Author: Tony Tam
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“24” math game with kids and adults
C., K. and I started playing this game in Paris using a deck of cards and trying o use addition, subtraction, multiplication and division to make 4 cards come to 24. Jack, Queen, King are treated as 10. Here are the official rules http://www.pagat.com/adders/24.html These are some of the samples: (6-4+1) * 8 = 24 (10…
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Simple Crepe Recipe
C’s school uses this recipe for their annual fund raising event. This year I used it to make 100 crepes. The only caveat is that you have to adjust the amount of milk so that the crepe’s consistency is to your liking. BASIC CREPES 1 CUP FLOUR 1 EGG 1 EGG YOLK 1 TABLESPOON OIL 1…
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Actively Maintain Your LinkedIn Profile : Ask For Recommendation Early
Something I started doing last year is to ask for recommendations on my LinkedIn profile while I’m still working at the company. Instead of only doing so when I have already left the company. LinkedIn’s value is the business contacts and also an online resume with real recommendations from people who are also on LinkedIn. …
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Making Annual Reviews Easier
Annual Reviews It’s one of the most important task people in large organizations need to do. But often we don’t spend enough effort and thought compared with the importance of annual reviews to their careers Most People Hate Reviews I’ve been doing my self review for over 12 years now at Yahoo! For the…
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“What Did You Learn?” : asked Carol Bartz
Today my manager at Yahoo! held an all hands for her engineering group in Yahoo! Media and invited our CEO to take some Q/A. It was wonderful to have Carol there to talk about why what we are doing in Yahoo! Media is important to the company. It was inspiring to hear her long term…
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Goodbye to a valued co-worker: Carlos C.
Carlos was first hired in 2007 into the US News team as one of backend engineers to work on http://news.yahoo.com/. He joined when the team was in it’s growing phase (from 2 in 2001, 5 in 2005). He started off working on fixing bugs, adding features to the modules on the web site. Then helped…
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*-public email aliases
How many meetings have you been in, or email exchanges with a selected small number of people. What you discuss and decided doesn’t get surfaced to the right people? How do you know where to send the information to? In general, how do you get the right information to the right people? I’m trying something…
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Yahoo! Taiwan team worked for 5 weeks for a killer product
The team was here and finally finished the first phase of their product. We are all very very impressed. Wait for end of June to hear more!
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Single Tasking In The World Of Multitasking
I have been wanting to be a proficient iPhone programming for 1 year now. I have tried 3 times to start but have stopped for various reasons. My most recent attempt has worked, and here is what I’ve changed Focus, pay attention to only one thing at a time I have created a separate account…