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Here's Why You'll Fail to have a Great Career
Feeling unmotivated? I got the cure for you… More Excuses!!! :)
I randomly came across this TEDx talk while browsing Netflix late at night. And it felt like some brutally-honest tough-love feedback that talks to both each of us, and everyone of us at the same time.
Please excuse me if I start acting more like a glasshole… I’m just trying to focus on my passion !-) (Do you like my new glasshole emoticon?)
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Count-Min Sketches, and Other Digressions!
I have so far been posting almost exclusively about my personal side projects or inspiring talks from Elon Musk. Even though my day job and my nights + weekends projects happen to fall in the same skill domain. So, I thought I would take a break from posting about my iOS projects, and post a little something about the stuff I come across in my professional life.
I am not going to be talking about any actual projects that we’re working on at Shutterfly, as I’m sure that would mean violating some clause or the other in my NDA. Instead, I will talk about general themes around Scaling, Performance, Availability, Analytics, and Security that are common to any web application.
To start things off, I just want to introduce whoever is interested in data analytics to Bloom Filters, Count-Min Sketches, and Spark!
That was my TLDR for this post ;)
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Hexagons
Wrapping my mind around hexagons… They are a PITA to work with.
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Project Styro
My new nights-n-weekends project. Just now settled on the game mechanics. Time to start coding! Android? iOS? Both?
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We Need to Talk About Glass. (a.k.a Glass UX WTFs)
ME: It’s been over two months of on-and-off Glass usage, and it’s time for me to bring out the (wannabe) UX Designer in me and constructively criticize the Glass UI.
YOU: But, the title of your post makes me question its constructiveness.
ME: But, that was just to keep things provocative. Okay! The best way to criticize someone/something is to do it with a Compliment Sandwich where you pack your critique between compliments. I’m gonna take it tex mex and try to do a burrito, where it starts with a good bite, and slowly gets to the messy bottom where the whole thing unravels unto itself.
I love the voice UX on the Home Screen. I have already sung my praises about it in my last post, but let me reiterate: "Ok, Glass" + Google’s NLP = Great Success!
YOU: Can I try it?
ME: Wait there just a sec! Let me explain how this UX flow works… Just so you don’t get stuck while trying it.
YOU: Okay.
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