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tcc619

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About tcc619

Engineering at Qwiki.com

Interested in startups and technology. My skill is in ruby/scala backend developing but i also can handle javascript/css/java(android)/objective-c(ios).

Twitter @tommychheng Blog http://tommy.chheng.com

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    Comment #6655332

    Our team(Qwiki) at Yahoo is looking for engineers interested in working with news, video and consumer content. We work in Nodejs, Java, iOS, Android. Reach out via tchheng@yahoo-in…

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    Comment #5586318

    thanks for the support! It's currently number 7 on Amazon's best seller in "computers & technology", right below the bio of steve jobs and steven levy's google book. http://www.ama…

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    Comment #5575036

    I should have mentioned this up front on the sales page. Buyers can be issued a full refund if they don't find it helpful at all. I just added a note right below the "Buy" button.

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    Comment #5575024

    Thanks, i should have included paypal as an option from the beginning. I just added a link to it.

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    Comment #5572893

    thanks for the feedback. Are you saying the preview isn't long enough or that the viewing format is poor on slideshare?

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    Comment #5217040

    I have been using it on a few small projects. Haven't ran into an issue yet and the setup has been really easy.

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    Comment #4774328

    Do you have terminal access with your google version of chromebook? Would be great to see a developer edition of chromebook with a native terminal app.

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    Comment #4698238

    I thought Travis from Uber had a great talk because he showed the operations of his business. Zuck mentioned that companies can 80/20 somethings but have to be the best at some thi…

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    Comment #4485878

    scala offers a syntax of programming similar to ruby especially in terms of collection operations. i found this to be a big win over java. scala: List(54,2,46).filter(x => x == 2) …

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    Comment #4451853

    This feature along with the single window view makes GIMP very usable on the mac.

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    Comment #4428642

    how's the battery life on ubuntu with your x1?

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    Comment #2832753

    Qwiki is looking for backend, android and devops engineers in SF. We are currently using Ruby/Scala for most of the server side code. We are developing a platform to allow people t…

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    Comment #2607740

    Qwiki is hiring full time engineers in SF: http://www.qwiki.com/work-here Web(Ruby on Rails/jQuery/Backbone.js) Backend(Scala/Hadoop) DevOps Android Contact me direct t at qwiki.co…

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    Comment #2098771

    I think the problem is that if a startup hires a poor performing engineer, they get a negative output because other engineers will have to constantly fix/tune the offending code. S…

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    Comment #1992499

    Is there an easy way to access a terminal shell in chrome os?

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    Comment #1894336

    Rserve is an tcp/ip interface to R so you can send R code from any other language. I have used the rserve-ruby interface to some success.

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    Comment #1894307

    using rseek.org will help for search on R-related pages.

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    Comment #1824015

    I thought of the application as a way for freelancers to get paid for relatively short tasks in between jobs while helping the open source community. The site isn't geared just for…

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    Comment #1823748

    http://nextsprocket.com Pay and get paid to complete open source tasks, bugs, etc. We are having trouble figuring out why the idea is not catching on. Is it fundamentally the idea …

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    Comment #1676147

    "file systems are much better at handling files" What about batch processing a large number of small files? say 10 million image files of 500KB. A typical file system will need to …

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    Comment #1585678

    "I’ve yet to take a mathematical class that discusses algorithms and as far as I know I will not even be required to take one." This quote sums up the situation for the author. Why…

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    Comment #1281247

    does anyone have a list of great android developer websites?

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    Comment #1274376

    has anyone used both R and matlab/octave? i've used matlab but not R. For machine learning, I found matlab great because of its great matrix support. what's the pros/cons of R? wha…