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by garply 16y ago
There are wealthy entrepreneurs, there are children of wealthy entrepreneurs, there are wealthy landlords. A lot of my customers, who are white-collar, have made good money in the stock market over the past decade and also in the real estat
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by garply 16y ago
This article really struck a note with me. The atmosphere here in Beijing really has changed a lot over the past few years. The relative wealth of the 2 countries is directly evident in the different attitudes of Western expats and native C
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In China's Orbit(online.wsj.com)
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by garply 16y ago
Ah, good point about the white text. The darkness clash isn't too strong, maybe it was just because I was used to the light color. I think I'll switch to yours for a while.
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by garply 16y ago
I don't think these naming conventions are problematic. Generic and useful tools should be named with simple, generic names. This is Google's problem, or a problem of the programmer using the wrong methods to search for the tool.
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by garply 16y ago
I find your brown is a little too dark to go with the black text. Try f1e9d9.
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by garply 16y ago
I don't want to launch my own apps, I just want to consult. I've only recently learned to develop for Android (did some very cheap consulting gigs - including porting a small game for practically free). Any advice on how to find clients?
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by garply 16y ago
But cheap and low quality is what the mass Chinese market needs for now. The average Chinese does not have the money of an average American and thus does not value or is unable to pay for the quality of an American-style product. I'll give
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by garply 16y ago
It's getting a bunch of connection resets. Strange, I doubt it's large enough to be on the Chinese censors' radar. I bet it's triggering stuff aimed at sites that basically scrape or iframe Google.
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by garply 16y ago
First, about the language issue: Cookies are on, I'm logged into my account, and Interface Language and Search Language are both set to English only. Without ever closing my browser or logging out, within 10 or 20 minutes Google will revert
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by garply 16y ago
I find that it's broken down a lot by education / social class. The white-collar workers are more likely to use Google than the bulk of the population, which certainly uses Baidu by default. That said, when Google pulled out, a lot of my Ch
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by garply 16y ago
If the community would collectively pay me for this feature and pg would agree to accept the patch, I'd do it.
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by garply 16y ago
I'd love to hear PG chime in about the chairs. He's been negative on them in an article or two. I think I agree with Joel here. I'm a frugal bootstrapper - I always turn off the heat before I leave my apartment. But cheap chairs can be bad
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by garply 16y ago
Code. Sometimes under the influence.
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by garply 16y ago
Learn and use a modern scripting language Learn thogoughly and embrace the philosophy of a modern version control system Be familiar with NoSQL solutions like MongoDB, CouchDB. Learn a functional language — or more than one. St
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by garply 16y ago
I think it's called "saber-rattling".
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by garply 16y ago
Wait, so this was Android-only money? I thought this was total income.
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by garply 16y ago
I've always imagined that in the future humans will have some form of telepathy through neural implants. This sounds almost exactly like how I envision the experience of well-implemented telepathic communication.
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by garply 16y ago
http://forlue.com
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by garply 16y ago
He mentions a lack of engineers well-versed in MS products. Is there good money to be made in doing consulting using MS tech?
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by garply 16y ago
The westernization of China still looks pretty inevitable to me. What's changed?
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by garply 16y ago
Hi ambition, I was painting with pretty broad strokes, and I did not intend to say Facebook employees are "greedy" (I do not believe I did say that). I meant that the value systems of the people I know in both places tend to be slightly dif
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by garply 16y ago
Yes, they're waiting for the stock market to get better.
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by garply 16y ago
No. A lot of my former classmates from Stanford work at Google and Facebook. Among the engineers, there is a pretty clear trend that the more hacker-like ones are at Google (or Microsoft Research) and the more financially-motivated ones (pr
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by garply 16y ago
That's good to point out, but China is consciously adopting a Western legal and economic system (with some notable modifications) on which to run its society. If they do it successfully, the larger amount of people should give the country a
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by garply 16y ago
I'd like to know about the economics of being an indie game dev. Is it a an industry where it is easy to turn a profit once you've learned the basics? I've read that games are really hit-and-miss, so you need a large game portfolio to sprea
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by garply 16y ago
Nope, they were bogus then too. I was hacking a Chinese website at the time. Basically what happened is PG didn't use utf8 and didn't check to see if it worked, but it did anyway. From the very beginning, (def 什么 () 1) (什么) => 1
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by garply 16y ago
Thanks for posting this! Arc is really a great language - I use it every day to power my Chinese e-commerce site (there were a bunch of totally bogus complaints a while back about Arc's lack of utf8 support). Libraries are no longer really
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by garply 16y ago
I appreciate your sentiment and I, as most people, have mixed feelings about how China's developing. As I referenced in my other comment, a great deal of China's ability to innovate in terms of real estate development comes at the cost of w
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by garply 16y ago
There used to be a bar street I frequented here in Beijing. It was kind of a sketchy place, but popular among college students and young adults. Then the Olympics came around and the gov't decided they needed to gentrify the area. The polic

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