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by garply 17y ago
Maybe a better lesson is - screw YC, who needs them? Honestly, if you need the money to bootstrap, freelance. If you need the connections, go network. Think of it positively - this way you get to keep 100% of your equity.
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"From experience I can tell you the lack of libraries in these languages kills off almost any code size advantage you get from using them. So I ask you all, be honest to yourself; is using such a language worth it?" As someone who has progr
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by garply 17y ago
If I were Evan Williams, I would say that Twitter is fundamental to just about everything.
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Presumably the Germans / French had a lot less to lose with a failed search engine, whereas the Chinese stand to lose control of the next medium of communication. I'm sure in the minds of many of the people planning this, the idea is that t
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by garply 17y ago
The rumor I've heard here in Beijing is that, among other things, the Chinese government was interested in the actual search-engine tech to help fuel their own CCTV search engine (which is to eventually be expanded beyond video search). Bai
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by garply 17y ago
My longtime gf and I co-own our business. I run the technical side, she runs the business side. It works well, but you definitely need a strong relationship for it to work. Also, since I do business in China and I'm a white foreigner, her p
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by garply 17y ago
Yesterday, I was sending one of my workers to go pick something up at an address she didn't recognize. I told her to look it up on Baidu Maps (better version of Google Maps for China) and I found that she had never used a computer in her li
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Simple HN feature request: link to parent story from individual comment pages
80 points by garply 17y ago|10 comments
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A query for "Tiananmen 1989" (in Chinese): h^ttp://www.google.cn/search?hl=zh-CN&source=hp&q=天安门+1989&btnG=Google+搜索&aq=f&oq= "据当地法律法规和政策，部分搜索结果未予显示。" "In accordance with the laws and regulations of your land, certain se
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Ask HN: Whatever happened to Google pulling out of China?
24 points by garply 17y ago|9 comments
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by garply 17y ago
Security issues aside, I'd be more interested in a browser that supported a more powerful javascript than another language I can run on my server.
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I'm not sure if I'm more interested in the explanation for this data or in how you came across it.
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It means the meat stays refrigerated all the way from slaughter to sale. The meat in all the other chains spends significant time sitting in areas without temperature control (read, sitting in hot areas). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_
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by garply 17y ago
Want to know a trick to haggling? Decide how much you're willing to pay for something, pull out the money and say "I'm willing to give you this. Otherwise I'm leaving." If they protest, walk away. If the seller can make money at that price,
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I basically agree with this and find this to be the most likely scenario by far. I think the economies would have to be much more decoupled than they are today for a war to happen, and I don't see that happening.
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No, their quality of service is about the same (although, like McDonald's and Pizza Hut, they are upscale here, simply because of the different average economic level of a consumer). But the cold chain thing is real - my business partner wa
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by garply 17y ago
I absolutely love Walmart. I live in China. Walmart is by far the most hygienic grocery store here. Everybody attacks Walmart for its size and for running small players out of business. But you know what that economy of scale allows it to d
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by garply 17y ago
What? I can't believe that this question was asked in seriousness. Edit: I've given a lot of thought to the notion of war between the US and China. I think it has a non-trivial possibility of occurring. But not in the near future, and not o
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by garply 17y ago
Whenever I see an article title that indicates a list of X things that might interest me, I always find myself wanting just the bullet point list without the surrounding content (at least until I decide whether or not the bullet point list
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Javascript Pacman(masswerk.at)
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Not aboard, but abroad - two of us split an apartment for $600 in a decent location in Beijing (near Beijing's central business district and a 10-min walk from a subway station). I think $300 / month is probably affordable for most techies
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Inflation May Spur Revaluing of Yuan(online.wsj.com)
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Porter five forces analysis(en.wikipedia.org)
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by garply 17y ago
I find myself inherently suspicious of US legal attempts to crack down on porn because 'cracking down on obscene content' is the justification that the CCP uses in China to censor many things that are clearly not porn.
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Not unrelated, Wired implies that part of the problem with the manga was that they depicted bestiality. Although it seems that he wasn't convicted for the bestiality part? I don't totally understand the law - maybe the bestiality helped fur
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by garply 17y ago
Does it stop being porn when it's old? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dream_of_the_Fisherman%27s_...
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by garply 17y ago
The title makes me really want to not watch this.
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Are these two, sshadmand and imosquera, sock puppet accounts?
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I'm in Beijing, I'm in the food industry, and I'm surrounded by entrepreneurs who almost never go online. I turned down the posh jobs out of college and my partner quit McKinsey to found our company. A friend just bought a million dollar fa
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by garply 17y ago
Well, they could go without health insurance. Frankly, if you're going to be uninsured at some point in your life, such a young age is the best time to do it... it's when you're old and sick that you want to be insured most, not when you're

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