speak out as a collective.
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I’ve had 39 submissions to my favorite Podcast App – AntennaPod in 2020. Which makes me #7 on the contributor list. That was a good learning journey for me. For the next leveling up to be #6, 140 of my submissions would have to be accepted. That would take 2.5 years given my current rate […]
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https://distributed.blog/2020/12/16/episode-26-jack-dorsey-and-remote-collaboration/ And I think I have three jobs, I think there are three reasons why the company hires me every day in my role. And the number one is to create a healthy team dynamic. That’s the interconnection between the members of the team. It’s the ‘how we work together’ it’s the purpose that aligns […]
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20 years ago, while I was the lead engineer for Yahoo News, I was asked to build a very basic feature to allow users to send news articles via a simple email link. That feature was simple: let users click on a link to send the news article with the URL, title and a brief […]
Read More…Then follow this instruction, which essentially as a new version of bash and enable it in /etc/shells and uses chsh to change the user’s shell
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When I get an original drawing tailor to my favorite Teen Titans character from my talented artist daughter.
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What portion of your team’s time is spent planning vs. designing and writing and testing software? Even when you did a great job in planning, how often is your plan exactly on target? When you hit the target of what you plan after 3 months, is that plan still the right thing to solve? My […]
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As software engineers, our job is to create useful services for other humans or other services that depend on our services. In the idealized world, we write software, deploy, and move on. In the real world, we have to think about Writing software Debugging our own software for bugs Testing it locally for the change, […]
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At work, someone wanted to talk with me about answering the question of “Do people at work feel zoom fatigue?” What would be a good way to look at this question from a data perspective? I proposed the following question, now that we don’t have to commute, shouldn’t we have more time in the morning […]
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Software Engineering Daily: Cloud Native Computing Foundation with Chris Aniszczyk and Dan Kohn Holiday Repeat http://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2020/11/24/cloud-native-computing-foundation-with-chris-aniszczyk-and-dan-kohn-holiday-repeat/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cloud-native-computing-foundation-with-chris-aniszczyk-and-dan-kohn-holiday-repeat [00:36:41]
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Investment thesis Is this business going to be stronger 10 years from now? Is this business dominant and unique in the industry? For every dollar it earns, how much of it does it keep for itself? Do you love the product?
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My superpower in life and at work is “troubleshooting.” I’m an engineer who helps other engineers when they are stuck. This could mean very detailed technical issues that engineers run into that takes them hours to solve. They will bring that problem to me, and usually, through some questions and answers with me, we can […]
Read More…Asking people to change is hard. The person asking for change might be asking others to move 10 steps ahead. The people being asked to change 1) Might not be convinced 2) Think it’s too hard and unknown 3) They don’t trust the person asking them. My experience in persuasion is to first build that […]
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On my 50th birthday, at 6:27am my father at 81 years old, sent me a happy birthday message! He has been my role model, his quiet way of being there for the family, showing and doing rather than talking, his love for me and his expectation that I should reach my potential and his beaming […]
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Thank you fellow Americans for giving me hope for our country.
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I love contributing to products that I use daily. One of those is the open source Android podcast player AntennaPod. For my 27th pull request: Discovery filter by country & hide discovery on first subscribe screen to the source code project I wanted to accomplish the following. Give people who are offended by certain top […]
Read More…I love listening to podcasts, all 111 podcast feeds. In 2020, I wanted to go deeper and understand the podcast ecosystem. I first generated a set of RSS feeds for 12 categories and submitted to Apple’s itunes podcast directory.
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https://a16z.simplecast.com/episodes/substack-writers-wGdX5CRs This episode, part one in a two-part series on the Creator Economy, explores the process and economics behind creating an independent newsletter. In this candid conversation, host Lauren Murrow talks with four Substack writers—an artist, a technologist, a journalist, and a clinical researcher-turned-psychedelics scholar—about how to find and foster an audience, the calculus behind going paid […]
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AntennaPod Subscriptions 16 Minutes News by a16z Website • Feed A Place of Care Website • Feed a16z Podcast Website • Feed ACM ByteCast Website • Feed After Hours Website • Feed Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin Website • Feed All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg Website • Feed Android Developers Backstage Website […]
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does not mean you did not harm someone. White privilege, or just not even realize what privileges the elite have. They don’t even give it a second thought that they are harming others less privileged.
