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by xiaoma 10y ago
As someone whose career has revolved around education, I have to say I'm a bit disappointed with these guidelines. The focus is entirely on formal schooling as opposed to education. The problem is that "widely accepted standards
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by xiaoma 10y ago
It's clear evidence of market demand. Even in 2016, it's likely a good bet to start a bootcamp, especially outside of the US.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
If you redefine the word "businessperson" to include everyone who has ever taken or pursued work as an employee, the meaning is both at odds with common English usage and so broad as to be nearly meaningless.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
>> your employees don't even realize they're being ripped off. >Careful with your terminology there. To be "ripped off" requires... >It is not possible for an engineer contemplating accepting a job offer from
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Dude implies some level of laid back cool personality. A dude is someone who skateboards, skis or does lots of pot, not a typical accountant, grammarian or middle manager.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
WhatsApp actually used pricing as a way to slow their growth and give Jan Koum's team time to scale their infrastructure. He talked about it in startup school a couple of years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-p
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Can you name a single Blue Zone that doesn't have a "high-carbohydrate diet"?
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by xiaoma 10y ago
These are some unpopular views and apparently others took it upon themselves to silence them via flagging. I'm sure my views don't line up completely with wahsd, but these are valid questions to ask. Particularly given the recent
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by xiaoma 10y ago
> "...but I dont have any clue on how to make it more profitable." You probably won't fix that in this thread if you don't share the URL or even enough information about your chat site for people to give educated fee
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by xiaoma 10y ago
How would you filter those "many people who could do it just fine if they are given space to think about it or refresh their memory" down to the number you need to hire? This is a serious question. I hate the way interviewing wo
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Bill Gate Discusses Concerns about AI with Elon Musk and Robin Li [video](youtu.be)
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by xiaoma 10y ago
In Taiwan, it's ~22€/month for prepaid phone service plus unlimited 3G. And by unlimited, I mean I used over 100gb for that price this March.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
The options depend pretty heavily on the price point, how much you can invest per user and how much traction you need to fund future growth.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Perhaps you'll also exclude Jews since they're such a privileged, overrepresented group. /s
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by xiaoma 10y ago
"Approximately 8 of the 319 million people in the United States read the Wall Street Journal, about 2 percent of the population. If you look at the language — standardized English — being fed into many natural language processing units
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by xiaoma 10y ago
~
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by xiaoma 10y ago
If going from zero to a billion dollar valuation and domination of new social networking niche in a few years is unconvincing then maybe it's better for start-ups not to convince you ;)
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by xiaoma 10y ago
That's just not true. Joel Greenblatt's fund beat an annualized return of 40% from 1985 to 2006. Carl Icahn got over a 30% per year annualized return from 1968 to 2011 . That's almost 50 years!
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by xiaoma 10y ago
On the other hand starting a company with beer nights (or "drink ups" a la Github) could be an excellent way of finding people for whom it is a cultural fit as well as eliminating the overly stodgy types. I suspect it's p
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by xiaoma 10y ago
That's very minor and IIRC occurred after they had already made a fortune in China. There were political hurdles and that's why Blizzard partnered with The9, but the market was satisfied enough with the art assets to spend gobs on
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by xiaoma 10y ago
This ignores the elephant in the room: international competition. Top western games such as World of Warcraft have done extremely well in China without having to rewrite the stories or change their artwork. A huge issue is that the Chinese
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by xiaoma 10y ago
I'm normally a bit wary about platforms such as Steam wielding their power over the marketplace but in this case, I'll be the first to congratulate them! Bravo! Please keep your store empty of publishers who sue their dissatisfied
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Me too :/
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Japan is remarkably uninterested in becoming an immigrant country. Guests are treated with warm, well-mannered hospitality but long-term immigrants are neither desired nor able to assimilate. How many other countries are there with a sizabl
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by xiaoma 10y ago
> "South Park evolved from a neo-con/libertarian [...] paradise, to a neo-reactionary shitfest." That's possibly the least charitable summary of the show I've heard since I had the misfortune of discussing it wi
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by xiaoma 10y ago
I'm also hoping for an Apple Watch that doesn't require a phone. That would be great, especially if it could do VOIP with AirPods.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
The jet black ones look fantastic to me as well and I had worried a bit about durability since I've dropped, scraped and generally abused every phone I've had and I don't like cases. I may be a bit unusual in this, but I actu
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Despite being a subsidiary of Naver, LINE is a Japanese company.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
There have been loud screams of "Bubble!" since at least 2007: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvmNDym6CvQ
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by xiaoma 10y ago
In Asia, I see LINE, Viber, and WeChat displacing a huge chunk of facebook usage for a lot of people. The network effects are intensely strong, too.

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