bitcoin
How English Killed Bitcoin
Mt. Gox finally died and may be taking Bitcoin with it. Cause of death? English. Here's how: "Online trading," "Buy/Sell", "Bid/Ask", "Deposit", "Withdrawal", "Market Cap" What do these words make you think of? If
china
Secrets Revealed on China Mobile iPhone Launch Day
Today, Apple officially kicked off their alliance with China Mobile, the world's largest mobile carrier with almost 800 million subscribers. While mainstream media widely covered the launch day from Beijing, complete with pictures of Tim Cook and China Mobile executives, they missed some of the more interesting details
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5 problems with Uber in China and why I love it!
Many of us in the Hong Kong tech community have followed the Uber closely from afar - watching with jealousy as our friends in the valley and NYC tweet about riding around in Uber comfort. City after city in Asia launched Uber: Taipei, Singapore, Shanghai - but not Hong Kong!
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Why do we hate stuff?
There’s a growing divide in this world. It’s not the wealth gap or the digital gap, or the education gap. It's what I call the "stuff gap" and it's a divide between those that live to accumulate physical possessions and those that
entrepreneurship
Why you should work until you drown
In the past few years movements like "lean startup," the "four hour work week" and "start up weekend" have gain a lot of popularity. The gospel they preach? Building a business should be quick...a sprint and not a marathon. If you haven'
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The 6 Best Places to Get Work Done in Hong Kong
Offices are expensive and no one really likes to go to them. When we had an office at Pay4Bugs, I found myself going anywhere but the office when I needed to get serious work done. Other members of our team felt the same way. Peoples' lives aren't
internet
A tiny server saves my internet!
In Hong Kong, we face a unique set of problems. Space is at a premium and our Internet connections are so fast that consumer routers made for mere mortals are too slow for us Hongkongers. The misleadingly named home "gigabit routers" rarely have the processing power to perform
immigrants
Chinese: Your Kids Don't Care
There seems to be a mini epidemic of Taiwanese having kids in English speaking countries, finding difficultly teaching their kids Chinese and creating Kickstarters to solve the problem. First was my Wesleyan classmate Cindy's Joy Learning Club, a fun family field trip program conducted in Mandarin around New
networking
Reason #1000 Hong Kong is better for tech
Dear Silicon Valley, Read it and weep: Love, Hong Kong 1000 megabits for less than US$30 a month Dorothy, you're not in Kansas anymore. Hong Kong: We do IT faster.
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Just live with it
We humans are horrible at judging relative risk. I've found fear, risk and our inability to judge it interesting ever since the days after 9/11. People…and the country…did crazy things in reaction to a threat whose statistical chance of death or injury was infinitesimal. The
bitcoin
Bitcoin Payout for Testers
Many Pay4Bugs testers have asked us to offer an alternative to PayPal. Our testers would rather be earning money finding problems in Pay4Bugs customer projects before those bugs result in our customers losing revenue and harming their brand image, than wasting time dealing with cross-border PayPal payment issues. We know
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The Death of Walled Social
Privacy and ad-supported services don't go together. Former Sun Microsystems CEO and fellow Wesleyan alum, Jonathan Schwartz, writes that companies such as Facebook that earn their living by selling users' private information to marketers are much the same as stalkers. Users are acting irrationally, he writes, in