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Re: Lv2 kara Cheat datta Motoyuusha Kouho no Mattari Isekai Life Episode 1 English Subbed at gogoanime

Fadzlan — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 18:07:24 -0000

That is one hell of a solo levelling!

Re: Watashi no Shiawase na Kekkon: Watashi no Shiawase na Katachi Episode 1 English Subbed at gogoanime

Fadzlan — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 14:09:57 -0000

So... when is the wedding?

Re: Himesama "Goumon" no Jikan desu Episode 9 English Subbed at gogoanime

Fadzlan — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 00:42:36 -0000

So cute.... I like it.

Re: SPI 249: Pivoting: How, When, & Why to Do It with Jenny Blake

Fadzlan — Sat, 11 Feb 2017 04:29:48 -0000

Trying to buy the book in Audible, but it's not selling the title here in Malaysia.

Is there any other way to get the Audiobook?

Re: The Best USB 3.0 Hubs | The Wirecutter

Fadzlan — Tue, 23 Aug 2016 02:13:39 -0000

I suppose that depends on the connection. Certain power hungry devices like certain hard disk, doesn't work when used with USB hub that has other devices without power sources in.

The USB port in the computer only emits certain amount of power, and I have older laptops that needs special connector that uses two USB ports to use certain hard disk. When you have a hub with a lot of devices, it might not have enough juice to power them all.

Now, if you have one USB thumbdrive in the hub but that doesn't work without a power adapter, that would be a problem.

Re: Is There Any Room For The Not-Passionate Developer ?

Fadzlan — Tue, 02 Aug 2016 05:01:28 -0000

One problem being a passionate programmer is the time when you have to do shitty works. Some shitty works gotta be done (terrible legacy codes that keeps your business running), and some just the side effect of being employed where you are.

Once you have kids or other constraints in life, the choice to move around is going to get harder. When I was young, I can just simply move from city to city in order to get the "right" job. Nowadays, doing that may mean selling the house you are living and buying new one, move your kids to different school and have your spouse look for a different job.

It is as though I feel the only way for me to do meaningful work is to start my own.

Re: The Dark Side of Entrepreneurship That Nobody Talks About

Fadzlan — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 07:59:47 -0000

For all that is worth, she is not stating that as a fact. She's merely quoting Mark Woeppel from the article in inc.com.

It is still just a anecdotal, but still even if you take the Harvard study, the portion of the men who don't get divorced and have a supporting partner, I would say that comment may help those men to reflect on their life.

Re: When a Self-Declared Genius Asks You to Read His Masterpiece

Fadzlan — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 01:34:28 -0000

If reading is not his job, then I don't see why its nepotism and the like.

If he's an agent or someone related to the publishing world sure.

I'm also not sure whats wrong about association. I'm a computer programmer and I can easily relate to other computer programmers, especially those who likes what I like. If somebody I know ask me to check out their work, I'll checkout and tell them what I think. Whats wrong with that?

Re: Why do Engineers Think They’ll Be Good at Picking Stocks?

Fadzlan — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 23:10:31 -0000

I think the point that Scott is trying to make is about gaming the system per se.

There would be some difference I think between approaching to invest into one particular company, spending some time knowing the founders and the company, versus investing in a particular stock exchange, treating the exchange as algorithmic problem. One is seeing a company as individual company and the other is seeing a lot of companies as a system. I think the point that he is trying to make is that there is a tendency to see things at system level for an engineer.

That, and the fact that companies that don't go public are not really liquid, warrants a more thoughtful approach. And since private companies are generally not that accessible in the market means that any market correction is going to happen later than sooner.

Re: [86] Masterminds, Content Production, and Getting Things Done

Fadzlan — Sat, 31 Oct 2015 00:35:50 -0000

You mentioned an episode where Jason Calacanis talk to a class, where he described his evening when he finally sold Weblogs. He kept refreshing his bank account until he saw the money comes in and he literally cried.

Re: [86] Masterminds, Content Production, and Getting Things Done

Fadzlan — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 22:24:48 -0000

Do you know which This Week in Startups episode that you mentioned? Or at least, what year that you heard that?

