qrazhan

Joined 12 years ago

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Android Engineer @ Square
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Comment · 4 years ago
There are a _ton_ of successful f2p games with reasonable monetization models - Valorant, CSGO, Warzone, Dota, Path of Exile, Lost Ark, Hearthstone, etc. It's just that games in general are a power law industry - I don't think monetization model is really what will prevent a game from being successful. In fact, much of the discourse around Immortal is that the gameplay itself is in fact top notch. Blizzard has the dedicated fanbase to make a healthy profit and more with a reasonable cash shop - they don't _need_ to resort to these extremely cash-grabby mechanics.
Comment · 6 years ago
A friend of mine was just hired as an IC2 at Oracle at 175k. He is on cloud stuff in Seattle, but by no means a senior or principal engineer -- only 1 year of experience.
Comment · 7 years ago
Square and PayPal both have similar offerings, which piece here do you feel is innovative?

(disclosure: I work at Square, but not on Capital.)

Comment · 8 years ago
Are there any harmful effects the increased surface gravity would have on the human body and if we were to live on these Super-Earths how would we mitigate them?
Comment · 8 years ago
At least within SF, UberEats has become extremely fast in the last few months. I've had food come in as little as 15 minutes, and 20-25min seems average. Compared to other services that consistently take 45min+, this is amazing.
Comment · 12 years ago
Hey guys, I wrote a guide to help freshmen and sophomores in CS to get an internship. I'd really love any feedback you guys have.
Comment · 12 years ago
Dropbox actually held a recruiting event at Berkeley the other day where one of their engineers gave a talk on writing Hearthstone bots using Sikuli.
Comment · 12 years ago
Well, I should clarify, this is the first app I've released on the Play store. I've made a few small apps before, but they were just class projects. (I'm also an Android intern at Lockitron)

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