Posts by Allen Cheung
More Than 12 Weeks and More Than a CS Degree
I was chatting with a friend today on how difficult it has been for his startup to hire. They're competing against startups flush with Series A/B cash, IPO-candidate companies offering equity with some weight, and public…
Outdated Vehicular Technologies
I sold my car last month. It was my first; something I bought with the starting bonus of my first job out of school, a beautiful coupe that I've kept for almost nine years. Being a geek, I…
The Web is Both Extremely Fast and Agonizingly Slow
Firefox OS is coming – Ars posted a preview of a prototype, and while its chances of success are slim in the face of (relatively) more mature mobile operating and eco-systems[1], it's encouraging to see how something…
Placing a Real Value on your Time
Most of the people reading this blog are workers whose skills and experience are in demand; we'd all like to think that our time has real value, and that someone using it ought to be paying to use…
The Long Tail of Technological Solutionism
They are driven by a pervasive and dangerous ideology that I call "solutionism": an intellectual pathology that recognizes problems as problems based on just one criterion: whether they are "solvable" with a nice and clean technological…
Considering Job Offers as a New Grad
Hey, I get it. You're about to graduate as a prestigious computer engineering student from a well-known university, and you have your pick of a dozen companies to begin a career that's been glamorized to…
