Author: Tony Tam
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Dear LinkedIn, Make Diversity Data Transparent For All Companies?
Dear LinkedIn, You are the only service out there to discover data about companies both private and public, what type of employees work there, which universities the employees graduated from and lots of other useful data about the professional lives of the workers. LinkedIn is a fantastic service for professionals. There have been many articles in recent years…
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Latte Art w/ Homemade Almond Milk
This morning I was lucky to have some homemade almond milk left over and decided pull a shot of espresso and foam some milk. Usually almond milk doesn’t foam up enough micro foam to allow my amateur skills to be able to do any sort of latter art. This morning, I was able to finally…
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July 17th 2016: Pokémon Go Fever Will Last Only Until Sept 1st 2016
Just putting a theory out there that Pokémon will not last as the top game longer than Sept 1st 2016. Most adults will get tire of the game since they never grew up with it. Once you have tried to walk most of the city you are living and working in, there is no more…
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Head of Open Source at Facebook Interviewed on Changelog Podcast
This is worth listening to learn about how Facebook thinks about software and expecially how they are trying to push software developer forward for the entire industry. React and React Native are being called out as very successful open source projects from Facebook. Cassandra has also been a huge winner. The interesting take…
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Why Work @ Splunk As An Engineer
Splunk’s Company Mission I like the simple and clear mission: We make machine data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone Update: Oct 24, 2018 2 years at Splunk so far Personal I’ve started a large community of badminton players and even setup a badminton net in our court yard I’ve grown a community of engineering helping each other virtually on Slack I’ve…
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Dear Banner Ads, I’m Sorry To Say Goodbye, Here Is $5
I understand the free services like LinkedIn, Yahoo, Google, Facebook are supported by ads. But the ads are not well targeted or creepy and repetitive, too much in your face (2nd post on LinkedIn, every 5-7 posts on Yahoo.com) and ultimately waste a lot of my time scrolling pass them in order to see relevant content.…
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Evernote Basic is changing
Sign of the times, no more freebies. I am not sure how this will convince me to stay using Evernote or pay for it. It only makes me want to export my notes out to Google docs or One Note. “At Evernote, we are committed not only to making you as productive as you can…
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Working & Playing @ Splunk
Marking my 2nd month at Splunk. I really love the culture of being data driven at everything we do. Being here at Splunk already opened up my mind as to how I can grow and learn as an engineer because of the people and the relentless focus on execution and innovation.
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Weekly links #2: Passion, Mark Z. hacked, Homebrew analytics, Uber drivers, Theranos CEO played by Jennifer Lawrence, aging and learning
This week I really enjoyed and learned from the following links and podcast. Inspiration Graduating and Looking for Your Passion? Just Be Patient … advice to young graduates is not to “follow your passion” but rather, to “foster your passion.” – link Podcast: Advice for the Aging: Learn Something ‘Different and Hard’ – When journalist Gerald Marzorati faced retirement, he…
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Weekly Links #1: Docker 101, Python atexit(), Link Shortener, Drink More Water, Modern Love and Marriage
Some of the material from the web I loved reading on the web and used for my work at Splunk. Apps: Water Drink Reminder: Android and Android Wear app to help remind me to drink 72 oz of water for my weight. Love: NYTimes: Why You Will Marry The Wrong Person – an interesting take on…