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Intel NUC 515RHY problem with Boya USB Mic PM-500 - Solved

2021-01-08T07:35:00.005+03:00

Tahun lalu memutuskan mencoba USB Microphone nya Boya dan memilih model PM-500, kenapa?

Karena melihat fleksibilitas koneksinya dari USB-C ke USB-C atau USB-C ke USB-A dan saya tidak memerlukan terlalu banyak fitur pola-radiasi yang macam-macam jadi tidak beli yang model PM-700.

Rencananya akan saya hubungkan dengan mini PC Intel NUC515RHY yang sudah cukup lama tidak didayagunakan, dan ternyata Intel NUC nya tidak bisa mengenali si Boya PM-500 tersebut! Mencoba update USB driver, install, re-install, modifikasi Registry juga tidak membuahkan hasil.

Penasaran browsing di internet tapi tidak menemukan ada masalah dengan mic model ini dan mencoba di laptop Macbook 2015 dan desktopnya anak-anak, semua lancar jaya tanpa hambatan.

Satu hal lagi saya mencoba pakai USB hub.....dan ternyata berhasil!!!

Semoga catatan ini bisa membantu teman-teman yang mungkin mengalami masalah USB yang tidak terdeteksi.

11 Mobile application metrics we need to know when launching mobile application

2020-12-04T04:37:00.005+03:00

If you are looking for metrics of mobile application, you've come to the right place.

After a couple of months having sharing sessions with startup up colleagues who realized their ideas via application, I decided to start writing some important metrics of mobile application for reference.

Initially some of our talented founders thought that once you have tech-labs/developers realizing your ideas with great UI and bunch of features/functionalities, having revenue source identified, user segment identified, investor’s funding, the works has done, the world going to be beautiful, but actually it just started.

Once your apps ready, we need to make people aware that our apps is available in the play store, and acquisition phase is started. Typically cost per installed/CPA is around US$3, say we need to have app install based of 100,000 subscribers, it may cost roughly US$ 300,000. There are many ways to use this CPA, it can be member get member, giving benefits i.e for telco apps free SIM card delivery, free 10GB data on 1st month when user installed and use it.

But our business challenge not stop there when people install, they have to use it, make the app user become active user.

First metrics will be the unique Daily Active User or DAU, Weekly Active User/WAU or Monthly Active User or MAU. The definition of DAU can be vary depends or your product, it can be like, how many user login and make any chargeable action, like purchase a service within the apps and generate revenue within a day, a week or a month.

In some cases in telco, for example in digital telco application — install apps, does not mean active user because user needs to:

Choose data plan, apps plan, voice plan, messaging plan, any add-on
Select the new mobile number you like
Fill out personal details for SIM card delivery
Pay
Telco back office process the request and send the SIM card
Waiting for the SIM to reach our address
Activate the SIM card and lastly
Your are online!

Think about if you have bad UI/UX or non-frictionless user journey, apps stability, imagine people just download/installed our apps, use it once then un-install your apps! The investment just wasted right?

I remember that statistically in Indonesia, smartphone user kept only the frequently used apps, its around 10 applications they kept due to their smartphone memory limitation, se we really have to be mindful to make sure people install, use it, keep going back and using it and generating revenue.

Second metrics, we need to know, how long our app user use and stay with our application or session/unique user in a day, #daily session/DAU

We also want to know in which menu or sub menu our users stays and the duration of user stays on each menu.

Third metrics is revenue generated per user or ARPU/Average Revenue Per User is the total revenue generated divided by total number of user

Fourth metrics is Retention rate as: # of people in cohort who use your app within a set period of time / # of people in that same cohort who used your app within a previously set time. For example: 100 people from your November new user cohort used your app in December / 1,000 users in November new user cohort = your retention rate is 10%

Fifth metrics is Churn rate as how many user left your apps, it can be calculated as: 1- Retention Rate= churn rate. Using example above: 1 —10%= 90% churn rate

Sixth metrics is Stickiness rate to see how many people come back and use our apps within same time period, its calculated like: DAU/MAU for example we have 10,000 DAU/20,000 MAU= 50% stickiness

