I don't see myself as an expert developer but I have written enough software over the last 10 years both for my own projects and those of others to understand that simplicity is the best approach to software design. Every problem in computer science can be solved by adding another layer of indirection. This is a rule that has been well understood in our modern age of computing. The software that we build today are based on many layers of indirection from device to OS to languages to API to frameworks to products. Needless to say, many products today are also build on top of other products.

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We have recently added support for UTF-8 to YourAM. This basically means that you can now use Chinese, Korean, Japanese and other languages of your choice on YourAM. This is exciting news because it is a support that is long awaited by many of our Asian users.

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I'm sure most entrepreneurs have encountered some of them before...

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There are many things that puzzles me as to how majority of today's mega start-ups succeed. I don't pretend to be an expert in this matter because I am none the wiser. However, I have noticed a phenomenon that has become a trend in the strategy that start-ups today rely on to succeed. And that is none other than the placebo effect.

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Based on a true story at a conference...

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