johnhkg

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Software programmer with experience in Javascript and Node.js

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Ask HN: What are the most thought-provoking books that you have read?

40 johnhkg 11 years ago 28 comments

Comment · 11 years ago

How would this compare to Algolia ? Does anyone have experience with elasticsearch and algolia to shed some light on this ?

Ask HN: What do companies do to protect source code?

3 johnhkg 11 years ago 1 comments

Comment · 11 years ago

Netflix seems like a great company to work for. Recommend reading Reed Hasting's presentation on their culture: http://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-1798664

Comment · 11 years ago

I have observed that non-tech people find the App Icons sitting on their home screens to be very convenient to access a service they use, kinda like bookmarks.

Comment · 11 years ago

> My company (at the time) ended up hiring a fulltime person to manage the complexity (ie an Atlassian admin) plus a few consultants to get the workflow stuff down

Offtopic - I have recently been trying to break into full-time consulting / contracting. May I know how you went about hiring the consultants for the migration ?

Comment · 11 years ago

Asking employees settled in a place to move to a different state, and then take a pay cut, seems like a big deal.

Comment · 11 years ago

Workflow is an awesome tool. Great work by the author. Checkout his recent talk on Reverse-engineering iOS Apps: https://realm.io/news/conrad-kramer-reverse-engineering-ios-...