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by sdm 9y ago
In the case of China, a big part of the problem was that the government was too slow to encourage CS education. While it has been pushing CS for the past 10 years, the result is a pyramid with a very very wide base as many juniors are produ
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by sdm 9y ago
This has changed a lot in the past few years. My company started as an outsourcer with a WFOE in China doing custom development for clients in North American and Europe. Today much of our business is driven by Chinese clients. About 2 years
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by sdm 9y ago
Don't forget that the US still tops those rankings.
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by sdm 9y ago
That would be disappointing. The iPhone X has been a game changer for me. It's such a step forward from the previous iPhones, it feels like same jump as when I got my first iPhone 9 years ago.
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by sdm 9y ago
I've gone through the process of starting a WFOE and I'm currently in the process of setting up a JV with a local partner in China. Yes, it takes longer than starting a company in Canada: about 6 months in China vs. about 2 busine
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by sdm 9y ago
Also, for #3, put in the when you need a response by so people know the urgency.
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by sdm 9y ago
WeChat is not an independent company; the comparison doesn't really apply. But to your point, the biggest single share holder of Tencent is Naspers -- a South African company -- which at it's hight owned 45% of the company but cur
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by sdm 9y ago
The USD isn't some gold standard of truth. Like any currency it also appreciates and depreciates over time. You can't just look at the exchange rate between two currencies and make any meaningfully claims. Definitely, you can&#x27
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by sdm 9y ago
You can hide both Google Doc's menu (the double up arrow button on the far right of the toolbar) and the ruler (under the View menu). Then when you go full screen it's just the toolbar at the top -- which is not bad in my mind, bu
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by sdm 9y ago
citation needed
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by sdm 9y ago
Yes, in China it's common to have multiple of these "hubs" from different competitors. Some are refrigerated for grocery deliveries. It's all done by app on your smartphone. Get phone, the app has a QR code that you scan
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by sdm 9y ago
Senior positions at EA, MS, and Amazon all pay at that level in Vancouver. That's what I was making as a TD at EA 7 years ago -- wow I can't believe it's been that long. Pretty much everyone in my peer group has a base salary
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by sdm 9y ago
I can't speak for other regions, but for Vancouver $120k CAD is about the upper end of the middle. Most truly senior developers in the $150k-$180k range.
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by sdm 9y ago
For Canada ethnicity would be relevant not race. Racial normativism not a significant part of our culture like it is in the US.
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by sdm 9y ago
> It really depends on how you define social mobility. Immigrants in the US often jump from the bottom to top income quartiles within a single generation. If you read the FA, you see the same is the case in Canada. In general though the
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by sdm 9y ago
It's more that the US dollar has gained 30% on the Canadian dollar. The Canadian dollar has been relatively stable compared to most currencies while the US has been actively propping up the USD higher. You can't just compare two c
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by sdm 9y ago
The thing is it's not "within-app" revenue. Tencent doesn't make any money from the tips; it's completely passed through. If Tencent were directly profiting from the tipping process it would be understandable. But t
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by sdm 9y ago
Not really chrome -- it didn't exist yet when this started to happen. But web applications in general. And the whole Web 2.0 movement. As people spent more time in browsers and those browsers became more standards compliant it weakened
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by sdm 9y ago
Just FYI, your installer seems to be broken for language handling. I'm getting French even though my primary language is English. I can read French fine, but I hope the whole app isn't broken this way. You should respect the prefe
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by sdm 9y ago
Yet they rarely remove videos for physical abuse of animals.
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by sdm 10y ago
Portability and duplication. I don't want to have to lug a phone and laptop everywhere. They both can do the same thing and increasing have the same amount of power. You have different interfaces for how you interact with them: on the
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by sdm 10y ago
Like almost everything about Canada, this is very much a regional thing. Cities and provinces have a lot of leeway to deprioritize things like marijuana prohibition. Just because you won't get busted for simple possession in Vancouver
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by sdm 10y ago
> I can never find sympathy for people who complain about high alcohol tax in Canada. To be fair, the OP to didn't mention anything about taxes. The high taxes on alcohol have to be paid irrespective of private or public distributio
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by sdm 10y ago
> Most provinces have long been saddled with alcohol monopolies that keep prices quite high Actually alcohol monopolies keep prices low. Take what happened in Alberta, for example, when they got rid of the monopoly: prices skyrocketed. P
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by sdm 10y ago
While that was true 10 years ago; I don't think it still holds. Google is more big generic enterprise now with all trouble innovating that comes with that. Hence, why they must buy to be able to push innovation forward. This is just pa
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by sdm 10y ago
This has been pretty well documented. Just watch any interview with Larry and Sergey when they talk about the role of the US in the world -- they are very open about where they stand and that they are American-supremacists (though wouldn&#x
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by sdm 10y ago
Sigh... The annual Demographia study is mostly BS. First, they only look at a handful of Anglosphere countries and yet claim to cover the world; Second, they have strong ties to the automotive industry and have an agenda of urban sprawl --
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by sdm 10y ago
There appears to be some serious security issues with the site. I was filling out my profile, but when I saved my bio, my session was some now that of a developer from Brazil...
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by sdm 10y ago
This has always been Google's problem; it really only cares about the US. Which is not surprising given how it has historically acted as an arm of the US government. We saw this before in the iPhone vs. Android battle, it took years fo
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by sdm 10y ago
Sigh, please spread your anti-China propaganda elsewhere. The reality is that going through immigration in China is no where near as draconian or intrusive as in the US and most other Western countries. You don't have people inquisitin

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