eric_khun

Thank you, fixed it, I definitely didn't pay attention on this

Now wondering if it impacted conversion rate?

Shameless plug:

I spent too much time losing precious time when github/npm/cloudflare are going down, until I figure out it was them.

So currently working on a project[1] to monitor all the 3rd party stack you use for your services. Hit me up if you want, access I'll give free access for a year+ to some folks to get feedbacks.

[1] https://monitory.io

For knowledge sharing in a remote team (been working 6y remotely), we do lot of videos sharing called Snackchat and Impromptus Knowledge Screencasts [1].

When there is a question, we give the answer, but also try to give the more context as possible , with a link to a document or slack conversation.

[1] https://erickhun.com/posts/sharing-knowledge-in-a-remote-tea...

I was so glad to bet one of the early adopter of the Google pixel 1. I broke my screen and gladely bought the pixel 2 and was so satisfied with it, gladely showing off photos. Both version had the best cameras on the market. Had amazing customer support inside the phone, and unlimited photo/videos cloud storage. iPhone owners were jealous.

But then starting the 3rd , everything declined. Camera became average, they stop the unlimited storage, battery became really bad. They went backward, and couldn't keep their competitive advantage or stay ahead of the innovation. Original early adopters starts getting disappointed seeing better cameras[1] and battery life flooding the market.

Hopefully the 4a will help them regain the heart of us (and me)

definitely! when we live in a city for 5+ years, we assume lot of basic questions are common knowledge.

but as someone who change country or city every few years, it would save me so much time, money and hassle to know all those "basics"

appreciate! I'm not a front end guy so I take the compliment. I use plain HTML and bulma.io for the css

for the baackend it's just few lines of python (flask) reading the spreadsheet api and displaying it

Thank you, I've added the NewYork sheet. if there is enough answer I'll publish the page in few hours ️

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-Lut4zmeDw9z-ikRJPH1...

I love spreadsheets, especially for crowdsourced information. One of my side project[1] is to gather informations from experiences expats to help new comers that set up in a new country/city. They are questions/answer you wished had known instead spending months/years figuring it out. The collaboration happens in google spreadsheet and it works wonderfully. We have 14+ cities now

If you have any experience in your city, feel free to fill the spreadsheet[2]

[1] https://travelhustlers.co/cityfaq/

[2] http://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-Lut4zmeDw9z-ikRJPH1n...

I got the same issue today when I was on-call. took me 1 hour to figure out it was Cloudflare.

I'm currently working on a project to monitor all the 3rd party stack you use for your applications. Hit me up if you want, access I'll give free access for a year+ to some folks to get feedbacks.

After 3 years of lifting weights with compound exercises, I got bored, and now having so much fun with bodyweight, it's been 2 years now.

You can Google Handstand push up, pistol squats, full planche, high pull ups. Those kind of skills/balance/freedom of your body can't be reached with only lifting weights. Those are my new targets skills, I've been practising, and I'm having a LOT OF fun progressing toward those goals.

I still do squats and DeadLift from time to time because BodyWeight doesn't strength legs/back as much as I wish, becauseI think they're still important exercises to be solid.

we should connect x) I'm also in Taiwan

Started a crowdsourced website helping people that just moved in a new city/country to "get started" [1]. Anyone can edit a spreadsheet [2] and the infos will be directly reflected on the city page.

I've lived in several countries, and I wish there was experienced expats telling me the best carrier/area to live/gym/etc... instead of trying too many things and wasting a lot of time

[1] https://travelhustlers.co/cityfaq/

[2] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-Lut4zmeDw9z-ikRJPH1...

I'd say Taipei for a "big" city. Hualien or Taidung for smaller ones

The 24/7 rain is exaggerated. I'd say it's getting quite rainy during the rainy season (I admit I also don't like this season much), but we have quite a bit of beautiful sunny days, especially when you head to south.

By far the most english-speaking country in Asia (after singapore). You wouldn't have issue to communicate with people, have a normal daily life. Might have issue to communicate with the old generation, but most of the people will go out their way to help you. Mandarin is the official language, but they are now making a huge push to become a bilingual language[1]

For safety, from 0 to 10, I'd give it a 9.5. I like to joke about the daily biggest national news being a grandma who lost its cat, since not much "bad things" happens here. Most of the thing I lost were returned, for example I thought I've lost my bag with my ipad few years ago in a bar, but someone returned it the day after x)

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2020/06/13/2...

On a related note, TSMC is based in Taiwan. Ben Thompson (who wrote this article) chose to live there. It's cheap/friendly/modern/safe/connected to all asia/awesome healthcare system/amazing food/surrounded by nature.

