harisenbon

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by harisenbon 6mo ago
Whenever I buy something with a zipper I check that it’s YKK first. If it isn’t, I know there’s a good chance they’re cheaping out on other places as well.
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by harisenbon 2y ago
Congratulations! I just checked when I started using VWO, and found a really nice exchange between you and me from Fri, Dec 11, 2009. VWO is still the absolute best split testing tool out there. You deserve all the success.
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by harisenbon 4y ago
SegMetrics | Full-Stack Developer | Remote | US Timezone Overlap | Full-time | https://segmetrics.io SegMetrics is hiring an experienced, data-driven (or data-curious) full-stack developer to join us. We’re a lean team of devel
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by harisenbon 5y ago
SegMetrics | Remote (US timezone adjacent) | Full-Time | https://segmetrics.io SegMetrics is a marketing optimization and analytics tool built specifically for digital marketers. We’re passionate about enabling digital marketers
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by harisenbon 7y ago
I was curious, and it looks like it only has good connotations in Chinese: https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E9%87%91%E7%8E%89/4846 Kintama was the first thing I thought of when looking at it though. "Goose balls
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by harisenbon 7y ago
Note that if you don’t go during the festival, the downtown is pretty much dead. There is a nice knife shop that caters to tourists (刃物センター blade center) but the festival is definitely the best part of the year.
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by harisenbon 7y ago
You are 100% correct. Land is valuable, houses & buildings are not. The small house on my land has decreased to the point where I pay less than $100 a year in taxes on it. The land that it's on has increased by around 30x in the la
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by harisenbon 7y ago
We had a similar thing happen in our town -- pachinko place went bust, and they bought it. Next town over they bought an old local supermarket (again, with huge amounts of floor space)
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by harisenbon 9y ago
So, interesting workaround for Netflix: If the language of your account is set to something other than English, it unlocks subtitles and dubs for that language that you wouldn't normally have access to. My wife and kids have their Netf
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by harisenbon 9y ago
I'm in the middle of nowhere, so in my case I would need a smattering. However, almost all doctors can read/write English, even if they can't speak it. I've had 80 year old doctors proudly write down the word rheumatism,
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by harisenbon 9y ago
I'm heading back from Japan today, and my family got a bunch of checkups and medical stuff done while we were here. Even without insurance all our procedures cost total less than ~$100 apiece. The most expensive thing I've ever ha
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by harisenbon 9y ago
Question about how these UI Kits are made: Generally when I'm building a UI on top of bootstrap, I import all the LESS files into my project, and then compile them together with my project LESS files. This lets me, for example, change
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by harisenbon 10y ago
I saw one of these here in Portland yesterday driving home. Didn't realize it was a Model 3, just thought I was seeing some body-mod for the Model S.
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by harisenbon 10y ago
I was curious, so I asked Siri your question: what is the last name of Susan from Britain's got talent? She successfully answered Boyle.
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by harisenbon 10y ago
One of the. Eat distinctions in this article is the difference between a great worker and a great remote worker. I've worked with many people who were brilliant, but couldn't get the remote part to work with their lifestyle. Also,
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by harisenbon 10y ago
I'm crazy excited that this might actually have a chance to come to fruition. Back in my salary-man days, I worked for Hiroshi Fujiwara when he was doing work on Superconducting DC technology. The idea was similar to this one -- set up
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by harisenbon 10y ago
It's probably a cloudflare instance that they're running on top of the page. CloudFlare's default protection scheme is pretty harsh to non US/European users. I've gotten blocked from a couple of sites I was managing
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by harisenbon 10y ago
Ironically I was just lamenting the fact that my daughter won't get access to a computer in her Japanese elementary school until 5th grade. And she goes to public magnet school. While it's great that they are pushing forward to sa
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by harisenbon 11y ago
You are mostly correct, it is one of the more interesting things about Japanese that the context outweighs the use of the word in many situations. That being said, there are a number of words that are NEVER appropriate out of starting a fig
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by harisenbon 11y ago
While I don't mind personally, it is generally frowned upon to use affiliate links on HN. Just FYI
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Ghostery Starts Messaging Users with “product announcements, promotions”(purplebox.ghostery.com)
7 points by harisenbon 11y ago|1 comments
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by harisenbon 11y ago
In my experience, immigration as a westerner is pretty easy -- especially after the horror stories I hear about the U.S. You need to have some sort of sponsor (business is the most common) but overall the process is fairly painless, and re
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by harisenbon 11y ago
YAY! Japanese support for Stripe. Unfortunately, I found a few issues: http://imgur.com/vZbheUP 1) The Zip-Code lookup is GREAT, except it looks up the town name, not the 都道府県 (prefecture) like it should. 2) The prefecture
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by harisenbon 12y ago
Check out Webpay for payments in Japan. Their API was originally supposed to be a clone of the Stripe API, but have gone off with their own API updates based on the JP market. https://webpay.jp/
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by harisenbon 12y ago
It's the better end of the deal, to be honest. He used to live here in Gifu, and while this is a great place to live, there are many things you have easier access to in Tokyo.
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Show HN: SegMetrics – Baremetrics for Infusionsoft(segmetrics.io)
2 points by harisenbon 12y ago|0 comments
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by harisenbon 12y ago
Haha. I like that a lot actually. Maybe have it go from desktop to error message.
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Ask HN: I have 8 months of video advertising in Japan. Ideas on what to display?
14 points by harisenbon 12y ago|10 comments
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Why the CMS is the Unsung Hero of Content Creators Everywhere(summitevergreen.com)
2 points by harisenbon 12y ago|0 comments
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Ramit Sethi is looking for a technical lead(iwillteachyoutoberich.com)
3 points by harisenbon 12y ago|0 comments

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