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Recently my friends at SFBadminton.org and I have switched to tennis due to COVID-19. I play everyday for about 1 to 2 hours practicing my serves and with my new ball machine, basic hitting forehand and backhand. When the strings on my new EZONE 100 finally broke after 1 month of daily playing, I asked […]
Read More…Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wants you to become a ‘learn it all’ https://traffic.megaphone.fm/LI3005002923.mp3
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Here is a Google Map of all the San Francisco Public Tennis Courts or http://bit.ly/sf-tennis-public The stars are the single courts if you prefer not to hit balls into other people’s courts.
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During COVID-19, my attention has turned towards learning tennis. In the mornings I practice 1 to 2 hours of just serving as I try to understand the learn about the game. This morning, I was able to understand the correct grip to get the slice for the tennis ball.
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The Ezra Klein Show: Best of: Jia Tolentino on what happens when life is an endless performance https://www.vox.com/ezra-klein-show-podcast
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This life is your experience, you have control over it, no one else. Meet people, students, faculty! Find your people. Be wrong often. Ask for help Worthy of your time Be Nice Shower your world with the best of you can offer.
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A linear life is a nice idea. But as 2020 has taught us, life is way more like a game of chutes and ladders. We’re up. We’re down. We’re sidelined by a global pandemic. Unexpected change can feel disorienting, but according to author Bruce Feiler, navigating through is also a huge opportunity for growth. Bruce sits […]
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11:55am +20, 12:03 +20, 2:54 +20, 9:15 +20, 10:49pm, +20 Done
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https://a16z.simplecast.com/episodes/podcasting-audio-trends-ecosystem-future-5OvJFfje Episode Notes This podcast (first recorded in 2019, now being rerun) — is a podcast about podcasting: But it’s really all about audio. A lot’s changed… and a lot hasn’t. How do we define “podcasts”; how does the feeds ecosystem currently work; what content and entertainment experiments might change how people not just consume, […]
Read More…After Hours: Season 3 Finale: Stories to Watch This Summer and Summer Recommendations https://hbr.org/podcast/2020/05/season-3-finale-stories-to-watch-this-summer-and-summer-recommendations [00:37:25]
Read More…Interview about Wendy Liu’s book https://play.acast.com/s/intelligencesquared/abolishsiliconvalley-withwendyliuandcarlmiller
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The 2 founders of Boba Guys give really great advice to Asian Americans to Over Index towards being out there We need Asian Americans to be leaders Throw out more energy Speakup more, don’t worry about being too loud (just yet) Punch up and take the mike listen to episode1 and episode 2 on Rock […]
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Here is a quick refresher on the differences between Sponsors and Mentors. 1 page PDF here from Maryann Baumgarten, (previously of Stanford and now at Facebook)
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cherry blossom season
Read More…In order to suppress linting warnings that do not make sense, one can use the @SuppressLint decorator. In order to know which warning string to use, here is a quick time. Thank you StackOverflow Tonys-MacBook-Air:tools tonytam$ pwd /Users/tonytam/Library/Android/sdk/tools Tonys-MacBook-Air:tools tonytam$ !. ./bin/lint –list | grep -i used “UnusedAttribute”: Attribute unused on older versions “UnsafeDynamicallyLoadedCode”: load […]
Read More…While trying to implement a feature for AntennaPod to allow users to auto skip intros and endings in this pull request #3975, I need to be able publish the event when a preference has changed and for a previous object with state that has already read the value of the preference to refresh it’s content. […]
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Take a look at this 3 minute video of how you can use a large monitor to read NY Times almost like you are reading a real newspaper. When I don’t have my real newspaper, this New York Times Replica is the next best thing. The layout could be exactly like a the print paper, […]
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Badminton lovers, I will see you on court as soon as we can safely be back on court!😭
Read More…Talks at Google: Ep 84 – Ryan Holiday: “Stillness is the Key” http://talksatgoogle.libsyn.com/ep-84-ryan-holiday-stillness-is-the-key [00:41:15] Routine, having enough, saying NO, doing what is most important early.
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– Make it your identity – Take the smallest next step – Make good habits easy – Create the environment for good habits easy and bad habits hard – Find a partner – Do it every single day
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Finishing what you intended with minimum wait and high quality.
