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by euske 6y ago
I think that a part of the reason is China's hyper-competitiveness, because the country has simply too many people. But then I guess that the more or less same thing would happen in India too? That country has also too many people, and
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by euske 6y ago
Sigh. This is all not surprising at all, and I'm certain that the government officials and the company high-ups are helpless. There's a great division between the geeks and suits in Japan (this division certainly exists in the US
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by euske 6y ago
For those who mostly work on terminals, GNU screen/tmux is truly a blessing. Also, if this isn't considered as cheating, Python. Now I can automate everything without worrying the quirkiness of shell scripts. My work setup hasn&#x
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by euske 6y ago
This makes me wonder: how can forum sites (like HN or Reddit) can actually make a money. I guess that HN isn't trying to, but I don't know its balance sheet. Likewise, I believe that Reddit is selling ads and app subscriptions. Ho
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by euske 6y ago
Offtopic, but I like the web UI for its cookie use notification. It's fitting to the color scheme, not obtrusive and yet noticeable at the end. It's one of the best I've seen. Good job!
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by euske 6y ago
The sad truth is that COVID accelerated xenophobia and isolationism throughout the world, and Japan is no exception.
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by euske 6y ago
While I really do respect this person, I can't help but wondering how many people today on HN could make such a decision, especially those who insist to "move fast and break things" or "rough consensus and working code&q
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by euske 6y ago
To add to the OP: you can use '(' and ')' for grouping, so this is possible too: ( foo && bar && baz ) || ( fallback1 && fallback2 ) || echo 'Argh, even fallback failed!' Using
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by euske 6y ago
Man, this is such an excellent analogy. Well done!
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by euske 6y ago
> Open source and verifiable down to the firmware While I agree with your intent, the problem is that, many open source software is not verifiable. Remember that a Kaggle competitor was openly cheating with his published code? (cf. http
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by euske 6y ago
Here's an idea: a reverse book review. A book reviews its readers, or the author reviews its readers' review. Maybe it's boring. Here's another one: a book review reviewed by another reader. Could be interesting.
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by euske 6y ago
And how many lines of codes that they wrote (published)? This is also a calculatable number. Dividing this by the hours, you'll see how productive they are. My guess is somewhere like 10 lines/hour if they're lucky.
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by euske 6y ago
This article reminds me of another article on HN a few days back about "kids bullying is about climbing up their social hierarchy" or something. I think the same thing can be said to Twitter; for many (including this OP), it'
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by euske 6y ago
We've seen one counterexample recently: NASA Perseverance Rover. They emphasized that this was their first time of running everything in the real environment although I'm 99.999984% certain that they've tested it in the close
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by euske 6y ago
I, for one, want HN to have an option to hide my karma point next to my username. It's a distraction. It's okay for them to use that number for moderating purposes, etc. but I don't need to see it for every time.
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by euske 6y ago
I don't think that, one day, there will be a person or system that recognizes every object on earth from every angle, with high accuracy. Such a system would be very inefficient. In other words, a practical AI system needs to be biased
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by euske 6y ago
In addition to architecture, I'd strongly recommend to add "GLOSSARY". In many software projects, a certain common noun has a project specific meaning, and it's confusing to a first-time reader who has to figure out whi
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by euske 6y ago
> Go sit in an uncomfortable chair, in an uncomfortable location, and stare at an uncomfortably small screen with an uncomfortably outdated web browser. How easy is it to use the websites you’ve created? This is such a quotable paragraph
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by euske 6y ago
It's offtopic, but man pages should really adopt a new format (e.g. markdown) instead of roff. roff is a terrible way to write a document. Its format is ancient and not well documented. Its behavior is not consistent across different i
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by euske 6y ago
Just my thought after reading the OP... Writing a program used to be an activity for mostly introverts. But today, programming are becoming more social and open, and a lot of "extrovert" things are happening (especially in GitHub
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by euske 6y ago
I've seen a plenty of "learn Japanese" sites, and always scratched my head wondering what their end goal are. The learning process should accomodate the end goals. Is that to watch Japanese anime without subtitles? To have a
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by euske 6y ago
Despite the Kay's remark about Dijkstra, I'll quote him: > In computer programming our basic building block has an associated time grain of less than a microsecond, but our program may take hours of computation time. I do not k
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by euske 6y ago
> the greatest value must be the freedom to doubt I used to emphatically applaud this statement, but in this era of fake news and disinformation, now I tend to think differently. Of course the freedom to doubt is still important, but not
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by euske 6y ago
What's not mentioned in the OP: - INSANE peer pressure. If you're skinny as a twig in the US, you're probably considered normal in Japan. If you're actually an obese person (again, in the US standard), people here wouldn
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by euske 6y ago
> 1) Japan is not built around cars. There are more trains. You get to walk more. This is false. About half of the population lives outside big cities, where you'll need a car to survive. I don't see people's shape changes
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by euske 6y ago
My takeaway from the OP: > Never underestimate how long your “temporary” hack will stay in production!
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by euske 6y ago
Not just computers but an increasing number of devices in general: some cameras, thermometers, and vacuum cleaners require immediate online activation (w/ software update) or they don't function properly; this is a borderline frau
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by euske 6y ago
I think that the perception runs both ways - many Japanese people here enjoy being recognized as "polite", "super clean" and "obsessively precise", etc throughout the globe. And for some weird things - eating r
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by euske 6y ago
I think that play is a form of behavioral exploration that nature can be "creative". You can think of evolution and genetic mutation a kind of "play", and it's not all that surprising that this mechanism is built in
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by euske 6y ago
> Are there any persons who can work, say, 8+ hours? I mean, really work, not be at office. The only time I worked continuously for 8 straight hours is when I participated a game jam (Ludum Dare). I did it several times in my life, but b

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