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The China Startup Report(slideshare.net)
3 points by thijsterlouw 15y ago|0 comments
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Tech: The worst IPOs of 2011(geekwire.com)
3 points by thijsterlouw 15y ago|1 comments
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by thijsterlouw 15y ago
The image quality seems a bit low (low contrast/greyish, lots of grain), but the concept is very cool. I also see lots of artifacts (horizontal lines) in several of the demo images: http://www.lytro.com/picture_gallery
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by thijsterlouw 16y ago
Or for example chachaba.com (in Shenzhen): http://sz.chachaba.com/location.action?placeId=221a75f1-bcfc... They had problems with providing a mapping service in China without a license though. They were forced to shutdown for a very long
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by thijsterlouw 16y ago
It's extremely busy in the chapel and you will have no time to smell anything. The guards will also try to keep the masses moving along, so there is very little left of the serene atmosphere you expect. That being said, it's still very beau
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by thijsterlouw 16y ago
These slides were part of a "lightning talk" on ZeroMQ (video here: http://streaming.fosdem.org:8000/ferrer/0mq.ogv ). So I think Pieter just wanted to make the audience curious and not dive into the details. I do agree that it might be b
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by thijsterlouw 16y ago
Just yesterday here in Shenzhen "Escalator malfunction injures 24". Anything can break unexpectedly... src : http://szdaily.sznews.com/html/2010-12/15/content_1360566.ht...
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by thijsterlouw 16y ago
In the presentation it was mentioned they will release some software in 2011. He also mentioned there are papers + pseudo-code on the website for research purposes to play with. So for people really interested in it (and it does sound very
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by thijsterlouw 16y ago
The opening slides (even though they are impossible to read) are fantastic. Very funny!
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by thijsterlouw 16y ago
Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at kwf.dyndns.org:5821. well, I guess that was expected for a website that is hosted on an alarm clock :)
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by thijsterlouw 16y ago
I found this article quite readable and the trick from the researchers smart. They assume that galaxies are oriented randomly (from our viewpoint). In actual observations this does not appear to be the case. They then compensate for it to m
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by thijsterlouw 16y ago
1) as far as I know, 5-day workweeks are the norm. I don't know companies that require you to work 6 days. The boss of course doesn't mind if you come in the weekend, but it's not required. 2) we have quite a lot of holidays. Everyone has t
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by thijsterlouw 16y ago
I work at Tencent in China and here more than half of the people take a nap in the midday. We have a lunchbreak from 12 to 14h and around 13h the lights get turned off and lots of people get their foldable beds out (others just use q cushio
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Taobao FileSystem open sourced(code.taobao.org)
2 points by thijsterlouw 16y ago|0 comments
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by thijsterlouw 16y ago
I wrote an article about the cost of living in Shenzhen a while ago: http://www.startinchina.com/shenzhen/life/cost_of_living_in_...
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by thijsterlouw 16y ago
Getting a visa for China is much simpler than getting a visa for Europe (and I imagine for the USA). I get a 1-year multiple-entry visa every year without problems, though with help of my employer.
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by thijsterlouw 16y ago
I live in Shenzhen and work in the IT myself (Tencent/QQ), but I cannot fully recommend it for startups: 1. GFW, you absolutely NEED a VPN to get access to Facebook, Twitter many blogs, YouTube etc etc 2. There are very very few Western IT
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by thijsterlouw 16y ago
I don't think those bosses have so much more risk than the programmers, yet they earn substantially more than the programmers according to the article.
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by thijsterlouw 16y ago
Actually it lists in Hong Kong. Tencent has always shown good growth figures (see http://tencent.com.hk )
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by thijsterlouw 16y ago
I'm very glad that KLM is pushing to lift the flight bans! From what I understand, is there are no strict rules to decide when not to fly due to volcanic eruptions. The current bans are just based on calculations and now the KLM (and the tw
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by thijsterlouw 17y ago
Arrington is indeed ..hmm.. how to put this nicely... I have no idea. I'm totally with this guy. For example when cars run a red light with people crossing the street and then they don't understand why you block their way. Such selfless ego
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by thijsterlouw 17y ago
no, one of the major problems in China is drought and heat. Beijing suffers from both of them and each year the desert is moving closer to Beijing and the sandstorms are getting worse. Increasing global warming will also make the situation
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by thijsterlouw 17y ago
Hope this will be one of those rules that is never really going to be implemented/enforced, but if some websites are really already unavailable, that doesn't bode well...
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by thijsterlouw 17y ago
it is illegal in china to check the sex of an unborn child (of course if you pay enough at private clinics, you can still do it). Public hospitals probably will not dare to do it.
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by thijsterlouw 17y ago
did anyone already do performance tests? I'm especially interested in memory and cpu usage. Any limitations?