oh-kumudo

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by oh-kumudo 8y ago
Ex Amazonian, left Amazon, now rejoin Amazon. Joined a startup. Had many rosy fantasies about how life could go for me. It turned out not very honky dory after all. The management could be best categorized as directionless, worst completely
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by oh-kumudo 8y ago
Consider how bad Pixel's quality control is, I won't buy a Pixel 3 at least in a year.
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by oh-kumudo 8y ago
I can't really think of a Chinese proverb out of my instincts that linked to this translation, the closest one being "上梁不正下梁歪", literal translation "When the upper beam (of a house) is not in the right place, the lower b
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by oh-kumudo 8y ago
The only surprise is that it takes them such long time to shut it down. It is clearly failed project; it is an internet ghost town; very very few care about it. It almost felt like the only reason it last to date is to protect some high pro
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by oh-kumudo 8y ago
Damn, the outrage culture is just so uncomfortable. How could this be contained?
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by oh-kumudo 8y ago
I mean you can't have both.
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by oh-kumudo 8y ago
Agree. Most, like 99.9% startups are not going to make ANY money. Even if there is a positive outcome for the startup, how much money you could make out of it, is still questionable. If you want money, go to big companies, your reward is li
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by oh-kumudo 8y ago
Douyin is as much as a social platform as Youtube. The core competency here is content. Douyin has a creator base, and the platform to deliver the contents to massive audience.
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by oh-kumudo 8y ago
Tik Tok is mainly videos though, that is huge difference in the price of ads. And due to various reasons, some from censorship, some from the medium itself and how the company chooses to operates on it, Tik Tok is mainly free of political c
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by oh-kumudo 8y ago
抖音(Dou Yin), or Tik Tok, is a huge traffic sucker in China. They went from millions MAU to now 100 millions of DAU in just one year. People are spending like hours on this app alone every day, and it is the perfect platform for commercials
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by oh-kumudo 8y ago
Well, ironically, the proposed approach is to have government has censor police within Google, to ensure the opinion is, you know, balanced, left and right.
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by oh-kumudo 8y ago
Google is big enough, and have effectively monopoly in a lot of areas. I am sure if the current admin trying to hurt it, they can always find ways to do it.
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by oh-kumudo 8y ago
They have to, the current admin is threatening to break them up. Google isn't sworn to a political ideology, even its employees are overwhelmingly concentrated at the end of the spectrum.
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by oh-kumudo 8y ago
Even US government doesn't have public trust right now. I don't think Americans trust anyone/anything under current political climate.
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by oh-kumudo 8y ago
Useless signaling? 1 million is definitely not useless.
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by oh-kumudo 8y ago
Seems like a legit use case.
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by oh-kumudo 8y ago
I don't think so. Half of US's electorate already see Google as hypocrite. Only ones will be truly annoyed is a certain fraction of its own employees.
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by oh-kumudo 8y ago
Why? This doesn't really have too much value other than making the code more confusing.
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by oh-kumudo 8y ago
Well, there are many gender specific products there, for example female hygiene products. Doesn't mean the opposite sex will straightly not buy them (Yes, they do, https://mashable.com/2018/01/28/amazon-g
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by oh-kumudo 8y ago
Well for both countries the export to each other is only a fraction of their economy...China is not what it is used to be.
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by oh-kumudo 8y ago
I think you will be surprised how decisions are made in Big Tech, especially Google. If they are truly metric driven, it will be really hard to explain why they would end up with so many different messengers, and continuously discontinue so
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by oh-kumudo 8y ago
If anything, the Chinese education system is a ripoff from Soviet Union, not the Western countries. It is probably still is.
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by oh-kumudo 8y ago
US certainly has a cultural problem, out of all major countries out there, US has a weird position where a significant population denies evolution/climate change, and turned those topics into highly political charged issues. Also the U
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by oh-kumudo 8y ago
Which makes sense. Facebook now is big enough to sustain a programming language on its own. And for Hack, I would assume it mainly to replace where the PHP used to be, which is a shallow API composition layer, no heavy lifting stuff. To ful
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by oh-kumudo 8y ago
Silverlight is used simply because MSFT grant the use of their DRM license, unlike Adobe at the time.
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by oh-kumudo 8y ago
Good, competition and more spending is always welcome.
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by oh-kumudo 8y ago
College is essentially free for many european countries, that is what I think sufficient level of subsidy
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by oh-kumudo 8y ago
Not enough government subsidy.
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by oh-kumudo 8y ago
Reading novel is always difficult. Having lived in an English-speaking country for many years, and communicated fluently with locals, even in certain cases passing their radar without being identified as foreigner, it is still pretty hard t
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by oh-kumudo 8y ago
I echo this approach. If it is not for the hollywood movies/western RPGs, I won't find my inner calling to conquer English at all. I picked up writing by simply want to have a reasonable discussion with people on the Reddit (well,

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