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by etatoby 9y ago
My plan is to attend one of these language schools for one or two years, in order to: 1. Actually learn the language. Even if I could find a job in Japan that didn't require being fluent in Japanese, which I probably could, I wouldn&#x
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by etatoby 9y ago
Sorry about the late reply. "Very affordable" was not the right choice of words. It's certainly cheaper than most colleges, but it may be too high, depending on your budget. Anyways, it varies by school and there are a TON of
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by etatoby 9y ago
If your only problem is the visa, you can do what I'm planning to do starting this July: enroll in a Japanese language school in Tokyo. They have very affordable tuition (compared to college), they will take care of the visa for you, u
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by etatoby 9y ago
Can any of this be exploited from Javascript? That would be a humongous can of worms.
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by etatoby 9y ago
This. As a positive example, I like how many YouTube channels take 30 seconds out of a 10 minute video to talk about some company's product that might be of interest to their audience. Not an annoying video ad that has nothing to do wi
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by etatoby 9y ago
Can we define human-level intelligence, which is the stated end goal of AI, as the ability to find more or less approximate solutions to NP-hard problems, as well as undecidable problems (we solve the halting problem every day as part of ou
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by etatoby 9y ago
> [NP means that] a non deterministic machine (one that could magically search multiple states at once) can find a solution in polynomial time Which is exactly what quantum computers can do for certain classes of problems, such as in
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by etatoby 9y ago
> There is really no good alternative to a 5K LG dispay at the moment. Oh please. I have been using 1920×1080 displays for a while and there's nothing wrong with them. To claim that 4k is not good enough and you absolutely need 5k
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by etatoby 9y ago
If you need to scrape content from complex JS apps (eg. React) where it doesn't pay to reverse engineer their backend API (or worse, it's encrypted/obfuscated) you may want to look at CasperJS. It's a very easy to use fr
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by etatoby 9y ago
Great. We will soon have an entire JVM running inside each browser's tab, just to run an animated slider. Maybe even more than one. Plus a .NET VM, several Python and Ruby interpreters, and so on. Because webmasters will keep loading r
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by etatoby 9y ago
uBlock Origin with the default choice of lists plus "Fanboy's Annoyance" makes the web 100s of times faster. It's now a default install on every browser of every computer I touch. Even on Firefox on Android, which works
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by etatoby 9y ago
https://google-webfonts-helper.herokuapp.com/ You're welcome. (Not my creation, but I've been using it for every website I have a say on.)
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by etatoby 9y ago
I would do this too, if I could reliably tell icon fonts (which are important) from frilly fonts (which I couldn't care less)
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by etatoby 9y ago
Not some, but all webmasters, if you exclude a small minority of us who understand the deal in the first place and don't like it.
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by etatoby 9y ago
No, SVG is not better than a font for monochromatic icons and never will be. The amount of optimization that went into font technology and algorithms, all the way from the binary file to the graphics card, can never compare with an XML-base
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by etatoby 9y ago
Lol that comment. What an entitled douche! If I were a popular font designer, I would change my metrics every once in a while on purpose, just to spite those people.
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by etatoby 9y ago
Piwik is a drop-in replacement for Google Analytics. But the problem with all of them is that they rely on Javascript beacons to track visits. With more and more people using ad- and privacy-blockers, more and more visitors just disappear
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by etatoby 9y ago
Nowadays I would look at Kotlin, if you really need Java's slowness—er, features—in a shinier package. I still use Groovy to write quick scripts or cron jobs that need to use Java libraries. Basically the Bash or Python of the JVM. Oth
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by etatoby 9y ago
We still use Grails at work. Kill it. Kill it with fire.
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by etatoby 9y ago
> In our notation, it's just drop dup (^2) + (^2) - abs. Simple, readable, beautiful. Considering how the author is not presenting a language for stack manipulation, but for defining functions of fixed arity, I fail to see how tha
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by etatoby 9y ago
For many years (decades even) starting during childhood or adolescence, I used to wake up exactly 4 hours after falling asleep. One moment I was sleeping soundly, the moment right after I was wide awake. It was so precise that I used to loo
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by etatoby 9y ago
If that abomination didn't exist, it would make for a great satire post.
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by etatoby 9y ago
I've learned LISP and Scheme, gained some useful insights, used them on a few random projects, and then dropped them. I recommend learning them, but then switching to something like Reason / OCaml / F# / Haskell.
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by etatoby 9y ago
Considering the raw performance of ST, which is leaps and bounds above that of VS Code and Atom, it's a steal at its current price. Personally I will continue using it for the foreseeable future, ligatures or not.
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by etatoby 9y ago
No decent editor or IDE supports "proper" elastic tabstops, except for a Visual Studio plugin, I believe. The problem is that it needs the underlying text editor to support different non-uniform tab stops to be configured for ever
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by etatoby 9y ago
Yes, I've definitely heard it. Which does not prove it's a fault in the device—it could be a fault in my fried brain—but anecdotally, I've never noticed it on any other music playing device, since the time of the original wal
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by etatoby 9y ago
MacOS seems not to be a priority for Apple, sadly.
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Plus, there's that recent Webkit-based browser with vertical tabs as it's main feature. It was covered here on HN a few days ago.
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by etatoby 9y ago
I have switched from Tree Style Tabs to the Test Pilot vertical tab extension (I don't remember the exact name) plus the about:config option that makes them always small, plus a few lines of userChrome.css to make the close button larg
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by etatoby 9y ago
> Performance is definitely worse than in iTerm or gnome-terminal Considering I dropped those because I consider them slow and bloated, good luck with this Electron monstrosity. You can have my RXVT when you pry it from my cold, dead h

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