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for the record, that’s a picture of hong kong, though it is a part of china, it’s not representative of where most of these “stories” happen

corporate tax, import/export tax, luxury good value added tax (vat), house purchase tax, etc

403 for me, i’m in shanghai. but reading the comments, i think i know where you’re going with this. one question i have is, if you have a lot of devices in the same area, how do you make certain the ip address space doesnt collide?

my biggest nitpick with the mbp 2017 is the touchbar, i only use it when i’m forced to press a function or escape key, i dont even know what additional features it has, i’ve seen some instances like quicktime where you scan to a certain spot in a video, but what else is it good for?

to me it seems to drain power, take up mechanical space, i dont even like the aesthetics of the touchbar, truly the appendix of the mbp.

i do like the 32g for the mbp, the air only gets up to 16g

that's a great point, and as i was reading this, i was thinking that perhaps aws should get into cloud office as well.

tcp/ip illustrated 1&2, by richard stevens, this is the bible of networking, it covers all the different osi layers, address spaces, protocols, packet layout, etc. if you want to understand how netwokring really works, this guves you all the details.

how did you get your first few customers?

another complaint of the pizero is the mini-hdmi, i dont own a single one of these cables, i think you're right in that the pizero cpu is much slower

seems like only 1 usb port compared to 4, no ethernet port, half the memory of the 3 b+. to me this competes more with the pizero

great timing, i was actually reading a wonderful book about wwi called “a world undone” by g j meyer, probably one of the best books about the war out there.

thanks mate!

agree with most of your points. i also dont think karma matters much, but i always wanted a green username. and also, how did you get 5777 karma points? i was looking at your submissions, it’s almost like mine, 2-3 points on average. this is somewhat like an seo challenge, i’m assuming your comments of someone else’s article received lots of karma.

thanks all, i should probably respond to each thread during the day to keep the conversation lively, but was too busy with work, i just got off work now and am doing a general thanks to all the responders. i thought i wrote some pretty good articles on building a raspberry pi scoreboard, it went over some design decisions and tradeoffs, and i also responded to some posts with, what i thought was well thought up. maybe i’m in the wrong timezone (shanghai), i think a forum is active during certain times and once that window’s past, nobody’s really looking at all the stale comments.

also, i think in general, article submissions get buried quickly, ask HN, show HN, url submissions, so you kind of either need to hit the right timing where your article is right on top of the stack and everyone happens to be looking at it or you have some mechanism to gain points by gaming the system with fake accounts that add karma, to me that’s not worth the trouble. obviously the content needs to be interesting, but i feel behind the curve here.

don't forget the landfill that tends to stink up every year when it starts to warm up.

i didn't think much of darius miles back then, he could definitely dunk, but i didn't see him as an upcoming star, the guy flat out couldn't shoot the j and sometimes he made some really bad decisions on the court, so i didn't have much respect for him, didn't think he was the brainiest of the players.

but this article changes everything, i think he's quite articulate, if this was really written by him and reviewed by q, it's not a bad piece of work, never mind the ebonics, but it's not half bad at all.

i think a lot of fans don't realize the punishment professional athletes take on their bodies, surgeries that normal folks would probably forego and instead wait to heal at their own pace. obviously professional athletes get compensated for this, but it's still quite taxing, look at all the scars grant hill has from his multiple ankle and knee surgeries, walking just isn't the same anymore. but i'm sure most people would give up their right arm for the chance at a few years in the nba on those salaries.

