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by shanwang 9y ago
I agree this one is more of a marketing fluff. But if you think all tech advances in China are Cold War era propaganda then you have not been paying attention to the tech world in the last 20 years.
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by shanwang 9y ago
Good points. But how many customers you talk to is enough? If I'm building a product for enterprise, is talking to one keen potential customer enough? For a first time founder, I can't imagine someone without much connections can
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by shanwang 9y ago
So, if I'm interviewing with a startup in AI, and asked all these questions, how many good answers I should expect? Is it ok for a startup to have a defensible business to solve a problem 10x better, knows how to make money in a big ma
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by shanwang 9y ago
Sounds like the script of a Black Mirror episode.
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by shanwang 9y ago
Health care isn't the reason for the pay gap. The technology sector in Europe is far smaller than those in the US, these days there isn't a single tech company in the EU can rival those tech giants in the US, so the pay gap makes
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by shanwang 9y ago
so what are those numbers look like in Scandinavia
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by shanwang 9y ago
Can't open the doc because it's blocked by my employer. But generally the developer wage is very low in Europe compared with US(Bay area). AFAIK London have the highest salary among european countries, usually handed out by Invest
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by shanwang 9y ago
HongKong's rise was largely due to the decline of Shanghai and mainland China falling to communist government. Now with the rest of China rise up, I can't see how HongKong can return to its former glory
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by shanwang 9y ago
Good article, but why people are calling Software Engineers Hackers these days?
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by shanwang 9y ago
I actually think document should be kept/written by a chat/email app. Most companies have a wiki for document, but how many of them can stay up to date? Discussions happen all the time, and they often require changes to previous d
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by shanwang 9y ago
dare i say the phone looks underwhelming? the home hub looks interesting, but it seems the main selling point is it can work with other devices? so does it mean I can do things like asking Alexa to stream my itunes library on chromecast?
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by shanwang 10y ago
As a foreigner I have lived in London for more than a decade and have friends and families living in SF. One interesting I found is although both London and SF have large number of foreigners/immigrants, in London not one group of immi
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by shanwang 10y ago
Agree. Teams like strats or any quantitive developer roles may not be good either. There may be some interesting jobs in systems require ultra low latency if you get to build them from scratch or rewrite them. It shouldn't come as a su
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by shanwang 10y ago
I'm not surprised that MOOCs are a big factor, people like me who have left school years ago have forgotten how to write a BFS, we need something to brush up those knowledge. If you run statistics against using sites like careercup, yo
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by shanwang 10y ago
On their website they have pictures of both the prototype and other manufacturers' cars. it makes a lot of sense to just sell the driving system, like the android model. But I assume they designed the prototype to capture the public&#x
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by shanwang 10y ago
If their target is to sell tickets for a self driving fleet, I guess that makes sense.
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by shanwang 10y ago
Looking at it, I'm thinking google hasn't learnt anything about the failure of google glass, who wants to buy a car like that? A car is more than a commuting tool, it really matters how it looks.
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by shanwang 10y ago
Renting is about the only thing SV is significantly more expensive than London. Quick Google shows me this: https://www.numbeo.com/cost--living/compare_cities.jsp?count... The cost of living in SF is 1.4 times higher b
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by shanwang 10y ago
I was talking about mid-level engineers in startups, not senior engineers in banks, if you want to compare big employers, £80-£120k is nothing compared with $250-300k you get as senior developer in Silicon Valley.
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by shanwang 10y ago
that's partially true, but you forget european countries usually have higher tax than US (not only income tax, but also VAT, fuel tax, etc). here in London a mid-level engineer, which I assume is the bottom half of senior software engi
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by shanwang 10y ago
I guess the salary figures are largely influenced by US figures, $101k-$150k for mid-level engineer is definitely not the norm in europe.
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by shanwang 10y ago
You misread the OP, he's talking to 6 dev people, not 6 taxi drivers. I'd be surprised if anyone without a uni degree can find a dev job in a foreign company in Beijing. Don't get me wrong, I'm not pro censorship. But yo
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by shanwang 10y ago
True, but try talking to a Japanese about WWII, and you'll be surprised how little they know about what happened, it's NOT taught in school, not all the facts. Government brainwash is not exclusive to communist countries.
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by shanwang 10y ago
As a Chinese I have to say it's hard to believe “Not one of the six Chinese devs had ever seen that photo or had any knowledge of what happened there”, it's more likely they don't want to tell you what they really think. When
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by shanwang 10y ago
I doubt the EU has any plan of anything. With rise of nationalism and protectionism, the EU is fighting for its own existence. China was never a equal trade partner to the west. In fact, I don't think any of the developing countries ca
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by shanwang 10y ago
> Of course, almost all of the roads and railways are to extract resources, not to help locals in any way. That's a very sinister comment, when China builds a road, it's all about grabbing resources and can not help the locals
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by shanwang 10y ago
I'm in London too, $120K job in today's London market (£100K) only exists in some banks, hedge fund and HFT companies, and you'll definitely need 10year+ experience to get those jobs. I think the salary gap between US and UK
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by shanwang 10y ago
It's not about top-down disallow, it's just restrictive for many reasons. To use a programming language to build a system within a company, I need not only the approval of my boss but also other developers in my team to know that
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Ask HN: How to keep your skills up to date on all your programming languages?
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by shanwang 10y ago
I started web development by learning Angular 1, maybe I'm the minority, but I actually liked it in the beginning, and only grow to dislike after dived deep into it. I was a web newbie but experienced developer in other field. The attr

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