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by yannickmahe 16y ago
Interestingly, I started hating PHP when first doing a personnal project in college. It was a complete unmaintainable mess. Later, when I used it professionally, I learned to do things right (using frameworks and the like) and started likin
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by yannickmahe 16y ago
I always wonder, when people say they don't mind about piracy, what part of it is genuine, and what part of it is pandering. Do they really mean what they say? Or do they secretly hope there would be no way to pirate their products?
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by yannickmahe 16y ago
China is slowing, but surely, going towards a service oriented economy. The stated goal of the PRC governement for their next 5-year plan was to move from 40% of the economy in services to 70%. This goal is, IMHO, attainable for China which
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by yannickmahe 16y ago
A predictable result. I'm surprised though, that the Indian government (or any government for that matter) was able to react so fast.
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by yannickmahe 16y ago
AFAIK, Hong Kong is a fairly safe place earthquake wise. The main natural danger there is the typhoons.
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by yannickmahe 16y ago
That's actually more than the Gross World Product...
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Ask HN: are there any disadvantages to incorporating in Hong Kong?
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by yannickmahe 16y ago
I have money, may I invest a lot of it in your company?
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by yannickmahe 16y ago
"I decided to confess because they'd caught me". Reminds me of when I was studying in china. A Pakistani student was caught doing something mildly illegal (renting an apartment off-campus without the university's permission), and was caught
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by yannickmahe 16y ago
China recently started requiring ID to get a mobile phone. They may be tracking only foreigners, and only those after they started to require ID. It actually may be that they have people listening in on calls, and it wouldn't take too much
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by yannickmahe 16y ago
Someone once sent us a cover letter stating he was eager to work with "the experts at our famous company". This might help when trying out for Google, or any other actually famous company, but when you're asking for a job at an unknown comp
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by yannickmahe 16y ago
What I don't get, economically speaking, is how we can both be in a bubble and in a barely recovering economy. In other words, how do these angels and VCs still have that much money to invest in such companies?
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by yannickmahe 16y ago
I'm always amazed at the capacity people have for yelling at you when they are asking for a favor. What is going on inside someone's head? It's like "you need my help, don't make me hate you!".
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by yannickmahe 16y ago
Clicky : http://www.streamshq.com/
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by yannickmahe 16y ago
Great idea! It would have been realy useful to me when I lived in China - and hopefully, will be useful to me once I go back there.
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by yannickmahe 16y ago
The question now is: is it vertical enough to be kept alive by twitter ?
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Interesting. I'll give it a try.
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Eclipse is a platform, and a lot of plugins are there to make it usable for your language(s). Where IDEA is only Java, Eclipse lets me do PHP too. As I do both regularly, it's a compelling "feature".
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by yannickmahe 16y ago
Really interesting piece, but the end falls short. I would have loved to see concrete solutions and possible implementations. It felt like the article was building up to that.
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I'd like to see a precise description of what the PRC government did, and how it appears to the end users. Not sure that's possible though...
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by yannickmahe 16y ago
I believe there is a strong cultural bias to where people go when they graduate. In France, the situation seems to be the exact opposite to the one in the US: there are 6 times more engineering schools as there are business schools. France
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by yannickmahe 16y ago
I thought that the ROC (Taiwan) government recently adopted pinyin as the official transcription of Chinese characters. All the other countries with Chinese as an official language have done so (Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia), so it seemed
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by yannickmahe 16y ago
Isn't it strange that there is no official transcription for Arab names? Chinese, Japanese and Korean used to have a transcription by language (i.e. a transcription for the English language, another one for the french), but that got standar
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by yannickmahe 16y ago
http://www.paywithatweet.com/ may be what you're looking for
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by yannickmahe 16y ago
I've seen VC being called the "dark side" of entrepreneurship a few times (as in "I launched a startup, got a successful exit and I now turned to the dark side of VC"). It's of course partly joking, but probably also revealing of how VCs ar
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by yannickmahe 16y ago
Less challenge means less of a reason to push yourself in my opinion. I rather relished the possibility to jump on problems other people left alone. Perhaps it's more an issue of challenge than pace, pace being a side effect of the challeng
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by yannickmahe 16y ago
Sadly, my current client does have a strict IE6 policy in place. Big inertia in some industries (hospitals and pharmaceutical industry in this case).
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It will also become a differentiator in that services that don't have good usability will become ostracised. I remember when Wifi was becoming mainstream in Estonia's capital Talinn. Coffeeshop owners started providing Wifi, not because it
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by yannickmahe 16y ago
I moved from an extremely fast-paced environment to a well balanced, well managed software shop. I regret that choice a lot. While I do have now work/life balance, sleep longer nights and never do any overtime, I can't help but feel I'm not
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"We're aiming to be as large as Facebook or Google" Do they have any success apart from Angry Birds? For games company, repeatable success seems to be crucial.

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