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The image quality seems a bit low (low contrast/greyish, lots of grain), but the concept is very cool. I also see lots of artifacts (horizontal lines) in several of the demo images…

Or for example chachaba.com (in Shenzhen): http://sz.chachaba.com/location.action?placeId=221a75f1-bcfc... They had problems with providing a mapping service in China without a lic…

It's extremely busy in the chapel and you will have no time to smell anything. The guards will also try to keep the masses moving along, so there is very little left of the serene …

These slides were part of a "lightning talk" on ZeroMQ (video here: http://streaming.fosdem.org:8000/ferrer/0mq.ogv ). So I think Pieter just wanted to make the audience curious an…

Just yesterday here in Shenzhen "Escalator malfunction injures 24". Anything can break unexpectedly... src : http://szdaily.sznews.com/html/2010-12/15/content_1360566.ht...

In the presentation it was mentioned they will release some software in 2011. He also mentioned there are papers + pseudo-code on the website for research purposes to play with. So…

The opening slides (even though they are impossible to read) are fantastic. Very funny!

Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at kwf.dyndns.org:5821. well, I guess that was expected for a website that is hosted on an alarm clock :)

I found this article quite readable and the trick from the researchers smart. They assume that galaxies are oriented randomly (from our viewpoint). In actual observations this does…

1) as far as I know, 5-day workweeks are the norm. I don't know companies that require you to work 6 days. The boss of course doesn't mind if you come in the weekend, but it's not …

I work at Tencent in China and here more than half of the people take a nap in the midday. We have a lunchbreak from 12 to 14h and around 13h the lights get turned off and lots of …

Taobao is the Chinese equivalent of eBay. The most interesting project on the Taobao code website is TFS（Taobao FileSystem）. It's a highly scalable, highly available, high performa…

Taobao is the Chinese equivalent of eBay. The most interesting project on the Taobao code website is TFS（Taobao FileSystem）. It's a highly scalable, highly available, high performa…

I wrote an article about the cost of living in Shenzhen a while ago: http://www.startinchina.com/shenzhen/life/cost_of_living_in_...

Getting a visa for China is much simpler than getting a visa for Europe (and I imagine for the USA). I get a 1-year multiple-entry visa every year without problems, though with hel…

I live in Shenzhen and work in the IT myself (Tencent/QQ), but I cannot fully recommend it for startups: 1. GFW, you absolutely NEED a VPN to get access to Facebook, Twitter many b…

I don't think those bosses have so much more risk than the programmers, yet they earn substantially more than the programmers according to the article.

Actually it lists in Hong Kong. Tencent has always shown good growth figures (see http://tencent.com.hk )

I'm very glad that KLM is pushing to lift the flight bans! From what I understand, is there are no strict rules to decide when not to fly due to volcanic eruptions. The current ban…

Arrington is indeed ..hmm.. how to put this nicely... I have no idea. I'm totally with this guy. For example when cars run a red light with people crossing the street and then they…

no, one of the major problems in China is drought and heat. Beijing suffers from both of them and each year the desert is moving closer to Beijing and the sandstorms are getting wo…

Hope this will be one of those rules that is never really going to be implemented/enforced, but if some websites are really already unavailable, that doesn't bode well...

it is illegal in china to check the sex of an unborn child (of course if you pay enough at private clinics, you can still do it). Public hospitals probably will not dare to do it.