bluekite2000

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by bluekite2000 4y ago
Congrats on the launch. Is there an email I can contact you for private questions?
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by bluekite2000 4y ago
You missed out on Saigon by picking Hanoi though :)
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by bluekite2000 5y ago
I doubt it (even though I run a dev shop w/ Vietnam based engineers). US companies will continue hiring US based engineers. And when Covid is over people will go to the office again.
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by bluekite2000 5y ago
Also wanted to add in developed countries (and by corollary, big cities) it is very hard to make friends once you are an adult. When I lived in Vietnam it is 10x easier to date/make friends/get involved in the local community (vs
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by bluekite2000 5y ago
East/West can work well as well. I have a team in Vietnam with USA clients and we just do 1h overlap per day. Too many meetings may not be a good thing.
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by bluekite2000 5y ago
I am here in Vietnam (and was in California a few months ago) and the difference is day and night. Lockdown is super strict here. Everyone wears mask (even when it is only a few cases out of millions). It is a 21 day mandatory quarantine (i
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by bluekite2000 6y ago
Wait till Asia's borders open. The fanout will go transpacific. Especially in Southeast Asia.
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by bluekite2000 6y ago
It depends on how you manage the workload I think. I am based in California (and so is my client) and we have a team in Hanoi, Vietnam. We get a lot done as many tasks are done asynchronously. Plus we can deploy when the users in US are sle
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by bluekite2000 6y ago
A few years ago I had to commute from Orange county to Manhattan Beach. It takes 1 hour to get to the office (leaving at 5:15am in the morning) and 1.5 hour to get home (leaving at 4pm). By the time I got home I felt dead. It was a 30 mile
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by bluekite2000 6y ago
>Trust in the government is at an all time high. Just to clarify you mean trust in the government to handle the pandemic right?
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by bluekite2000 6y ago
Do you use a service for bookkeeping?
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by bluekite2000 6y ago
What do you mean set up correctly? And how does 112K turn into 40K taxable?
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by bluekite2000 6y ago
Any tech dev/company in Bay Area want to set up shop in Vietnam? And live a more balanced life (in terms of dating, traveling, eating good food, etc)? I can help be your local point of contact.
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by bluekite2000 6y ago
I am in LA and a friend tells me he can't hire good in house engineers locally. When I suggest Vietnam/etc he indeed mentioned tradeoffs regarding timeshift/culture. I guess you can't have it both ways.
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by bluekite2000 6y ago
I would replace Nhatrang with Danang. Danang is the next big coastal tech hub now.
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by bluekite2000 6y ago
Yeah I know a bunch of QA companies in Vietnam. How did your company find them? I am Vietnamese American myself and have spent a lot of time in the region. It is an amazing place w/ a hungry yet educated youth population, great food, b
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by bluekite2000 6y ago
Who are your typical clients/industries? And how long is a typical engagement? And why per hour vs per project pricing?
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by bluekite2000 7y ago
Anyone interested in Vietnam? I spent tons of time there (Ho Chi Minh city and Hanoi) recruiting Vietnamese software developers recently for my own projects and am seriously thinking of parlaying that skillset into helping US companies sett
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by bluekite2000 7y ago
Where do you go to get the box made? What is its cost? And what is shipping cost (for ex within GA) per box? Does shipping cost increase by weight too?
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by bluekite2000 8y ago
What group in Vietnam? I can't find their channel
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by bluekite2000 8y ago
"There is a reason that we dont' let the exchanges trade on their own markets against their clients. It's a long learned lesson". Care to elaborate?
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by bluekite2000 9y ago
On a related topic, what are the pros and cons of having a toll on the freeways during peak hours? I find this works well in many countries.
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by bluekite2000 10y ago
where is the list of 32 companies?
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by bluekite2000 10y ago
Is there a list of those 50 companies?
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by bluekite2000 10y ago
anyone knows if there is a business need for human to train/label data? I have been thinking of going to a place w/ cheap labor cost (perhaps Vietnam) and set up an operation like this.
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by bluekite2000 10y ago
I did that after saving enough money in Silicon Valley back in 2008. I lived on the top floor. It was called USA Books and was the 1st English only bookstore in Vietnam. Naturally it was tech heavy http://wordhcmc.com/news-l
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by bluekite2000 11y ago
Can I search for hashtag or username?
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by bluekite2000 12y ago
what about in the US? Is there such a fine?
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by bluekite2000 13y ago
anyone has experience with remittance from US to countries that don't have a local bitcoin exchange? How would it work in such case since the receiver can't convert the money to the local currency?
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by bluekite2000 13y ago
where are you buiding your remote team? I m in saigon (ho chi minh) vietnam this month for that same reason.

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