scottyallen

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by scottyallen 6y ago
Create high quality content that other people will appreciate, and put it out in the world for free.
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by scottyallen 7y ago
Sorry, I wasn’t clear enough here. Objectivity in storytelling/journalism is a lie. Stories are ALWAYS biased by what the storyteller chooses to show. It impossible to show everything. So what you choose to show is the bias. Here’s a
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by scottyallen 7y ago
Objectivity is a lie. I want to do a video about this at some point, but in learning to make videos, I’ve learned there’s no way to tell an unbiased story. That being said, I’ll be the first to admit my videos are biased. There’s tons of Ch
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by scottyallen 7y ago
I’m here in Shenzhen now, after being in the US all summer. Not really feeling any anti-western feelings so far, though I was worried about that given everything that’s going on with the trade war and Hong Kong. I’ve also only been in Shenz
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by scottyallen 9y ago
Scotty, the guy in the video here. Sorry I'm late to the party. It was 165 rmb, so about $25.
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by scottyallen 9y ago
Yes, absolutely! More videos are on the way.
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by scottyallen 9y ago
> With one caveat, those folks selling parts definitely treats me with a lot less friendliness than they do with foreign buyers, especially when you're buying just one. Yeah, that really sucks. There's definitely a lot of pret
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by scottyallen 9y ago
Scotty here, the dude that made the video. I'm not sure I can answer the first set of questions about why phones are fragile. I think it probably has something to do with consumer expectations/tastes around look and size of phon
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by scottyallen 9y ago
I think one of the huge differences in east vs west electronics/maker/hacker communities is the approach of DIY vs using production services. In the US, as a hobbyist with a limited budget, if you want to have a PCB made, you eit
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by scottyallen 9y ago
That really means a lot, especially coming from you. I tried really, really hard to accurately portray Shenzhen and the markets, and it's nice to hear from a local maker that I've at least partly succeeded. Thank you:)
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by scottyallen 9y ago
Hi, Scotty here - the guy that made the video. bspn pretty much nails it. I don't really know for certain, but I think a lot of the parts are used/refurbished from original iPhones, with a couple parts that are really good copie
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by scottyallen 11y ago
My 92 year old grandfather is still a full time practicing doctor. My father and my aunts have talked to him about retiring for a while now. Being a doctor is who he is - if he gives that up, I'm afraid of what will happen.
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by scottyallen 11y ago
Nope - I actually quite like it in this instance. I don't tend to like it in the general case though, as it's usually done poorly.
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by scottyallen 11y ago
I agree - the autoplaying videos weaved into the text was really beautiful.
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by scottyallen 11y ago
So, I didn't read the full article yet. However, the bit about Southwest really surprised me. Apparently, it's not acceptable to be an introvert if you work there. If you're not 100% about talking and interacting with ever
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The User Is My Mom(theuserismymom.com)
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by scottyallen 12y ago
Public visibility of a Google product and the size of the team working on it often aren't correlated. It wouldn't surprise me if News is a very small team that's spending most of their time doing maintenance.
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by scottyallen 12y ago
Clearly someone at Google does:) In fact, I almost guarantee this change had multiple people involved, and probably at least several internal discussions. Source: Used to work on the team responsible for the webserver that serves the Google
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by scottyallen 13y ago
Agreed. Dress nicely, but don't overdo it. If you're interviewing for Google or another company where jeans and t-shirt are standard attire for the interviewer, being way over dressed in a formal suit can work to your disadvantag
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by scottyallen 13y ago
This appears to work in iTerm2 as well. Neat!
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by scottyallen 13y ago
Teleport me through time and space. On a more serious note, I think you're probably trying to do customer development, and trying to modify the question people tell you to ask "If you had a magic wand, what would you improve to so
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by scottyallen 13y ago
Steelcase Think. About $300 used on craigslist. Worth every penny.
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by scottyallen 13y ago
I don't think this is intended as negativity, even if it comes across that way from the outside. I'm the founder of a company that meets the criteria you've outlined: we're bootstrapped, profitable, and I pay myself en
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by scottyallen 13y ago
I definitely would concur, and would add that we're using it as a queuing/messaging bus, and we like it way better than the *MQ options out there. Far more comfortable to work with, way easier to administrate, and plenty performa
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by scottyallen 13y ago
Based on the title, I assumed this was referring to Google's ACTUAL goat rodeo: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/mowing-with-goats.htm...
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by scottyallen 14y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER We're looking for a software engineer that loves big data and distributed systems - you know who you are! AppMonsta collects massive amounts of data about mobile apps and turns it into actionable metrics for a wide variet
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by scottyallen 14y ago
Seeking a data-loving sales person to lead the charge (REMOTE from somewhere in the bay area) AppMonsta sells data and insights to help businesses better understand the mobile app markets. Our customers love us, we're bootstrapped and prof
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by scottyallen 14y ago
9 hours is my sweet spot. Anything less than that, and I don't think as well. Below 8 and I'm generally a bit of a zombie, and operating at 50% speed. Above 10 and I tend to get groggy and depressed.
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by scottyallen 14y ago
I think you can turn off that that unread number somewhere in the options. It still shows up in bold if there are unread emails, but it's a partial solution at least.
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by scottyallen 14y ago
I do this too:) I've aliased this to the keyword "sendmail" in chrome by adding it as a search engine in preferences, so I can just type "sendmail" or "sendmail email@example.com" in the url bar. However, an even higher win for me is alias

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