ThinkingNectar

I will not steal the thunder from e27 and give away the name of the representative who will represent Singapore for Yahoo Open Hack Day 2008. But I think the process is a blog worthy given the many discussion I had with Adrian.

First of all, the application. Certain questions are good for lengthy geeky discussion and many a times, great opportunity to throw in geeky jokes and maybe some Microsoft bashing here and there. Many thanks for Adrian for his input on how he might had answered some questions.

FIrst, the money question:

Why I want to experience Yahoo! Open Hack Day (100 words or less)

This was not that difficult or that easy to answer. To be truthful, I go no way to start and hence:

Cos my Kung Fu is best! And can be better!

Adrian managed to one upped (in a funny way):

Cos I did not qualify for Google Code Jam… …

He was trying to be funny and he did went as far as third round.

Second,

if you could ask David Filo one question, what will it be?

I went:

How does it feel to be the number two of a number two company? (laughs) Just kidding! Actual question was to ask him what is he going to do with delicious.com given that Yahoo do not seems to be monetizing it.

And Adrian went:

How does it feel not to have bought Google? (laughs)

The third question was:

Name 3 technologies you think will be relevant in 2015 and why?

I shot off the hip with PHP (duct tape will remain useful no matter what), Java (legacy language of yesteryears enterprise solution) and C (the new assembly). I added anti-spam in all medium as a bonus for this question.

Not that I have anything against Java.

Personally this reflect the narrow view I have went it comes to technologies. Should be reading more on other technological domain other than computing!

Next, the ugly sister of the above question:

Name 3 technologies you think will be irrelevant in 2015 and why?

Again, I shot off the hip with Cloud Computing (I am not confident that it can survie any security audit, but I could be wrong) and DRM in music. I cheated here as frankly I can think of 2 when I filled up the form.

Typewriter was Adrian’s input. Quick sharp and makes me smack my forehead.

The next big money question:

What will be the next big trend (killer app) that will impact innovation on the web?

This requires some thinking and I returned with a online property management app. And property does not mean landed, but online asset. Looking back, I think is a rather weak concept.

I have to say I do enjoy the filling up the application form and did throw in some funny lines with it. Hope the guys at e27 and Yahoo Singapore have a good laugh.