January 2011
2 posts
Calling time out
With the sport season here and everyone cheering for playoffs for basketball and football, you’ll always see teams calling time out during the heated game.
Just playing basketball today after being a long time, I sense that I can’t shoot the ball at all and subconsciously I somehow don’t shoot the ball when I’m wide open.
During these game moments there isn’t really...
What every programmer should know about memory
I didn’t graduate with a CS degree, but I’ve spent countless hours reading books, watching lectuers and actually even doing stanford OS class hw in my spare time to learn much more about algorithms, OS, network, and just how computer really works.
And I really love how much information is really freely available on the internet.
Recently a DigiPen masters alumni recommended us to...
August 2010
1 post
recently
Feels like a while I haven’t write anything on my blog, so just want to throw out what’s been going on.
Recently working in evri.com, and we have some interesting road map to really be the information curator of the web.
I just got accepted into DigiPen and I will be studying their master prorgam starting this september.
And I’ve been really wanting to close the gaps...
July 2010
1 post
Startup Perk
I think one of the biggest perk for me working in downtown is the places to eat.
Back in Microsoft days, you’ll pretty much take whatever is in Cafeteria since everything is far away or requires driving.
Now working in Pioneer square, I find that walking to china town isn’t that far away.
Since then, the explorations has begun every week.
The good places I’ve been are like...
June 2010
1 post
Being successful
totally depends on what success means to you.
In this world, success means having a certain title, doing a certain type of job, having a certain amount of money, and better having a certain type of influence.
With that standard in mind, it becomes easy to judge everyone as it’s quite clear at a glance.
However, once you see success in things that actually last and bring greatest...
May 2010
4 posts
blogs, status, etc
I see that most people now have a personal blog that talks about family, friends, babies, etc. And then a professional blog talking about professional / technical articles.
So plus the facebooking, twittering, foursquaring, or whatever, you can basically sit all day at home and do nothing but reading and writing these. (if you want)
I already can’t keep up with twitter or tumblr, so I...
TFS vs Git
The very first transitioning task I have to make after leaving Microsoft, is to understand Git.
After using TFS for couple years, you really get used to the right clicking check-out / check-in in visual studio, and the fun of merging. Plus the crazy wait time of waiting to connect to team explorer.
Now coming to Evri, I thought all source controls are essentially the same, and I shouldn’t...
Spell checker in 21 lines of code
Was looking for spell checking algorithms, and this caught my eye:
http://www.norvig.com/spell-correct.html
I like the simplistic implementation and the through explanations of how it works.
check it out :)
April 2010
1 post
New Job
Today is my first day to start working at Evri, on the content acquisition and processing team. I’ll be working primarily on the crawling and processing for now.
2 years in Microsoft is definitely an interesting experience. It gave me enough time and experience to realize what it is like to be in a corporate world, and the politics and decisions around them.
Coming to Evri is a huge change...
March 2010
1 post
Helvetication
We finally released our helveticaion game that’s available on the app store!
I think we don’t really know if it’s a success or not, since we really didn’t put any expectations around it and we aren’t sure how we should market this.
But in this brief experience I realize that writing and selling apps is actually quite easy and fun, and also rewarding.
The moment you...
December 2009
2 posts
October 2009
3 posts
WatchReally good video about your social site, and how to grow your user base.
September 2009
2 posts
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August 2009
9 posts
thought
With so many things that one person can possibly do to invest in their career (blog, open source, self-learning, etc), no plan and no priority of investing seems an unwise thing to do.
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Progressive image loading with jquery
I’m developing a photography website for one of our clients, and since it’s a photography website there are lots of pictures to show.
The first page is a randomized slideshow that changes everytime you come in, and will keep showing different pictures until you click on somewhere.
However, waiting for every photo to load is a really long process, but preloading them also going to...
“Small companies play poker, Big companies play chess.”
June 2009
12 posts
Robozzle →
Game development is always one of my interests (although I’m still really new to it and have so much to learn), I always like to see when games is not just for fun, but also have productivity gains, knowledge / perspective shift to it.
Robozzle is a side project created by an SDE in microsoft, and it’s a game that you need to “program” a pointer to move and turn and eat...
Personal decision engine →
I remembered my senior project, we developed a decision tree to determine what network problem a user is facing, and eventually grow the decision tree while the user is using it more.
Bing brings another kind of decision (while I don’t know how helpful it is yet), while doing search queries it also guesses what you want and how it can help you.
I just saw this new personal decision engine,...
WatchHere is an interesting way of blending physics and illustrating.
It should be able to be done in iphone.
it might can become some kind of game if it’s well designed!
WatchI think this is going to be an interesting online TV series! TechStar (like Y Combinator) is program to help startup companies jump start by giving funding, food and mentoring. More than 500 companies applied, and they picked out 10 they wanted to work with. They are planning to release a 14 week series, (like reality TV), about how they’re gone through the program, who they are, and what...
Future of Journalism by IDEO →
The future of journalism. It’s really interesting to see how things will evolve, and it seems natural to go in this direction as well.
A different perspective
Talked with a client today, that is currently running a local political campaign.
As we were original asked to help design his visual identity on the web, and also plan his social network interaction.
However, it just happened that our client found another volunteer (let’s give him a name X) to help him. He is a business student, says he started writing vb apps long time ago and do web...
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