I'm not seeing anyone mention that there is a recent social media trend of people touting that AirPods emits "harmful" radiation. I only mention this because otherwise intelligent health-nut friends were trying to convince me of the same.
I have experience with both WeWork facilities (via my former employer) and IWG Regus offices (via current startup), so I'll try to comment on the perceived differences.
The main factors for our startup choosing the Regus office in San Francisco were price and privacy.
Regus was vastly cheaper when we evaluated the two options. I'll have to check with the CEO for the exact numbers, but it ended up being several hundred dollars cheaper per month. Also, WeWork offices generally have glass windows, while Regus offices are still traditional closed rooms with doors.
In terms of other benefits:
- meeting rooms tend to be easier to book at a Regus location, since they don't seem to be used much.
- WeWork offers a bunch of consumable amenities: all types of milk, coffee, tea, kombucha, (previously) beer. Regus only has very limited options for coffee and tea.
- WeWork spaces host social events frequently. Regus maybe once a month? Our building management tend to host more events than Regus, interestingly enough.
- Noise level. Common areas in WeWork are similar to a coffee shop if there are lot of members in that location, whereas it's usually quiet in the kitchen & common areas on Regus floors.
This might read as an IWG support post, but I still miss the social aspect and youthful energy behind WeWork, as one of the sibling comments alluded to. But does it make sense for a seed-stage startup to pay for the cost differential? No.
If Uniqlo fits you well, try any of the Mossimo shirts at Target, v-necks or crew necks. Cheap and good enough quality. (Gleaned that from /r/malefashionadvice.)
Otherwise, for the shirts and pants that almost fit, find yourself a good tailor and have them adjusted to your body. It's not expensive at all for basic adjustments.
I'm surprised no one has asked yet, but the next question is, are your small business buddies hiring? I'd be interested in 10/20/30 hours per week continuous employment at a below-market rate, provided it was remote.
In my last startup, I used TouchDB and found that 95% of the time, it worked great, and 5% of the time, the app would grind to a screeching halt.
Reading documents from the local TouchDB store would block the main thread until the upstream CouchDB server would reply with the document's current revision, even if the local store already has an existing version of the document. Using GCD to wrap around these document transactions was still clunky at best and resulted in a poor overall UX.
YMMV, perhaps these issues could have been worked around if I had had a more realistic deadline and stayed in touch with the community. The maintainer, Jens Alfke, is very active.
While living in Japan, I've heard from numerous sources that Tokyo has gotten in trouble in the past for purchasing one-way bus tickets to Osaka for the homeless. (I'm having trouble finding citations, though.)
I have OpenVPN set up on a linode server in the US. That was working fine until a week ago. Switched hosting to Tokyo instead and that worked fine for a few days. Now my colleagues and I have given up and are using a friend's account with Astrill.
Not sure if this has always been a "feature" of Facebook's email service, but apparently you can login with the facebook email address. A would-be hacker only needs to guess your password.
Case in point: a friend has already told me there have been renewed attempts to log into her account from other locations and devices.
To finish Heisig with > 95% recall: 2 months. I had a general idea of what I was reading in Japan as soon as I arrived. Passed the JLPT 1 in 1.25 years. (I had a year of university study before Heisig, but the # kanji I knew was likely only in the 100-200 range.)
My senseis and American coworkers were, but knowing the meaning of individual kanji is still two steps away from learning the actual reading and usage in compound words （熟語）, so I still had no right to show off.
I used RTK as well, except with the website kanji.koohii.com instead of Anki, to learn 50 kanji a day. Did that for 2 months before moving to Japan, started using Anki for vocab / grammar, and passed the JLPT 1 examination in less than a year and a half.