Read More…As a developer, why test manually when you can have the machine do it for you for UI testing? Check out Saucelabs.com and Sauce Connect here
Read More…The Workers Who Face the Greatest Coronavirus Risk https://nyti.ms/33j5mwB
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It’s been a while since the sport of badminton has seen another great backhand smash. Taufik Hidayt was the defacto backhand king. See videos on DuckduckGo search. Victor Axelsen of Denmark has been working on his backhand smashes and I believe it’s the new birth of the backhand smash. I’ve seen him use it at […]
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We used to have shareware and that was how programmers could give you software for free. When 2% of people pay for ‘free’ software, the rest of the world could get the benefits of free software. Because people don’t pay for mobile & desktop apps developers started adding very annoying ads into software causing some […]
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This idea from Google is currently under limited available release. Learn more at https://whats.new/ .new is a domain extension exclusively for performing new actions online: any act that leads to creation can have a quick and memorable .new shortcut associated with it. Help your customers take action faster. Less time clicking means more time creating.
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Do one thing at a time, turn off notifications Saying no to almost everything, pretend if the ask is for tomorrow, would you say yes? Turn off email notifications Switch to paper Getting outside Every meeting tends to fill the time allocation, push to finish early Carving out alone time Read books to be exposed […]
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About Facebook Nor does she mince words when taking on one behemoth in particular. “I hate it,” she writes. “The company is one of the biggest mistakes in modern history, a digital cesspool that, while calamitous when it fails, is at its most dangerous when it works as intended. Facebook is an ant farm of […]
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Don’t let TV news and websites get you all stressed out about the coronavirus. Stay informed with WHO, the definitive voice worldwide. The incentives of news media is to scare us and get us to be glued to the webpages or TV screen. The following are quoted from https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/q-a-coronaviruses 23 February 2020 | Q&A What […]
Read More…Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you would rather have talked. – Mark Twain
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In order to debug Android Auto cd ~/Library/Android/sdk ./platform-tools/adb forward tcp:5277 tcp:5277 ./extras/google/auto/desktop-head-unit On your phone/emulator, turn on debugging then in Android Auto Settings -> Start head unit server Reference: Setup for Android Autos – https://developer.android.com/training/cars/media Setup your testing environment – https://developer.android.com/training/cars/testing See Tony’s PR contribution to AntennaPod
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Removing praise and criticism from learning. What good teacher do If a student does not learn, it’s the teacher’s fault, not the student. Brake down a skill into learnable pieces Inspire students to achieve more https://www.npr.org/2020/02/03/802422904/when-things-click-the-power-of-judgment-free-learning
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Let the machine help you build/make Android apps. Start with some of these plugins. https://blog.codota.com/top-17-plugins-for-android-studio/
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About Tosh HallGlobal CCO Close Bio Tosh oversees the creative product for all our offices, including work for AB InBev, Dunkin’ Brands, Target and UNICEF. His work’s been recognized at Cannes and by D&AD, The One Show, Clios, New York Festivals, Tokyo TDC, Graphis, Communication Arts, Print and AIGA—and featured in Forbes, The New York […]
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I have started to notice more physical book reading on Muni.
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“Worldwide, seasonal influenza epidemics cause 3 million to 5 million severe cases every year and kill up to 650,000 people a year, according to the World Health Organization. CDC report https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html It is more contagious according to the NYTimes.
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“San Francisco has often been called a transient city, a destination for young creative types and techies before they bounce off to places unknown. But to stereotype this city as a way station is to ignore the families who set down roots here generations ago. We did a callout for multigenerational San Franciscans and were […]
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Why Is Design Matters a Good Podcast? Debbie and her team do their homework in researching little known facts about their creative guests. Because of the research and preparations, her dialog and questions elicit surprising insights from the creative people she talks with. We favorite and bookmark many of her episodes in order to good […]
Read More…Having documentation right at your finger tips for Android SDK. Open it in your browser at file:///Users/tonytam/Library/Android/sdk/docs/index.html
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Grow 1% a day, start with free resources from SF Library (or your local library) Start reading this blog article.
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When I started working on a hackathon project to publish the Splunk .conf videos from our conf.splunk.com site into a podcast form, I learned a lot that I didn’t know. This learning through hands on work has led me to contributing software code to an open source project call AntennaPod. I will write more later […]
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“The future is here – it’s just not evenly distributed” – William Gibson. When we come up with a good idea. If we take that idea and prototype and demo it, even when no one cheers you on, remember that they are just not in the same future as you yet. If it was a […]
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