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by kinkora 13y ago
I have to agree with Cheng. Malaysia is probably your best bet for somewhere in between if you are looking for a balance between the developed world and stretching your savings. KL is a pretty laid back place to be with awesome food! And wi
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by kinkora 13y ago
Good story. I've always thought that the situation in Afghanistan can be pretty much summarised in these pictures: http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/5112c4a969beddd0720... p/s: it shows the stark differences in Aghanistan from 1967
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by kinkora 13y ago
if you ever been in a design meeting with Mayer, you will know how true it is on her "hands-on" approach to design. She is also very meticulous and border line pedantic when it comes to design. Don't be surprised that there was probably a c
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by kinkora 13y ago
>>Lesson: never fight a dominant incumbent in its own game. You will get killed. Play a different game. Better yet, invent a new game where you know the rules best. What about Google[1], Apple[2], Facebook[3], etc? Not disagreeing w
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by kinkora 14y ago
I rarely quote gawker but they have a good write up about the whole fiasco: http://gawker.com/5992733/how-to-become-a-teen-millionaire-b... Basically, Nick was really pushy when he was young. I personally think all of us were, at some poi
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by kinkora 14y ago
If you scroll to the bottom, you will see this bit: "Mark Manson is an entrepreneur, writer and perpetual world traveler. He writes about unconventional living and self development at his blog Postmasculine.com."
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by kinkora 14y ago
If you read the article all the way towards the end, you will see that it's not exactly "lonely". From the article: The planet is in fact called CFBDSIR2149 and appears to be part of a group of very young stars known as the AB Doradus Movi
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by kinkora 14y ago
if neither of you picked it out, steve chen (of youtube fame) used to work for Paypal before starting youtube and you can spot him on this slide: http://www.levchin.com/paypal-slideshow/3.html
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by kinkora 14y ago
"The final straw was Matt Cohler joining the Board at the end of August. Matt's with Benchmark, and his involvement is there for the sole sake of getting the website turned around, on an upward trajectory, and in shape to be sold so he
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by kinkora 14y ago
I am always curious why when people say that $x.xx (or any app that is not $.99) is too expensive for an app. A meal (burger, fries and a drink) in McDonalds will cost you at least $5~$9 depending on the size of the meal you get. Would you
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by kinkora 14y ago
I couldn't agree with you more. When I was in Osaka, I stayed at a backpackers and I met a few young Japanese locals. Between my extremely poor and limited Japanese and their broken English, we were somewhat able to maintain a conversation
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by kinkora 14y ago
I replied this somewhere else but just a note that I was staying about 5 minutes away from Shinjuku station so I did stumble along into Akiba backstreets when I was there. Also, when I was in Osaka, I visited DenDen City! All of these place
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by kinkora 14y ago
Funny you mentioned Yodobashi because I actually stayed 5 minutes away from Shinjuku station when I was in Tokyo and did stumble into it when I was roaming the streets. My impression of Akiba? Interesting no doubt and you are right in a sen
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by kinkora 14y ago
Interesting article and it echos my own views of Japan after visiting the country last month for the first time in my life and spending 2.5 weeks there. I grew up in the decade[1] where Japan absolutely dominated the consumer electronics in
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by kinkora 14y ago
Firstly, you don't need Facebook to login. I signed up with an email account and I've always been using that to login. I was also attracted to Quora due to the more "techy" questions and answers that they have[1] but I've noticed for the pa
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by kinkora 14y ago
if you look at the comments, there seems to be a lot of negative views of Tatsuya Abe. Anyone from Japan (or know about Rakuten) can comment why?
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by kinkora 14y ago
thanks for the answers! And yes, I will definitely drop you a line if i ever get my site up and running. I'm still in development mode now. :) Again, congrats on your product and hope it gets better in the near future.
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by kinkora 14y ago
great job! These are the sort of success stories from you regular joes that are more common than the typical "1 billion dollar acquisition" startup. A couple of questions if you don't mind: a) What technology stack are you using/did you use
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by kinkora 14y ago
The problem with the current patent system is that it treats all patents from various industries (software, manufacturing, biology, chemistry, science, business, etc) exactly the same across the board and applies the exact same rules to all
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by kinkora 14y ago
Competing hardware doesn’t work with Ubiquiti’s software Does anyone know how this is possible or what sort of techniques that can do this? I would imagine he incorporates some sort of hardware that needs to be present in order for the so
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by kinkora 14y ago
"Facebook is not acquiring the company, technology, or customer data." A genuine question: Since this is essentially a talent acquisition, why doesn't someone else continue running the product? or perhaps sell it off to another company?
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by kinkora 14y ago
original article (Discovery): http://news.discovery.com/history/collapse-river-civilizatio...
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by kinkora 14y ago
It seems people have missed the article where Eduardo explains why he renounced his citizenship:- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3972209
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Facebook Co-Founder: America Is OK. It’s The Rules That Are A Pain.(blogs.wsj.com)
19 points by kinkora 14y ago|0 comments
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by kinkora 15y ago
Words of wisdoms from someone wayyy beyond his age. thanks!
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by kinkora 15y ago
It's nice to hear, for once, about acquiring companies not screwing you over. I've read countless HN articles about people getting screwed by their "potential" acquirer that I am now starting to feel apprehensive about getting acquired. Dan
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by kinkora 15y ago
While the palm pilots was an exceptional device, I had more love for the Psions (particularly the series 5) if anybody remembers them. I had a Series 3, Revo and then the 5mx. Each one of those devices had an excellent battery life (uses AA
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by kinkora 15y ago
Which could possibly be the reason why they acquired FeeFighters. Companies sometimes make acquisitions to augment what they are lacking.
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Tech Companies with the Biggest Cash Piles(thenextweb.com)
2 points by kinkora 15y ago|1 comments
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by kinkora 15y ago
"We are very conservative about compliance with all privacy laws. But even if you’re following the law, you can do things where people get queasy.” That's what everyone should take out of this article. Even though doing something is techn

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