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by xiaoma 11y ago
Dogs are the worst. As a former dog owner I know what it's like to love one, but they're still territorial animals and a considerable safety concern when not properly leashed or fenced. Older runners have even been mauled to death
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by xiaoma 11y ago
> That minimal approach has kept me out of trouble despite running more even than most other runners - consistently five or six days a week in every kind of weather . Meh. I ran thirteen times a week for years, quit for years, started
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Solving the cash problems from self-funding rapid growth(nathanbarry.com)
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by xiaoma 11y ago
Why SF? It's a pretty expensive place in terms of rent and it doesn't sound like this is the kind of thing that requires a specific location. Without a really good reason, I wouldn't want anyone spending money I'd invest
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by xiaoma 11y ago
I think the poster underestimates the costs involved in creating some of those product features, but it's not a bad idea and it's kind of shocking Twitter hasn't released a pro version over the years. It's a shame top ma
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by xiaoma 11y ago
How would you get enough initial users for a collaborative learning tool that requires multiple users to be able to offer value?
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by xiaoma 11y ago
When an Elon Musk or a Max Levchin shows up in your country itching to get to work, the best course of action is not to say, "couldn't we some how draw your kind of ambition out of a local?" Far better is to give them visas
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by xiaoma 11y ago
Twitter is a full step worse to developers than FB is. Sure it's rough for Zynga, but can you name anyone who's built a real business on top of twitter?
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by xiaoma 11y ago
The bottom quartile of workers still has to work somewhere.
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by xiaoma 11y ago
What's politically correct is often both rude and ignorant. Just think of what views were PC about various ethnicities in Germany in the 30s. Of course nobody in power (or who wanted to be accepted by society) would say those views wer
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by xiaoma 11y ago
> "I was informed 28 hours before my 90 day window closed that the agreement I had thought I had didn’t exist; it was then that I realized I had 28 hours to either come up with hundreds of thousands of dollars that I didn’t have to
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by xiaoma 11y ago
Some ads are not malware.
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by xiaoma 11y ago
Matches have been regularly televised for decades.
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by xiaoma 11y ago
To be fair, he's 8-2 vs Lee Sedol head to head and he's only 19 years old.
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by xiaoma 11y ago
The GIL prevents parallelism but not concurrency.
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by xiaoma 11y ago
Getting a bad grade doesn't sound nearly as big of a risk as wasting one's childhood and adolescence.
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by xiaoma 11y ago
Soda's reputation is insanely bad. I still have multiple family members in their 80s and 90s who drink it regularly. I also have elderly relatives who smoke, but their health is pretty much wreaked whereas the soda drinkers seem pretty
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by xiaoma 11y ago
The only US company I've worked at that was serious about a nap room was Groupon, but that changed part way through my stint there as the office became more crowded.
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by xiaoma 11y ago
Yes, I've encountered this argument. Are you aware of the legal trouble a school misrepresenting its numbers would be open to? It's extremely useful to include self-reported salaries and hiring stats. That's actually one of t
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by xiaoma 11y ago
I wrote a fairly detailed review on my blog. http://logicmason.com/2013/hack-reactor-review-life-at-a-hac... It lead to several sites emailing me and asking me to write a review or to link to their sites. Here is what
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by xiaoma 11y ago
The vast, vast majority of companies in SF are uninterested in hiring remote software engineers.
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by xiaoma 11y ago
What elegance was lost? Where is the biggest pain point on your new stack?
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by xiaoma 11y ago
Over the past year, Plenty of Fish has been emerging as a higher ROI alternative to Google ad offerings.
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by xiaoma 11y ago
I just encountered Zoom this week! I had a conference with a German (I'm in Vietnam at the moment) and she sent me a link to it. I'd never heard of it and was a bit frustrated to need to install another plugin. But it was a great
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by xiaoma 11y ago
Google talk circa 2008 was a lot nicer than Hangouts is now, too. The resource usage was lower, the UI was nicer and it was more responsive. It's really a shame they killed it.
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by xiaoma 11y ago
This is an improvement in some areas. However it allows companies to terminate employees for cause and take back the shares they have already vested . In my opinion, if equity is presented as an important part of compensation, it shouldn&#
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by xiaoma 11y ago
Highly doubtful. In seven years and over a thousand cab rides in Taiwan that never happened to me. One one occasion my wallet fell out and the driver even called me to give it back. Ripping off the foreigner is more of a mainland China thin
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by xiaoma 11y ago
Instagram is "eye jü". Nobody in Taiwan really says G.
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by xiaoma 11y ago
Access to scooters is more like 85%. It's probably lowest in Taipei but still the vast majority of people if you rule out children and the very old.
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by xiaoma 11y ago
Setting my massive monitor to the side (even though it's where I view by far the most email), my phone is 750 x 1334. My 1999 monitor was 1024 x 768. The physical dimensions of the phone are smaller, but I hold it closer to my eyes tha

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