cgarrigue

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by cgarrigue 2y ago
In some countries the archives can be browsed online so no need for such sites in this case. But those services can still be useful to find an unknown branch of relatives when the ancestor who had emigrated in a different country didn'
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by cgarrigue 2y ago
Interesting idea but I do not see the point: people are able to compute the same results mentally very easily. By the way, I would suggest adding an option: how many consecutive days off does the company allow. And which days are absolutely
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by cgarrigue 3y ago
There's the matter of scope but there's the matter of motivation too. When an opensource application like GIMP, Blender, or even Manuksript for a lesser known example, are started, it's mainly because proponents of opensource
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by cgarrigue 3y ago
Yes, depending on where the stroke/aneurysm the effect can be totally different. I had one a few years ago, I was still able to chat with my colleagues and the hospital staff in Japanese and English, as well as in French (my native lan
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by cgarrigue 7y ago
The interesting thing is that like many people, they guessed that a lot of people would be contaminated during the 3-day weekend a week ago (great weather, cherry blossoms, and last carefree moments for people who will start their first job
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by cgarrigue 7y ago
It seems to work worldwide: I watch it from Japan. Interestingly most of the commercials are not displayed from here, instead we get the rolling presentation of the channel.
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by cgarrigue 8y ago
Luckily the work culture is slowly changing, at least regarding the matter of OT: following the suicide of a new recruit of Dentsu that was ruled to be a death by overwork, several companies started to ask their employees to refrain from do
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by cgarrigue 9y ago
A friend who is freelance translator sponsored herself when renewing her work visa (previously she was a colleague of mine and our company sponsored her at that time, but since becoming freelance she's not employed by anybody but herse
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by cgarrigue 9y ago
Salaries in Japan are much lower than in the Bay Area: many Japanese companies use a salary grid and reaching the 10 million yen mark requires decades in the same company. It might be possible to get such a salary much earlier in some start
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by cgarrigue 9y ago
The image you have is probably close to how in some societies 2 families decide their children are betrothed to each other. The reality is closer to match making: some colleagues might introduce you to somebody who could be a match. Or mayb
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by cgarrigue 9y ago
There is indeed not tip. But he was comparing with the prices in USA, where you need to include tipping.
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by cgarrigue 9y ago
It's only cheap if you come to Japan for holidays, or if you're an expat detached by your company to Japan. If you're living in the country, receiving the same salary as any Japanese person, Tokyo is an expensive city. And I&
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by cgarrigue 10y ago
I wonder how much it comes from the culture in Korea. I've been living in Tokyo for 3 years, and although I never to the university here, I my observations in the country are that: * Korean people tend to stick together and don't
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by cgarrigue 10y ago
The question was about a tutorial for programmers. What would French brings in this context? There were some variants of basic in French, but nowadays I'm not convinced French is useful but for reading comments.
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by cgarrigue 10y ago
Going to SaaS can be quite an issue depending on the reliability of the company developing the software. One of the company I'm dealing with as a reseller had the bad habit of delivering releases with semi-critical issues and even regr
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Breakin' the Borders – A Book about the Atari ST Demoscene(breakintheborders.weebly.com)
2 points by cgarrigue 11y ago|0 comments
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by cgarrigue 11y ago
Galaxy was a very important magazine for the science fiction literature, but slightly off-topic question: is the content really supposed to be public domain? For everything published in 1950 the original copyright length was 28 years, but i
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by cgarrigue 11y ago
I've been part of a community of hobbyist/indy gamedev since 2002. At that that time, there were very few engines usable by hobbyists due to price constraints: - Quake 3 Engine for FPS-like. Other FPS engine were moddable, but as
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by cgarrigue 11y ago
It's a bit light for a press release. Considering RedHat is officially promoting AWS on their website, providing more information to let people know whether the offering on Google Cloud will be better or similar would have been better.
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The Public Domain Jam(itch.io)
2 points by cgarrigue 12y ago|0 comments
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by cgarrigue 12y ago
Is coworking a popular thing in big japanese cities? Being a salaryman since arriving in the country I haven't had any exposure to it. However I noticed the place where the Tokyo iOS developer meeting happens every month would be perfe
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by cgarrigue 13y ago
That's the point the article is missing. Many people currently creating HTML5 games are not motivated by money. They can be hobbyists or people familiar with JS who wants to try making a game using a language they already know. As a co
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by cgarrigue 13y ago
Another hobbyist here. Back when I was a late teenager I might have contemplated doing it professionally but nowadays it would not my choice. Due to discovering other domains I am interested in along the years - like animation or game desig
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by cgarrigue 13y ago
Although some people are trying to participate to both, I think the Cyberpunk Game Jam could have benefited from not running partially concurrently. * http://itch.io/jam/cyberpunk-jam
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by cgarrigue 13y ago
In my previous job where we developped our own PDF interpreter (neither based on Adobe owns PDF lib or Print Engine) we only needed InDesign in short occasional burst, mainly to produce test files when new PDF features were introduced, or t