 Okay, great. Alright. Hey, everybody. Welcome to Hack and Tell. If this is the right event you're here for, that's great. If not, stay anyway because it's gonna be awesome. Oh yeah, music. It's like very... It's like very soulful music, right? Thank you. Yeah, so welcome. Super glad that you all decided to join us today. My name is Sherman and these... You want to introduce yourselves? Sure. I'm V. I know. And... I'm Sahil. So V. and Sahil and I are the co-organizers of Hack and Tell. There's a little bit of history of Hack and Tell in Singapore. We'll talk a little bit about that later, right? So just before we get started, some housekeeping stuff. That's really small. But bathrooms, bathrooms are very important. Straight out the door and to the left is a sign. You should be able to find it and not let me know. We have pizza outside. Anyone who hasn't eaten, please do. It's good pizza. It's also very expensive. So please eat it. And Wi-Fi. Wi-Fi is up here. If you want to take a picture now so you can use it later to do it. It's also on the board here. But those are used to being in a bag probably can't see it. In that case, you might want to know. Yeah, so today's agenda really quickly. We are going to spend a bit of time in the beginning to talk a little bit about our host for today, which is Vicky. Thank you, Vicky for hosting. I also work for the company. It's actually very nice because this is the first time we're organizing it. So I'm really glad that Alex at the back there gave us a chance to host it here. It means a lot to us. Thank you, Alex. Yeah. And then we'll talk a little bit about what Hack and Tell is, the format. And we'll run through our code of conduct really quickly as well. Just to make this a comfortable space for everyone. And then we'll have talks. And then at the end, we will probably hang out around here. You can meet the speakers, ask more questions or just mingle around. And eat leftover pizza. That's what always happens. You know, 16 minutes is a long time to get hungry. So yeah, let me just start by saying thank you to Vicky, Rakuten Vicky for hosting us today. We recently rebranded. So now I have to say Rakuten Vicky. Used to be just Vicky. And for like, how many people here know what Vicky is? Like, what is this space that we in? Awesome view. Okay, good charm, good. So as a, I know we said like no company features. Yeah, this is the one company feature. Yeah, this is the one company feature we are allowed to do. Because, thank you for hosting. We will be nothing without this space and food. So that's my job to tell you about Vicky. If you've ever heard of us before, like a lot of people that associate Vicky with Korean dramas or dramas. But I want to say that we are a lot more than that. Like Vicky can be described as like the premier place to get Asian content. So Korean dramas like Descendants of the Sun, like Boys Over Flowers, what not. And Taiwanese and Chinese dramas. But we are also built around a community of people who are volunteers and sub-titlers. So we have a lot of like happening content. I don't really watch dramas a lot, but I know like these are relevant. So I will talk about them. Yeah, yeah. So we have a bunch of, I think we have like Descendants of the Sun. No, we do. I know we have this for sure. And all of our dramas are sub-titled. But not just sub-titled. We are sub-titled by a community of volunteers. So if you ever like want to watch something and you need sub-titles, Vicky is like the place to go to. Let's see, I'm going to show you. It's a bit slow because of my bite. So all of the sub-titles are contributed by volunteers. And we have up to, depending on like the show, we have up to 20, 30 languages sometimes, which is pretty amazing. So the whole idea of Vicky is to bridge gaps between cultures. And the best way to learn about another culture is by consuming, watching the shows, seeing what's going on. And we recently launched this thing called LearnMode where you can like learn things, learn a language. For example, if you want to know like Korean, you can just put on LearnMode, you can read sub-titles. You have to figure out like what the word says. It's loading. It's the Wi-Fi not the site, trust me. And you can see here that we have like a bunch of different languages. We have 49 languages for this episode, which is like pretty amazing. And we also provide tools for our users to sub-title, to like work on these videos, to share their love for it. So our entire team is actually, our engineering team is actually in Singapore. We have offices in San Mateo. We also have offices in Korea, but Korea, China, I think Japan as well, yeah, and a couple others. But the product and engineering team is in Singapore. We are like 50 people, really small, but really diverse. About a, I think 30 urban nationalities in the whole of the company. And we have like 100 people, so super diverse, really great people to work with, highly recommended. Here's an example of how I was sub-titling a segmenting tool. So you can, people can sub-title things, but I'm not going to say this. That would be terrible. So yeah, just like, if you want to find out more, you can ask, talk to me. I