Eight metrics is Life Time Value or LTV can be defined as how valuable is the app user within time period compare to the revenue generated from that particular user. There are may ways to calculate but lets use LTV= ARPU x 1/Churn rate. For example, the ARPU is $1.35 and monthly churn rate is 60%, LTV = $1.35 x 1/.60= $2.25

Ninth metrics is CPA: Cost Per Acquisiton is the cost to acquired new installed/ # acquired user/conversion as mentioned earlier to acquired 100,000 new users, marketing spends US$ 300,000 so the CPA is US$ 3

Tenth metrics is approach on ROI where we expect LTV > CPA to indicate that your app user generating more money that the cost to acquire them . For example if the CPA is US$3 and the LTV is US$ 2.25, describe that cost to get new app user is bigger than the average revenue per user generated, so we need to consider better marketing strategy/approach so the business can sustain.

Eleventh metrics is app rating to show apps user satisfaction and review in the app store.

There are other metrics such as abandonment rate, funnel tracking, viralness, average order value/AOV, Gross Merchandise Value/GMV, App stability/crashes, App speed, App latency, App loadtime, average visit time, average screen view/visit, App session interval, App event tracking for important features, App heatmap, Support response, First response, NPS, App attribution, App store ranking.

Yes, still a lot work to be done to make successful and great mobile app, there are no silver bullet, we need to keep on trying!

Every second is new normal in 2020? actually it's since the world created

2020-11-28T17:37:00.004+03:00

Year 2020 is very special!

Although all technology advancement is here but it seems many people not happier than in previous era.

Berapa gaji kerja di Irak Utara?

2020-06-20T07:18:00.012+03:00

Untuk yang akan nego gaji ke daerah Irak Utara daerah otonomi Kurdistan kira-kira untuk perusahaan telekomunikasi disana, paketnya ekspatriat:

Jabatan Senior Manager, report ke CMO
Gaji pokok bulanan antara US$ 11.000 sampai US$20.000
Uang transport US$ 300/bulan
Apartment: disediakan kantor
Tiap 3 bulan dibayarkan tiket ekonomi PP dari tempat kerja ke negara asal, taksi dan makan selama perjalanan
Asuransi kesehatan diberikan jatah senilai US$ 1000-1500/tahun
Bonus tahunan sesuai kontrak 3X gaji pokok dibayarkan setiap akhir kontrak, tidak menunggu atau tergantung performance perusahaan
Uang masa kerja diakhir kontrak, gaji pokok terakhir dikali lama masa kerja
Asuransi jiwa senilai US$ 250 ribu bila meninggal selama masa kontrak
Tingkat keamanan: aman sih menurut saya di daerah Irak utara
Pindah bawa barang kontainer dari dan ke negara asal pada akihr kontrak- tergantung nego atau allowance pindahan
Sekolah anak dibayar nggak ya? saya lupa :(
Libur Nasional - kuranglebih ada 23 hari dalam setahun
Jatah cuti: 30 hari kalender per tahun
THR: tidak ada
Uang cuti: tidak ada

Besar ya? relatif sih karena untuk pekerja sektor Migas, engineer kenalan saya dibayar USD 3000 per hari!!!!

Pengalaman sebagai kontraktor lokal

2020-06-18T06:16:00.006+03:00

Pada tulisan sebelumnya sharing tentang rentang gaji dan benefit sewaktu jadi expat, atas permintaan teman-teman juga, kali ini berbagi sebagai kontraktor lokal, secara umum sebagai berikut:

Level SVP, gaji pokok antara 40 juta- 125 juta per bulan bersih diluar tunjangan jabatan, ada juga yang lebih kok, pinter-pinter aja "menjual" diri
Level VP, gaji pokok antara 20-50jt nett/bulan
THR, 1X gaji pokok
Bonus tahunan, maximum 3x gaji pokok - tergantung pencapain kerja kita dan perusahaan
Uang cuti, 1x gaji pokok/tahun
Asuransi kesehatan untuk saya dan keluarga
BPJS
Karena saya pegawai kontrak, bila saya berhenti atau diberhentikan sebelum masa kontrak berakhir kecuali atas persetujuan bersama, misalnya 2-3 month notice dan ditulis dikontrak maka salah satu pihak tidak mengganti uang senilai sisa masa kontrak
Uang Jasa, tidak ada
Jatah cuti: 12 hari kerja/tahun

kalau pegawai HR nya bilang ini standard perusahaan kami, jangan selalu percaya karena yang namanya pegawai kontrak tidak selalu ikut PKB, walau PKB nya menyebutkan bahwa PKB juga mencakup semua "karyawan" yang punya nomer pegawai, jadi pandai2lah masukkan semua clause kedalam kontrak.

