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by dats 18y ago
The total effective tax-rate (national+municipal) in Japan for entry-level workers is under 20% unless you work a ridiculous amount of overtime, and even then it wont be much more. Unlike US jobs, most salaried positions in Japan pay overt
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by dats 18y ago
I also work in Japan, and I've always been treated politely. Of course, there's the occasional politician who announces that all crime in Tokyo is committed by foreigners, but real people tend to be a lot more level-headed.
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An Approach to Algorithm Parallelisation(sigfpe.blogspot.com)
4 points by dats 18y ago|0 comments
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by dats 18y ago
The only remarkable thing about the equity being asked for is the anti-dilution provision. I don't think he's suggesting you ask for liquidation preference or participating preference (which wouldn't make any sense). Anti-dillution is ther
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by dats 18y ago
Have you seen this? http://uebb.cs.tu-berlin.de/~magr/pub/Transformers.en.html It's the best intro to monad transformers I've come across.
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by dats 18y ago
BitTorrent. Ashwin worked for Goldman Sachs.
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by dats 18y ago
Well, Agarwal says the remaining is split on an "as converted" basis which implies non-participating preferred. So it seems right to me!
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by dats 18y ago
Yeah, the papers only discuss how they combine known algorithms[1]. They could be speeding up the process using any combination of these: 1. Using the order of the images to reduce matching from O(N^2) to something closer to O(N) since peo
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by dats 18y ago
I think he means that it's a (Windows) plugin for your browser. Both the picture uploader and the viewer are Windows-only for now.
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by dats 18y ago
The really impressive thing about Photosynth is how far it has come in the last year. It used to take hours to weeks to create synths from hundreds of pictures. The processing time is dominated by 1. Keypoint detection (SIFT or a similar
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by dats 18y ago
I've noticed intelligence is respected but conformity is respected much, much more. From a recent article titled "Why Apple isn't Japanese" "One notorious case in point involves Shuji Nakamura, the brilliant scientist who invented a revolut
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GHC (Haskell) switches to git(haskell.org)
2 points by dats 18y ago|0 comments
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by dats 18y ago
I know you'd rather be there in person, but here's the next best thing. Last year, Berkeley did a one-day Ruby on Rails course and put the videos online. http://radlab.cs.berkeley.edu/wiki/Ruby_on_Rails_1-day_cours... http://www.youtube
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When One Deal Returns the Fund; an Update to Venture Fund Economics(avc.com)
2 points by dats 18y ago|0 comments
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by dats 18y ago
It's not a joke. From the latest 10-Q linked in the article: Finite-lived intangibles include developed and core technology, carrier contracts, trade name, and subscribers.
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List of books used at top CS programs(comparecurriculums.com)
7 points by dats 18y ago|1 comments
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Bouncing back from losing $20 million(texasstartupblog.com)
30 points by dats 18y ago|3 comments
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by dats 18y ago
This reminds me of Brian Lent. He sort of missed out on both Yahoo and Google. http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-01-22-n20.html . Edit: some choice quotes. "When Filo asked Lent if he would like to join Yahoo! as employee No. 1, in ord
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by dats 18y ago
Last year someone benchmarked a simplified raytracer in a few different languages--primarily to show off OCaml. Later, someone wrote the raytracer in 7 lines of K. http://www.nsl.com/k/ray/ray.k . The original comparison: http://www.ff
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There's a method behind StumbleUpon's madness(venturebeat.com)
2 points by dats 18y ago|0 comments
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Tutorial on Good Lisp Programming Style(norvig.com)
28 points by dats 18y ago|6 comments
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by dats 18y ago
I work in Tokyo, and I've noticed the only people who seem to have Facebook accounts are students who studied abroad and those who spend a lot of time socializing with foreigners.
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by dats 18y ago
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/GuerrillaInterviewing...
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by dats 18y ago
Maybe they meant for it to be available in certain countries but erroneously included the US (for 20 minutes).
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The A-Z of Programming Languages: JavaScript(computerworld.com.au)
2 points by dats 18y ago|0 comments
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Latest Kleiner Perkins iFund Investment: ngmoco(techcrunch.com)
1 points by dats 18y ago|0 comments
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Cuil Announcement: A quick look back at launch(cuil.com)
11 points by dats 18y ago|9 comments
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by dats 18y ago
Yup. It's prevalent in Tokyo and seems to be very effective.
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by dats 18y ago
I think this only works for certain countries. It also applies only if you live outside the US for at least 330 days the first year, but those days don't have to be consecutive.
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by dats 18y ago
I'm saying something different though. If you have 2 projects, you won't be able to split your time as effectively so you may have 40% focus for each, and so on. As you take on more and more projects, the time it takes to get back into th

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