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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.…

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…

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 prefere…

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.

BitTorrent. Ashwin worked for Goldman Sachs.

Well, Agarwal says the remaining is split on an "as converted" basis which implies non-participating preferred. So it seems right to me!

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…

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.

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…

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 Sh…

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.…

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.

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 …