Their back library is quite a look and that particular episode sounds intriguing.

Re: Michael Jackson and Ryan Florence explain that React.js really changes how we think about building web and mobile apps

Fadzlan — Sun, 25 Oct 2015 11:28:30 -0000

Hi, if you guys plan to still continue with the podcast in the future, I am still listening here. :-)

Re: OMG… Does Selangor have its own 1MDB scandal?!

Fadzlan — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 12:27:42 -0000

This is a very good written article, with flare some more.

Kudos!

Re: Your Free Plan is killing your SaaS

Fadzlan — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 00:44:10 -0000

Just to clarify, what I am suggesting is on mass market products.

For businesses, I think we should charge from day one, as the fundamental value of the product we provide should be offsetting part of their cost with something better (price/efficiency/etc). If it can somehow be communicated to the businesses that the service make sense to the business, accepting free customer may be the best thing to do.

Re: Your Free Plan is killing your SaaS

Fadzlan — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 00:39:52 -0000

As a paying Evernote customer, I have to disagree.

I started using the freemium version, and then switched to premium. I have been subscribing for a few years already, loyally paying every year, until there was some problem with my credit card and the payment relaps, after which I started paying again, this time with the latest more expensive rate (or more accurately, less features for the same dollars).

Evernote, as a company, can make objective decision for these. Right now Evernote is morphing into a platform, of which many services integrates to. Those free users in this case, can be considered as a cost of customer acquisition. How much free users can Evernote support? Well, as much as it willing to accept as a budget for customer acquisition. How much budget customer acquisition should be? Well, they can base it to the customer lifetime value times the conversion rate.

Given that they are still operating under freemium now, there is a chance that the customer lifetime value times the conversion rate greatly exceeds the cost of operating the business. Of course, this is pure speculation, but its a possible case. In case both values are low, then there is not much reason to offer free services anymore.

From what I heard, Box has a very expensive customer acquisition cost, but they are willing to pay it because they are expecting a very high customer lifetime value. In my opinion, freemium can be seen in the same light objectively too.

Re: Why 1MDB-Tabung Haji deal classified under OSA, asks former A-G

Fadzlan — Sat, 09 May 2015 09:10:44 -0000

That is incorrect. This is the matter of a managed fund deal. If I were to invest in ASB, any investment that ASB made to grow my money should not be an official secret. Any investor reserves the right to request on how their money is being managed.

Plus, with a land deal, the ownership has to be clear. You can't have a piece of land that is owned by one party today and tomorrow is owned by 'uh, I dunno'. How do you make a land ownership a secret?

Re: One Week With…. A BlackBerry Classic: A Surprising Conclusion

Fadzlan — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 05:42:03 -0000

Then there is the thing about email. Coming from an iPhone world, I suspect the email experience to be better in Blackberry. Setting up an exchange account is seamless in iPhone, so its either better in blackberry or at least on par right? Wrong.

Compared to Android and iPhone, setting up an Exchange account is anything but simple in Blackberry. And worse, once you set it up, you only have access to Inbox only. Seriously?? At least that was when the time when I tested last time.

Having a lot of emails from work and personal life (I was away for a week, and greeted with 2000+ emails when come back to work), its common to set up rules that categorize emails in folders or labels, whether you use Gmail or Exchange or something else. Having only Inbox is a deal breaker for me at this day and age.

And has the setup for wifi is simpler now? Last time when I setup, it is much more complicated than setting wifi on a Windows desktop. iPhone and Android makes it so simple they nails it. Has the situation improves or is it still as bad as before?

Re: Seven Virtues of a Good Object

Fadzlan — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 21:55:21 -0000

If you are writing a general purpose library, FileReader describes it better. If on the other hand, you are creating classes for your application, I would say configFile or dataFile would describe it better.

