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by mstaoru 8y ago
My boss has been gradually overdosing his LSD and MDMA, becoming more and more frantic and chaotic. Once he called me on Saturday night, apparently under influence, and demanded a new feature to be done by tomorrow morning. I said no, advic
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by mstaoru 8y ago
In China, many mainstream websites are still HTTP-only. 99% of government websites are HTTP, including the ones you input very sensitive information into. No wonder black data market for any kind of records including medical, surveillance,
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by mstaoru 8y ago
I dropped out of the university a day before defending my thesis — had a conflict with my supervisor. 5 full years, but still no bachelors. I shrugged it off at that point to proceed and have a 15-year career rising to a CTO in 4 years, and
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by mstaoru 8y ago
Great progress and tips! We're developing a "MyFitnessPal + UberEats" food delivery service that automatically counts calories and macros here in Shanghai, where ~16 million people order their food instead of cooking or eatin
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by mstaoru 8y ago
I'm typing this from one of WeWork's Shanghai locations, the loud music is blaring behind me so I wear 3M Peltor construction headset, the sun through the glass roof blinds my screen, and I have to squint to be able to read what I
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by mstaoru 8y ago
Just FYI, I can share how things stand in Shanghai, China now. An average IT graduate can expect to earn around net RMB150k/year, which is about US$23k. This is about twice the median for junior workers. Shanghai is one of the most exp
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by mstaoru 8y ago
Newsblur for great and flexible RSS experience. Fastmail for great email experience (does that count as a SaaS?). Sync (sync.com) for cloud backup and storage (switched after Dropbox faked OS X password prompt and didn't even blush). 1
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by mstaoru 8y ago
In the "listening" mood I code with atmospheric black and post-black like Alcest, Agalloch, or Kauan. I find both "Sorni Nai" and "Pirut" by Kauan to be able to induce almost trance-like focus. Otherwise, I put
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by mstaoru 8y ago
Shanghai. One of the largest Chinese data-centers with direct peering to all major national networks. I'm inside, testing a new colocation unit we just put there. Pinging 1.1.1.1 in 4.2ms, wow! Putting it in resolv.conf. Nothing works.
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Usually, it's structured as a WFOE (wholly foreign-owned entity) with Singapore, BVI, or HK LLC as a parent company. Then shares are issued in HK LLC.
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In Russia, 12% annual interest is considered a very good deal for a mortgage with 20-30% downpayment.
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To me, renting vs. buying is a bit like AWS vs. own bare metal in a rack. With AWS, you can have 1G RAM or 10000G RAM or anything in between, you can move between data centers without much trouble, and you can cancel virtually anytime. Once
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by mstaoru 9y ago
Stopped trusting Dropbox after they were caught mimicking OS X administrator prompt: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12463338 - no matter how much they talk about good intentions, that shows company core values to me.
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by mstaoru 9y ago
I live and work in China, so I use Aliyun, which is Alibaba's cloud arm, similar to what AWS is for Amazon. Aliyun itself bought 万网 (Net.cn aka HiChina) in 2013, and it's still a bit fractured, but works well enough. For .com doma
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by mstaoru 9y ago
I have 6 mailboxes I prefer to keep separate, and my email client history goes from Thunderbird to Postbox, then Thunderbird again, and then Spark. Thunderbird was a good mail client, but the search is seriously broken. It's almost imp
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by mstaoru 9y ago
In China, most people ride something like this: http://www.niu.com/ - small affordable (usually in $100-300 range) electric scooters that typically use 48V 20Ah batteries for a 70-80km distance. From the Niu stats, it seems
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by mstaoru 9y ago
Labor costs on these projects are closer to $10/hour these days. The workers get paid reasonably well because their job is in shifts and seasonal. They're also usually provided some basic housing and food, health insurance and tra
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by mstaoru 9y ago
I've been all three here in Shanghai: rented a desk, rented an office and actually worked for Wework. For a non-tech freelancer, it's a good place to be: comparably high-level people, decent free coffee and beers. For a tech freel
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by mstaoru 9y ago
Not that I know of. Mostly hukou is used to "limit", not to outright prevent. E.g. in Shanghai and Guangzhou people without a local hukou cannot buy more than one apartment. It's much harder for people without hukou to get Sh
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by mstaoru 9y ago
Most foreign people tend to overestimate the impact of hukou on normal daily life. You don't need it for anything, except things like getting your kids into free public school. You can totally go to another city, find a job, rent a roo
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> Those people presumably have some kind of permanent residence. It would be news to me if that required re-registration after each re-entry. M-visa holders, business visa holders are required to register with each entry, which is surpri
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by mstaoru 9y ago
I meant they're living in China and flying to HK / Korea. Every time you get back, you need to go re-register.
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It is a classic example of "rule by law" which is in full effect in PRC. You're required to register within 24 hours at the "police station", no details of the said station, no opening hours or any further informati
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by mstaoru 9y ago
I bike 45 min to Wework as a free exercise. Then there is free craft beer to flush the exercise down.
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Here in China going to the restaurant is becoming a lifestyle choice, with more and food being delivered. Swarms of delivery scooters flood the streets of Shanghai, ignoring all the rules and other vehicles in a fervent rush to deliver more
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by mstaoru 9y ago
Melodic metal I know by note, sometimes I don't even notice it's there but it gives me a lot of background warmth: always Estatic Fear, Agalloch, Tristania, Empyrium, things like that. Sometimes with or immediately after caffeine
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by mstaoru 9y ago
No Chinese? https://ui-avatars.com/api/?name=马云
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by mstaoru 9y ago
I have top of the line late-2013 model, i7 with 1T SSD and 16G RAM. There was no reason to upgrade whatsoever so far, and current MacBooks are not appealing to me at all. Mostly I would like them to return good things back and introduce new
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by mstaoru 9y ago
Interesting. I had decent results with openconnect over daily rebuilding t2.nano instances in ap-* regions. Didn't try wireguard yet since I have a Mac, but UBNT ER-X is on the way and it has wireguard support.
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I'm still looking for a reliable provider that would support openconnect and / or wireguard. Alas, here in China OpenVPN-based VPNs are getting more and more flaky, with talks of shutting down completely soon (not talking about th

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