Yang saya lupa masukkan dalam kontrak kerja saya kali ini:

Uang Jasa, biasanya diakhir kontrak saya mendapatkan uang jasa sebesar: masa kerja X gaji pokok terkahir - kali ini karena saya kurang jeli, saya tidak memasukkan clausul ini dalam kontrak
Bila saya meninggal selama menjadi pegawai perusahaan tersebut, dibayarkan 24x gaji pokok saya
Bila terjadi perubahan dari pegawai kontrak menjadi pegawai permanen, masa kerjanya dihitung mulai dari pertama kali bekerja di perusahaan tersebut.

Saran saya buat teman-teman, tulislah semua term and condition yang kita agree kedalam kontrak, jangan percaya ada persetujuan verbal atau kebaikan hati dari petugas pemberi kerja, karena ini adalah bisnis.

Bagaimana dengan pegawai kontrak Expat? Mereka lebih beruntung karena mungkin di Indonesia negara yang perlu ada hardship allowance dan selain sekolah anak2 nya ditanggung, uang tiket pulang kampung/liburan per tahun, gaji mereka bisa sampai 11X gaji pokok pegawai lokal kontrak.

killing time in Kurdistan

2013-07-20T15:34:00.002+03:00

tempat kerja - 2013

2013-07-20T15:26:00.000+03:00

Sulaimaniyah - Regional Kurdistan - Irak Utara

kurdistan - tahun baru Newrooz di maret 2013

2013-07-20T15:24:00.002+03:00

foto dibelakang komplek Goizha - waktu spring 2013

2013-07-20T15:19:00.003+03:00

foto pasar Sulaimaniyah

2013-07-20T15:15:00.002+03:00

Barcelona - Feb 2013

2013-07-20T15:02:00.000+03:00

Barcelona. kota besar lainnya di Spanyol. seafoodnya maknyus! seni, sepak bola, flamenco!

Belanda Feb 2013

2013-07-20T14:51:00.000+03:00

Belanda - selalu membuat rindu!

kejunya luar biasa, patat, poffertjes, roti2 - sluurf

Nostalgia 1992

Gunung Goizha ditutup kabut - 2 Feb 2013

2013-07-20T14:48:00.002+03:00

laut mati - 24 jan 2013 - Yordania

2013-07-20T14:47:00.000+03:00

Laut mati itu memang dibawah permukaan air laut letaknya, super aisn, dan tidak bisa tenggelam bila berenang di dalamnya

jeras - yordania

2013-07-19T18:46:00.001+03:00

peninggalan RUm di Yordania

israil - bukit sinai - kebun zaitun yang subur

2013-07-19T18:43:00.002+03:00

royal Jordan - Feb 2013

2013-07-19T14:48:00.002+03:00

mampir belanda 23 feb 2013 en route Barca

2013-07-19T14:46:00.002+03:00

25 feb 2013 - ganti logo - Barcelona

2013-07-19T14:45:00.000+03:00

paginya foto dengan logo lama

malamnya sudah berganti logo baru

Barcelona 27 Feb 2013 - Asiacell menang Women line award

2013-07-19T14:42:00.002+03:00

18 Jan 2013 Slemani - salju

2013-07-19T14:40:00.002+03:00

abis cuti, balik2 turun saljuuuu

Mancing Binuangen - 7 Jan 2013

2013-07-19T14:38:00.002+03:00

mbali submarine - 4 Jan 2013

2013-07-19T14:36:00.000+03:00

bali 2 Jan 2013 - bertiga ajah

2013-07-19T14:34:00.001+03:00

belajar foto studio

2013-07-19T14:32:00.002+03:00