Posts by Allen Cheung
Some Thoughts on Engineering Salaries
Today I saw an article from Hacker News about a Googler's salary and the subsequent reaction from the community. For some, it's a shock how fast engineering salaries have jumped in the past ~2 years; others,…
Javascript DOM blocking
Recently I've found myself repeating a pattern in my Javascripts that works, but I'm not exactly sure why. I've tried to rationalize how the underlying system might work, but it's kind of…
The Early Life of Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs came out this week, and I along with most of the iBook + Kindle population started digesting the pages upon its digital release. There's something to be said about a man&…
Creative Writing Through Tools
Programming text editors are a dime a dozen, quite literally: there are dozens of great, free open-source editors running from vim and emacs to full-fledged IDEs like Eclipse and Netbeans, and it's pretty understandable that developers would spend…
Joining Square
Square is a happenin' place right now. We're apparently one of the hot startups in the valley, with general good press and happy users. I'd like to think what we're through now is…
A Game of Numbers
Lately, I've gotten hooked onto Kairosoft's set of well-designed "simulation" games on mobile phones. They tackle pretty random topics from game development to managing a professional racing team, but only in the loosest sense;…
