Author: Tony Tam
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What is the best advice you have ever received? (from Quora)
This is from Quora Find something that fully engages your mind. And your heart. For that is the way to happiness. Push harder. Do better. Never give into complacency. Be wide-ranging in your interests, and decisive in your judgments. Give every opportunity the benefit of the doubt. Always go the distance. And don’t buy uncomfortable…
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iPhone version of How To Tip app
A quick follow up to the simple tipping app for Andoroid This is the iOS version of the How To Tip app
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Trello to track life goals
I use Trello to keep track of my long term life goals. I setup ‘organizations’ for ‘health goals’, ‘work goals’, ‘money goals’, ‘family goals’. Then setup boards for each goal. I still use Remember The Milk for single task todo. Using Trello allows for multiple taks for each goal. I also look over all the…
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Yahoo Open House on Node.js, Olympics, Personalization
’Tis the season to talk tech, have some drinks, and hang out at Yahoo! This Thursday we’re hosting our Pre-Holiday Engineering Open House and Good Time. If you made it to our first open house, then you know not to miss this one! We will be talking tech, serving cocktails + mulled wine + snacks, and…
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Yahoo Homepage and Verticals Open House
Ever wonder how often we release the Yahoo Homepage? Or how big a speed boost Yahoo Sports gets by doing Edge-side Assembly? Curious to hear the tricks we use to keep CSS bloat free and forward-compatible with things we haven’t even dreamed up yet? You’re in luck! Our engineering teams are hosting a casual evening…
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1-liner setup for your development environment
ydev setup <anything> I did an informal poll at Yahoo, and also with candidates who interview with Yahoo. When they join a new team, how long did it take to setup their dev environment. It ranges from 30 minutes to a day, and even several days. I asked them what if I pour water on…
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First Android App: How To Tip Calculator
How To Tip Calculator – Android Apps on Google Play. Calculate how much tips to pay. 10%, 15% or 20% Also includes a guideline on tipping in restaurants, bartender, barista, delivery person, hairstylist, cab driver, chauffeur, hotel housekeeper
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Link: How To Use Email To Alienate Your Users
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2013/02/11/how-email-alienate-users/
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28 Brilliant Tips for Living Life
Tips for living http://zenhabits.net/28/ My favorite is the one about expecting less and the one about telling the one you love that you want to spend the rest of your life with him/her.
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Picking Samsung Galaxy S3 over iPhone 5
In trying to pick iPhone 5 or Samsung Galaxy S3 to replace my Blackberry. I was torn and have switched back and forth for the last 4 days. I finally found an old document written on November 1, 2011 7:52 AM in Evernote. I wrote this document when I had the Blackberry and why I actually…