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811.
by jbm 16y ago
Here here. I also previously worked at Fujitsu's mobile division and can attest to that. They still have an entire floor dedicated to developing for Symbian. Their main translator is hamstrung by rules that indicate they must re-use old (i
812.
by jbm 16y ago
Charisma-kei businesses are common; I had a client that was clearly such. The president of the company was constantly spying on all his programmers, and often switched the strategic direction in order to conform to the latest trends that he
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Corporate cultures in Japan(japansubculture.com)
66 points by jbm 16y ago|25 comments
814.
by jbm 16y ago
I built a multiuser blog for a site with two million plus users (soundpedia.com). I worked hard to make it scalable; making it static, easy sync with new servers in the cluster, etc... Themeable too. It was pretty sweet for the time fram
815.
by jbm 16y ago
It seems disingenuous to mix Agnosicism with Atheism. Both are utterly different - one makes a knowledge claim (atheism) while the other is in a position of neutrality or indifference (agnosticism)
816.
by jbm 16y ago
I don't particularly care about the racism. I generally prefer free speech as a rule, despite my being an easy target for bigots. If he has something valuable to add, let him. The prime idea (that America is a nation that is suffering due
817.
by jbm 16y ago
I'm not quite sure why I'm being modded down. One of the reasons I mentioned that is that toys from the early 80s avoided the use of Plastic as it was a cost center. Are crocs not made out of some kind of plastic compound? Or is it because
818.
by jbm 16y ago
In regards to Crocs, wasn't plastic prohibitively expensive until the late 80s?
819.
by jbm 16y ago
For what it is worth, I wake up at 5ish every morning, then go with the significant other to the gym where we swim or work out. (The membership we got only allows us to use the gym facilities between 5 AM and 9 AM) I used to wake up insan
820.
by jbm 16y ago
Is the DB engine really inherently faster than the scripting language? http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/3/23/digg-4000-performa... Not saying necessarily that the DB engine is less efficient, but rather that it is serves as a limiting
821.
by jbm 16y ago
I had the exact same response; although I was confused since he had apparently already been stripped of his passport (or something along those lines).
822.
by jbm 16y ago
For what its worth, I remember reading something like this about the English language in "The Marriage of Figaro". “The English, in truth, do add here and there some other words when speaking; but it is obvious that ‘God-damn’ is the founda
823.
by jbm 16y ago
I haven't done any downvotes, but I do note that you have made quite a few posts in regards to DRM and other forms of restricted access methods. In your posts, I have noted the constant refrain of people being prone to theft. That may or m
824.
by jbm 16y ago
66. High speed rail service in US not economically feasible when compared with auto and air travel -- Sure, with current safety standards for trains and with the way that track maintenance is treated (as opposed to road maintenance). When y
825.
by jbm 16y ago
Bit.ly could check a link to no_malware_here.com, which thereafter adds a 301 that redirects to your_computer_now_has_aids.com. I think it is misleading to display that message based on the possibility of a redirection. Any page can do tha
826.
by jbm 17y ago
Not to mention all the start-up related events in Tokyo. I don't enjoy the hard-sell BS, and some of the projects are awful (the Todai professor who shocked us at Tokyo 2.0 once with "Pop in" advertisements in 2009), but there are always in
827.
by jbm 17y ago
The BSG finale was probably one of the better season finales that I have seen. I didn't like the Kara Thrace stuff, but I did find it fit thematically to the story. I heard the argument that there was a happy ending to a dark story, but to
828.
by jbm 17y ago
Actually I was the same (while I was running a Windows box). I used to work for an anti-malware company too, and my experiences there pretty much agrees what everyone says about Norton / etc... I don't open attachments from strangers, I do
829.
by jbm 17y ago
I hate saying this, but I am having the opposite issue. It is not responsive at all; I tried clicking on any of the links and it just hangs. Are the intermediate servers being slashdotted or something, I wonder? I'll give it a shot again
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PHP scripting in Erlang(andy.wordpress.com)
1 points by jbm 17y ago|0 comments
831.
by jbm 17y ago
I had originally considered the encrypted / hardcoded password, but wouldn't one simply need to grab the decryption code with the same hack (files set to 0777) and have access? Not trying to be flippant, it just doesn't strike me as easy to
832.
by jbm 17y ago
Out of curiosity, how could one program something to access the DB without storing the password somewhere on the server? That seems to be the main weakness they are discussing, but it doesn't seem to be easy to store the password on the se
833.
by jbm 17y ago
Let me preface this by saying I didn't vote you down (Not the right karma threshold, and I wouldn't bother to do so either). Furthermore, I agree with your sentiment, although I disagree with the premise; that people stopped trusting newsp
834.
by jbm 17y ago
The CURL stuff seems so oddly unlike the rest of the PHP commands; it's more-or-less a direct port of the c++ library, names & all included. The place where it reallllly irritates is the cookie management, but thankfully I didn't have t
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by jbm 17y ago
I've gone ahead and built one. Try it: http://www.tokyomuslim.com/2010/04/php-class-to-run-pdfcrowd... I don't blame anyone for not wanting to use PHP's poorly documented CURL classes.
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by jbm 17y ago
I'll probably be there, although I can't guarantee.
837.
by jbm 17y ago
Anyone who talks about Entrepeneurship in Japan and doesn't talk about the housing situation & concentration of industry in Tokyo is following fancy rather than reality. When you are unable to rent anything other than the oldest (most u
838.
by jbm 17y ago
Yeah; first thing I did today was put together a class for this in PHP. http://www.tokyomuslim.com/2010/03/notifo-kicks-ass/ Definitely going to find a way to integrate this into my love hotel site.
839.
by jbm 17y ago
Was looking exactly for this for a web app that I'm working on. Going to give it a try and see how it goes :-)
840.
by jbm 17y ago
As far as India and Pakistan is concerned... (from what I recall from what my parents told me) (1) Hitler's Germany fought the British, who the common Indians/Pakistanis generally hated. (2) Germany made token efforts to "assist Indian inde

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