Scott Yang's Playground

Derek at CD Baby talking about delegation. Basically one man cannot run everything, and you either delegate or you die. A good reminder to a control freak (me in some aspect). Also looked at Exodus 18 on Friday (management lessons for Moses). Now just need to find trust worthy people to delegate to.

Attacha running tty process into screen with reptyr. Something I wish I have earlier. Very useful if you are working on remote servers all the time.

Google Offers is coming to compete with Groupon, and huge number of group buy sites that appear on the market like mushrooms after the rain.

Amazon WS is introducing Elastic Beanstalk. Just upload the code and see it scale, targeting Google AppEngine and Heroku users.

W3C has just released their HTML5 logo, which was designed by Ocupop a Hawaii-based team. Looks very nice and can’t wait to write more code for that!

Nichol Alexander on deleting Facebook account and making a goodbye, after watched The Social Netwokr and read this article by Zadie Smith. Now ask myself whether I am just one of “500 million sentient people entrapped in the recent careless thoughts of a Harvard sophomore”. That’s the phenomenon of this generation — it’s Facebook today, [...]

Bought a new toy today. Thanks to Shan-Shan for babysitting the kids while me & Vivian went to pick it up from JB Hi-Fi. Since I moved to Sydney in 1995 (gee, that was 16 years ago!) we have never really had a TV at home. I guess I never really felt the “need”. The [...]

WSJ: Amy Chua as Chinese Parent. That article reads like it’s written almost sarcastically. Really put me off as a Chinese parent.

Via Delimiter.com.au, Larry Bloach of Netregistry backs Gerry Harvey’s campaign on applying GST to imported goods/services. I personally don’t care if Harvey Norman’s or Myer’s profitability is adversely affected but the uneven playing field does affect hundreds of thousands of Small Businesses, and for the families and employees of these, it’s another matter all together. [...]

Inequality in Equalland — an interesting look on the wealth distribution.

“The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.” Jon Bentley and Douglas McIlroy Such a simple idea! Used to read a blog called lesscode — using less code to get more done. Too bad that blog looks as dead as my old programming blog. Came across this quote via Paul Graham, and [...]

Via Siliconbeach mailing list. On Quora — What is the perfect startup team?: The perfect startup has all three founders: someone who understands how to build technologies and systems to solve problems; someone who understands the human factors behind those problems, why they exist, what it takes to fix them and how to shape the [...]