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If you ask Chinese internet users, most will be skeptical of Facebook's prospects in the country. The social media market was already dominated by Chinese companies, there seems li…

Check out this post of an event aggregation implementation in Backbone: http://devlicio.us/blogs/mike_nichols/archive/2011/08/14/bac...

Here is the link: http://learning-curve.appspot.com/

Dear HN, this is an app that helps its user organizing links, documentations, files, tutorials and other amazing resources one encounter online - by type and topics. It was built t…

Quote the article, "Need to prove something you already believe? Statistics are easy: All you need are two graphs and a leading question". This is surprisingly true if you are exam…

You know how many officials you can bribe with $1.6 B? Here's a hint: LOTS OF THEM.

In Chinese, the win sound means plague... so you fill in the blank. Plague 95, Plague 98, Plague XP. XP is even funnier, X is pronounced as "Cha" and it means to insert or to penet…

The McDonalds v. Subway battle is exactly the reason why Subway needs a clever name. With McDonalds and KFC dominating the Chinese fast food market, Subway needs a point of differe…

Just to add to the list, a few other good examples, all meeting the three criterion in the article: Carrefour is translated as 家乐福(jia le fu), which means family, happiness and for…

Since we have so many chatbots around and I am pretty sure lots of them adjust and update their databases (perhaps algorithms as well?) based on human inputs. Suppose we keep doing…