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Family Portrait From 1975 in Hunan, China

May 26, 2015

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I grew up in communist China from 1970 to 1979 before coming to the United States. This photo is a rare photo of our family together. This is the time when China just opened their immigration policy to allow people to leave China. My mom was a pediatrician, my dad was an architect. I have…

Visit With Passionate People

May 16, 2015

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Tony Tam

in inspiration

I was visiting this jewelry store in Rome by a very famous jewelry maker Diego Percossi Papi (exibition). The shop is tiny and I was a bit intimidated since the jewelry were all well over $1,000. I looked into the shop for a good 5 minutes until the owner/designer buzzed me in and told me…

Link: Google’s Mobile-Friendly Test

Apr 16, 2015

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Tony Tam

in engineer

April 21st, Google will rank sites higher if they are mobile friendly. Check out your site’s mobile readiness with Google’s tool https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/

link: Consensus-Driven Development | NCZOnline

Apr 14, 2015

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Tony Tam

in engineer

Nicholas Zakas take on consensus building. http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2015/04/14/consensus-driven-development/

Listening to: Public Shaming in the Age of Social Media

Apr 12, 2015

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Tony Tam

in inspiration

In 2013, public relations executive Justine Sacco tweeted an offensive AIDS joke before boarding a flight to South Africa. By the time she landed, she had been denounced around the world, and lost her job soon after. Did Sacco deserve her public humiliation? Or was she yet another victim of social media shaming and a…

Link: Inventing Favicon.ico | Take the First

Mar 31, 2015

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Tony Tam

in inspiration

Shout out to Micharl Radwin of Yahoo. https://ruthlessray.wordpress.com/2013/09/02/inventing-favicon-ico/

Android Development: Troubleshooting Nested Fragment

Mar 20, 2015

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Tony Tam

in engineer

I am working on an Android app which takes the menu data from Locu.com API display the dinner, drink, dessert menu and allows a customer to add items they are interested in into a ‘cart’ for the wait staff to look at and discuss the item the customers are interested in. I’m using the project…