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by albahk 15y ago
Hong Kong is a great place for business and for most important purposes (GFW, law, freedom of speech, immigration, language, etc) it is a different 'country' to China. Another place to check out is the govt sponsored incubator at Cyberport
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by albahk 15y ago
Replying to the OP but with similar to the point above, I cannot plan gift-giving this far out for many reasons. The major one being in 8 months I may have a completely different gift idea in mind. One suggestion I humbly propose is get me
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by albahk 15y ago
This startup does something similar http://www.bugherd.com/
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by albahk 15y ago
Agreed with the parent and I would also like to add please consider not using periods to Make. Your. Statement. Seem. Profound.
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by albahk 15y ago
I'm in the same boat as many others here. I am a bit of a control freak with my content so I prefer self-hosted Wordpress. If I your product can give me a wordpress theme at the end of it that I can self-install I would pay $20 for that.
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by albahk 15y ago
For the money. It keeps me focused and since money is what I use to buy food for my family, pay rent, my children's education etc I am morally comfortable with money as my goal in starting a company.
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by albahk 15y ago
Hong Kong, China
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by albahk 15y ago
I'm amused at the mindset of trying to do low-volume and hence (for the factory) low-profit manufacturing runs in China and complaining when it turns out to be more difficult than uploading a file and waiting for a box of Apple-quality prod
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by albahk 15y ago
I live in Hong Kong and do a lot work here and in China... what financial crisis? HK is overheating and China is going nuts. Until it all falls apart here things are going well.
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by albahk 15y ago
Its a great step for NFC adoption in the US but permit me to brag a little by showing you the NFC-payment system in Hong Kong (Octopus Card) which you can use in: - all public transport (subway, bus, tram, ferry, etc) - shops (7-11, drugsto
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by albahk 15y ago
A pickle (or Gherkin) is just a cucumber.
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by albahk 15y ago
I use Phing (www.phing.info) to run the entire process which includes: - export from SVN; - snapshot/backup existing DB; - modify/rename/move some files; - tar/gzip backups and send to S3; - DbDeploy to migrate DB; - create documentation (p
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by albahk 15y ago
Interesting is that all they did was take down the website where all company anouncements are made - a simple DDOS would do this. As a result, the exchange suspended the shares of companies that were due to release price-sensitive informati
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by albahk 15y ago
An interesting solution from Campaign Monitor solves this problem for them and was coded by an intern... http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/post/2871/how-campaign-m...
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'Evil' hacker refused bail over NBN (Aus. National Broadband Network) attacks(smh.com.au)
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by albahk 15y ago
Travelling through a lot of airports in China I often see the "free wifi" stickers inviting you to connect. Upon connecting to the wifi, a gateway page asks you to go the customer service counter where they take a copy of your passport befo
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by albahk 15y ago
I have one Muji notebook per project. Everything for that project goes in it. It is a great relief to get all ideas and concepts out of my mind and into the book.
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by albahk 15y ago
From the second paragraph: "Its consumers save too much and spend too little." Which is as opposed to countries like US, Australia where people spend more than 100% of their salaries? More debt is good right? If I was the finance minister f
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by albahk 15y ago
Forget the cafe-style espresso machine that requires you to manually froth milk for lattes etc. it leads to milk and time wastage. Go instead for a one-touch machine like the Jura X9. It is 95% as good as hand-making it yourself (assuming y
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by albahk 15y ago
I have a full time job, young kids and I work on some small web projects in my spare time. I started on PHP as my first language many years ago and I am at the point where I can get anything done I need to in PHP and I enjoy solving problem
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by albahk 16y ago
Web development isn't broken - its just difficult to do. Which is why you have to know all this stuff to do it well. Modern Property development is broken. First I need to have a registered architect design a building, then I need to purcha
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by albahk 16y ago
Logo looks very similar to the Banyan Tree Logo. Banyan Tree is a very famous luxury brand in Asia. www.banyantree.com
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by albahk 16y ago
I had the same issue when I registered a domain. But if you go ahead and put content on it and use the same word on Twitter or inbound links, eventually Google drops the "did you mean ..." since it is clear this new phrase/word exists and h
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by albahk 16y ago
Well, if the article is not an April fools joke then its a leap to claim that this is "Insider Trading". The term specifically applies to public companies and not to companies in general. This distinction is not a "footnote" in the article,
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by albahk 16y ago
I spent 5 minutes typing in a thoughtful idea and making it fit within 150 characters and got back "eat vegemite and cheese" - I feel like I got punk'd.
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by albahk 16y ago
If you just want to get started on something and see results quickly I recommend making use of an external API so you don't need to have users before it works. For example, use Google maps and some other source of location data (Tweets, Fou
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by albahk 16y ago
Did anyone else think they were referring to Rome, Italy for the first half of this story?
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by albahk 16y ago
This is way overblown. A guy steals a laptop and gets caught red-handed so you post a video to embarass him. He's lucky he didn't get his hand cut off like in other countries.
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by albahk 16y ago
Since a blog can be an integral part of your company and the "voice" that people hear I think its worth doing a custom theme and Wordpress install to match your site design and host it on a sub-domain (but on a different server for security
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by albahk 16y ago
- Smugmug Premium (Photos + HD Video) - Jungledisk+S3 (for off-site backup) - Skype minutes - Pinboard.in (as of 12 hours ago) Being in a non-US location (Aka "Rest of the world") a lot of online content offerings including iTunes, Netflix

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