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by erikb 9y ago
It's not like going to the super market. And it depends on more factors than price. E.g. Salesforce's competition status plays a role as well, also whatever the current power struggle between different Salesforce managers, etc. Us
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by erikb 9y ago
Even without these institutions arts universities of all kinds are overflowing with children from Chinese rich families. It's already a huge, wealthy market. It's just not as funny as a Chinese math genius, so fewer people outside
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by erikb 9y ago
This is really scary. If you think about it I bet there are quite a few start-ups working on exactly that.
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by erikb 9y ago
Well, Paypal and Wechat proof the opposite. Easy, small transactions are very well a high demand product. And even if you can't make money with it directly, you can still use to drive demand and track users in whatever other service yo
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by erikb 9y ago
Hm, in China black people, Indians and other Asians are all not considered "laowai" but have their distinct terms. Not sure about latinos. They might be mixed with either laowai or black people into one category.
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by erikb 9y ago
Reminds me of the more military OODA loop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop
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by erikb 9y ago
I don't know why this is always made a topic, but I never felt offended by "gaijin" or the Chinese counterpart "laowai". No big deal. However I also don't think that "they don't think it's offens
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by erikb 9y ago
My experience is also that the randomness increased over the recent years. That also means sometimes I get 40+ points for something that wasn't even worth one upvote in my opinion.
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by erikb 9y ago
I hope you really mean "emigrants", so smart people leaving their home countries, leaving the aging population that was not capable of going abroad. And I think people downvote because they assume you mean "immigrants" b
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by erikb 9y ago
Which results? Some rich people stay rich by getting gifts from their daddies, by being mean and by having other people do the calculations for them. Doing it this way one might even become president. But I think you won't find anybody
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by erikb 9y ago
Yes and no. Yes certainly the skills you describe are more in the financial category and help more, if you need to choose. But one really should be able to do both monitoring and simple calculations in one's head, at least getting into
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by erikb 9y ago
If there would be an alternative to the Fallout series I would buy it. But there aren't. The closest I can think of is the newer Shadowrun series, but that is not open world enough to be played more than 2 times.
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by erikb 9y ago
In a start-up you usually get a significant payout on success. Do game developers also get up to a few million dollars bonus when the game is a success? I doubt that. And that is where the devs are cheated. You are paid like a normal job, b
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by erikb 9y ago
At the time I checked it, YouCompleteMe under the hood was running headless Eclipse as background for its features. So for me it was even worse than using the IDE directly. Now instead of one lightweight tool I had two tools to do the job o
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by erikb 9y ago
I'm certainly one of the Vim clique and I love a little religious infighting between communities. So I'm quite happy that this battle is ongoing. Just in another thread a few days ago HN community discussed about how much org-mode
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by erikb 9y ago
Interesting that you feel you can use Vim to write Java. I love Vim, really. It's my most favorite editor of all time. But for Java I wouldn't want to miss the auto-complete, auto-import, debugging and fuzzy search features of an
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by erikb 9y ago
Do people not know that there is a database called Hana? Honestly before my time at SAP I also didn't know but I thought it's my personal failing.
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by erikb 9y ago
True, was a little over the top. Thanks for the feedback.
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by erikb 9y ago
While I haven't checked for proof I wouldn't be surprised if the author is in fact spending a lot of his time not just blogging and informing about the situation, but also working on improving things. I challenge you to do it bett
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by erikb 9y ago
I'm a huge fan of increasing our freedoms. But truth is there are things a lot bigger than even a few humans together. e.g. a vulcano breaks out means you can't go on top of the Vulcano without dying. A big corp or government want
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by erikb 9y ago
> IMHO, if you want people to use anything else but slack, sticking your head in the sand and screaming "you can do all of that in IRC" won't get you anywhere and is equivalent to complaining about the very nature of human
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by erikb 9y ago
And even Google feels a little shaky these days, not really knowing what the next big thing could be for them after search+ads. Their mobile and their cloud business are both small compared (if the data didn't change over the last 1-2
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by erikb 9y ago
I think this is a misinterpretation. If you are the market leader and have huge profits you can enter such a market at any time. It just costs more and more the stabler the market becomes, which in turn of course also decreases the risks an
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by erikb 9y ago
How big is the server market though and how much is it supposed to grow?
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by erikb 9y ago
Often the solution is a stalemate until a profitable opportunity arises. So, no surprises here. Interesting to see that such a giant can really start shaking so badly by losing one of its sources of profit. I think even if the whole desktop
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by erikb 9y ago
Yes, the good ol' org-mode. I also consider it the core killer feature of emacs. However I found it doesn't match into all my processes. A text editor you can drop into different kinds of work processes. But a whole engine that us
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by erikb 9y ago
For me this kind of micro optimization never worked but in the most advanced skill areas I have (e.g. vim hotkeys). For everything people related for me the very simple approach worked best: - find a topic where you can see the other perso
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by erikb 9y ago
Isn't flagging pictures making a suggestion so that a real law enforcement officer can check a reduced number of pictures instead of all pictures in existence? Starting from the real officer making a decision the process is normal law
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by erikb 9y ago
Dear FBI, I'm happy to join the effort in my spare time. You probably have my Whatsapp and bank account already, so let's just make it happen.
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by erikb 9y ago
Read this and ctrl-f "cat's paw" or "execution failure": https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/10/14/the-gervais-principle-... I love how many of the Gervais Principle examples are actually

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