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by jbm 6y ago
I think it is important to note how well the animated series set this up and how they adapted an actual story, not an utterly unrelated side story (like the norm for properties like Dragonball). Considering the quality of TV in general, th
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by jbm 6y ago
As much as I cannot believe I am saying this, Kimetsu no Yaiba got $280 mil at the Japanese box office.
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by jbm 6y ago
Quip has a mixed reputation. I liked it but I know a lot of people who viscerally disliked it.
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by jbm 6y ago
Former Heroku employee. They just released streaming data connectors ( https://blog.heroku.com/heroku-streaming-data-connectors ) which is pretty cool.
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Running a job board in Japan can land you in prison(tokyodev.com)
4 points by jbm 6y ago|0 comments
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by jbm 6y ago
We can't survive in a society where min/maxing benefit is the sole form by which we determine whether something is the correct action or not. I am sure you would agree that gender-based abortion, deforestation, and infinite copyri
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by jbm 6y ago
I was a Heroku employee until recently. I know the people who work on those blog posts, and I tried to contribute one myself. To my knowledge, employees absolutely do work on those; articles are edited and go through several rounds of revi
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by jbm 6y ago
I have worked with Fujitsu in Japan before. I could see the following as one way it could happen. There is a large disconnect with large system integrators there and the actual developers / architects; usually 2 or 3 levels of subcont
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by jbm 6y ago
I would be very interested to hear more about why, specifically, Canadians (like you and me) are seen as potentially unsafe users. (Regardless of that, congratulations on your launch and good luck!)
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by jbm 6y ago
I considered that but I'm in Canada. There is someone in every organization asking to minimize potential legal liability. It's a bit sad that the Chicken Littles have won again.
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by jbm 6y ago
I tried to give it a shot. Tables is, for reasons I cannot understand, geo-locked. > Tables is not yet available > The Tables beta is currently available in the U.S.
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by jbm 6y ago
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Python, Java, Kafka / Kafka Streams, Salesforce, Heroku, JavaScript/TypeScript, Angular, etc.. Résumé/CV: https://w
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by jbm 7y ago
38% of the people hospitalized with COVID-19 are between 20 and 54. [1] Everyone can catch the illness, everyone can wind up in the hospital, and depending on the state of the local hospitals, everyone is in immediate danger. [1] https:&
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by jbm 7y ago
> Um, that is cheating. Running any battery at less than capacity will extend its life. You could put two batteries in the car, run them at 50% or alternate between them, and get double the life. No prizes for that. Don't phones alr
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by jbm 8y ago
Unless you are a woman. I was sadly not surprised when I heard from a friend that she had been groped as a preteen in a department store. Worse yet, none of the rest of us were surprised to hear it. It’s normal and unreported. Likewise, t
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by jbm 8y ago
Not a questionable safety record. Can we please stop assuming that African countries and airlines are all the same? https://thepointsguy.com/news/despite-recent-crash-ethiopian...
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by jbm 8y ago
I was referring to Montreal, as there were a lot of biotech labs at the time. I recall none of them paid above 35k$ at the time, which was the same as one would be paid handling phone support for telecoms. This was 15 years back so things m
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by jbm 8y ago
Genetics grad here, working in IT. It’s an understandable sentiment but the salary one would be offered in Biology was basically laughable. Even in the so-called hotbed of biotech where I lived. I don’t see an easy way to fix that either.
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by jbm 8y ago
Just a note - and I am sorry to derail this conversation - but in my experience, Non-Japanese residents do not have to be outsiders in Japan. The people who raise that point the most, in my experience, are English teachers who don't sp
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by jbm 8y ago
On a less sour and prejudiced note, I really liked my Mormon coworkers at a previous job. We shared a lot of values (although I am not particularly conservative) I enjoyed not being subtly pressured to drink. If they moved in it wouldn’t b
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by jbm 8y ago
I believe 16:8 is an IF methodology - You easily hit 16 hours here in Tokyo (2:30 AM -> 6:50 PM)
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by jbm 8y ago
I generally don’t have a problem at work (Ramadan + Keto). Then again I don’t get up at 2 AM to eat. (Generally have a 18:6 fasting to eating cycle) Can you share how you are measuring changes in his productivity? I find that, in general
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Battle of the Sexes (Game Theory)(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by jbm 9y ago|0 comments
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by jbm 9y ago
I am actually a bit concerned with how this reached the top page with so many low effort comments. Regardless of whether it is the case that socialist policies are responsible for this situation, it’s weird that there are a sudden upswing i
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Network protocols, sans I/O, for Python(sans-io.readthedocs.io)
1 points by jbm 9y ago|0 comments
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Google and Facebook help spread bad information after Las Vegas attack(money.cnn.com)
2 points by jbm 9y ago|0 comments
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Homomorphic encryption(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by jbm 9y ago|0 comments
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Lego Carcassonne(quaran.to)
1 points by jbm 9y ago|0 comments
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by jbm 9y ago
I find it much more likely to be stuck at that for more domestic companies (like the company I'm leaving) than for IT companies. Even then it is not inevitable. Once I decided I didn't want to torture myself or my subordinates it
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by jbm 9y ago
Personal anecdote; I interviewed for Stripe @ Tokyo and had a few discussions on this point. I was pretty sure, based on the research and discussions I had with people in the company, that they did take family very seriously, certainly much

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