Ray Cheung @rayswc

(def ray-cheung {:dev "https://t.co/j3WXwXS43h"}) about.me/ray.cheung Hong Kong Joined May 2009

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Ray Cheung @rayswc

3 years ago

The most satisfaction of software development problem solving comes from making the impossibles, not just opportunities, but actually simple and cheap solutions.

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Ray Cheung @rayswc

3 years ago

Making a thing simple is the most difficult.

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Ray Cheung @rayswc

3 years ago

Being insightful is inadequate if you're not as impactful at he same time. Quality is driven by execution not just the idea.

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Ray Cheung @rayswc

3 years ago

This is how it works. Live through till the success. lnkd.in/geRNrAFy

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Ray Cheung @rayswc

3 years ago

More than often both quality and intelligence lie on things unseen. A task is made to be trivial only after a lot of thoughts. Simplification is in fact the most difficult.

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Ray Cheung @rayswc

3 years ago

If a language technology is so bad that it creates a new industry to solve problems of its own making then it must be a good idea for the guys who want to make money. -- Joe Armstrong.

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Ray Cheung @rayswc

3 years ago

Ironically in problem solving, only the best software architects could drive a simple architecture that everyone follows.

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Ray Cheung @rayswc

4 years ago

“What is now proved was once only imagined.”- William Blake.

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Ray Cheung @rayswc

4 years ago

"People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't."

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Ray Cheung @rayswc

4 years ago

So far, still having found anything can build react web UI faster than Reagent + Re-Frame + Reitit in ClojureScript. They just work.

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A software is an artifact to convey an idea in motion, and its program language/framework matters much less. There are so many foreign movies you would understand and appreciate even though the language and culture ain't your primary.

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Ray Cheung @rayswc

4 years ago

RTFM syndrome is just the immediate second bad practices of software developers coming after the OCD to reinvent the wheel. lnkd.in/gKjh59vs

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Ray Cheung @rayswc

4 years ago

Premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet... Not optimizing legacy is the root of ignorance.

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Ray Cheung @rayswc

4 years ago

Stay ready, then you never need to get ready. - Scott Adkins

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Ray Cheung @rayswc

4 years ago

I prefer being referred as a Software Developer than a Software Engineer, as my deliverables are more scientific arts than engineered goods. It's hard to manufacture a good software.

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Ray Cheung @rayswc

4 years ago

More than often I heard tech people taking 'dynamic scaling' as the solution for scalability. No, it's just a capacity control. A scalable solution means it could sustain a predictable growth in demand by design. It is about elegant degradation, fail-saf…lnkd.in/exmZhNi

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Ray Cheung @rayswc

5 years ago

What I spoke to a software developer today, when he's indecisive on which approach to take: Think about what you would do when you were a year 1 undergraduate. Take that approach immediately comes up your mind when you were that stage. It's far too often…lnkd.in/e_wWcBR

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Ray Cheung @rayswc

5 years ago

Practically, there are only two types of information: identities and values. Values could be easily produced, validated, and reconciled by machines while identity issues are tremendously more complex to be resolved systematically. If you messed up identi…lnkd.in/gqQaGwX

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Ray Cheung @rayswc

5 years ago

JVM is a great product, because a large part of it isn't Java and it doesn't go OO. GraalVM is even better, because it finally accepts OO isn't the answer for everything.

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Ray Cheung @rayswc

5 years ago

Software developers should be problem solvers not structure builders. A mesh of applications doesn't translate into a solution of anything by itself, worse it obfuscates the value it adds. Simplicity matters more than convenience.