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Giving It All Up
How to determine what’s important, and what you should drop
Throughout high school, I’ve racked up many achievements and leadership positions related to school. Every year, though—I’ve decided to give it all up to focus.
Sophomore Year: Sophomore Representative to School Council (and the year before as well) — could have done junior year, decided to quit
Junior Year: Debate [...]
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All Of A Sudden, We Are Connected
As I step on the subway, I take note of society around me. I love the subway. It’s one of the best places to explore one’s curiosities about society and the world. However, today I notice one thing.
Everyone is connected.
Through mobile.
Let’s take a step back. Let’s look at mobile from the big picture standpoint. [...]
A Little Case in Statistical Bias
Although I’ve expressed approval for the new Facebook redesign, it’s obvious that many, many people hate it. If you’ve been on the new Facebook for more than a few milliseconds, you would have figured this out.
Let’s analyse this disapproval. Firstly, every single Facebook redesign or new feature, since it went mainstream, has been criticised by [...]
11 Things I Learned From Speaking and Networking at Gnomedex
Gnomedex was an amazing experience and the best technology conference that I’ve been to (which is admittedly not many.) Excellent sessions, excellent setup, excellent people. These are mostly lessons learned from mistakes, a couple of what I did right, but mostly mistakes.
Speaking
Gnomedex was my first speaking gig ever. Presenting in front of 280 Gnomedex attendees [...]
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Building a group micro-update webapp in 18 hours
News.YC readers: After receiving feedback on my original post, I decided to delete that posting and to rewrite it, with some more insight into less of what I did and rather why.
After being somewhat burned out of my Avecora OnDemand project (because my CSS and Javascript were throwing fits in Internet Explorer) (yes, this is [...]
Mac OS X: Fix High CPU Usage by syslogd
Recently, I’ve been experiencing a high CPU usage by the process syslogd in Mac OS X 10.5.2 Leopard, coupled with strange Console.app behavior. If you’re experiencing this as well, give this a shot and see if it works (at your own risk.)
FIrst, you should check if this is a problem on your system, which is [...]
Coding on the Facebook Platform.
It is Saturday, May 26th. I am at home, headbanging to music, and catching NeighborFi (rare.) I’m just finding the Facebook Applications update. I look through the directory. In all nine pages at the time, I didn’t notice a del.icio.us or Flickr app. I decided that for that day I will work on developing a [...]
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China’s Detrimental Obsession with Cutting Costs