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by jbm 9y ago
Maybe the games I play are a fingerprint which indicates when I started board gaming. :)
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by jbm 9y ago
I have not, added it to my to-see list. I really like card drafting games and it seems like the complexity isn't that bad. "Moderate in-game text - needs crib sheet or paste ups" -- this is really hard to do with a half-Japa
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by jbm 9y ago
Definitely agree with the unique mechanic games. However, I'm finding gaming is becoming more and more like Monads; once you learn how to play, you forget how to explain it. It is challenging for me in the extreme to teach new people
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by jbm 9y ago
Coke men were given a lot of privileges during WW2. There is an entire section of "For God, Country and Coca-Cola" which is about this. Coca-Cola basically pledged to provide Coke for the soldiers everywhere they went. It was a
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by jbm 9y ago
Boardgaming has vastly increased my social circle and my life quality in a part of the world that is renown for the number of social shut-ins. I run a gaming club out of my apartment; I have gone from knowing very few people to having a con
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by jbm 9y ago
I once used McDonald's delivery for a board game event in Japan - we were playing Food Chain Magnate and just got in the mood. It was late (took almost an hour) and I live in the Tokyo 23-ward area. I wasn't very impressed; I cou
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Guess Who’s Back (Wannacry)(skyportsystems.net)
3 points by jbm 9y ago|0 comments
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by jbm 10y ago
I was wrong about the TPP being completely dead. http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/16/national/tokyo-s...
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by jbm 10y ago
Agreed; you can also see the recent butter shortages in Japan for an example of the same issue. As for why that happens; the farmers are (were?) a huge political ally for the LDP. (The TPP was going to be a huge change for that, but alas,
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by jbm 10y ago
Wakoshi is in Saitama.
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by jbm 10y ago
You can still do that with the inspect menu; if you look at the network history in Chrome, you can see the headers sent, the headers received and the body sent / received.
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by jbm 10y ago
And if you are interested in a soul crushing job with Salesforce.com that pays peanuts, I have positions at Coca-Cola East Japan. (But yeah, I've used the guys at Reactive and they are great too - nice office as well)
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NASA Spinoff Magazine(spinoff.nasa.gov)
1 points by jbm 10y ago|0 comments
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by jbm 10y ago
"Japan's collapsing standards of living and poorly run economy" - can you possibly explain what you are talking about in more detail? If anything, it has gotten much better to live in over the past 5 years (Fukushima Daiichi
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Why we’re charging our event organisers(doorkeeperhq.com)
2 points by jbm 10y ago|0 comments
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by jbm 11y ago
The article specifically said it was inspired by a piece that was produced 1000 years ago, which would put it during the Islamic period.
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by jbm 11y ago
> #3 - undermining national unity, or going against ethnic customs and habits [going against ethnic habits? not illegal in Canada] Undermining national unity is not illegal in Canada - even to the point where a political party was advoca
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Tapioca: JS-Based Sequence Diagrams(tapioca.herokuapp.com)
1 points by jbm 11y ago|0 comments
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by jbm 12y ago
I didn't mod you down, but it is bad. Opium is probably single-handedly responsible for the harsh penalties for drug use in East Asia. This article comes to mind: http://www.thefix.com/content/confessions-opium-ad
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by jbm 13y ago
Could someone be so kind as to explain why I should consider Typescript over Coffeescript in future projects? I've been using CS for the past year or two, but I'm hearing a lot of buzz around TS for the past few months. It would
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Japanese Professional Baseball’s Twenty Year Long Slump(apgsports.com)
1 points by jbm 13y ago|0 comments
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by jbm 13y ago
I assume English is your first language, hence you should be aware that it is a profanity. To some, that is reason enough. I don't see why you are acting surprised; and it isn't witty in the context of this conversation either.
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by jbm 13y ago
The title originally may have contained a racial epithet, based on one of the trackbacks; although I'm not sure (the trackback author may have changed the title) The comments are internet cancer.
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by jbm 13y ago
Busy people, in general, avoid getting caught in other people's problems. Tokyo is filled with people who are busy. They may ignore beggars on the street and may not give up their seats. Taking it from there to an extreme (that they
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by jbm 13y ago
Karoushi incidents are national news and are rare (although overwork is common, for reasons that are too much to get into in this post). These also happen in Korea and other parts of Asia; more so than Japan now, possibly. I'm breath
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by jbm 13y ago
I think HN has long passed the point where the passing of a community member has any effect on trolls. It's Eternal September. http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2012/01/15/commenting-communit... https:&#x2
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Ask HN: Your Code Reading List?
12 points by jbm 13y ago|2 comments
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by jbm 13y ago
Can you specifically mention what "ethnicity" the president has that prevents criticism of his behavior?
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by jbm 13y ago
Hey, thanks for the framework. I liked Roots.cx, and I found that a lot of the functionality that I really liked therein. Kudos! My comment probably needed to be more thoroughly thought out before being posted. My main issue with roots (a
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by jbm 13y ago
Oh drat. I meant MVC, wasn't thinking straight when I wrote that.

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