I'm a senior director and most of my reports are middle managers, but hopefully some of this will still be relevant or useful, i meet with my direct reports quite often, like sometimes multiple times a day, but these aren't 1x1's, they're project related, i'm typically trying to get a pulse on the team and projects. For actual 1x1's, i try to schedule once a month, i have 7 direct reports, each 1x1 is scheduled for 30m, if there are a lot of topics, we can extend if time permits, or schedule a follow up. Most of the folks have been with me for a long time (6+ years) so the trust level is quite high, that way we cut straight through the crap and speak candidly. My direct reports typically have a list of topics prepared, they don't share these topics with me in advance, which i think is beneficial because then i'm more so in listening mode, topics range from people, career development, to work politics, etc. I try hard not to prepare responses in my head while they're talking. i think for most of my managers, career path is pretty evident, they want to manage more people, larger orgs, and more responsibility, i have gone through career planning with them at some point, so we're talking about specific goals that we've outlined together, and their progress along those lines. I rarely get status updates on projects. Typically discussions are more exploratory, for example, I don't like direct reports bringing problems to me unless they have a set of possible solutions with pros/cons well articulated, my job is not to solve their problems, my job is to prepare them so that they can resolve their own problems.

My skip level 1x1's i try to schedule a 1-2 per week, i have over 80 people, so this rate gets me through most of the team by the end of the year. It's good to get a pulse on the team through this manner instead of just hearing it from the managers, and it lets you get to know the people in your organization more intimately, i'm sure at some point this doesn't scale, but i'd like to keep it up, maybe as the org grows larger to sample folks instead of trying to get to know everyone. I'm in learning mode mostly here, trying to figure out what makes them tick, what's frustrating them, i also try to recognize their work if applicable and get a good grasp of their potential. Sometimes i'll get into their project details, because a) it helps to relax them to talk about technical things b) it helps me to gauge their potential and then i get a better sense of how to coach their careers. Again, listening is key here. Skip levels are also 30m. Recognition for their work is important, great to hear from your manager, but also great to hear from your manager's manager. Typically the skip level engineers don't have a list of topics, so it's more me getting to know the individual better i typically ask about their background, what they're working on, i like digging into the technical details, whiteboarding is wonderful. In terms of career discussions, i most likely don't have all the specifics about their skill set, so for that, i expect the managers to sort through. But obviously if they have career questions, i'm happy to give them my perspective.

yes, the ccp does not discriminate.

funny, recently in hk i saw an anti-flg next to a flg advocate.

that's because all the mosquitos are now in china...

i think the author mentions divide and conquer (not by name), breaking things down to the smallest scope.

it's harder for me to keep track of all my things to do, for work, home, etc, i've actually created a tool to use for this, there's an iphone app if anyone's interested:

https://getsdone.xyz

very much agree, lived in tokyo for 1 year, i even had a private japanese tutor, but could hardly even order stuff from mcds, sure you could point to the pictures, but the follow up questions would be something along the lines of do you want this as part of a set or individually ordered, would you like it super sized, and/or would you like to swap coke for sprite or something along those lines. the funny thing is that i found out a lot of chinese students worked those menial jobs, so i could use mandarin to order. the machines were the best, just follow the pictures.

i love japan in general, had a lot of friends luckily that spoke great english, but the cost of living for me was 1700 usd per month (this was back in 2006, of course i lived in high flying shinjuku), and the english barrier was difficult to get over. probably if i was a bit younger and didn't need to seriously advance my career, i would have stuck it out and learned the language. you could probably find a decent apartment for 800-1200 usd, not sure what the rate is now.

i do think the high-tech scene is good in tokyo, the food awesome, the culture one of a kind, i just wasn't patient enough to learn the language.

+1 for portugal, i was actually in lisbon for a few days this summer, first time, i really liked what i saw, was more on vacation than for work, but definitely had a few escalations that forced me to get on the internet and everything was fast. people are friendly, costs relatively low, i stayed in 2 different parts, but near my hotel there was a large huawei office (not that i'd ever consider working there), but it tells you that some big, multi-national companies are there.

i also heard that if you buy a 600k usd house in portugal, you could register for eu citizenship, please someone confirm.

i'm not an attorney, nor should my advice be taken as legal advice. i would strongly suggest getting a lawyer to handle this.

i can suggest, however, the main things to consider are separating your personal and business income tax and absolving yourself of personal liability in case something overbearing happens like a lawsuit, these are good things of incorporating.

