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by jbm 15y ago
Sad that someone would mod you down for having religious convictions. Thank you for giving a portion of your inheritance to the world.
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by jbm 15y ago
Sums up my feelings pretty well. Transferred everything to Gandi. Not so many domains (maybe 10), but I couldn't have my personal domains associated with a brand like Godaddy. The casual sexism and stupidity of their ads always grated, bu
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by jbm 15y ago
I'm guessing you didn't meant to come off as bigoted but I have a lot of friends named Mohammad, none of whom have any legal issues, nor are any of them members of terrorist organizations. If the attitude towards me sending money to one of
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by jbm 15y ago
Thanks, I'll take a look.
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by jbm 15y ago
I love generators! They produce attractive code that is understandable (once one really understands what a generator is) I remember using one when I was building a Mail DB search appliance (on the backburner..) with the mail retrieval code
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by jbm 15y ago
Kim Il Sung is also the eternal president of North Korea, but I doubt he is having a direct impact on the governance of the country. It is a ceremonial position; no doubt he has some impact (it was implied that he was one of the reasons Mic
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by jbm 15y ago
I was going to post a comment mentioning how I heard it was installed on the iPhone but I was wrong it seems. http://lifehacker.com/5863895/carrier-iq-how-the-widespread-... "Update: Our original article stated that the software also came
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by jbm 15y ago
+1. Ubuntu has excellent repositories; just can't bring myself to switch away. So I started looking at alternatives. I spent a week trying to use Kubuntu before realizing it was a lost cause. I had a few bad experiences with Xubuntu in t
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by jbm 15y ago
I really want to sympathize with the teachers, but I do feel for the parents. -- His mother chimed in and told me that it had been a horrible summer for them because of family issues they'd been through in July. I said I was so sorry, but I
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by jbm 15y ago
What depresses me most about this news is that the first thing I thought about after reading it was "I wonder if environmentalists can use this to sell electric cars to right-wingers.". Very nice to see this sort of development, regardless
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How the Japanese IT Industry Destroys Talent(japaninc.com)
41 points by jbm 15y ago|23 comments
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by jbm 15y ago
I wasn't passing judgment on Steve Jobs, I just think he was tangled in his product and lashing out. I've heard the Blackberry thing before; that's why I mentioned the touch screen that was no-doubt inspired by Apple. (I had seen touch scr
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by jbm 15y ago
I am not trying to start an argument, but you are aware that Google was working on Android for quite some time right? I own an iPhone (3GS) and I work with both Android and iPhones, but the programming experience is completely different; it
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by jbm 15y ago
Some of the best graduates from Tokyo University wind up at Nintendo. It was considered one of the best places to get a job. Nintendo is not a company I would want to emulate. It is getting squeezed by Sony and Microsoft, and even its inn
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by jbm 15y ago
Would love to go but I:m going to be hitting a deadline for an Android app. Next time, hopefully.
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by jbm 15y ago
Just showed this to some people at a company I'm working at. I'm guessing they are going to spring for it - 4 seats at least :P Good job dude.
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Mixi (Japanese SNS) spokesman talks Facebook, Twitter(japantoday.com)
1 points by jbm 15y ago|0 comments
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by jbm 15y ago
I got slashdotted today (albeit by Slashdot Japan), and hit by Hacker News yesterday. I will put up some stats later, but HN brought in 10,000 hits, Slashdot brought in about 600 people. I think the English vs. Japanese thing scared away q
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by jbm 15y ago
Not my call, brought in at end. Even then, I wouldn't have suggested it either. Managing servers is not a cheap or fun job; if their site was successful it would have made future sense and migrating was easy. Regardless, setting PHP4 as
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by jbm 15y ago
The PHP4 thing is something I should have brought up. I was brought in to save a restaurant search website project from complete failure, but was horrified when the hosting company was incapable of running anything other than PHP4. I had t
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by jbm 15y ago
I'm the author. I upvoted you because I see how you may have misunderstood what I wrote. I agree with you in part because I'm a 32 year old and over-the-hill if you go by some things I read here. I was referring to "old school" more than
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by jbm 15y ago
> They never had any significance to lose, whereas the well-thought-out ones are more embarrassingly telling of what I once thought was so deep and passionate, which all turned out to look naive after a few years This reminds me a lot o
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by jbm 15y ago
I am sick of the bacon meme. I don't understand why people insist on maintaining it, other than because it is a light-hearted way to subconsciously exclude certain groups from conversations, present company excepted. As far as the plate its
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by jbm 15y ago
Want to go,but I'll be out of town. Next time guys!
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by jbm 15y ago
As an aside: I don't recognize the Montreal he is talking about at all. Lived there my entire life, but never really encountered the sorts of interesting people he mentioned at the start. I wonder how much has to do with having contacts th
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by jbm 15y ago
In what way is IE9 the retarded stepchild? This would make more sense in the IE6/IE7 days, but not now.
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by jbm 15y ago
Would you say that Jews and Protestant Brits are of different ethnic nationalities? (Any answer other than "yes" is a cop-out or word-play.) Wouldn't your statement then be implying that the US would be better off without a large part of it
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by jbm 15y ago
People told me the exact same thing when I moved from Montreal to Tokyo. I am glad I didn't listen to them. (Yes, even post-earthquake) You don't understand his specific rationale or the social strata that he may be involved. Furthermore,
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by jbm 15y ago
http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2011/06/nonsensi... There is an interesting follow-up to this piece that you may find interesting.
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by jbm 15y ago
Love this. I always ache for keyboard shortcuts, don't know why I can't get them in more apps.

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