askar_yu

"Amazon announced that in the US since the start of the year it had sold 115 e-book downloads for every 100 paperback books, even excluding its downloads of free books." (highlight is mine)

2008's conflict between Russia and Georgia had also a had cyber aspect.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/11/georgia-takes-a-bea...

perfect summary.

it's great to read these stores. Especially from those who are able to describe the lessons they've learned despite being rejected.

alright, but... "no pain, no gain"

"Executives previously have said it is close to being profitable, despite the large costs associated with storing and delivering so much video content."

Youtube has yet to be profitable? wow.

yes, but the article tries to explain the achieved work to people unfamiliar with Graph Theory or CS; thus in very simple terms and with analogies, they even define what a graph is before proceeding... I guess that's what it meant to be, short and simple press release with a (I'm assuming) follow up with the algorithm itself.

I work at an international Chinese company and what surprised me first was that almost all of our Chinese engineers take nap after lunch (even the ones who come for temporary business trip) I have an impression that taking naps is heavily practiced in Chinese corporate culture...

"Or if you are a 21 year old white male hacker, you might find this useful too." can somebody shed a light on the meaning/joke? behind this sentence? what's there about being a 21 year old white male hacker?

same here... but until I clicked on the link and saw how much it's been expanded.

even future reposts of this link (say per 6 months or so) won't hurt HN; it looks like GCU will turn into a huge resource.

didn't notice that right away, nice catch :)

as far as 'not working', one bizarre thing I noticed lately in Facebook is that stuff that you delete on your wall doesn't get removed from the 'news feed' that everybody else sees. So for example, there is no way to silently 'like' or comment on a post or somebody's picture. Even though you delete the corresponding entry on your wall, it still remains on the news feed...

Victory Day is a very big holiday in the post Soviet Union countries.

agree with your first statement.

I wonder if you're still satisfied after having read "Your Office Chair Is Killing You"... (looks like much inclined towards back)

does not really apply to you... but those living with roommates could cook alternately throughout the week. A duty cooks and cleans everything up for everybody in house - so you get to cook fewer times than everyday but eat healthy dinner everyday. not sure if it's common thing in here, but I remember being surprised (when I first came to US) seeing Americans (students sharing house/dorm) eating dinners separately. of course, it only applies to dinner, but that's the most time consuming one I guess.

* "The truth is, everything that has happened in my life...that I thought was a crushing event at the time, has turned out for the better," Mr. Buffett says *

I hear such things a lot ('whatever happens is for better', etc.), and in fact - agree. but it's really hard to accept a failure/rejection as a lesson or a bad-tasting-medicine at the time it happens to you...

but I guess knowing this at the very least gives motivation and helps one to remain more 'determined' http://www.paulgraham.com/determination.html (especially in the long run where your chances of giving up are pretty high)

hackers, especially the straight-out-of-college ones need these kind of advices as we lack those social skills, and the best places to get them are from people like you. nice advice, thanks.

PS, the tracking through Google analytics is really brilliant :)

Completely agree that had it been short, it'd be much more interesting as there are a lot of people who have interest in Japan, and they would love to read about those experiences you have.

I doubt that the author is in any of the 'cultural shock' phases, as he starts the article by saying " I've lived in Japan for a long time ". Nevertheless, anybody living in foreign country with a different culture faces the trade-off between preserving their previous 'ways-of-doing' (cultural values, ways of behaving under various circumstances, etc.) and adjusting to the new culture (thus, changing yourself to some extent). So the office culture of Japan only seems to be one of these instances in the case of the author, and it also confirms what I've known about Japan.

<i> "Why not "Tim-san"? I'm required to put "san" on the end of their names. " </i>

From what I've heard (I've never been to Japan), Japanese don't attach '-san' to foreigners names'. But I have to say, I liked this :) - <i> " - ... This is just how we do things in Japan, Tim. - Well, [Name-removed]-san, you can try putting 'san' on the end of my fucking name from now on, then, you know, as practice. " </i>