again, i'm not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice, i know nothing of eu laws either.

what do you mean, nodejs or raspi?

i think a little conflict is fine, working through conflict can often times build trust, use this as a learning experience because you're always going to have conflict, even if this conflict feels like a core belief mismatch. i find the founder is a bit too super direct and lacks tact, i'm a senior director, and have never told anyone to earn my trust, it's a given, i gain nothing by explicitly stating this, but that's besides the point, different strokes, different folks.

i also see a bit of a power struggle here, because your role, perhaps at other companies, has been more control and process oriented, this is a startup with few processes and control seems to be completely with the founder.

here's what i suggest, change is inevitably hard to deal with, it takes time and it's very natural for people to resist, so the first thing for you is to decide whether you're ok with this taking a long time, if not, there are a ton of other opportunities out there, don't waste time. if you're willing to stick it out and see value in the business, in the role, then figure out how to do things in incremental steps aka non-earth shattering, it shouldn't be, adhere to my god-like, every company does it this way devops pattern or else (even if it is god-like). baby steps where it's easier for the team/founder to accept, less friction/inertia.

another thing is through statistics, founders change caused this which impacted that, we had 3h downtime because founder's change hosed the system, this caused roughly $20,000 hit to revenue, or we lost x users as a results of this. if he's ok with this after repeatedly pointing this out, maybe it's because his goal is different, he's looking for speed of execution as opposed to short term revenue gain, in which case you need to try to align and figure out ways to break things even faster, but with simple ways of rolling back. maybe he/she wants a/b type testing with quick rollbacks in case stuff hits the fan. obviously aligning with the founder is going to be critical.

i also suggest a book titled "what got you here won't get your there". you should treat every new role with an open outlook, there are always new challenges to sharpen your skills and experience, if everything's similar to what you did before, you're essentially not learning much.

most people are talking about clean code, good design constructs, but i feel that many are missing the point, we’re talking about code quality here, design is the grit and grind that all developers go through to develop great software, certainly there are better designed software projects out there that leaves them more maintainable and prone to less bugs, but the fact of the matter is that for complicated code, designs go through many iterations and refactorings over time e.g. linux kernel, all software projects have bugs, even well designed or well tested software. but the significance of good testing and good processes are not being highlighted here, unit testing, code coverage, functional testing, end to end testing，scale testing, performance testing, code review, fault injection, debuggability, test automation, static code analysis, etc, i am shocked not to see lots of discussion on these things (aside from the sqlite mention) and testing techniques. probably a more developer friendly crowd here at hn, but testing is a significant and game changing part of what separates developers from great developers.

linux kernel, purely the reasoning being that it’s probably one of the most used pieces of software out there, along those lines, probably the kernel libraries and user libraries like libstdc that are a part of it. i dont know how the linux kernel is tested, but i know that production testing of the kernel on different platforms, at large scale is probably the most used open source in the market.

i would add to this, the culture must embrace entrepreneurialism, like tokyo is a great place in terms of infrastructure, but the society is more bent on having salarymen that have stable careers, so the startup scene is more stagnant than other places where the schools/talent arent as good and access to sfo, other places are great.

the main things, i think, necessary to make somewhere a great location for a startup are public infrastructure and talent, i dont know anything about naples, but i wonder first and foremost how good the local talent is, and second how well it can attract talent. is the airport accessible to direct flights to say sfo, etc. are there incentives to place datacenters, although not a hard requirement because of aws, gcp ovmh, but it helps, i imagine it’s a volcanic zone, so probably not. look at all the great startup cities in the world and you’ll find strong universities that have great talent, the univiersities help to lure the talent, the companies help to keep them.

obviously this has lots of ties with government where they could make things easier.

from the first picture, it looks like a great place to live on the mediterannean, but the crime and filth sounds bad.

anyone know what library the stock app uses for its charts? the redesigned stock app is pretty cool, i was searching for it and seems it’s called a spark line, but i couldnt find anything in the developer docs or cocoapods