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Work Hard and Advertise

July 3, 2019 by admin

I recently watched the following speech by Arnold Schwarzenegger: It had a lot of good points, but one quote by Ted Turner really stood out for me: Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise Mr. Schwarzenegger then went on to explain the meaning of the second half of this quote. It’s […]

Filed Under: Random Thoughts

YouTube should Stream Audio for Free

August 21, 2018 by admin

I should be able to lock my phone while using YouTube and still hear the sound in the background. Currently this functionally is only available to YouTube Premium subscribers for $12 a month. This is a bad business practice for YouTube and a bad thing for the world. Bad for Youtube Why is it bad […]

Filed Under: Business, Random Thoughts, Tools

Good Engineers Care

June 20, 2018 by admin

My company hired a new VP of Engineering. He asked me an interesting question during our one-on-one: “What makes you a good engineer?”. I had to think about it for a second and I realized that it wasn’t technology or knowledge of certain principles. Obviously there are certain skills that one needs to have to […]

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Facebook Needs to Remove Political Content

February 5, 2018 by admin

Few weeks ago I decided to take it easy on my Social Media use. Top 3 social media sites that I visited were Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit. I miss Reddit the least. I still visit Twitter for direct mentions, but I don’t miss my general feed all that much. I really miss Facebook. Facebook is […]

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Writing Bad Code is Depressing

December 19, 2017 by admin

Recently I was working on a fun idea, that was going to take me longer than one week to complete. Towards the second week I found myself dreading going back to work on my “fun” project. I wasn’t sure why… Was I no longer excited about the idea? Was I just too tired? Was I […]

Filed Under: Random Thoughts, Software Engineering

Bitcoin Energy Waste in 2017 is Estimated to Equal 1.5 Million Cars

December 6, 2017 by admin

Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index is an attempt to estimates total energy cost of mining Bitcoin. Their methodology is based on the fact that energy needed to mine Bitcoin will increase in response to oversupply of mining resources. To quote the Bitcoin Wikipedia article: Every 2,016 blocks (approximately 14 days at roughly 10 min per block), […]

Filed Under: Business, Random Thoughts Tagged With: Bitcoin, Bitcoin Energy Waste

Latest news headlines in pure HTML, for Irma evacuees

September 10, 2017 by admin

I created a light weight RSS reader for people on poor internet connection to get latest headlines: https://techtldr.com/textnews/ I am kind of away form keyboard, but saw that Tweet from @samccone pointing out that http://lite.cnn.com/ was making users download a lot of JavaScript, … and now it seems down. https://twitter.com/samccone/status/906714941360553986. I wanted to provide a […]

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Firefox Marketing Declares a War on Chrome

July 3, 2017 by admin

It appears that Firefox has gone all-in with a new marketing campaign aiming at presenting Google Chrome as a big brother/browser that is watching your every step. They kicked it off with the following billboard posted somewhere in San Francisco. Firefox also appears to be a running ads on various sites targeting similar message. A […]

Filed Under: Privacy, Random Thoughts

Please Make Google AMP Optional

June 10, 2017 by admin

I was reading some articles on Hacker News about how we’ve lost the internet to big companies and how we are not doing anything about it and it got me thinking about Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) again. My story with AMP started in early 2016 when I enabled it on this site. It kind […]

Filed Under: AMP, Random Thoughts, SEO

Why Uber May Win After All

February 23, 2017 by admin

Introduction Three days ago I wrote about my interview at Uber. I did not think of Uber as a great place to work. People that I’ve met seemed young, smart and overworked to the point of exhaustion. From my conversation with recruiter I took away that Uber had no problem being the lowest bidder and […]

Filed Under: Business, Random Thoughts

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