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by cglee 17y ago
I could go Google something, but it'd be easier and more entertaining if you came over and had dinner with my folks, who grew up in the Cultural Revolution era. Or my grandparents, who lived through famines and saw the transmformation from
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by cglee 17y ago
Indignation is precisely how NOT to engage China. The political culture is very different from the US. Leaders want face and respect above all - there are no Jon Stewart type shows poking fun at any political bosses. You want China to chang
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by cglee 17y ago
So if history tells us that some countries have reneged on loans through war, that's what the operating manual says countries should do today? Countries have been pillaging, raping and committing genocide for eons - that means this is how c
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by cglee 17y ago
If so, you need to qualify it with the conditions in which your personally defined comparison method fails. In real life, the comparison method fails for everyone outside your value system. So it's not obvious that one culture is better tha
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by cglee 17y ago
I'm talking about basing your worldview, not what you currently believe. Worldviews are things people attach significant identities to, and internalize to form the foundations for the rest of their beliefs. If there's nothing you can think
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by cglee 17y ago
> Some cultures are demonstrably better than others, like it or not. I'm having a really hard time swallowing this one. If people value different things, how can you even make such an argument?
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by cglee 17y ago
That would be great - imagine if everyone worked like that. How would anyone ever collect on their loans? I owe you $50? Well, you hit my cousin the other day...
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by cglee 17y ago
Why are you so certain of this? I grew up dominated by Christianity. It wasn't until 14 that I saw a UFO magazine insinuate that humans came from Mars. True or not didn't matter - what I remember from reading that was that my faith was shak
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by cglee 17y ago
It'd be sweet if the recordings were of people actually creating something well known. For example, if you could say "here's a screencast of how the Twitter prototype was built". In a similar vein, I remember an Etherpad recording of PG wri
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by cglee 17y ago
I'm surprised a ticket tracking / code repo app isn't mentioned on here. For that, use either Codebase (costs money) or Redmine (open source).
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by cglee 17y ago
As a Chinese American and an only child because of this law, I find that this problem will present a lot of opportunities in the coming years. Too late to do anything about it? Stay tuned. Edit: I almost forgot that I had been an only child
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by cglee 17y ago
Migrating contacts isn't the problem. The problem is people keep emailing me at my Yahoo address even when I give them my Gmail address.
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by cglee 17y ago
It's not that easy to switch email providers when you have 10+ years of history. I have Yahooo and Gmail accounts, but all my old friends keep sending emails to Yahoo.
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by cglee 17y ago
Would be nice to have summaries or reviews of the talks so we know which ones are must-sees.
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by cglee 17y ago
I agree, although I never liked using observers. I want to glance at the model and know what's going on. But if you're going to use observers, do it as a practice for all the callbacks on your models. Don't mix inline callback methods with
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by cglee 17y ago
I think McDonalds, Starbucks, KFC, Coke, Pepsi, etc etc may disagree with you. Software has a thing or two to learn from those guys wrt China.
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by cglee 17y ago
I don't fault the author for blogging it, but it probably shouldn't be submitted to HACKER news.
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by cglee 17y ago
Really, I agree with everything you're saying. But sometimes paid apps just feel better, and I'm really hoping that all will be forgiven once TM2 blows our minds.
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by cglee 17y ago
What's contradictory? Sell stuff, and try to do it on your own.
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by cglee 17y ago
This is a really convoluted way of conveying a few simple concepts: 1) automate what you can and 2) keep your mind and perspective fresh by continuous learning. I don't see why we need to redefine the words lazy and dumb. Truly lazy and dum
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by cglee 17y ago
Why is it a net loss? I agree that a lot of programs on prime time are trashy and sensationalistic, but there are a lot of great programs on television as well.
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by cglee 17y ago
It also depends on where you are in the corporate machine. As someone else mentioned on HN once, perhaps Gates couldn't even move up in today's Microsoft, but he makes a pretty good CEO.
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by cglee 17y ago
Would be scary if it caught those flashing moments of doing something extreme all of us experience and acted on it (ie, walking by a ledge and thinking of throwing your new laptop off it).
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by cglee 17y ago
This works well when you're a Github, so YMMV. For me, since I don't run a popular revenue generating app (yet), it's difficult to woo the superstars - the people who, by definition, are at their peak (ie, most expensive). People like me ne
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by cglee 17y ago
Right, if there's no difference, that's obvious. I'm mostly referring to those who say something to the effect of "Mac's are better, but I can't pay the 1.5K difference". If you aim to be the best at your field, it's imperative you're using
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by cglee 17y ago
The price comparison never made much sense to me. It's 1 - 1.5K difference in price. For most people who use the computer to make a living, that is nothing when evaluated through the lifetime of the computer.
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by cglee 17y ago
I get tired just thinking about ways to save money. I'm not a big spender by any means, and my road to frugality begins and ends with one question "Do I REALLY need it and will it help me be happier or more productive?" (ok, that's really 3
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by cglee 17y ago
Sorry, I meant "redefine", not "refine". I would say the problem with this "always right/wrong" approach is not in the obvious cases (like stealing from the rich ... it's still stealing), but in the edge cases where it's not entirely obviou
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The problem with the moral objectivists' argument is that they then refine stealing. So stealing is always wrong, except when it isn't, in which case it's not stealing.
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by cglee 17y ago
That's a good example and shows the crux of the problem. In your example, the article should have said "the average NFL player", which offers a clear category of football player. The term "startup" is not as clearly delineated as "NFL playe

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