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by gwilkes 8y ago
That seems to be correct Spanish, is there something wrong with it? I think the tilde should be removed though now that this is American land. You could preserve the pronunciation somewhat by renaming to Anyo Nuevo State Park. Similar to ho
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by gwilkes 8y ago
I disagree, the intended audience clearly isn't Japanese and splitting the word up gives it visual balance. And using the katakana here is really just for visual effect anyway, it almost doesn't matter what is written there, just
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by gwilkes 8y ago
I understand what you mean about the feel but lightning ports have a fundamental physical flaw that is part of its design. The pins are on the iOS device side so if they wear down or break that device needs to be repaired. With USBC, the pi
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by gwilkes 8y ago
One more alternative, buy used Pixels, I just bought a Pixel 2 yesterday for $325. Less than half what the Pixel 3 starts for. Sure, it is small risk but if you would prefer less risk you can get certified refurbished ones for just a bit mo
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by gwilkes 8y ago
Contested yes, it seems they are downright detested. No one wants to talk about this. In the west because of how political anything related to IQ is, I doubt much will happen here. It's more likely China will take the lead in the area
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by gwilkes 9y ago
It's not clear but I think he's saying because you use gmail you are contributing one to these surveillance companies.
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by gwilkes 9y ago
They never really went away. A web remake of LORD, Legend of the Green Dragon (LoGD), has at least 4000 monthly active users currently: https://github.com/lotgd/census That census also contains some of the more popular
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by gwilkes 9y ago
Good news for anyone who is interested, it seems Microsoft is working on bringing the Bedrock (C++) version to Linux and Mac OS: https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/769uli/confirmed...
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by gwilkes 9y ago
I know what you mean but Bedrock just has much better performance. The ideal for me would be Bedrock on all the same platforms as Java (including Linux) with a supported way to make mods that didn't break on every version update
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by gwilkes 9y ago
I realize that, actually EE is already on Mac OS, it was there even in the beta of EE. I would like to be able to use the Bedrock Edition on Mac OS but EE and being a school is the only way to do that.
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by gwilkes 9y ago
That is good news, my only complaint now is that Education Edition has a Mac OS version which is the platform I prefer.
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by gwilkes 9y ago
I stand corrected, i don't think that was the case sometime last year when I first checked out MakeCode, glad to see that has changed Edit: I may also be misremembering, I primarily use Mac OS, and Education Edition has a Mac OS versio
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by gwilkes 9y ago
I really don't understand why Minecraft Education Edition (the only way to use MakeCode with Minecraft AFAIK) is only available to schools. I'm willing to pay for it but I'm not allowed to. Not MakeCode's fault, this is
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by gwilkes 9y ago
I have the mid 2012 model, it's okay. Definitely was never usable for me as a primary computer with 4GB of RAM. It was just something light that I can bring on the road. I find a Chromebook is better for this use case now. The keyboard
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by gwilkes 9y ago
That's weird, I've heard that Tokyo cops do that but I've never been stopped once in eight years of living in Saitama (the prefecture just north of Tokyo). It's certainly not because I blend in, I'm cacausian and 18
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by gwilkes 9y ago
The fiscal year in Japan starts April 1st, no relation to April fool's day. I live in Japan and have seen ads for these kinds of services, this is very real.
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by gwilkes 9y ago
The fiscal year in Japan starts April 1st. This is not fiction, there is several companies in Japan providing such services. Source: lived in Japan 8 years and currently living there, I've seen advertisements for these services severa
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by gwilkes 10y ago
Andrew, you're fine. I'm going to guess that you're American as America is the most happy-obsessed culture in the world in my experience. Happiness as virtue is not universal, maybe you need some more time abroad. I know you
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by gwilkes 10y ago
There's quite a rabbit hole in this line of inquiry depending on how much you think about it. Yes, games are all the things you mentioned and much more. It's a matter of perspective and the particular game. Some games are all thos
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by gwilkes 10y ago
No, sorry it's not a fundamental skill in the least. It's a method for dividing on paper. In 37 years I've never used it outside of school as I have calculator in my pocket as does everyone else (smartphone obviously). Furthe
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by gwilkes 11y ago
I think this might have been more common than you would expect, particularly with devout Christian families. A good amount subscribed to newsletters that told them which media was Christian/family-friendly. Simpsons was definitely bann
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by gwilkes 11y ago
It was just for fun at first and also to air some real grievances about the school itself. It was supposed to be religious but it felt like the school was more about money, there were some other specific issues that felt like they were impo
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by gwilkes 11y ago
Oh, I had an anonymous email account listed on the website so people could leave feedback or submit additional teacher reviews. So, they didn't know who I was but they could contact me. I fucked up by outing myself to the teacher imper
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by gwilkes 11y ago
Loved reading this, I have a very similar story. Same year, 1997, I made a Geocities site and had teacher report cards just like in this story. I put the site up on the library computers home page and then it spread around the school immedi
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by gwilkes 12y ago
You got patio11 to move to Tokyo? That's kind of amazing. Great podcast so far, still listening to it and congrats on the funding.
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by gwilkes 13y ago
Ok, so you don't use so no one uses it. Tech salaries suck almost everywhere in Tokyo. Doesn't matter if their international subsidiaries don't have great traction because domestically they do pretty well, that's where t
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by gwilkes 13y ago
Approximately a decade is close enough, it will be 9 years this October.
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by gwilkes 13y ago
Seriously doubt this has changed, even now Japan sells millions of fax machines a year domestically, Japan loves paper.
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by gwilkes 14y ago
I believe a lot of this is due to the US occupation of Japan after WWII which turned Japan in a democracy and gave it laws modeled after the American New Deal. More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Japan#Outcomes_of...
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by gwilkes 14y ago
I get the impression that most of patio11's high paying clients are not in Japan (please correct me if I'm wrong Patrick). Yes, there is freelance work in Japan, but a look at any job board will show that tech salaries are not as high as US

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