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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 …

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 c…

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 …

Sounds like the script of a Black Mirror episode.

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 …

so what are those numbers look like in Scandinavia

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 amon…

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 retu…

Good article, but why people are calling Software Engineers Hackers these days?

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 …

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 lik…

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…

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 …

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 yo…

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 assu…

If their target is to sell tickets for a self driving fleet, I guess that makes sense.

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 matter…

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…

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 se…

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, wh…

I guess the salary figures are largely influenced by US figures, $101k-$150k for mid-level engineer is definitely not the norm in europe.

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 …

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…

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 …

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…