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by cglee 15y ago
If there ever was a time to be cheesy and kitsch, it's now.
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by cglee 15y ago
This is right on. Many recent grads have such a strong identity associated with their job that of course it's soul sucking if you don’t like it. But if your life is actually your family, then working a mediocre job to pay the bills and send
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by cglee 15y ago
Why can't you email and ask them who they are?
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by cglee 15y ago
I grew up in Xinjiang, arguably the most ethnically divided region in China, so I know where you're coming from. China's approach to taming ethnic minorities is straight forward: various forms of oppression. Besides racism, the other major
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by cglee 15y ago
Re #2 of your point. The divide isn't along ethnic lines; it's along economic/cultural. Huge divide between rural farmers and urban yuppies. The yuppies are like the HN crowd. But historically, China goes as the peasant class goes. Most of
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by cglee 15y ago
Any thoughts on how to minimize leg swelling? I just set up my standing desk and am feeling it as well.
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by cglee 15y ago
That was one where I thought it made a lot of sense.
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by cglee 15y ago
The whole point I believe is to remove the notion of "your own people". Therefore, you "fit in" anywhere.
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by cglee 15y ago
Selective truth != truth. I'd say selectively presenting one side is dishonest. I don't have anything against companies who are dishonest, but let's call a spade a spade: PR companies are spin doctors. They're dishonest. That's not quite st
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by cglee 15y ago
I like not seeing vote count, but agree with you that it's a handy metric to sift through the cruft. How about a color scheme to show popularity instead of the specific vote count?
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by cglee 15y ago
Disagree that it's a waste. Yesterday's bookstore is today's cloud computing infrastructure. Today's weather app may be tomorrow's <whatever>. Getting people coding, shipping and excited about what they're doing will yield positive
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by cglee 15y ago
tl;dr: he's young, he just got 4 mil, he's building an achievement-based mobile ad product. And once he becomes a millionaire, he's going to be a space tourist.
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by cglee 15y ago
You'll need to participate a lot and then you can start to get a sense on who to trust. Or at least who is sensationalistic, who's logical, etc.
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by cglee 15y ago
Doubtful. You think Chinese readers can understand HN conversations with Google Translate? Especially when commenters are trying to be subtle to dance around censors?
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by cglee 16y ago
Chinese forums, if you know where to look. But you have to learn to read Chinese, or find some one/way to translate.
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by cglee 16y ago
It's different not just among countries, but within a country. Good developers in big cities in China can make close to 100K USD. There aren't many, if any, good developers in rural or extremely poor areas. Most of them move to technologica
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by cglee 16y ago
Postbox
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by cglee 16y ago
Several reasons: - a lot of Asian families are Christian, so they get Christian names - racism and discrimination. "li guo" just isn't as cool as "pierre" - there's no real great way to spell a lot of Asian names, so might as well just ado
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by cglee 16y ago
+1 for Twilio. Tropo is looking pretty sweet too.
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by cglee 16y ago
The short answer is yes, with abbreviations being possible exceptions. "Internet" and "World Wide Web" already have Chinese counterparts. Other words will just be phonetically similar Chinese phrases, similar to how we write "Beijing" inste
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by cglee 16y ago
That's the point: raise the bar by forcing the new users to hang around and get a feel for the culture before submitting. On top of that, acquiring 200 karma points on HN definitely doesn't fall into the "extremely difficult" category.
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by cglee 16y ago
I couldn't find much online about this essay. Is the text online anywhere?
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by cglee 16y ago
Exactly, but I also throw in music from languages that I don't understand. I'm loving Korean and Japanese pop at the moment.
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by cglee 16y ago
"One of the presenters was Carol Miaskoff, Assistant Legal Counsel for Coordination at the EEOC. Her guidance was less than equivocal but predictable: 'As with any recruiting technology . . . it all depends how you use it as to whether or
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by cglee 16y ago
Great idea! Have you heard of Active Interview? :)
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by cglee 16y ago
Stated another way: you can do bad things if you have good intentions in the end. eg, break the law to defend human rights, etc.
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by cglee 16y ago
This is awesome. Do you have a site or email list? I go to Beijing often and would love to be kept in the loop. ps: 798 is one of my favorite places..great choice.
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by cglee 16y ago
That gross simplification robs the original post of its point. Yes, I agree with what you said. Yes, I agree with what the parent said.
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by cglee 16y ago
We built the initial version of Active Interview during last year's rails rumble.
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by cglee 16y ago
railsphere.com rubyhackers.com wudwua.com (where u at, what u doing) shopsbyfriends.com bikinichinese.com getmandarin.com

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