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wz3chen

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Computer Science student at the University of Waterloo. Learn more at: http://WaleyChen.com/. You can contact me at WaleyCZ@gmail.com
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wz3chen··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
I've been building a site to help me keep track of the stocks I follow.

* Automatically sets alerts when I favorite a stock

* Discuss and analyze stocks with AI

* Generate AI research reports

Would love feedback from other investors/builders:

https://getmarketalerts.com/

wz3chen··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2017)
Location: New York

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: C++, Java, JavaScript, Ruby, Scala, Backbone.js, Express, Node.js, Ruby on Rails

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/waleychen

Email: waleycz@gmail.com

I last worked at MongoDB where I did systems/C++ work, added features and fixed bugs in the MongoDB database. I graduated a year ago and did six internships (Foursquare, MongoDB, Twilio,...). The internships consisted of mostly full-stack development and a touch of data infrastructure work.

wz3chen··on Ask HN: What if you kept employee count low?
Quip has ~16 elite employees (Co-founder is ex-CTO of Facebook) (October 2014) (http://www.quora.com/How-many-engineers-work-at-Quip) and a great product used by many.
wz3chen··on Ask HN: What project are you currently working on? – June
Creating a chrome extension that gives easy access to a user's playlists.

Here's the progress so far http://imgur.com/rNHzfj4

Motivation: I pretty much use Youtube as my music player. Great selection and I like watching the videos every now and then. The problem is that it doesn't really have the UI of a music player e.g. easy access to all of my 200+ playlists.

wz3chen··on Show HN: “Who is hiring?” redesign
Will definitely add filtering. Thx!
wz3chen··on Show HN: “Who is hiring?” redesign
I've been adding the entries manually so it'd be way too much work for me to add them all.
wz3chen··on Ask HN: Which tech companies have offices in New York City?
MongoDB
wz3chen··on Startup School 2014 applications are open
Totally. You get to meet cool people during the break.
wz3chen··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired?
SF/NYC, Relocation (J1 Visa), Internship

Stack: Web Dev (PHP/ROR)

Resume: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/waleychen/

Contact: waleycz@gmail.com

Name's Waley. Fourth year CS student at the University of Waterloo who is looking for a Fall 2014 software engineering internship.

I'll be interning at MongoDB in the summer. Last summer, I interned at Twilio where I wrote new features for and rebuilt Twilio's phone number search query tool. Also worked on the bulk porting feature.

I've also won two hackathon awards. One for building CodeTrial--an app that drastically reduces the time to conduct a technical phone screen by automating the technical phone screen. You can try it out here: http://CodeTrial.herokuapp.com/

If you're interested, check out my resume for more information and feel free to connect!

wz3chen··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired?
SF/NYC, Relocation (J1 Visa), Internship

Stack: Web Dev (PHP/ROR)

Resume: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/waleychen/

Contact: waleycz@gmail.com

wz3chen··on Ask HN: who is looking for a summer intern?
See my profile.
wz3chen··on An iPhone Engineer-Turned-Game Maker Shares His Apple Story
Funny Snippet:

Mr. Jobs was notorious for throwing his weight around however he could. One person on the iPhone design team was also named Steve, which caused some confusion in meetings. Mr. Jobs sought to change this.

“At some point Steve Jobs got really frustrated with this and said ‘Guess what, you’re Margaret from now on,’” Mr. Tolmasky said. From there on, members of the team would always address the designer Steve as Margaret.

wz3chen··on Ask HN: Traits and habits of A players
Some indicators I've witnessed as a student: They started programming at an early age because they thought it was fun/interesting rather than thinking about a getting a job or making money. Have impressive side projects. Have competed and done well in algorithm competitions. Have full time software development experiences before starting university. High grades at an elite highschool. IQ above the rest. Educated and/or supportive parents or teachers.
wz3chen··on Ask HN: Why do we fail? We were sure it would work.
In execution, there's benefits of being over confident (google it) e.g. taking it upon yourself to be the leader of a group, if you'r not confident about your course of action, you may lose the confidence of your followers.
wz3chen··on Ask HN: What did you think of Silicon Valley Episode 2?
Really depressing. Wasn't expecting it to be so after watching episode 1.
wz3chen··on Ask HN: As a web developer, should I learn mobile development?
Native mobile development, iOS most likely.
wz3chen··on Ask HN: As a web developer, should I learn mobile development?
I don't this counts as responsive design but I`ve used responsive frameworks e.g. Twitter`s bootstrap.

I think I`d learn iOS first though since the general consensus seems to be Native > Web.

wz3chen··on Y Combinator’s New Head
+1.

50 Cent is my #1 role model since he has achieved success despite adversity (Both of his parents were dead by the time he was 8 & he grew up in a rough neighborhood).

wz3chen··on Intern at a YC Company
Wish this was posted earlier, already landed a job. Will this only be available for summers?
wz3chen··on We’re Shutting Down and I’m Scared – The Aftermath
Beautiful ... thank you for sharing.
wz3chen··on How to intern in Silicon Valley with a J1 visa
Anyone have experience with getting consecutive J1-visas (different companies)?
wz3chen··on Why I’m an entrepreneur
Startup life is less appealing when you can make near 6 figures as a software engineer even just after graduating.
wz3chen··on Ask HN: What did you build in March?
I use Youtube as a music player as I enjoy watching the videos along with listening to the music. However, the user interface for Youtube is not designed to be a music player interface so I decided to build one: http://vekii.com/.
wz3chen··on Social Entrepreneurship Ideas?
How about espn player profiles + wikipedia to track everything about politicians? Politician scorecards.