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I'm Launching 12 Startups in 12 Months (2014)(levels.io)
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by xiaoma 10y ago
How does your pricing work? Do you have a free tier?
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by xiaoma 10y ago
The student link was the very first one I clicked on, but I must have missed something. I couldn't find anything on compilers, OS, Automata, or anything that looked remotely like a CS course. Did you find any CS material in the "l
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Are they offering anything on the site for people who want CS education? From clicking around a bit it seemed like it was focused entirely on people teaching and learning in physical classrooms. I was pretty excited at first, thinking this
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Yes, but things like "walked half a mile to school every day at age 5", "was allowed to bike 5 miles from home after entering the 5th grade and 10 miles after 6th grade" are pretty clear cut.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
After seeing this, I have zero respect for gigster or anyone who empowers this behavior. They're asking for unilateral power to end the software career of any of their contractors, even decades into the future. Worse still, the demand
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by xiaoma 10y ago
This is a gratuitously polarizing and flamewar-baiting comment. The issue described in the article is not a directly partisan one and parents are not "traitors" for having a different idea than you do about how independently their
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by xiaoma 10y ago
I think your weariness at seeing a claim which from all evidence appears true not backed up by "empirical evidence" is a bit self-indulgent. I've met many N American adults whose own childhoods align with what the article say
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by xiaoma 10y ago
That might be nice for you but it would be annoying for those of us who use non-latin scripts.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
That's totally right. It should have been first female leader in any Chinese-speaking countries. The greater point still stands. Trudeau would not snub the democratically elected leader of any other advanced economy of 23 million.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Lots of HN readers are like that, too.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Well, yes 5374 is more than 5312, but it's a slower growth rate than boring markets like baking powder, toilet paper or McDonalds meals. Apple has lost everything that made them special, just as Microsoft did a decade and a half earl
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by xiaoma 10y ago
> "The raised salary level - to more than $130,000 - is more than double the current H-1B minimum wage of $60,000, which was established in 1989 and has since remained unchanged." This is interesting. Adjusting for inflation,
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by xiaoma 10y ago
That kind of thing is pretty unremarkable behavior for the wealthy in China.
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Given the cold shoulder he's given Taiwan's president, who is also the first female leader democratically elected in Asia, and how he barely responded to Wang Yi's belligerent behavior in Canada, I'd say Trudeau will do
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by xiaoma 10y ago
That's probably why they forcibly moved him across the border, taking a step to normalize the behavior, before moving on to more sympathetic targets in the future.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Doesn't matter. The UK has no spine and will never push to enforce the terms of their 1997 treaty with China that transferred control of HK. When a trading partner is as valuable as China, all ideals go out the window. I remember the p
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by xiaoma 10y ago
I used TiddlyWiki as an internal wiki / training manual for an offline business I ran several years ago. It was great and it was simple enough that non-tech employees were willing to use it.
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I think they mean following them on github to see what they're starring and working on.
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I'd suggest having cards where the user has to look at them and try to remember the answer rather than showing both sides of the card at once. It's just way too easy to cheat oneself by clicking the checkmark without actually havi
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Longtime SRS user and Anki contributor here. Can you explain a bit about what this does that Anki doesn't? Can I import my Anki decks?
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Did you have a full 4 year degree?
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by xiaoma 10y ago
In my experience, German companies are particularly bad about having a rigid focus on specific academic credentials, often coupled with an unwillingness to believe that effective learning can occur outside of schools. I do respect their tra
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Yes, India and China are indisputable giants but also consider Japan (still the #2 or #3 economy in the world depending on the metric), Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore—all advanced economies with extremely educated and technical popu
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A lot more people on the planet live near Beijing than near Iceland.
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The next most important start-up hub after SF is Beijing. It's much more affordable than SF, but there are other concerns with hosting conferences there such as pollution, speech and media controls and a lot of regulation in general. e
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That, I would probably agree with.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
4 years of one's life just for a 100k exit? Honestly that's the kind of thing that I got into software to escape. Edit: I mean this literally. I spent three and a half years building a brick and mortar educational business that ex
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This is a horrible idea. Any mayor who "shuts down economic activity" in their city is essentially holding their own constituents' well-being hostage and would only further polarize the country and further empower Trump to ta
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by xiaoma 10y ago
I have not commented at all on my own philosophy and I have not studied this topic even a tenth as deeply as the law scholar I mentioned in a sibling comment. I do think he made a compelling case that criminalizing the behavior to begin wit

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