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by jhancock 16y ago
I think we're misleading ourselves to compare suicide stats and debate acceptable/normal levels. Its the wrong conversation and FoxConn is enjoining the thread with this anti-suicide contract. Possibly they think they really are trying to
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by jhancock 16y ago
Doesn't work on 10.5.8 (Leopard).
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by jhancock 16y ago
Here's how my startup is growing (I think this applies to many): 1 - user finds my site and signs up. >> Transactional email << 2 - repeat step 1 enough times. 3 - send out newsletter. This will now start happening every 2
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by jhancock 16y ago
Sunday: I have 5000 new registered users and no way to efficiently send newsletters. I'm finishing the code to handle this today. Note to sendgrid or critsend: you guys really need list management tools/APIs!! I know, I know, your worki
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by jhancock 16y ago
I've been using Thunderbird v3 the last few months to handle interacting with 6 gmail accounts. Its the best experience I've found on OS X thus far.
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by jhancock 16y ago
My first thought as well. But after clicking around the app a bit, I was impressed with its responsiveness. Apple could learn a lot from this app.
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by jhancock 16y ago
car pooling app - http://avego.com
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by jhancock 16y ago
"...Twitter to appear as a Grand Jury witness to “testify and give evidence regarding alleged violations of the laws of Pennsylvania”." Is there someone here that knows what the PA law is that enables a subpoena for uncovering identity in t
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by jhancock 16y ago
If MS changed their browser so significantly, many websites would break. A doctor's office I support uses dozens of web sites for insurance, lab results, hospital admissions, etc... I would have installed Firefox or Chrome on all the PCs i
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by jhancock 16y ago
I need to setup a helpdesk system next week. Any recommendations? Our key requirement is to be able to reassign incoming tickets and have simple notification to the person it was reassigned.
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by jhancock 16y ago
Those ranking systems may be better than nothing. But they are not an excuse to look down on another nation. They also do not account for the effects their system has on other systems. I am not going to entertain a HK/Taiwan vs mainland h
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by jhancock 16y ago
Why does it have to come tumbling down? Can't you see a way forward where things improve without violence? There isn't one ruling class. I've seen government power change several times in Shanghai and at the national level over 10 years.
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by jhancock 16y ago
Apologies if my previous post implied China law and justice was better than the U.S. The two systems aren't easily compared. I was attempting to provide a counterbalance to my parent post's hyperbola. [ADDED]: I should not have said the
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by jhancock 16y ago
I understand your current frustration. If you expect everyplace you go to be just like home, your bound to be frustrated. As far as "quality" IT solutions go. Well, lets see here: I helped the Shanghai gov make an e-workflow solution for
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by jhancock 16y ago
Your finding that I am not in Shanghai at the moment says nothing poignant. My family came back to the U.S. for a bit for family reasons: my grandmother is 99 and I wanted to spend time with her. My mother is getting a bit old and I wante
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by jhancock 16y ago
My wife is Chinese as well. She manages our China company. We're registered as an IT company. Its not a WOFE, but a full Chinese entity with only Chinese shareholders, which has some benefits. I'm the General Manager of the company. Goo
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by jhancock 16y ago
I've worked inside various China government departments. In many respects, they have less data on China citizens than the U.S. government has access to on U.S. citizens. If China is on a "1984 path", all I can tell you is the U.S. and UK a
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by jhancock 16y ago
I think VPNs are there to stay. They do not defeat the purpose of the firewall.
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by jhancock 16y ago
In practice, only services that are advertising themselves as a way to get around the firewall may get blocked. Using SSH through some arbitrary VPS provider in the U.S., the chances of it getting blocked are very low...low, as in I've don
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by jhancock 16y ago
You simply need someone to give you SSH access to a server outside China. Setup a SOCKS proxy through SSH and you can get anywhere you want. Using some SaaS from inside China can be a problem (even with your SSH tunnel) due to latency and
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by jhancock 16y ago
That's snarky and ignorant. I've lived in Shanghai for 10 years. The Internet blocking never effected my ability to deliver quality IT solutions to my customers.
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by jhancock 16y ago
It sounds like you are quite enamored with U.S. justice. I'm guessing you've never been arrested and put through the system. From this post, you are indicating that if the law is published and clear, then its ok? I've found it very easy t
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by jhancock 16y ago
Have you experienced law enforcement and courts in China? I have on several occasions. As well as the U.S.. I lived in Shanghai 10 years. I'm in the U.S. right now with my Chinese wife. My experiences in Shanghai court and with Shangha
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by jhancock 16y ago
Perhaps they will. webOS just release their PDK to allow this. http://developer.palm.com/index.php?option=com_content&v... Google can't let Palm get the upper hand, can they? ;)
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by jhancock 16y ago
Do you have evidence that HTTPS results in user retention problems for gmail? I have heard that it may for search. These are two very different use cases. I can recall users and articles in years past asking for https to be default for g
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by jhancock 16y ago
It took 6 paragraphs to get to the word JavaScript. JavaScript is here to stay and its adoption for server apps is on the rise and will be used in some cases where yesterday ruby or python would have been used. That's it in a nutshell. No
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by jhancock 16y ago
CribQ - http://sfbay.cribq.com/ There are other cities it handles (choose the drop down) but it defaults to sfbay (for me) and remembers your subdomain. Anyway, its a cool google map, craiglist, route, list planner mashup a friend made.
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by jhancock 16y ago
Me personally? I want https for gmail...ok, I've had it since around 2008. For web search? If I'm going to search on something top secret I wouldn't want Google to have identifiable info on me either so I wouldn't use Google or I would t
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by jhancock 16y ago
"Now, if you are on an airport Wi-Fi or other public network everything you search for is in the clear." ok, and most search results you click on will take you somewhere not secure. There may be little value add here. From re-reading this
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by jhancock 16y ago
"Google encrypted all Gmail accounts in response to the hacking incidents that prompted its decision to move its Chinese-language search operation from Beijing to Hong Kong." Its a shame they couldn't do it because customers have been askin

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