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by deerpig 9y ago
Org is already 10 years old? It seems like yesterday that I was using Muse Mode. Then, seemingly overnight the muse discussion lists went very quiet because everyone switched to Org. I still have a bunch of notes in files that was created
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by deerpig 9y ago
From Thailand. Elephants are sacred there, especially white elephants. So if someone gave you a white elephant you could not refuse or get rid of it without causing offense.
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by deerpig 9y ago
For me it was VRML. I was working with SGI (not for) in Hong Kong at the time and it was amazing what you could do with it. They were even pushing it for use in interactive 3D banner ads. I went to the Tokyo event where they streamed som
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by deerpig 9y ago
The vast majority of universities outside of developed countries can't afford to pay. I work at a national university in Cambodia. I've been trying to get the ministry of education to pay for a heavily discounted account (becaus
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by deerpig 9y ago
I'm seeing that some of this is being driven by web developer shops who are telling clients that this is how things must be done. I was sent a 600MB chunk of crud today to be hosted that required a full lamp stack to build a web app t
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by deerpig 9y ago
I was living in Udon Thani in northeast Thailand in the year of the great Bangkok floods.which is well over a ten hour drive from Bangkok. We had heavy rains but no real flooding. But when Bangkok was hit, a huge part of the supply chain f
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by deerpig 9y ago
"Some of you might be thinking, just use vim or emacs and you don't have to worry about using Ctrl+Left and Ctrl+Right because there are better ways of navigation. But you are not always in vim or emacs, sometimes you are in a bro
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by deerpig 9y ago
I heard it on the Gabfest before seeing it here as well.
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by deerpig 9y ago
Actually, that's what I used, but in this case the conversion didn't work very well. I had to do a lot of editing to get it formated so checklsts worked and get all of the links converted. Org is a bit more finicky than markdown
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by deerpig 9y ago
This is brilliant, but it's in markdown. I've converted it to emacs orgmode so I can use org checklists and integrate into my todo list. https://github.com/deerpig/side-project-marketing/blob/maste.
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by deerpig 9y ago
As awful as this is, I wonder what the percentage of angel and early stage investments in startups that have women are any better.
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by deerpig 9y ago
This is brilliant! First, they are right 'don't teach english in the far east'. I did it for a three months in Hong Kong in the 80's. The school was a mess and I quickly became freelance. That only sucked slightly le
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by deerpig 9y ago
There is no chinese language. There are many languages in China and the official language is Mandarin. There are many different ethnic groups in China as well, with different languages (not dialects) and even different writing systems. I
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by deerpig 9y ago
Yes there are Han Chinese in HK, but the Cantonese, Hakka and Chiu Chow are not ethnic Han people. And languages like Cantonese are closer to Thai than they are to Mandarin. Hakka is very different from Mandarin or Cantonese.
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by deerpig 9y ago
I look foward to reding this. Writing dictionaries is the polar opposite of Silicon Valley startups. There is no fame (but there are heros) certainly no fortune and there is no exit. It is a relentless plodding process that often takes g
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by deerpig 10y ago
They didn't have much choice. The new territories had to go back because they were leased. So all that they could have held on to was Hong Kong island and Kowloon. There wasn't the infrastructure to maintain those areas. And C
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by deerpig 10y ago
A charming April 1st post. My two favorite lines were "our tools have been rebelling against us since the first peasant stepped on a rake" and "Even a village idiot can fall in love; Newton never did".
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G.K. Chesterton on AI Risk(slatestarcodex.com)
19 points by deerpig 10y ago|7 comments
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by deerpig 10y ago
A number of posts like this seem to pop up every year. You can divide Western people staying out here into three broad groups, the expats, the NGOs and the tourists. Most expats are out here for decades or forever because there is somethin
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by deerpig 10y ago
I completely agree and would add that your name, telephone number and email address should be a large enough font that people don't have to take out their reading glasses or squint to read it.
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by deerpig 10y ago
Having lived for 30 years in SE Asia, with temps in the mid-forties C during the hot season (which will start very soon) we seldom turn on the aircon for more than 1-2 hours at the most at night, and then only in the bedroom. This works if
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by deerpig 10y ago
>When it came out, Windows 95 blew everything out of the water We had two NeXT color slabs at the time when Win95 came out. We used them to help MS launch Win95 in Hong Kong. NeXT by then was gone as a company and the slabs were gettin
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by deerpig 10y ago
As an American citizen living in Cambodia -- book events here. It's cheaper and the conference facilities are getting better every year. It's time for Americans to stop thinking all roads lead to them.
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by deerpig 10y ago
>And they're printed once a day, so if an important event happens at noon, I won't get to read about it until tomorrow morning. I don't like reading printed newspapers any longer either, but the one good thing about them i
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by deerpig 10y ago
Too many HN links point to items behind paywalls... That said, its all what you're used to. I've lived for nearly 30 years in odd corners of East and South East Asia and most of that time I had no access to cable or satellite, or
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by deerpig 10y ago
> Their story began in Missouri where they found a gorgeous barn that needed a second chance. They dismantled the barn and brought it to NYC and rebuilt in in their loft in SoHo. Huh?
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by deerpig 10y ago
I've actually ended up having to let go almost every person working for me that takes your view. Learning such things expands what you can do at work, no matter what it is. We no longer live in a world where you can punch a clock and
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by deerpig 10y ago
America wasn't like this when I left in the late 80's. I'm not saying that America had no problems -- clearly it did, but there wasn't so much fear, and things felt more free (at least if you were white) and different p
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by deerpig 10y ago
Seems like it's a place where they dump any standard diclaimer boiler plate they come across, Includes Includes "Not the Beatles", "Falling rock" and "No Alcohol, dogs or horses" This is just begging to
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NASA: Standard Disclaimer(goes.gsfc.nasa.gov)
2 points by deerpig 10y ago|1 comments

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