Saturday, March 23, 2013

Review: Wool

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I picked up Wool because I'd read about the success of the author, Hugh Howey, in going completely independent, first selling the book ...
Thursday, March 21, 2013

PSA: Do take the undergraduate compilers class

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We just closed our hiring cycle for summer interns at Quark. During this period, we vetted tons of transcripts and resumes from top tier uni...
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Review: The Signal and The Noise

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I've been a big fan of 538 and Nate Silver since the 2008 elections. The Signal and the Noise is his book about predictions, the state...
Sunday, March 17, 2013

Review: Teach Your Children Well

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After reviewing a  book about the under-privileged kids amongst us, I had to go read a book about the very other end of the spectrum --- th...
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Saturday, March 16, 2013

Wharton Business School Presentation

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How to hire and keep engineers happy public from Piaw Na I was the lunch speaker today at the Wharton Business School in San Francis...
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Friday, March 08, 2013

Review: How Children Succeed

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In this age of hyper-parenting, queuing up and applying to pre-schools, one would expect How Children Succeed to be a book full of stories ...
Thursday, February 21, 2013

Internships

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The conventional wisdom on interns is that you cannot expect to get significant work done by interns: they take time to train, and by the ti...
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Saturday, February 16, 2013

Long Term Review: Republic Wireless

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In my earlier review of Republic Wireless , I mentioned that I would likely give up the phone and return it and switch to Ting instead. Wel...
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Review: The Amazing Spiderman 2012

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I missed the reboot of the Spiderman movies last year, so caught it on my Nexus 7 instead recently. The Tobey Maguire Spiderman movies were...
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Monday, February 11, 2013

Review: Suzanne Vega @ Villa Montalvo

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I'm a bigger fan of concert venues than I am of individual performance artists. My list of great venues in the Bay Area include: The  ...
Sunday, February 10, 2013

First Impressions: Ting Galaxy Note 2

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I bought my wife a Galaxy Note 2 from Ting.com for Christmas. The selling point of buying from Ting as opposed to say, AT&T, Verizon, ...
Friday, February 08, 2013

Review: The Best American Science & Nature Writing

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Amazon had The Best American Science & Nature Writing 2012 on sale for $1.99, and when I saw Dan Ariely's name on it, I figured it ...

Startup Engineering Management visits Wharton School of Business in San Francisco

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Did you know that Wharton School of Business had a San Francisco Branch ? I didn't, until James Kilpatrick, affiliated with their entrep...
Sunday, February 03, 2013

Publishing Milestone: Piracy!

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Last week, a friend of mine noticed that one of my books was pirated on ScribD . In some ways this is a milestone --- I didn't expect a ...
Sunday, January 20, 2013

The "Science" in Computer Science

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When I was an undergraduate , it was very common for many of us to view the "science" in Computer Science as an oxymoron. The proo...
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Friday, January 11, 2013

Review: Odd and the Frost Giants

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I somehow missed Odd and the Frost Giants when it came out. I usually check books out from the library, but since this book was $1.99 on th...
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Sunday, January 06, 2013

My New Job

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When I announced my retirement almost 3 years ago, I got three reactions: "I can't imagine staying home to feed the cats and wat...
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Wednesday, January 02, 2013

Long Term Review: Resmed Swift FX Nasal Pillow System

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I just replaced the nasal pillow on my Resmed Swift FX Nasal Pillow system due to wear, so I'm guessing that it's time for a long...
Tuesday, January 01, 2013

Review: The Perfect Woman

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Happy New Year! And what better way to start the year on this blog with a book review. The Perfect Woman sounds like a self-help book or ...
Monday, December 31, 2012

Review: Ted the Movie

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Two guys are lifelong friends and roommates, but then one of them gets a girlfriend and the other is forced to move out. This sounds like a ...
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