Parveen Kaler

I had a chance to look at an early version of Unblocked. I think the huge benefit is when you work in a microservices environment or with many clients. Over time, engineers get comfortable working on their own microservice but don’t have the context to make changes in microservices that other team’s own. Having iOS, Android, and web clients exasperates this. Unblocked helps engineers get all of...

I have been using a prerelease version of Lookout. The best part is being able to preview links in Line, WeChat, and other networks that I don't use every single day.

I love this book. I read it when it first came out and it really helped brush off my functional thinking from my university days. I highly recommend it.

I bought one here in Vancouver, Canada. Been using it for about 2 weeks now. I went with the white base with tabletop. I thought that the birch looked kinda cheap in the showroom. The white top is OK. Classic Ikea tabletop. The base is excellent. The motor takes the tabletop from about a height of 22" to about 48" in about 20 seconds. The base was $500 CAD and the tabletop was $80. If you're...

Based on the code samples on their In Use page, it looks like they've developed an RPC protocol similar to Apache Thrift. This means that they probably compress and send data more efficiently than a traditional REST API. Evernote is the one service that I can think of that uses RPC over REST. Their SDK must also embed a cache in the iOS or Android client.

I've been using Things for years and years now. Is there any benefit in moving to Omnifocus?