Re: Seven Virtues of a Good Object

Fadzlan — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 21:50:38 -0000

1. Agreed. There are some instances where we can break a way from "real" objects. Even the design community has this kind of debate (skeuomorphic vs flat design)
3.There is nothing wrong having 2 identical objects, but there is nothing wrong not having it too. In this case, I tend to gravitate to minimize the number of objects.
4. This can be done and has been done (ie. Google style guides, Erlang) and is certainly possible. In this case, approaching it from functional perspective helps, which in the end leads to the state being outside of the application (eg. files, database) and data is being passed from function to functions. Of course, this also means that the application does not have any states.
6. If you write a library that is general purpose, I would agree FileReader is a better option. If what you have is specific to your application, I would say that DataFile is more descriptive.

Re: This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: One Star Reviews Flood 'Monument Valley' Following Paid Expansion Release

Fadzlan — Sat, 15 Nov 2014 12:09:28 -0000

Well, I have to say, if anything above zero is considered "overprice", that makes me sad.

In that manner, only the big guns can survive, and with that less choices in the mobile gaming scene.

Well, I understand that to you the price of this particular game is worth zero, because its not your cup of tea. Heck you are even against the game direction, which is fine, we all have our own opinions.

But when the majority says anything above zero is overpriced, it's kinda makes me sad for people who choose to stay in that industry.

The devs are not complaining that the sales are low. I am just not sure that they should think that their game worth nothing.

So anyone who creates any value should think that their work is worthless? Maybe it is worthless, but should anyone believe whatever they do is overpriced unless its zero?

We all have our own opinions, but I think its a stretch to say anyone who thinks their work should be more than zero in price to be "entitled".

Re: TAG Heuer says that it’s first smartwatch “must not copy the Apple Watch”

Fadzlan — Tue, 16 Sep 2014 15:27:02 -0000

Oh yeah.

"Fine mechanical watches are like diamonds. The kind of people who make finely crafted mechanical timepieces that can be handed down for generations aren’t going to be threatened by the Apple Watch, which will be obsolete in just a few years."

Compare that with :-

"Finely crafted fountain pens are like diamonds. The kind of people who make finely crafted fountain pens that can be handed down for generations aren't going to be threatened by the new ballpoints, which can only last for few weeks."

Yeah right.

Re: Chocolatey Software | Pip(Python) Installs Packages 1.2.0

Fadzlan — Sat, 19 Jul 2014 04:03:20 -0000

Only happened with python2

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[ERROR] The term 'easy_install' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path

was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

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At C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\chocolateyinstall\helpers\functions\Write-ChocolateyFailure.ps1:30 char:14

+ Write-Error <<<< $errorMessage

+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Write-Error], WriteErrorException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.WriteErrorException,Write-Error

Write-Error : Package 'pip v1.2.0' did not install successfully: The term 'easy_install' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operab

le program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

At C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\chocolateyinstall\functions\Chocolatey-NuGet.ps1:90 char:28

+ Write-Error <<<< "Package `'$installedPackageName v$installedPackageVersion`' did not install successfully: $($_.Exception.Message)"

+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Write-Error], WriteErrorException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.WriteErrorException,Write-Error

Re: I Coded the Angular Tutorial App in Backbone and it Took 260% More Code

Fadzlan — Thu, 17 Apr 2014 05:32:12 -0000

I think he presented more than that. He starts with the promise of shorter code in Angular and verifying in Backbone, but in the meantime he describes the steps and what he learned in detail.

Also, he fallback to Backbone on his conclusion. So he did not take a look at only line number.

Still I agree with you. While generally shorter line number is better, it should not be the only reason for choosing a framework/language.

Re: Whatsapp and $19bn — Benedict Evans

Fadzlan — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 23:55:05 -0000

Pay once during installation is only for the early adopters. They changed their pricing model midway and they keep their previous customer grandfathered.

All new users now are $1 per year.

Re: How Angular Lets Us Iterate Like Crazy

Fadzlan — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 10:23:50 -0000

I think what the gist of the post is that the iteration is made possible by the paradigm that AngularJS is pushing. Of course I think it will be possible with <insert javascript="" framework="" here=""> as long as you keep the same paradigm.

They are excited to find something that truly match their way of working I suppose, and I think thats great.