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by kaptain 16y ago
The discussion on stackexchange focused more on whether programmers in the east, generally speaking, are of sufficient quality. Living in China and going to a local university learning chinese, I've feel that a lot of the symptoms described
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Macbook Pro Rumors auf Deutsch(fscklog.com)
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by kaptain 16y ago
Looks like a 'typical' Chinese operation. And look: they're hiring a GUI designer [高级美术设计师(GUI设计师)]! http://www.nibirutech.com/careers.html Why bother? Living here in China, one of the things that strikes me is that there is a complete di
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by kaptain 16y ago
> If these folks spent 1/10th of the time they've spent on ideological wars doing something more productive, FOSS would be a heck of a lot better, especially for end users. People down-voted your comment but I upvoted it. I agree, to a
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by kaptain 16y ago
But it sounds, phonetically, like 'wanker'.
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Swastikas and context(stepto.com)
33 points by kaptain 16y ago|36 comments
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You mean: "... if you don't look white or black..." Just ask anyone to draw a picture of an "All-American". Most folks will draw someone white or black.
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by kaptain 16y ago
I like the pdf; they should run this program at the Chinese university I'm at. It'd be a complete graph. :)
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by kaptain 16y ago
"Being rich" is being able to buy something you want or need when you want or need it. I make less than $70K a year and consider myself wealthy: there's nothing that my wife and I have wanted or needed that I couldn't immediately pay for. (
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Ask HN: Enforcing a schedule
2 points by kaptain 16y ago|0 comments
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Mr. Jobs gives a sister a break; Adobe sighs(abclocal.go.com)
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by kaptain 16y ago
At first I wasn't sure if this was a rant against Windows because the author kept using POS. Then I realized that POS also meant point-of-sale.
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by kaptain 16y ago
It's to magnify the emotion expressed. In the olden days, before emoticons, people used a larger vocabulary to express themselves, but often times that failed to express the magnitude of their feelings. They used !! for that purpose. Of cou
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by kaptain 16y ago
• This is most likely related to viewing Dropbox as a source of information sharing that cannot be controlled. It is a testament to Dropbox's influence, that the government would see DB as a threat. Until DB can promise the government a suf
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by kaptain 16y ago
If all non-Chinese servers rejected any requests from China, would this be counter-productive? Basically if everyone else banded together and said "You can have all of it or none of it, but you can't pick and choose." would this force open
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by kaptain 16y ago
If you've got a solution and need a tester, I'd be happy to test. I'm running MacOSX this side of the GFW.
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by kaptain 16y ago
Most Chinese use some version of Windows. The PRC built their own variant of Linux; it looks like their building off of the 2.6 kernel but (surprise, surprise) I can't find the source anywhere on their website. http://www.kylin-os.com/prod
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by kaptain 16y ago
http://shanghaiist.com/2010/05/11/another_one_bites_the_dust... Or if you're more into empiricism, install this http://chinachannel.hk/ onto Firefox (warning: isn't > 3.5 compatible). Or you could come over to my apartment here in C
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by kaptain 16y ago
I live in China as an expat (from the US). It's not really clear to me what the political/social motivations are for blocking Dropbox. Maybe Dropbox is going to merge with Facetwit; that's blocked here too but dropping Dropbox is something
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China drops Dropbox(forums.dropbox.com)
246 points by kaptain 16y ago|103 comments