actually work on like the key web, the web team. That's how it works here today. So if you want to find out more, you can talk to our recruiter. It's Joy here. Joy's not here. But if you want to find out more, just let me know. I'll refer you to our recruiter. Great people to work with. Get to work with her. Yeah, they're all in the back, but Vicky people make some noise. Woo! Yeah. She's so supportive to come to our event. Show us some color. Yeah, what? No. I don't think that's something to talk about. Like, Vicky will lead the project. Yeah. So yeah, that's all about Vicky. And now, V is going to talk a little bit about like what hack and tell is, like how did it come to Singapore, and what to expect? Cool. Take it away. Yeah, brief, incomplete, and mostly wrong history of hack and tell. So there's this place in New York called the RICO Center. And it started kind of like in 2011. And one of the things they do is on Thursdays, they do five minute presentations. So presentations can only be five minutes long. It's like a whole bunch of them one after the other. And it's really cool because, you know, if you don't like a talk, it's fine. Just wait five minutes. You have a completely different one. So a few people decided to take that aspect of the RICO Center out of the RICO Center, and called it hack and tell. And they're like, hey, let's take some of the values of RC, including, and this practice of having five minute talks and bring it to a wider audience. And they did that. And they changed the idea slightly. They improved it. And I didn't. By having five minute talks, and then five minutes of question and answers. Because it's one thing where five minute presentations one after the other. So you don't really have time to ask questions and talk about what you've just seen. And so hack and tell, they decided to make it. Yeah. So it runs on RC values. We have a bunch of social rules at RC to basically guidelines for ways to behave. Just ways of, I guess, making sure that the behavior, you behave at your best. So the social rules, I think that applied to hack and tell are, one, no fame surprise. So don't, well, when people say that they don't know something, basically don't make fun of them for not knowing it. I think that's, you know, when I say it like that, it sounds pretty obvious. But it's one of the things you do all the time. Second is no, yes, question. Anyways, I put it up there. You put it up there. Excellent. No, actually. So when someone says something, you correct them. Especially if the correction is nothing to do with what they're actually trying to say. Again, something that I'm used to do all the time. I think I'm slightly better now. But I'm slightly... No sublisms. So which is a way of basically saying, you know, obviously don't be racist and don't be sexist, but don't even be, like, ableist or aegist. Just try to, like, think about what you want to say and try to make sure that you're not discriminating against people for, like, basically no good reason. There's a fourth one, which is, no backseat driving. I guess it doesn't really apply with hack and tell because you can't really backseat drive because you're quiet and you're listening to the people who are presenting present. So that's hack and tell, those are hack and tell values. Five minutes of, five minute presentations, five minutes of Q&A. I think, I think there's some leeway about how strict people are with enforcing the five minute rule, but I am very strict. So I will enforce five minutes. I think that's fair. We will set up a timer. Yeah. So it'll beep and you can all hear it when five minutes goes off. I'll signal to this button before. Okay, yeah. Excellent. And I would expect the same because I'm speaking as well. And if I go five minutes, go for it. Please call me out. And yeah, that's hack and tell. It's pretty straightforward. And so anyway, so hack and tell spread to a whole bunch of different places, I found out. And including Singapore. And Singapore is one of the, is an interesting one because it didn't actually... Wait, wait, wait. Singapore is here. Yeah, it is. And Singapore is interesting because I think the fact is that people who started hack and tell Singapore were not affiliated with RC at all. So they're just like, hey, this is a really cool idea. Let's bring it to Singapore. And that's awesome. And me personally, going to RC last year, I was like, oh my God, this is the best thing ever. Can I have this in Singapore? And it's like, yes, you can, except no one's running it anymore. Pretty shame. So what to do? The last one was like 2015. Exactly. So what would you guys have done? Just make it happen again, right? Which is why I'm personally like, it means a lot to me that you guys showed up and then do the first report that I can tell. No, that's it. So yeah, Kondal is on the website. And we have our list of awesome speakers. We have six people today and 10 minutes each, five minutes top, five minutes Q&A. So we're just going to get started. Our first speaker is Gergo, who will be telling us about how he reverse-engineered a Hungarian text adventure game from 1987 and printed it to Android and got almost $5,000. Yes. So yeah.