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by garply 17y ago
Haha, all the images on Wikipedia are also filtered and my assumption for the reason was pretty similar to what you just suggested.
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by garply 17y ago
A little I guess, but I'm an American, so I feel somewhat safer. Also, everything I know about my adopted homeland tells me that you only really get in trouble if you're agitating vocally for serious political change (something I don't real
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by garply 17y ago
But I don't think it's an issue of socioeconomic status. My point in mentioning my business was that I need to understand my demographic very thoroughly (I work 7 days a week catering to their needs). Many of my customers have studied abroa
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by garply 17y ago
I live and run a business here in Beijing. The majority of my customers are young adult mainlanders (white collar, 18-35 years old) and my employees are mainlanders as well. Also my girlfriend of 6+ years. I don't find any of what you say t
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by garply 17y ago
Thanks for the text, but I have a US proxy. Btw, imageshack is blocked too.
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by garply 17y ago
Where do you get this information about public opinion? My experience is that the white collar workers who use Google side with Google... and nobody else knows what Google is.
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by garply 17y ago
Some things I used to be able to search for on google.cn, but are now filtered by my ISP (via connection reset): http://www.google.com.hk/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8... (6/4) http://www.google.com.hk/search?hl=zh-CN&source=hp
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by garply 17y ago
Re: the wrench by Google docs. Google spreadsheets are blocked here, but not the rest of the service as far as I can tell. Why? One can only ponder what goes on in the censors' heads.
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by garply 17y ago
Connection reset... same as I get with blogspot, wordpress, facebook, twitter, etc.
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by garply 17y ago
No, it's not blocked (yet) - but queries with certain keywords are being filtered as they always have. It appears the keyword filtering is now more severe, as I've mentioned elsewhere.
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by garply 17y ago
Both of those urls are blocked to me ("Connection was reset").
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by garply 17y ago
http://www.google.com.hk/search?hl=zh-CN&safe=strict&#38... is now filtered for me (it wasn't a few days ago), but by my ISP, not by Google.
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by garply 17y ago
I'm curious how long I'll be able to access google.com.hk from my Beijing apartment.
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by garply 17y ago
Entrepreneur: "a person who organizes and manages any enterprise, esp. a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk." from http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/entrepreneur I'd said that the founder of any small business is
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by garply 17y ago
tlb, your site is blocked by the Chinese firewall. What did you do to deserve that?
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by garply 17y ago
"While it is fixed, there's no reason to switch from dollars to yuan, but as the yuan begins to climb fewer and fewer banks or even individuals will want to hold the dollar and our savings will dwindle due to the massive inflationary effect
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by garply 17y ago
I often feel like people here are drinking too much of the Google kool-aid. A corporate slogan is just a corporate slogan - it's a form of advertising, designed to make you like their brand more. Google, like all publicly owned companies, e
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by garply 17y ago
Robin Li is an American? Who are the other founders?
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by garply 17y ago
It is deeply upsetting if you're a smoker. If he's going through a tough time, nicotine withdrawal is going to be an unnecessary addition to his problems.
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by garply 17y ago
Well, I can measure the value I'm creating (at least in the short term) relatively objectively by seeing how much money I make. And I make more money (and just generally get a lot more projects done) by managing other programmers. Regarding
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by garply 17y ago
I appreciate the point that running a software business is only 10% development and 90% business. "If you want to spend your time writing code, go work for Google." This hits close to home as I am gradually learning that I provide far more
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In Mile High City, Weed Sparks Up a Counterculture Clash(online.wsj.com)
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by garply 17y ago
I'm not sure why we're disagreeing. The "6/4 incident" is heavily censored (and I imagine moreso because that's what you guys would use more often to talk about the event), but so is my search term. On the search result pages, there are onl
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by garply 17y ago
I live in China and I don't think it's wrong to use Tian'anmen (at least the Chinese term) as a keyword: http://www.google.cn/search?hl=zh-CN&source=hp&q=天安门... (Tian'anmen Square incident 1989) That looks quite censored to me (ym
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by garply 17y ago
I've found that the longer I'm out of college, the less I use facebook.
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by garply 17y ago
It depends on whom they surveyed. If they surveyed white collar workers and Western expats, the cost of living in Shanghai could very well be that expensive. If they surveyed migrant workers... no, it definitely is not. Also, peg aside, the
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by garply 17y ago
Well, that would be problem if the eval'ed calls were short and frequently made, but I'm talking about code that doesn't make use of the lang servers. It is Arc that's slow. Of course, if I did have a problem with multiple http+eval calls,
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by garply 17y ago
I've been hacking Arc for a while now and we've been using calls to 'language servers' to deal with the poor library support. Basically, we wrap calls to Perl or Python up and send it via http to a local server that does nothing but eval th
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by garply 17y ago
I too have built a company bootstrapping and I've never applied to YC. I'm not saying YC is necessarily a bad deal if you want to go through the VC funnel and flip your business - in fact, in that case, I think it makes a great deal of sens
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by garply 17y ago
"It all worked great for a while, until one day they found they had too few pieces of scrip. Every couple had only a couple hours left and, having so little, they didn’t want to waste it." Wait... where did the old pieces of scrip go?

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