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by dangrover 11y ago
Come to Guangzhou! Rents are sub-Boston/Portland/Denver, and the air quality, weather, and food are better! Plus easy access to Shenzhen and HK. Agree on the perspective issue. Even crappy US tech companies know more about China t
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by dangrover 11y ago
I got a low-ish offer from them four years ago, and the HR person tried to talk up the value of the equity, saying "Right now, this equity grant is worth $XXX, assuming our valuation doubles in the next year, your equity will be worth
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by dangrover 11y ago
For me, most commercial VPN services have worked fine. PPTP VPNs are blocked/flaky on mobile data plan connections (maybe by the phone company), but no real issues on wifi. On 3/4G, Shadowsocks works perfectly and corporate VPN (C
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by dangrover 11y ago
I'm biased working on the thing, but speaking purely a user, I feel WeChat gives us a peek of the phone OS we'll see in 3 years. The recent "messaging apps will eat everything" spin is burying the lede. What's happe
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by dangrover 11y ago
I forget where I heard it, but I always liked "Advertising is someone taking a dump in your brain."
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by dangrover 11y ago
Having grown up in Vermont and lived only in big coastal cities thereafter, I always felt the cities didn't look right. Then I moved to China and realized the same!
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by dangrover 12y ago
I have kept a journal in a text file since 2011, synced via dropbox. It's grown to be over a meg at this point. At that time, I was feeing depressed, and it gave me tremendous sense of clarity and order to be able to put my thoughts in
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by dangrover 12y ago
Any link to such reports? Curious to see
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by dangrover 12y ago
PM on the WeChat desktop client here! Lots of users say this, but has been pointed out, has security/architecture implications. Let me know if you have any other suggestions!
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Chinese Mobile UI Trends(dangrover.com)
180 points by dangrover 12y ago|34 comments
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by dangrover 12y ago
I'm also in China and rely heavily on VPNs. Some points on that: Sometimes I use a VPN not because I'm trying to get to a banned site, but because of general flakiness when using unblocked sites they'd have no reason to scr
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Chinese telegraph code(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by dangrover 13y ago|0 comments
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"Antagonizing the tech worker"(medium.com)
4 points by dangrover 13y ago|0 comments
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by dangrover 13y ago
I agree, Workshop is great! No guilt, and they've got the place set up for work, no worrying about bad wifi or finding outlets. I go to other cafés for hanging out, and I go there when I need to focus on work. The nice thing about thes
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San Francisco’s rightward turn(salon.com)
3 points by dangrover 13y ago|0 comments
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by dangrover 13y ago
Sometimes I feel like people who sign onto startups in SV as employees are sort of like DC people who sign onto different candidates' campaigns. Every not-yet-mature/proven startup is, in a way, a kind of campaign.
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The Best Financial Advice I Ever Got (or Gave)(online.wsj.com)
3 points by dangrover 13y ago|0 comments
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by dangrover 13y ago
Man, I'm worried we're going to get some Milagro Beanfield War style shit going down soon. Maybe Betabrand should sell their hoodies in kevlar.
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by dangrover 13y ago
The sleeping outside (and the actual homelessness) is a separate and unfortunate problem that needs to be solved. Fixing the broken shelter system would be a start. Many of the people exhibiting the behavior I described may, in fact, have h
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by dangrover 13y ago
This times a thousand. There ought to be some basic ground rules that are enforced in public spaces, even if it takes horrible Guiliani-style police state tactics. Whether you're homeless or a well-off tech dweeb, you shouldn't be
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Lawyer pumps up S.F. landlords at boot camp(sfgate.com)
1 points by dangrover 13y ago|0 comments
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Evictions vs Home Prices in San Francisco(dangrover.github.io)
12 points by dangrover 13y ago|1 comments
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by dangrover 13y ago
The background missing is that the company was private before, changed owners a couple times, and was only taken public in the 90's. The CEO and the chairman of the company held a controlling interest, even while it was public, until,
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Code and Creative Destruction(dangrover.com)
100 points by dangrover 13y ago|7 comments
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by dangrover 13y ago
Okay, with so many making 300K, I'm calling shenanigans.
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by dangrover 13y ago
I hear in the early days, Amazon employees had to assemble their own biodomes from scratch on their first day on the job.
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by dangrover 13y ago
It's funny, I actually met a guy once who worked on Alaskan fishing boats and decided to move into programming. I don't think he regretted the move.
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by dangrover 13y ago
I moved to SF in 2009 and left because a product I made got acquired by an NYC company. I lived in NYC from 2010-2012, then moved back. Although things have changed so much here that sometimes I have second thoughts! There are some things y
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by dangrover 13y ago
I've gotten hung up on this before, but after two years away from the Valley, I realized a lot of this stuff is small potatoes. We've all seen companies that have been involved in multi-million dollar transactions on pure hot air and politi
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The Wrap Cord: a better MacBook extension cord(quirky.com)
2 points by dangrover 13y ago|2 comments

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