johnhkg

23 karma · joined September 27, 2015

Software programmer with experience in Javascript and Node.js

johnhkg··on Amazon Elasticsearch Service

How would this compare to Algolia ? Does anyone have experience with elasticsearch and algolia to shed some light on this ?

johnhkg··on Netflix Switch – dim lights, turn on the TV, order food, and silence your phone

Netflix seems like a great company to work for. Recommend reading Reed Hasting's presentation on their culture: http://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-1798664

johnhkg··on Mobile browser traffic is 2X bigger than app traffic, and growing faster

I have observed that non-tech people find the App Icons sitting on their home screens to be very convenient to access a service they use, kinda like bookmarks.

johnhkg··on Atlassian Planning U.S. IPO

> My company (at the time) ended up hiring a fulltime person to manage the complexity (ie an Atlassian admin) plus a few consultants to get the workflow stuff down

Offtopic - I have recently been trying to break into full-time consulting / contracting. May I know how you went about hiring the consultants for the migration ?

johnhkg··on Lyft Moves Customer Support Team to Nashville to Combat High-Priced SF Market

Asking employees settled in a place to move to a different state, and then take a pay cut, seems like a big deal.

johnhkg··on Creating charts and graphs on iOS using Workflow

Workflow is an awesome tool. Great work by the author. Checkout his recent talk on Reverse-engineering iOS Apps: https://realm.io/news/conrad-kramer-reverse-engineering-ios-...