janineyoong

I had a GREAT super shuttle experience years ago https://medium.com/this-happened-to-me/supershuttle-gave-me-...

That is, in fact, roti telur! you can fold in a variety things into roti canai:

- roti bawang (onion) - roti sardin (canned sardines) - roti pisang (banana)

I had a roti pisang at home in KL last month and nearly wept at the impossibility of finding this anywhere else.

Yes, that would definitely be ok! The microcontrollers included in this index are a function how we rank them in the Octopart search index, which reflects some element of "top-selling" but probably not adequately so (i.e. your point on the 8086 is a good one).

Regardless, we think stock indexes are indeed are good role model for this kind of exercise. If there's interest in this we might invest in: (a) continuing to track this with better documentation on how we do it, and (b) start tracking more categories of parts.

Email us at contact at octopart.com! Let's see if we can do something even better together.

it was a function of my usage of spreadsheets changing (didn't need to build large financial models anymore) and Google Docs coming up to par on basic functions, combined with collaboration and storing in the cloud. Switching to Mac basically ended my love affair with excel (all the keyboard shortcuts I knew so well didn't work anymore)

Yes - people don't ask for it nearly as often as Excel but enough for it to make our list! If you're interested in beta testing whenever we get to it, drop us a line (contact@octopart.com)

Ha! I, too, loved Excel deeply, though Google spreadsheets finally won me over a few years ago.

Most users we spoke to swear that they'll move off Excel eventually, but still want an Excel add-in today. It was a tough product decision to prioritize a platform that people seem want to stop using, but continues to be so entrenched.

Thanks for the support! If you'd like to tell us more about how you use it email us at contact@octopart.com

Not outraged, just disappointed with the state of reporting. While I might not agree with your theory, I don't disagree with the need to pore over the crewmembers' backgrounds, or the plausibility of your overall point.

What bugs me is just one point that is not fact. Would you consider reading this: - an NYT story on the pilot's background and how it got twisted out of shape by tabloids (http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/19/pilot-of-missing...), and - a WaPo story with a named source who clarifies that his wife "moving out" was her normal practice of staying with their grown children whenever he flew (http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/agony-mounts-for-familie...)

- and see if it changes your point of view? or at least, how you might describe the pilot's state of mind the next time you share your thoughts?

It is terribly crass, especially when rumor and conjecture about the pilot's personal life (no newspaper of any repute has verified this) is used as a basis for these remarks.

This particular rumor is less vicious that the ones about him being a political fanatic, or a Muslim extremist, but no less sad a reflection of how far the press has fallen.

Chris has been a longtime supporter of our mission to open up part data for hardware hackers at Octopart, so we know how much of a passion project this is. Congrats!!

Here's the recap of the hardware hackathon that Electric Imp hosted last month on the Firebase blog: https://www.firebase.com/blog/2013-12-19-electric-imp-hackat...

The Double does NOT keel over that easily. I've crash tested it many, many times.

Aw! Tokbox is only as good as the applications people build with it. Thanks for using us.

I wish we could say we were entirely unbiased! The truth is we do love Double beyond the product itself because the team (David, Marc, Jay and Farhad) is awesome to work with. I mentioned that it was a bit challenging to use the first version we got, but they've iterated on improvements very quickly. (They've also been very patient and collaborative with problems on our side.) We can't wait to see what's coming next.

nice work!

If you're remotely interested in any of these: http://tokbox.com/careers, would you drop me a line? janine.yoong at gmail.com

Best of luck to you regardless.

I loved going to the Tenderloin to eat good Vietnamese until I was almost-mugged a few months ago: http://janineyoong.com/post/34007583330/invincible It's sad, but I can't quite look at a homeless person on a quiet street anymore without the impulse to walk faster.

Last Friday I used the Double to sit at the lunch table with the team in San Francisco (I'm in New York). Lunch is not something the team is inclined to open up a regular videocon session on, but lunch conversation is something I miss out a lot on from working remotely. People talk about stuff (work and non work related) a lot more candidly at the lunch table than in conference rooms. There were a lot of nervous giggles and "that's creepy" remarks but I think its just about getting used to the form.

I work in business development at tech company where our core product is an API. Learning the basics of programming helps me find the right customers for our product, and then support them better. http://janineyoong.com/post/23665444733/learning-to-code-at-...

this is so cute!! congratulations. Song is a great teacher.

it's pretty!

Thanks! TokBox provides the video platform, but the OnTheAir team is a small, super-smart group which is tightly focused on nailing the end-user experience. The stuff they think about - everything from testing how to promote shows to where the users' eye-level is - has been incredibly thorough and thoughtful. We've been really impressed with them.

Check this out:

http://hackerleague.org/ http://plancast.com/category/hackathons

tokbox blog went down! but you can read it on venturebeat too: http://venturebeat.com/2012/03/15/the-rise-of-the-hack/

Not trying to be funny. I posted this because this is the best thing I've read of Jon's - and I felt there was something universally resonant about the sweet pain of aspiring to greatness. What I didn't expect were the multiple comments from those who play or used to play CS and draw lessons that apply to programming and teamwork. If CS produces colleagues like Jon, then more please.

confirmed jon is pretty awesome at cascading style sheets, also, yes.