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by xiaoma 10y ago
> "Tech workers today are doing alright. We make six-figure salaries, have our health care paid for, and, because we are in demand at them moment, are frequently pampered by our employers." You may and I may, but the vast majo
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by xiaoma 10y ago
I can't believe nobody mentioned this given the site, but http://paulgraham.com . It literally altered the direction of my life.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Someone asks what I manual processes I want automated, I tell them. Actually, automating "dealing with regulation in general" would be the most amazing thing ever.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Dealing with US banks from abroad. It took an absurd amount of effort to get an account opened and after over a month, I still don't have debit cards.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Alexa 500k in just a year in is pretty good. What was your general audience building strategy?
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Do you think you've saturated your market? I.e., are you looking to put it on the back burner and build something else or are you still focused on scaling candyjapan?
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Hmm... most (or at least many) people here are building businesses now and have little interest in being on yet another marketing-heavy email list. A forum like this is a great place to connect and share stories! In the long run that will
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Seriously? Since 1960, China has invaded India, Vietnam, and less successfully Russia. In all three cases, China started it. It's also been threatening to invade Taiwan for decades, despite Taiwan never having been part of the PRC base
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by xiaoma 10y ago
It's actually very much like the situation was with Rails a decade ago. Actually that was more extreme. Anybody remember all those "Rails vs _____" commercials from the Rails Envy people? https://www.youtube.com&#x
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Everything I wrote above is true. Here is more detail: Ruling party: Taiwan's president is indeed from the Democratic Progressive Party. [1] Self identification: More than 80 percent of respondents self-identified as Taiwanese, compare
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by xiaoma 10y ago
It's not. Taiwan is fully democratic, has elected a president from the Democratic Progressive Party and has very few people who self-identify as Chinese.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
More likely the gp was making fun of the way people tend to jump into discussions about Chinese free speech, pollution, racism or military aggression against its neighbors with "but America does it too!" comments.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Thanks. It's always a good to see a human on the other side after reading something eyebrow-raising!
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Does the metric get applied evenly? I'm no fan of angry tape loops and prefer a civil, moderated area. It's just powerful actors enforcing their politics, which seems to be getting more popular in every camp these days, is also hi
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by xiaoma 10y ago
It's really saddening to see that the idea that humans are not a blank slate[1] is considered a "tedious flamewar topic" while articles such the one that started this thread this are not. Not everything is a product of societ
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Reading the article, I thought there was a high chance it was a centaur.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
That's interesting. 8 solid hours of coding leaves me wanting to go for a run or go out singing with my friends. OTH, back when I was paining houses and hauling ladders around all day, I felt like sitting down in front of a computer fo
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by xiaoma 10y ago
I know about an order of magnitude more people who play games than people who retouch photos.
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There's a huge difference between various carbs. In the 90s both Japan and developing countries in east Asia had absolutely massive rice intakes and extremely low rates of obesity, and high longevity. According to studies I've rea
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by xiaoma 10y ago
For me, it's a fantastic metro that hooks right into the high speed rail, an expansive network of parks and paths for biking and hiking, four hour delivery times, 24-7 conveniences and crazy fast internet service. Moving somewhere smal
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Wasn't the context "guys who are convinced it will take them months to reach proficiency"? I could easily see a different person upset if it were "gals who are convinced it will take them months to reach proficiency&quot
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by xiaoma 10y ago
It could. If lifespans were so long as to be nearly immortal (which may happen in our lifetimes), then the birth rate that would lead to stable population level would be one per couple. At that rate, a population of N would asymptotically
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by xiaoma 10y ago
I'd say the future is bright, especially considering the performance increases in PHP7. Now it's both super productive with its huge ecosystem and fast enough for any but the very largest of sites.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
The word "guys" isn't so gendered in 2017 as it might have been 50 years ago. Far more importantly, though, gendered advertisements have had thousands of years of success. Don't insult or belittle any demographic, but ke
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Squarespace is the clear option. It's even faster to get set up with than WP and in the past 2 years has become a truly viable competitor.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Yeah, that's the one. Guess all the upside drawing confused my left and right :D
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by xiaoma 10y ago
You don't need an app to learn Hiragana. I studied Japanese in college and started in a summer class. Learning hiragana was a requirement before starting day 1. To be honest it only took a few hours and all we had to do with was a fe
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Wow! I feel like we're kindred spirits! Drawing on the left side of the brain is an incredible book that did it for me. I've been writing about language learning all over for years, but this interview with Gabriel Wyner is a great
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by xiaoma 10y ago
No, it has a significant impact even on programmers, though less of one than it has on people in sales or customer service: http://timothy-judge.com/Height%20paper--JAP%20published.pdf
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by xiaoma 10y ago
> So here we have a dopamine’d up, blissed out little programmer... The author referred to programmers as "little" repeatedly throughout the blog post in a manner disturbingly reminiscent of a certain politician's success

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