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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…

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 gene…

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 healt…

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.co…

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 o…

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 a…

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 wo…

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?…

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…

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 b…

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 pu…

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wow that's amazing! I can't see the link between quizzes and pinterest. Mind giving more details? on why you are there? :)

Thanks! - how many subscribers do you have now? - what was the most efficient marketing channel?

OP here , > full time job working long hours its unrealistic to spend much time on any side project. Something I don't mention in the post is you should focus to reduce time you are working fo…

Thanks! it was done with mapbox :)

Thanks, lucideer. OP here. You're correct! I believe that who want to have more opportunities early in their career will benefit from a side project. It can only add value. And I also agree with …

This is neat! - Which API would you recommend to get accurate transit information data for the Tokyo or any other city ? Google API Directions does not gives out the transit information for Tokyo for …