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tengkahwee··on We made Playwright 2x faster and 80% more token efficient
Would you recommend to use this over agent-browser for general agent-based validation work? Any performance benefit?
tengkahwee··on FTC sues Intuit for its deceptive TurboTax “free” filing campaign
It's now Cash App Tax here https://cash.app/taxes as part of the acquisition agreement.
tengkahwee··on Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices
Friday in San Francisco is Saturday in Asia which means there's probably a layoff on Monday in Asia.

However a Monday layoff in San Francisco means a Tuesday layoff in Asia which won't be separated by a weekend.

tengkahwee··on JS Paint has a new domain, jspaint.app
I wanted to share in Facebook Messenger and got this:

  The content you're trying to share includes a link that our security systems detected to be unsafe:
  jspaint.app
Is this a mistake?
tengkahwee··on Yarn 1.0: Workspaces, auto-merging lockfiles, selective versions resolutions
Node has more than 2 package managers. There's also jspm and at some point of them people were using bower too.
tengkahwee··on Font Awesome 5
The Font Awesome Pro Business license (40USD) is more expensive than the Student license (20 USD). However, if you are an early backer for the Business license, you can get it at 20 USD.
tengkahwee··on Samsung, CPSC Say Galaxy Note 7 Owners Should Stop Using Them
You can search the title on Google and click to view the article from Google.
tengkahwee··on VPAID ads destroy performance and are still served by major ad networks
Unfortunately ad technology and creative companies are not using the VPAID standard properly. Essentially VPAID is simply a JS file. One really bad VPAID I seen is generated through Adobe Animate CC and meshed with a bunch of custom code with jQuery in it. The image assets are all oversized because Samsung Galaxy S6 edge supports 2560 x 1440 and it wasn't resized to fit desktop proportions. The VPAID standard doesn't constrain the designer in terms of payload and how many connections to send.
tengkahwee··on iPhone SE
That will be incredibly shortsighted though. Developers are looking for more powerful machines all the time.
tengkahwee··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2015)
Looking for a change of environment to a different country, preferably in the San Francisco or New York.

  Location: Singapore
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: JavaScript, Node.js, Gulp, Codeship, Open-source
  Résumé/CV: https://github.com/kahwee/ https://sg.linkedin.com/in/tengkahwee
  Email: t@kw.sg
tengkahwee··on Show HN: Built a 'Kayak for courier services'
It's a 503 error now but would be nice to see Singapore inside!
tengkahwee··on Singaporean Websites Must Pay To Mention Singapore And Not Mention Gay People
I think eru meant that a majority of Singaporeans are feeling the pinch and sentiments towards foreigners are at an all time low. Mainly due to loss to jobs and housing opportunities to foreigners. Our government however maintained that foreigners are essential to growth and had there been a voting process in this decision there will be ugly results.

However I will not go as to say Singapore is less democratic due to this point.

tengkahwee··on Rendr - Use Backbone on both the server and client
MVC is being used for web development. The M part, model, handles the rules for inputs. This would trigger validation errors. In a typical stack, we code the server-side model in, say, Ruby on Rails, and duplicate the same model in client-side model in JavaScript so it can detect things like minimum password lengths without sending data back to the server. The holy grail is to have both server-side and client-side in JavaScript and also sharing the models as well, with that we reduce amount of things we have to code.
tengkahwee··on GoDaddy Moves DNS to Competitor VeriSign
Doubt that a majority of startups are using GoDaddy. GoDaddy made themselves well-known and bought Super Bowl ads. That's the first company many people think of at one point of time when they think of domain names.
tengkahwee··on Google's library for dealing with phone numbers (Java/JavaScript)
It's very useful for my work. I upvoted you at Reddit too.
tengkahwee··on The Future of jQuery - What To Look Forward To In Late 2010 & Beyond
You can download the talk here: http://addyosmani.com/futureofjquery2010/jqueryfuture.mp4 and skip through the video to read the slides. It's quite informative.
tengkahwee··on [dead]
It can be the new LAMP but not yet. In my opinion, LAMP became common due to its deployment. There's virtually nothing to do asides placing the PHP files in the directory that is exposed by Apache. Applications such as WordPress depended on the LAMP stack's ease of deployment and applications like WordPress makes people want to learn PHP.
tengkahwee··on Ask HN: What's up with the Google logo today? What does it mean?
See it here: http://www.google.com/webhp?gl=us
tengkahwee··on htty, the HTTP TTY
Clicking on the images gives you the enlarged version.
tengkahwee··on Coffee shops are taking Wi-Fi off the menu
This reminds me, I stay in Singapore and there's this policy in all libraries (we only have state libraries) that you have to read something when in the library to sit at a table. I've been chased out for doing work there for that reason.
tengkahwee··on Desktop HDD vs SSD for Postgresql
Try doing something to the line-height CSS attribute. It probably needs a bit more spacing between the lines of text for easier reading.
tengkahwee··on SpaceX Falcon 9 reaches orbit
There is a case where we think news that interest us is more important than anything else. That's why we are on HN, isn't it?
tengkahwee··on Death to Lorem Ipsum – The story behind our app, Lorem Ipsum Tool
I agree that Lorem ipsum shouldn't be used as a replacement for instructions but it does have its place in prototyping.

Lorem ipsum is tremendously useful as placeholders for content types such of sample blog posts, sample description etc. These content are irrelevant to the web developer.

tengkahwee··on Is linode down?
Not working for me. I'm from Singapore.
tengkahwee··on Google the way it's supposed to be
I happen to think that the new YouTube is much more consistent than the one of the past.
tengkahwee··on Hi HN, try my app for Twitter organization (HTML5 browser required)
It looks nice. But it would be nice if clicking on the logo return back to the front page.
tengkahwee··on Ask HN: From what countries do people use HN beside USA?
Singapore
tengkahwee··on Automatic Bug Repair with Genetic Programming (source code)
But if we can speed up evolution several thousand folds...
tengkahwee··on Yawn, Google Introduces iPhone Clone
I don't quite understand what you mean by T-mobile's 3G frequency being non-standard? Care to explain?
tengkahwee··on Firefox 4.0: New Design Changes Revealed
Mashable doesn't seem to enjoy giving others credit. The only link to the author is just a tiny link with the word "share". Even the name isn't mentioned. The original author deserves more than that.
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