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microsage

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About microsage

Developer, from the United States originally, now based in Shanghai, mostly.

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    Comment #21587877

    Ah, I guess I missed that, might be nice to get a link in the story header / footer if possible. Sometimes tricky to scan body text for a link. Cool product / story by the way!

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    Comment #21587783

    Strangely, the article doesn't link to the actual product site or have very clear pictures of the product. Here's a link to the site: https://origamei.com

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    Comment #21411867

    Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see how this has anything to do with "cracking" the algorithm, or really with cracking anything. YouTube openly admits to having a metric f…

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    Comment #21404047

    That makes sense. API access, especially at that price point, seems like something worth paying for.

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    Comment #21403965

    I know you didn't ask for suggestions, but here's mine: the one thing I care about a CRM doing really well is pipeline / funnel management, i.e, the ability to define a set of stag…

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    Comment #21403818

    I very much agree with this, particularly the part regarding having active social media profiles. I can see the practicality of using active social media as a heuristic for "realne…

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    Comment #19725099

    I don't want to have a big debate over what will and what won't happen in China in the future as I see you and I are working from very different assumptions and have very different…

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    Comment #19716149

    This is completely unfounded speculation not found in that article or in any other writing on the topic(s) (of social credit scores and the study the great nation app). Or possibly…

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    Comment #19630893

    For what it's worth, I just tried opening the supposedly blocked site using Wechat, in China, on a Chinese phone (xiaomi) with a Chinese mobile plan (China unicom) and it works fin…

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    Comment #16144365

    No particular preference - I'm fairly comfortable in South East Asia already, so that would be slightly easier - but anywhere would be fine - Africa or Central America seem like go…

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    Ask HN: As an engineer, how can I volunteer in the developing world?

    I'm an experienced software developer from the states, but I've spent a lot of time overseas, particularly in Asia. I'm interested in spending some time, at least six months, volun…

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    Comment #16128895

    It looks like you have some videos on youtube that make the product look interesting, such as: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG5bOsUFb-4 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2-cE…

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    Comment #14883279

    > The language in the indictment about BTC-e’s “criminal design” mimics the indictment against Liberty Reserve — an anonymous currency service taken down by law enforcement in 2013…

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    Comment #14863075

    I'm also in Shanghai, on a China Telecom hardline, I get nothing from 1.1.1.1: PING 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data. --- 1.1.1.1 ping statistics --- 80 packets transmitted, …

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    Comment #14817415

    This would be a great product for a non-profit to improve on. Some of the restrictions (only 7k characters stored, consumption of expensive resources like paper, ink ribbons, corre…

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    Comment #14487437

    I'll second The Art of Unix Programming - despite the title, it has many broad programming and software architecture lessons, and "The Unix Philosophy" is applicable far beyond Uni…

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    Comment #13819812

    I think this is a pretty distorted worldview. I'm confident most brick-layers would be happy to be taken for this kind of "complete ride by employers" in exchange for the cushy off…