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Why street food is making a comeback in Japan(bbc.com)
30 points by gommm 7y ago|0 comments
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by gommm 7y ago
As someone who has donated to Mozilla over the years and used Firefox as much as possible, this makes me very unlikely to donate in the future. People say that it's trivial to change. It's trivial to change for us who are technica
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by gommm 7y ago
I actually still miss Watson/Sherlock. It was a great timesaver. I always wonder if Watson would have survived longer if Apple hadn't copied them and then let Sherlock to rot.
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by gommm 8y ago
The way I see it, every customers who do not pay their card in full or who don't use credit cards subsidize my travels. It's honestly an extremely good deal for me and even if I pay 2.2% of every transactions, it's more than
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Discord's OAuth permission prompt has joke permissions creating a confusing UX(twitter.com)
8 points by gommm 8y ago|2 comments
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by gommm 8y ago
I bought some sugru thinking it'd be useful but by the time I wanted to repair with it, it had been too long and it had hardened... If you have kids it might make more sense but otherwise, I think it's a difficult sell given the c
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by gommm 8y ago
I'd argue though that given the current buggy state of macOs and ios, the awful keyboards on the recent mbps, the late release of a decent mac pro that Tim Cook is not demanding enough or doesn't actually get people to produce goo
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by gommm 9y ago
Like a few here, I'd gladly pay $120 or more for a two volume hard cover version. Do consider doing a kickstarter or other form of crowdfunding. I've been reading the book and it's a real trip down memory lane :) And in term
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by gommm 9y ago
You can go to another country where college is much less expensive or free (like France or Germany, some of those countries even subsidize the apartment rent for students). It takes grit to force yourself to learn a different language but i
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by gommm 9y ago
Late 2013 MBP here, since I upgraded to macOS Sierra, I've had crashes once or twice a week. It's gotten better in the last 2 months, so I think apple might have fixed some of the bugs.
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by gommm 9y ago
In Europe, I always check the price directly from the hotel, if it's last minute, I check hotels tonight and if the price is really much cheaper in booking.com, I call the hotel and get them to match the price. I sometimes use hotels.c
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by gommm 9y ago
That's not exactly the fault of booking.com though. Hotels have learned that if they want people to book directly with them (which gets them more money), they need to make it attractive to customers. They can't really offer a lowe
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by gommm 9y ago
To be fair I'm using a mbp 2013 and I tend to have a lot of windows opened (usually 50-60). It worked perfectly with expose not with mission control.
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by gommm 9y ago
Yes, I'm actually very happy that magsafe is disappearing, never liked it. It tends to fall down when using the laptop on my lap and the only time I've tripped on my cord, my mbp went with it because it managed to somehow pull the
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by gommm 9y ago
British airways PE is actually not that bad. It's not as good as Cathay Pacific's but the hard product is quite good. Pitch is 38 inch (same as Cathay's) so it's good enough, it's not that wide at 18.5 inch (1 inch
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by gommm 9y ago
The thing is that Google is quite a bit better than Bing when it comes to localized search results outside of the US. I try to stay away from Google and use DDG but if I search for anything local outside, Google's results are much bett
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by gommm 9y ago
I was going to say this. I bought a treadmill on Amazon, it arrived without the console. Dealing with customer support by email was an exercise in frustration with agents clearly not actually reading my emails and sending out form responses
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by gommm 9y ago
Countries in Asia are not too bad either. As a rule, countries with weak laws protecting customers from customer debt are more likely to have good deals on credit card... Credit cards need to get money and beside the interchange fees, the l
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by gommm 9y ago
They do say this at the start: > Choose with some care which warnings end up fatal. Don’t be afraid to modify your choices as time goes on. So, my understanding is that they didn't make all warnings fatal. Only the ones they believe
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by gommm 9y ago
Yes, this is very surprising. There was no reason for backpage not to remove the listing and refusing to do so could only lead to a lot more problems for Backpage.
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by gommm 9y ago
Not having a jailbreak is a deal breaker for me and the lack of jailbreaks available is the reason I won't buy a new iphone (my current iphone 6+ is jailbroken). I understand that a non jailbroken device is more secure but it also rest
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by gommm 9y ago
Any recommended services for premium-cabin travel? Email is in my profile. Thanks!
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by gommm 9y ago
Same here. For long trips > 6 hours, I usually avoid economy seats.
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by gommm 9y ago
That would be great, wonder if there's a software that does that when playing movies on the computer...
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by gommm 9y ago
Nice quote from one of the links on this page: I think 'to be a nitpicker' is one of those irregular verbs: I am a purist, you are a pedant, they are a bunch of nitpickers.
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by gommm 9y ago
Hi, sorry, didn't see your comment before. Yes, even the big ones. A big part of the research and writing of the Count of Monte Cristo was done by Auguste Maquet who was one of his main ghostwriter. August Maquet also worked on all the
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by gommm 9y ago
It's also stretching the truth a little bit. Dumas had 45 employees who worked with him to write the novels. So, he was more running a studio with a process to create great novels rather than actually writing each novel.
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by gommm 9y ago
And, as a word of advice, if you're in a company that is reasonably successful and makes you travel as cheaply as humanly possible, it's usually a sign that they don't respect you and that you should probably start looking so
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by gommm 9y ago
And this is what happened with Cathay Pacific who lost a lot when oil prices went down...
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by gommm 9y ago
In the first company I confounded, we recruited a friend of my cofounder to a senior job. He looked like the right guy for the job but he actually really wasn't. He was completely underperforming and junior employees looked at him and

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