captaintacos

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by captaintacos 14y ago
I'd say not just scientists at CERN. This applies to most (nah... ALL) scientists: researchers, PhDs, Professors, etc. They use very hideous design, or more accurately, nothing at all, on their research webpages. And I am talking about a
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by captaintacos 14y ago
I think he didn't include it because there is a (monthly) fee on this one. But some courses are free and I agree, I definitely endorse this one to be on the lilst. I am one of those learn-by-doing people and codeschool is just great. Like c
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by captaintacos 14y ago
Yea, came to say the same. Change that link to w3schools for the good one: https://developer-new.mozilla.org/en-US/
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by captaintacos 14y ago
In other words, they are too big to fail, eh!
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by captaintacos 14y ago
Not to mention the shameless cloning of games from smaller indie companies such as NimbleBit's Tiny Tower http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2399380,00.asp
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by captaintacos 14y ago
I think you all are missing this little line here: "I did not want my script to require any technical knowledge, so that non-techies (business people, marketing, sales team etc.) could just press a button and see the results of their work"
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by captaintacos 14y ago
After living in Australia for about two years (probably worst internet in the developed world) and now living in Japan with gigabit speeds I can confidently say: Do thank Google for this and do give them all your money!
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by captaintacos 14y ago
This is captaintacos. As Ekianjo said, we will be hosting the first HN meetup here in Kyoto on Saturday. HN people, Kyoto, the Gion Festival... it doesn't get any better than this! We will be hanging out around Shijo and Karasuma streets on
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by captaintacos 14y ago
Not to mention that spending a couple months in there might leave you with more opportunities than the day right after your graduation from CS.
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by captaintacos 14y ago
Second that. The PayPal incident in there succeeded in taking away my attention from the whole Hacker Hostel model and prompted me to quickly search for alternatives. Problem is, there are not many if you live outside the US :( Can anyone r
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by captaintacos 14y ago
Excellent! I'll send you an email then and let's see what we can do for Kansai.
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by captaintacos 14y ago
There, just updated my profile (I thought the email that was in my profile was automatically displayed to everyone): alcantaranet@gmail.com
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by captaintacos 14y ago
Oh well, someone's got to get the ball rolling then, so I guess I'll do just that. If there are any HNers reading this in KANSAI feel free to drop me a line or if anyone else has heard of any other people down here do let me know. * update
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by captaintacos 14y ago
I see. We people in Kansai just get no group hug, eh! Sniff
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by captaintacos 14y ago
A "sarcasm font"... People working on lightweight markup languages should pick up the hint if they're looking for new additions. For instance, in Textile, enclosing a string in between "(:" and ":)" could display the text into sarcasm font