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by Xixi 11y ago
I've had PayPal freeze an account and ask for two metric tons of paperwork to unfreeze it 48 hours before launching a SaaS business. Postponed the launch by a week, not such a big deal compared to if had been the other way around. I le
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by Xixi 11y ago
I'm always wary of the "great customer support" gambit. I mean, of course everybody likes great customer support, but who actually makes everyday purchase decisions based on hearsays about customer support quality? I'm n
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by Xixi 11y ago
I am merely describing how I think the economy is running. Not how it should be running. In fact I agree with you that it is not healthy at all. Japan used to run the other way around, where the salary was solely a function of age (or rathe
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by Xixi 11y ago
Note that I was only pointing out that there is some logic to the lowest paying jobs seeing the most candidates. I certainly do not condone a system where workers do not have access to proper health-care and struggle to live decently. For t
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by Xixi 11y ago
If the job market is really that, a market, then it should not come as a surprise. It's the imbalance between the number the people seeking a kind of job and the number of jobs available that drives the salaries all the way down to min
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by Xixi 12y ago
It's a semantic debat, but you seem to redefine parallelism as HPC. I respectfully disagree, parallelism is not necessarily about getting faster, it is really about actually executing computations simultaneously. Erlang uses parallelis
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by Xixi 12y ago
Of course prices are not the only reason. Population density, local monopolies, legacy infrastructures, etc. also play a huge role in quality of access. But I don't think the idea that price wars take a toll on quality of service is pa
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by Xixi 12y ago
The downside of Free is that they fight mostly on price. They did interesting things with mobile plans, but mainly they drive the prices down, and everything else with it (speed, quality, etc.). France used to have some of the best internet
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by Xixi 12y ago
How do you get the idea of isolating 100 people in a lab, half with only white rice, and half with rice and barley? You could try hundreds other kind of experiment, so why this one in particular? Specially if you think the cause is bacteria
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by Xixi 12y ago
If I understand correctly, someone out of data on his/her plan will be able to access data from some businesses (who pay for the data), and not from other "normal" businesses. So in a sense it's a form of binary prioriti
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by Xixi 12y ago
I've lost data (well, they were backed up, so not really lost...) to playing with beta filesystems (reiserfs 4, if memory serves well), never to HFS+. I'm pretty sure somewhere in Cupertino a team is working on a new file-system,
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by Xixi 12y ago
Django has long term releases if you wish to upgrade less often. The last LTR was Django 1.4 which will be supported until October 2015. The new LTR is Django 1.8 which will be supported until at least April 2018.
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by Xixi 12y ago
I know webpay, but it only issues payments in JPY while I charge my customers either in USD or EUR... It's great for Japanese companies targeting the Japanese market, but my customers are mostly in North America and Europe.
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by Xixi 12y ago
Does anyone know if Stripe have plans -in the rather short term- to come to Asia? Japan, or maybe Singapore? I know this question always comes up so it must be getting obnoxious, and I apologize for asking it yet again, but it's a test
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by Xixi 12y ago
I'm not quite sure there is that much overlap between Erlang/Elixir niche and Rust niche. You can certainly do "most" things with both but they will shine in different circumstances. You can certainly build anything with
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by Xixi 12y ago
For this kind of issue I stick to at-least-once, and then use a lot of band-aid: - Each worker has to hook to a database where a record keep the state of the transaction: ready, processing, success or failure. With a good old SELECT FOR UPD
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by Xixi 12y ago
I usually just use the Terminal, but when I need to open the current directory in the Finder I just type `open .`, one of the most useful (and unknown) shortcut of OSX.
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by Xixi 12y ago
I've noticed this too, most iPad owners I know simply do not renew it, because they don't need the extra power. I've updated an iPad 2 because its screen is cracked, but I still use it from time to time. The iPad Air 2 is of
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by Xixi 12y ago
Touchscreens have one big win over keyboards: they can work with any language. Never great, but always better than the wrong keyboard. For instance I'm currently writing on a Japanese keyboard: I cannot write in French with it because
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by Xixi 12y ago
It's not necessarily surprising as Germany gives huge discounts on these equipments to Israel. I don't have figures for all deals, but it seems usual for German taxpayers to pay for about a third of the costs. Example: > In 200
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by Xixi 12y ago
The way I understand it (and I am probably completely wrong, seeing as I am not a physicist, nor a mathematician), string theory is to scientific theories as a class is to objects in OOP. You can indeed never falsify string theory itself, b
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by Xixi 12y ago
I quite agree with this: the end goal of a CHANGELOG.md (or NEWS.md if you prefer) should be to give the end-user a summarized view of the changes since the last release, organized logically by order of importance, not chronologically by or
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by Xixi 12y ago
Nicely formatted changelogs are amazing for third-party tools: at requires.io we try to gather as many changelogs as possible, but oftentimes there are simply none available.
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by Xixi 12y ago
Excluding friends and family, we had one paying customer (in Germany) for the last shipment. Given that we had exactly 36 visitors from this comment a month ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8850776 ), I would say th
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by Xixi 12y ago
You can definitely find Japanese tea in France (at least in Paris). But it's usually quite expensive and without much variety: mostly Sencha like you would find in any Japanese supermarket, at 4 times the price. I love Taiwanese tea, b
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by Xixi 12y ago
genmaicha ha oishii deshou! $15/month for ~50 grams of tea per month (the normal subscription is ~100g per month), let's call it the HN subscription. Works for me! You can subscribe using the normal form, just drop us an email wit
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by Xixi 12y ago
Tomotcha url in a clickable fashion: https://tomotcha.com
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by Xixi 12y ago
:) Let me know if there is a roadblock, or anything I could do to help you make the leap!
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Show HN: Like Candy Japan, but for Japanese Tea – Tomotcha.com
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by Xixi 12y ago
I would argue that the Apple I was exactly an MVP (as I understand it): not crap, limited in functionality, and impossible to mass-produce.

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