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SSH to Andrew File System (AFS) Without Credentials
This is the first part of a 2-part guide on how you can SSH to the Andrew File System without keying in your credentails, as well as mounting the Andrew File System (AFS) locally on your Linux machine. This is highly useful if you are a student or faculty member from one of the many universities around the world whose computing systems runs on AFS, such as CMU, MIT, Stanford, Caltech, to list a few.
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Notes On Founding A Startup To My Future Self
This post is addressed to my future self, who (hopefully) would found a startup of his own someday. This is my last week at Saleswhale and I would like to pack as much wisdom into this post from my experiences there and from the wonderful people that I have talked to. It is a very personal post for me and it speaks straight from my heart. To be honest, I teared up a few times while writing this. I hope you will feel the sincerity in my words, and I hope it will inspire you.
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Leveraging The Power Law
It was three years ago that I was introduced the concept of the "power law" in Peter Thiel's book, Zero to One. Thiel states that "We don't live in a normal world, we live under a power law. Exponential equations describe severely unequal distributions". This, in effect, is very similar to the 80/20 rule that I discussed in my previous post, and observations of such a distribution can be found ranging from income distributions to the fact that the best venture capital fund investments grow to a value that eclipses the rest of their portfolios combined.
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Lessons From Saleswhale About Startup Culture
08 July marks 8 months since I started working in Saleswhale (08 November 2017), and also the last month that I will be here before enrolling in college. It is an opportune time to look back and reflect on my growth as a software engineer and to collate the lessons that I have learned so that I may remember them in my future endeavors. Actually, given the stark contrast between academia and industry, I am quite certain that I will gradually lose sense of the things that I learned, especially those regarding working in teams and software engineering best practices.
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Ruthless Prioritization Is The Right Way To Manage Your Time
Last week I had the good fortune of having a one-on-one session with Gabriel, the CEO of Saleswhale. As I rarely have the chance to go on a one-on-one with Gabriel I decided to ask him questions more pertinent to his role as a CEO. This has been something that I have been very curious to learn more about after my previous one-on-one with Ethan, who shared with me his experiences, challenges, and many thoughts as the CTO. In this post, I will share what I feel is probably the most important takeaway for me during the session with Gabriel.
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Creating A Deploy Script For Jekyll With Rsync
Static site generators like Jekyll makes it easy to write and build static websites. However, this still comes with the problem of a suitable deployment method. I will share about my thought process and the best approach I found for tackling this problem.
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Welcome To My Blog
It has been a while since I had intended to start my own technical blog. The idea began seriously floating in my mind after my one-on-one with my senior colleague Javier in Saleswhale. Starting a technical blog was one of the valuable pieces of advice that he gave to me, and it was something that he regretted not doing earlier.