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by adregan 13y ago
Regardless of how you feel about the word, or how you use any word, there are a few facts to understand. 1) Some people are legitimately hurt by the use of the word retarded in a derogatory manner (eg. http://www.r-word.org/
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by adregan 13y ago
Come on, folks. I feel like it's pretty well accepted that using "retarded" to describe something you don't like—or don't think highly of—is offensive.
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I'm curious about the on boarding process for a new hire—green or experienced. When you go flat, whose responsibility is it to show the new person what to do and how to do it?
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by adregan 13y ago
Gengo is a translation startup based in Tokyo. http://gengo.com/translators/
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Japan now the Hades of free speech and investigative journalism(japansubculture.com)
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by adregan 13y ago
I think that's referring to git 2.0—I get regular warnings when pushing repos about the coming changes. This stack overflow question[1] (which was closed, unfortunately) points to these "what's cooking in git" posts [2],
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by adregan 13y ago
I've had a heck of a time getting Valgrind working on a mac (especially since Mavericks), hardly finding any resources about it. Is there an alternative, or do you have any advice on getting it to work?
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by adregan 13y ago
I see it like this: I regularly used a fax machine at my job in Japan, and personal computers were not prevalent in my workplace. Businesses are very conservative and don't want to stand out. In Japan, print is still the dominant way o
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by adregan 13y ago
Posting videos of plays and soccer games probably recorded on a full size iPad. I hadn't thought of that, yet. It's terrifying.
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by adregan 13y ago
Everyone seems concerned with teenagers fleeing facebook, but I've found that I have also been "fleeing" facebook. My time spent on the site has been diminishing—partly due to the fact that in my late 20s, so many of my frien
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by adregan 13y ago
Markdown is great for writing on the web, but it's not the future of writing. I love markdown, but all word processing is still so restrictive compared to earlier forms of composition, and HTML is still a horrible medium for poetry: Ha
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I mean they also ran taxi services and love hotels. But I guess other than the taxi service, everything really was about entertainment. Often though, a younger company just assumes the "body" of the older one. It helps with gettin
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All of the new hiring took place around that time just so there would be more people to grade. A lot of inward facing companies in Japan foster an atmosphere of "you aren't working unless it really feels like you're working.&
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by adregan 13y ago
Time and time again, immigrants often have that great entrepreneurial spirit (here in Japan and abroad). I'm certainly being overly sensitive, but I just think it's interesting that this article pointed out that the 2nd or 3rd wea
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by adregan 13y ago
In Japan, established companies are king. Nintendo claims to be 100 years old. My buddy's company sells semiconductors, and they also claim to be 100 years old. Of course these companies aren't truly 100 years old, but it means a
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by adregan 13y ago
After teaching university, and now having spent the past few years teaching teens it's best not to take for granted what a student might know. Though I discovered that on all levels (not just by teaching the teenagers). When you say &q
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Hacker News Tokyo Meetup on August 15th(hntokyo.doorkeeper.jp)
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by adregan 13y ago
Forgive me for my naiveté, but as this library is so small and limited (in focus) and seems to not worry with older browsers, why not use plain old JavaScript? EDIT: I should add—I am legitimately curious. I've only been learning plain
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by adregan 13y ago
If stuff doesn't break often enough, your skills might get a bit rusty.
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Those best suited to solve the problems of a particular discipline are those who are invested in it. Developing software ought to be a literacy that many are able to attain outside of having a CS degree. That way, one can develop their inte
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by adregan 13y ago
Is there a way to tell the most frequent committer on Github? Maybe if there is Github could award a prize every month—a gift certificate to a pizza place maybe? (in secret of course)
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by adregan 13y ago
What a fitting farewell. If you check the source, the item is wrapped in the old blink tag. `<blink>Dropped blink effect from text-decoration: blink; and completely removed <blink> element </blink>` Start up firefox a
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by adregan 13y ago
That's an interesting thought concerning what leads to sales. Galleries don't really A/B test, and aesthetics and appearance are perhaps more important than sales. I wonder if Amazon will be able to create bridges to the gall
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by adregan 13y ago
If you refine your search to exclude prints, you can find original Dali for $78,500[1]. I'm not finding a lot of information on the "limited" nature of many of these lithographs, though. 1: http://www.amazon.com&#x
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by adregan 13y ago
I wonder what the Artsy ( http://artsy.net/ ) folks think of this? I won't speak to the quality of art on the Amazon site as I browsed rather shallowly and don't have anything nice to say. Rather I will comment on t
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by adregan 13y ago
Did you ever make a movie? I think you should give it another try if you never did.
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Working in Japan.
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It's Wordpress' built in analytics. The first time I turned it on in a responsive design (images set to 100% width) I was in for quite a shock. That little smiley looks creepy at full width.
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I wonder if 17 years is fast for the government or slow.
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Well. Global warming is an important issue, but the janky scrolling on that site caused me to shoot past important info, get a little frustrated, and close the article. On second thought: But I think you and I agree on the same issue, we&#x

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