Kevin Ng

yet another tech guy

[Kevin Ng @ngkaboon]

@ghohpe Should not disrespect something that works :-)

[Kevin Ng @ngkaboon]

I am also going to wind down here and move to @[email protected]

[Kevin Ng @ngkaboon]

@poihierro Maybe it goes to show if you don’t do well in that critical factor in the product, having the right process only can carry you so far.

[Kevin Ng @ngkaboon]

@poihierro From a product perspective, I recalled reading that Nokia had an inferior screen, that was hard to read in glare. Otherwise, they did do everything being customer focused, trying out different product designs and can’t really fault their process.

[Kevin Ng @ngkaboon]

@poihierro @Spotify @netflix How about Twitter?

[Kevin Ng @ngkaboon]

Most things can be accomplished if given enough time and at the same time, most things are insignificant in the grand scheme of things.

[Kevin Ng @ngkaboon]

@zainichia9 I imagine you need to keep at it for a while, then you know how to program stuff fluently.

[Kevin Ng @ngkaboon]

Tried leetcode at my son egging. Tried typescript since it is a most popular language. I couldn’t program anymore almost - I don’t know any syntax. Reminded of installation dependency hell, to do this, you need to upgrade that. Can’t stop because it is all in my head 1/

[Kevin Ng @ngkaboon]

Programming is still way too addictive. Naming variables is still hard even for throwaway code. A night sleep always give me some fresh perspectives. 4/4

[Kevin Ng @ngkaboon]

Errors are still at boundaries. Need to instinctively fix all cases when an error pops up once. Googled out of bounds for ts and realized js arrays has no bounds (ah, by design). Googled that people write a lot on simple things like statement terminators on internet 3/

[Kevin Ng @ngkaboon]

Realized that a lot of the processor tech are still based a lot on what I learnt more than 20 years ago, e.g., branch prediction, register renaming, out of order execution, etc. My impression of comp architecture uni course was an exercise in writing philo essays. #comparch

[Kevin Ng @ngkaboon]

Ha - this is what we used to call market expansion in Expedia :-)

[Colm MacCárthaigh @colmmacc]

Not to give away our super secret strategy but something that people often under appreciate about AWS is that new regions are by far the biggest needle mover for our business. The speed of light, sovereignty, and data locality all matter!

[Kevin Ng @ngkaboon]

@poihierro There is always dark clouds too I suppose

[Kevin Ng @ngkaboon]

On leadership and management; invest time in the best ; be fair to the rest

[Kevin Ng @ngkaboon]

@lkb2k You could try to buy a few packs and place them around the kitchen.

[Kevin Ng @ngkaboon]

My new year’s resolutions are to walk the dog more and cook more. I also think keeping it real with new year’s resolutions, it is perfectly alright not to do them after January. 😂

[Kevin Ng @ngkaboon]

In a platform context, w should enable those who are ahead be successful and not hold them back using the same method/governance that prevents the mistakes caused by a few bad apples. 13/13

[Kevin Ng @ngkaboon]

Work-related things I learnt (or re-learnt) in 2022

[Kevin Ng @ngkaboon]

We need to design for the usual case well and not always to meet the compliant edge cases. 12/13