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by euske 8y ago
Slightly off-topic, but I generally found IEEE Spectrum having more interesting articles than Communications of the ACM. Maybe they're more inclined to the industrial side whereas CACM is more academic?
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by euske 8y ago
This reminds me of this Planet Money episode about a town, where people casually talk about their terminal treatments and death. It turned out that most people chose a rather natural death when the choices are given. It was originally start
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by euske 8y ago
In 2011, a week after the Japan's earthquake, NYTimes wrote an article that was rather critical of nuclear energy. I wonder when the flip flop happened. "Living With a Nuclear Question Mark in the Backyard" https:/&#x2F
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by euske 8y ago
> Is it really such a big deal? It is! Nagoya city allocated 480 million JPY (4.3m USD) of budget for modifying their system [1]. Kobe city estimates 550 million JPY (5m USD) [2]. There are about 800 cities and 800 townships in Japan, ea
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by euske 8y ago
This is stupid. Make no mistake: this is not the Japanese "culture". Most private organizations in Japan have already switched to the Western calendar, and its only user is the Japanese government (although it's one of the bi
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by euske 8y ago
I kinda have a similar situation. I upload my hobby projects on GitHub. It has about 90 repos by now. Most of them are just garbage that no one looked at. One of them amassed about 3000+ stars over time. People keep sending me numerous pull
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by euske 8y ago
Interesting, but honestly don't think this is going to be a viable model for education, especially for CS education. The setup looks too cumbersome (and probably unreliable) as of today. And worse, there are just too many hidden parts
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by euske 8y ago
I had a webcam that becomes faulty when it gets cold. We suspected that the rubber connector gets tightened when it's cold, but couldn't quite figure out why.
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by euske 8y ago
It just occurred to me that virtual interaction is like a vitamin pill. There should be a right amount of human interaction, at right timings, in a right way. But today it's happening too often and/or too much, and the type of int
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by euske 8y ago
Another thing is the lack of understanding, or almost disdain of technicality when it comes to IT among politicians and high ranked officials. The tendency is probably common among politicians everywhere, but Japan is particularly bad as th
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by euske 8y ago
There are a dozen tubed wasabi products in Japan that are categorized by its quality. 100% native wasabi produced in Japan, imported wasabi, 50% wasabi and horseradish mixture, and so on. But I found the degree of snobbery people show on HN
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by euske 8y ago
Related article: https://www.chronicle.com/article/Why-the-College-Degree-Is-...
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by euske 8y ago
The other day I found a video about the "cultural war" between Falun Gong and Chinese govt., in the form of two disguised fronts (Shen Yun and Confucius Institute, respectively) within the US soil. This was made by a Western guy w
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by euske 8y ago
Re: figures in EPS. I think SVG is the way to go. It can be generated with matplotlib or even a simpler script (it's just an XML after all). It can be hand edited. It's viewable with a browser. And it can be converted to PDF with
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by euske 8y ago
One of the strategies that I'm thinking of to advance accessibility is to tout it as a way of cost-cutting. Blasphemy! How? Well because the major pain point I see in a11y is over-designing . Managers are being a control freak on the
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What It's Like to Be a Black Man in Japan(nytimes.com)
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Although the number is shrinking, it's still a thing in Japan (so-called "ronpaku"). It is generally said that the thesis by a paper PhD must be better than those regular PhDs who completed courseworks, but it's much mor
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by euske 8y ago
I think it's a time that we should get rid of this notion of "perfectly safe code in the perfect world". It might be possible if the code doesn't change for million years, but that's not how the world works - things
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by euske 8y ago
> I do think the distinction between "services" and "microservices" is a bit overblown. I just realized that adding micro- or nano- or -oriented is a great way to create a buzzword in the current climate. Say, microse
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by euske 8y ago
Yeah, I think this is how a company achieves anything nefarious. Sensational media and people are fickle; they consume a few clickbaity articles and then forget them. Meanwhile, companies keep pursuing the goal. Again, their motto has been
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by euske 8y ago
Here's what I want: a complete browsing history with all the keystrokes and whatnot, or a replayable browser. Sometimes I want to know how I discovered a certain page that is in my history or bookmarks but quite don't remember. It
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by euske 8y ago
Does it have unexec? cf. http://emacshorrors.com/posts/unexecute.html
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I think what's discussed in OP is not software rot, but software clutter . Software rot would be something inherent that happens to software naturally over time, without any external change. I can't think of a good example of thi
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I always find a good ASCII art in code comments heartwarming because it shows that they're serious about explaining the code to its readers. In other words, they care about you.
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by euske 8y ago
I doubt it. Remember that Google's real customer is not its user but companies running ads. Their ad revenue is directly correlated to the accuracy for its target audience. Think of every search result page from Google as a real estate
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by euske 8y ago
This is sad but hardly surprising. Google News is broken in the same way as a unregulated free market is broken. Basically, giant distributors control the whole market and only those who are big enough can survive. It's sad because we
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by euske 8y ago
Fantastic! Does anyone know the LaTeX source of this? I want to make a translation.
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> The first step towards saner attitude towards tech is stopping with this glorification of tech. I'm all for it. But how can we achieve this? I think the main problem here is the mysticism over tech. There are probably two major fr
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by euske 8y ago
I can't help but drawing a parallel between the news industry and software industry here. People hate paying for software for a reason; an expensive solution is not necessarily better, and there are tons of unscrupulous business practi
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by euske 8y ago
Hmm, your post made me think of machine learning somehow, because a life does seem like finding a good place in a maze/forest/mountain to me. Do you want to reach the absolute highest (i.e. global maxima)? I can tell you that it m

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