Posts by Allen Cheung
Breaking Console Tradition with the Nintendo Switch
Nintendo finally announced the imminent arrival of their oft-cited next generation console, previously called the NX, but now formally called the Nintendo Switch. The launch trailer: Which showcases a handful of games — new and existing — as well as a…
How to Find a Good Manager
Recently, I was talking with a colleague at work who was about to leave the company, and they were asking me for any tips to take with them to their new job. In my head, the cliche that “people leave…
Finally the PC as a Gaming Console
Recently, I got excited and bought an custom Xbox One controller, courtesy of the Xbox Design Lab. In this case, “custom” really just means being able to select a color scheme for its various parts, but it’s a nice…
An Era Hostile to Innovation
140 characters instead of flying cars. Peter Thiel quipped this back in 2011, succinctly and pointedly describing the state of technological progress in the 21st century. It’s damning our modern tendencies to seek incremental improvements over grandiose new ideas,…
The Demise of Lyve
Guess I called it. I just got the email last week that Lyve is shutting down. It started as a somewhat unique proposition around owning your own storage and interface around photos, which eventually had to be sold to a…
Review: Death’s End
Death’s End is the last volume of the The Three Body Problem trilogy. Here are the reviews for thefirst and second book. Spoilers ahead, at least for those books. Well, that escalated quickly. I found myself thinking that a…