Taiwan now puts effort trying to attract new talents. The "gold card visa"[1] is quite easy to get, just earn more than usd5.5k/month at your last/current job, or work in a "trendy" field (AI/big data/energy/biotech...) and you get an "open visa" for 3 years without restrictions for ~300USD. If you're looking for change, I highly recommend her Taiwan! Happy to reply to any questions

[1] https://taiwangoldcard.com

For the Taiwan Gold Card Visa that gives you the right to stay and Work in Taiwan for up to 3 years , you can find a comprehensive list of Questions and Answers on https://taiwangoldcard.com

Bad news for the economy. Market is going to new highs today

Spot on, love the gyms here. They have MANY decent gyms where you pay by the hour, and sometimes by the minutes without any membership. And really cheap, about usd 1,5 per hour .

Nice point on being one of the hub for flying in Asia. It's connected to everywhere within 1 or 2 hours reach(Philipine,China,Japan,Korea, SG etc...)

If you apply via salary, you need to be employed by any company. Freelancing income doesn't count. You need to justify it with employment letter, and tax return.

The other way is to qualify for any of their "talent" needs. Blockchain, VR, IA, and have proof it it (publication, work, projects). They have 8 categories of people that can qualify: https://foreigntalentact.ndc.gov.tw/en/cp.aspx?n=128B875DE9C...

Yes I do have it. and working remotely for few years now

Taipei, Taiwan The most underrated city/country in Asia :

- Chill and relax

- Awesome people, polite and clean

- Best place in the world to work from cafes. Many cafes shops welcome people who works for long hours. They also care about cafe ;) I actually prefer to work from cafes than co-working here

- Surrounded by nature, mountain, sea, river are within 45minutes reach. Hundred of trails around Taipei.

- Metro / Bus system is top notch, no car needed, it's flat so you can bike everywhere easily. The bike sharing (uBike) is everywhere. I use it daily.

- People are genuinely kind, friendly, curious. Did I mentioned people 2 times? They deserve a 3rd mentioned, they really are.

- Visa is easy to get if you are employed (aka not freelancing), and earn more than usd5.5k/month, or work in a "trendy" field, you can get the "gold card" visa for 3 years that comes with a work visa, that is not attached to any company! Is any other country has such a perk to attract talent? I'm not aware of.

- Great healthcare (and the best best country that managed the coronavirus)

- LGBT friendly

- Warm (but humid)

- Convenient , 24/7 convenience stores, within 2 minutes walk from everywhere, really often, 2 convenience stores face each other (no kidding)

- Awesome international food scene , you can find any western food , and local food is amazing. Japanese food is amazing, as good as in Japan, but cheaper (it's an old japanese colony, and the favorite destination of japanese people)

- It's a better China (I lived in China for 4 years)

Cons:

- It is so relax / chill that it somehow bugs me. I sometimes worry to become "soft", staying here bc it's too convenenient

- Wish the startup / tech scene was better

ps: if you live in Taipei hit me up :)

pps: People often think Taiwan is China, but it's not. It has a totally different vibe and Taiwanese has a totally different personality. The only thing in common is the language

someone can explain me why they just don't stop pumping?

Question related to video encoding: We are spending quite a bit of money on Amazon ElasticTranscoder for video encoding. Wondering if anyone had experience or advices to selfhost that kind of service? Any project I should consider for a proof of concept?

Thanks! wouldn't that be an issue if a pod "take over" the node , if for some reasons a request use too much CPU?

Anyone solved properly the CPU Throttling issues they are seeing with kubernetes ? Is this release solved it? We are seeing a lot of throttling on every deployments, what impact our latency, even when setting a really high cpu limit. The solutions seems to be:

- remove the limit completely. Not a fan of this one since we really don't want a service going over a given limit...

- using the static management cpu policy [2] Not a fan because some services doesn't need a "whole" cpu to run...

Anyone has any other solutions? Thanks!

[1] https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/67577

[2] https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/cpu-mana...

It was changed to a read only link, not sure why. I'd have appreciated addition from the HN folks

Made a collaborative "corona stock" spreadsheet[1].

Now feel like a great opportunity to buy some "cheaper" stocks that could make great returns in the future. Also helps to have better perspective of my "limited" vision of the market.

[1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bBsJnUIWg8BbET-h3oKN...

Is it allow in the Chinese law to block competitors that way?

I completely can relate to your experiences (wrote a post about side projects [1]). Strongly agree with "Programming in a void is worthless". Learning a new language shouldn't be the purpose to start a new project, it should just be a tool to get a side project going. And the goal of the side project will make you force you to use it, so it's a great way to learn. It can sometimes be a struggle to learn how to achieve X or Y with that tool, I now tend to use the language I know (that I've learned with previous side project) to ship a new side projects faster.

[1] https://erickhun.com/posts/why-you-should-have-a-side-projec...