1. Always test features you depend on – especially if the feature is developed by 3rd party Don’t assume that it just works. Don’t always trust the documentation. Verify before you build your castle upon it. 2. Start small and validate your idea first. Don’t yolo and try to build everything at one go. You […]| piaoyang
String is the probably most commonly used type in programming languages. However, a lot of complexities lie within the seemingly simple type interface. Quick Question: how to truncate a String to a…| piaoyang
This post is my thought after working in the GenAI startup space a bit and observing many peers in the space. Building a successful startup (and its products) is always hard, but I feel that building in GenAI space with a small team and budget may be actually harder than the average, in contrast to […]| piaoyang
I’ve observed certain patterns of companies who are able to raise funding easily while in early stage. They don’t guarantee the eventual success (in fact, it seems that these companies …| piaoyang
This is a simple framework I developed recently to describe one’s preference on professional/entrepreneurial choices. X axis: technical degree Y axis: business/wealth oriented Some exception/special cases: These cases connect dots in opposite direction on a certain axis. Using this framework, we can analyze one’s preference. Here is mine: X axis: prefer to be on the […]| piaoyang
There is a constant topic that causing debates time and time in the tech industry: choosing between a startup vs a big corporation (e.g. FAANG company). One of the arguments in favor of FAANG companies is that, although relatively one can make smaller impact at a big company, their work can be amplified by the […]| piaoyang
My previous blog has drawn some attention from HackerNews. Notable, many of commenters raised the question that whether the perceived lack of capability on brainstorming may be a result of ineffici…| piaoyang
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This may be obvious to many people already, but I recently thought about this in a few scenarios and figured it may be valuable to articulate it clearly. One note before the main discussion is we s…| piaoyang
