Posts by Allen Cheung
The Missing Gap Between College and Self-Taught Programming
Even when I was in school—over a decade ago—there was this tension in the Computer Science department between academia and industry. Everybody knew from the dotcom days that the Computer Science major (along with EECS, and even Applied…
Simple, Accessible Notes
Taking notes on a computer should be the most basic of functionalities: throw up a window that can accept text input, and save the text to a file. Optionally, sync these notes to the cloud, and at that point you…
Reconciling Tech’s Lack of Progress with its Disproportionate Influence
In one of the latest a16z podcasts on role of academia in startups, Marc Andreessen ridicules a seemingly contradictory pair of stances taken by the media as critiques on the tech industry at large: There’s kinda two critiques right…
Using Disruption Precisely
This is yet another awesome a16z podcast: Holy Non Sequiturs, Batman! — What Disruption Theory Is … and Isn’t Basically, one of the consultants that actually studied the original theory of disruption is clarifying exactly what the theory is and is…
It’s Hard to Think Rationally about Bigger Housing Numbers
Sometimes it just feels wrong, even when the math technically checks out. This question caught my eye the other day on Quora: Why do people complain about cost of living in the Bay Area so much when it seems like…
Learning Front-end Development, One Step at a Time
I reacted viscerally to seeing this handbook the other day: Front-end Handbook In which I commented via Twitter: http://twitter.com/allenmhc/status/658745015435300864 First off, I was reacting probably more harshly than I should have. The author has…
