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by atgm 13y ago
Who maintains/pays for the site now? I tried going to the top page, expecting some kind of obituary or explanation as to why the site is still up, but the blurb there makes it sound like Aaron stepped out for a week and will be updatin
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by atgm 13y ago
This makes no sense. 過労死 is just a compound word basically consisting of "too much work death." Using your "they have a word for it so it's common and blithely ignored" logic, you could say that "infanticide&qu
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by atgm 13y ago
If she's interested in doing translation work, one of the best ways is develop a specialty. General translation pays pennies compared to specialty translation, like medical specialties, law specialties (which can pay around 180/hr
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by atgm 13y ago
My first thought was "Holy cow, this would make an amazing card!" followed by "Holy cow, that's a lot of money, forget about it!" Even now, I'm skeptically thinking "'Larger runs' probably means
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by atgm 13y ago
Futon storage, maybe. Depends on the type of flooring.
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by atgm 13y ago
People often reuse user/password combinations. So if attackers can find working combinations here, those are combinations that they can try elsewhere as well.
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by atgm 13y ago
Sticker packs come out regularly and some are limited edition. People in Japan are very loyal to their favorite characters, too.
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by atgm 13y ago
You don't even have to go to a fictional account to look at how "the system" will seek to discredit people who could harm it. Take a look at Adrian Schoolcraft [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Schoolc
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by atgm 13y ago
> And generally not building huge south-facing glass windows when you live in a place that reaches 45°C in the summer... People love south-facing rooms with giant glass walls in Japan. I asked several people about it and the most common
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by atgm 13y ago
> Apple has made significant changes to its bundled Python, potentially resulting in hidden bugs. Where can I find out more about these changes? I did a quick google for "mavericks python changes" and there's nothing signi
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by atgm 13y ago
I read it a little differently. Just doing something isn't going to improve your skill; doing it mindfully and being aware of what you're doing, why, and how you could do it better will improve your skill. To use his analogy -- wa
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by atgm 13y ago
> It's bothering me quite a bit that his latest "To be continued" won't. It may be. The blog says that they have a thick file of stuff that he meant to post and will likely continue for a while. This feels like the pa
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by atgm 13y ago
I mentioned it because they're included in the calendar that he took a picture of and the first thing I thought when I saw them was "So I'd have to write around that?"
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by atgm 13y ago
Did you do any product testing with the calendar with family/friends? Iterative design exists in physical products as well and I was surprised that you didn't mention any kind of testing/feedback before the actual sales. I gu
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by atgm 13y ago
> In fact, I'm pretty puzzled as to why this article was written at all. He shifted away from fiction and into non-fiction (textbooks, educational books, and newspaper columns) in the early 60s. This probably falls into the "sc
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by atgm 13y ago
> One of the very first things we learned when selling to businesses in Japan is that social proof is a critical factor. So our focus changed to getting even a single business using our software, and then trying to feature them and promo
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by atgm 13y ago
I just went to check on the dev center and got this e-mail: Last Thursday, an intruder attempted to secure personal information of our registered developers from our developer website. Sensitive personal information was encrypted and cannot
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by atgm 13y ago
It's tangential to the original discussion, but that attitude nearly turned me off of Python entirely when I was first starting. I'd pop onto IRC or a discussion community and ask a question about something, explaining that I was
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by atgm 13y ago
> This striking philosophical difference between Americans and other Western nationalities tends to give Americans a trust in their system where other nationalities would have drawn the line. Really? So other Western countries would have
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by atgm 13y ago
> Postage on a post card is currently 33 cents. How many postcards do you reckon you'd have to send before the automatic scanning process costs even one cent extra? It seems like it would be a self-defeating process since the cost b
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by atgm 13y ago
> But he said it was crucial there was accountability and transparency in the use of surveillance and interceptions by agencies such as the NSA – an area which he said was "blurry, grey and made people uncomfortable". The un-wa
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by atgm 13y ago
Japan is very cash-based. I've never seen Square or the domestic one (Coiny, I think?) in the wild. Many stores still do not take credit cards. A lot of convenience stores will take credit cards, most will take Suica cards (mass transit car
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by atgm 13y ago
It's not just the migration, but the support. I wouldn't want to be reliant on charity or the type of support many open-source projects have if I were a school.
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by atgm 13y ago
> The idea is to have the right incentives in place. The recent article about Finland's baby box was a great example of this and their infant mortality statistics show that it worked.
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by atgm 13y ago
Japan actually has a couple of services kind of like that and has had for a while -- not that physically in-depth, of course. It would record a number of factors and guess when you would be ovulating and could either show it on a calendar o
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by atgm 13y ago
I've had a few things I've wanted to do with ePaper but have never found a decent development kit -- everything I found when I searched last year was along the lines of a small, thin strip. No big panels like you'd find in a Kindle.
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by atgm 13y ago
Err, not things like that. Say you shoot portraits of a family and give them the originals. They do a lousy crop of the kids, chopping off the parents' heads and send that out to their friends/family saying that they got the pictures done a
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by atgm 13y ago
I was looking at furniture the other day and it's really, really hard to visualize where/how furniture will fit in a given room with just pictures (which can vary based on lens used) and dimensions.
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by atgm 13y ago
Nine times out of ten in my experience, it's not a worry about money, but representation. If you give a customer digital copies and they "retouch" them or crop them and present it as YOUR work, that's a huge frustration.
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by atgm 13y ago
I just gave it another shot with the same results in all browsers. Edit: I'm in Japan and going through a http proxy, if that makes a difference.

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