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by johnkchow 8y ago
The hardest part during the transition is to give up doing what you love and excel at (coding) and instead doing something foreign and way more nebulous. But every time you feel that urge to go back to writing code, you need to remind yours
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by johnkchow 8y ago
Just like many things in life, its all about building that habit in the first place. The most important thing is to be fiercely disciplined when it comes to carving out dedicated time for the task. Start off small: maybe 30 minutes a week t
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by johnkchow 8y ago
I’d caution against jumping to conclusions. The author did say that he was emotionally shut down and wasn’t intaking any of the coaching sessions. It’s very possible that the CEO/Coach knew that it wasn’t going to work out, but it’s al
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When Does Having a CS Background Make Sense?(johnkchow.com)
1 points by johnkchow 8y ago|0 comments
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Management, Two Years Later – Values (Pt. 2)(johnkchow.com)
1 points by johnkchow 8y ago|0 comments
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by johnkchow 8y ago
I'm the Engineering Manager for the Reviews team at Reflektive (performance management SAAS), and I have to say that this article rings true with me personally and aligns with our company's mission. The recent trend when it comes
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by johnkchow 8y ago
I'm the Engineering Manager for the Reviews team at Reflektive (performance management SAAS), and I have to say that this article rings true with me personally and aligns with our company's mission. The recent trend when it comes
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Not Leadership Material? Good. The World Needs Followers(mobile.nytimes.com)
6 points by johnkchow 9y ago|0 comments
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by johnkchow 10y ago
It'd be helpful to have more context about your development experience. I've done some iOS development in the past, and as spapas82 mentioned once you understand the core Android concepts it's easy to pick up. The docs are go
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Why I'm Becoming an Engineer Manager at Teespring(medium.com)
1 points by johnkchow 11y ago|0 comments
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by johnkchow 11y ago
I've been in a very similar situation before (one of the first engineer hires in a company that grew to about 15 people when I left). It's great that you're loyal and conscientious (you won't have any problems finding a
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by johnkchow 11y ago
My parents immigrated to America in the 80's from China, and they simply thought that a college degree was the gateway to social mobility. They never thought that the skills learned in college would matter that much. Most parents in my
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by johnkchow 12y ago
This interoperability-focused approach brought the obvious question of adopting an existing open-source rendering engine such as WebKit. While there were some advantages, upon further investigation it was not the right path forward for two
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Four Tiered Application Architecture(nginx.com)
4 points by johnkchow 12y ago|0 comments
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How to Choose Where to Work(blog.wealthfront.com)
1 points by johnkchow 12y ago|0 comments
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by johnkchow 12y ago
If price is a concern, I recommend checking out Indiegogo Life ( https://life.indiegogo.com/ ). It's a pretty stripped down product compared to the rest, but they only charge credit card fees (total of ~3%). [Note: I wor
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by johnkchow 12y ago
Additionally, Kickstarter has the concept of "tipping", which means that contributions get refunded if projects don't reach their fundraising goal. Sites like GFM have no such requirement (which makes sense when you'll t
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by johnkchow 12y ago
I work in a crowdfunding startup where GoFundMe is our #1 competitor. We knew they were dominating the personal causes space, but we didn't know they were doing THIS well. I have much respect for their huge revenue/growth while ta
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by johnkchow 13y ago
Politics is one of the most valuable lessons learned at a big company. Although I work in a small startup, all the management is from big companies. Like any other startup, what's valued the most is getting stuff done. But I learned th
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Why Hobbies Are Important(lifebeyondomegas.com)
2 points by johnkchow 13y ago|0 comments
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by johnkchow 13y ago
Great video OP! Really inspiring stuff. Rooting for you and your game! :D
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by johnkchow 14y ago
I'm digging the exception messages... really informative :D
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by johnkchow 14y ago
There's a fork out there called EventMachine-LE, which is currently in active development for latest features (i.e. IPv6). https://github.com/ibc/EventMachine-LE Anyway, just wanted to throw it out there that I've deployed several product
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Building Wisdom(lifebeyondomegas.com)
1 points by johnkchow 14y ago|0 comments
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by johnkchow 14y ago
The whole native mobile app kind of parallels with Flash on the web back in the day (funny how I could say "back in the day" with Flash). Flash -- from what I understood -- used to give a richer UX that HTML/CSS couldn't. The only problem w
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by johnkchow 14y ago
Ah so true, email verifications and forgotten passwords can become a hassle. Thanks for the insight callahad.
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by johnkchow 14y ago
As a user I definitely appreciate the emphasis of privacy first as well as its clear responsibility for identification. However, from how I see it on the surface, it currently doesn't have the market reach as, say, FB Connect or Google, and
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by johnkchow 14y ago
It's great that Mozilla has made Persona open for everyone to develop with. While I still believe that Firefox has a lot to gain with Persona, I also agree with your vision that this is a good step towards a safer web (only time will tell i
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by johnkchow 14y ago
I'm sure Firefox will release a Firefox plugin that will complement the basic service of identification. Imagine a plugin that lists all the websites you can authenticate with Persona. Or what if you had multiple personas, the firefox plugi
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by johnkchow 14y ago
I was referring to LastPass's Chrome extension specifically, not Persona's UX. Sorry for the confusion.

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