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by jbm 17y ago
The single button mouse is not just Steve Jobs; Jef Raskin makes a very strong case for it as well.
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by jbm 17y ago
It isn't exaggerated, at least not for traditionally managed companies. Here's something that would shock you. Talk to a Japanese businessman who likes you and does business in Japan. Ask him what he thinks about Japan. 100% of answers (n
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by jbm 17y ago
If you are in Nagoya, you have my sincere pity. I have a friend who went from Montreal to Nagoya with Ubisoft; he was telling me about the terrible conditions and the utter inability of companies to re-invest into the company itself. They
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by jbm 17y ago
Dude, you're seriously welcome to stop by sometime and eat with me. I'm sure we'd have a million ideas. Mail me sometime (jawaad.mahmood at!_? i do.t softbank d.ot j.p) What gets to me is how there is absolutely no respect for younger wor
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by jbm 17y ago
My sense is that the conditions at small and mid-sized Japanese companies are reminiscent of the early 20th century, and are not compatible with producing innovation at a level necessary to sustain the economy. Some things that I feel contr
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by jbm 17y ago
It's extremely difficult to read Romanji, especially with the sheer number of words that would be represented exactly the same way. It's the same as representing everything in Hiragana or Katakana; one simply cannot read it properly.
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by jbm 17y ago
Reminds me of this article I read a while back. http://vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com/ Someone actually did the Moscow-Pyongyang trip. I have no idea how they bought the tickets though.
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by jbm 17y ago
Not sure why you were downmodded; I agree with your sentiment exactly. I have found it very difficult to read Digg for the past year or two, similar to how I can't read Slashdot anymore. The highest voted articles are not really that inter
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by jbm 17y ago
More of a project management tool, but I used thymer (thymer.stunf.com/) while putting together a social network for dogs for a client. They would just mark the bugs, I'd comment on it, and we'd have a point of reference for when we talked
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by jbm 17y ago
I read that book a long time ago. I always found it interesting how he was constantly in fear of getting ripped off by the government, and moreover, how the North Korean people he worked with never really talked to him about how they felt.
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by jbm 17y ago
I don't think you'd run into someone who is upset at you from a personal standpoint if you were to claim that there were more black players than white players in the NBA.
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by jbm 17y ago
Making money has nothing to do with whether or not it is mind pollution. They are two separate arguments. It is undeniable that advertising makes money for everyone involved; the question is whether or not it is damaging to the mental stat
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by jbm 17y ago
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Yellowing The Transformers fan community has been dealing with this for a while.
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by jbm 17y ago
Funny story for you; I have found pages that do not render properly in IE6 that render fine in IE5.5. I wish I could explain it but..
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Ask HN: How to deal with the C10K problem with a simple script?
9 points by jbm 17y ago|3 comments
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by jbm 17y ago
Ditto. I also have to ask, how many of the list of items are customer friendly, or low-income friendly? Can't pre-pay earlier? A few oligopolist banks that are all-powerful? Public housing instead of the opportunity to buy? Bank re-negot
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by jbm 17y ago
I am uncertain why he is terming the Zune as being a catastrophic failure, interface-wise. To the best of my knowledge (not having owned one but knowing people who have), the interface is quite nice and easy-to-use. (Not sure if it is good
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by jbm 17y ago
Or call it Montreal.
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by jbm 17y ago
Building a hotel site. Fixing some irritating join statements when searching by station name (it's for Tokyo).
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by jbm 17y ago
To gain market share, maybe; but there are an insane number of devices running Symbian. This might allow us to do some interesting tinkering. Speaking of Symbian - I remember an entire floor at Fujitsu's building in Musashi Kosugi in Kawas
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by jbm 17y ago
The line about "Most users not commenting" sounds like damage control; it's true about almost every website in the world. My old rule of thumb was 100 visitors for a comment. As for the Pro/Anti apple site; I have a MacBook pro sitting rig
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by jbm 17y ago
South Koreans racist? They aren't worse than the Japanese, and Japanese aren't really extremely racist (they appear so to people who never had to experience "race consciousness" in their country of origin). My experience with South Koreans
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by jbm 17y ago
Just out of curiousity, why don't you just give them to Hard-Off / Book Off or donate them to the local library? (I only ask because I was having the exact same conversation with my girlfriend yesterday)
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by jbm 17y ago
I live in Tokyo right now. Tried to setup a HN Tokyo GT, but that didn't work out :/ You can eat at McD's for 100 yen, maybe 350 yen for a happy meal. I used to get by on McDs during my ultra poor initial few months in Tokyo. As for eatin
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by jbm 17y ago
My connection keeps dropping while trying to set up a meetup group. Email me, hn@ordisante.com, or post your email below; we'll get something going. For those who may be wondering, I hang out here ( http://tokyohackerspace.org/ ) but there
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Ask HN: Get together in Tokyo?
3 points by jbm 17y ago|4 comments
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by jbm 17y ago
I found it online for 1200$. http://www.mobilewhack.com/new-gravity-balans-recliner-from-... Apparently there are only 250 pieces made.
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by jbm 17y ago
Ditto on Settlers, Ticket to Ride and Power Grid. Pandemic and Taluva are awesome as well (particularly Taluva)
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by jbm 17y ago
I interviewed for the Gilt Groupe about 2 years back. Got to the last interview, but bounced over a visa problem. I'm not sure I was ready for it at the time though. I cringe when I look at the code I wrote back then (eventhough I had qui
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by jbm 17y ago
My solution for #1 - not sure if it is correct. I didn't expect that two locks could fit in the clasp. Person #2 sends the safe back to Person #1. It has nothing in it. Person #1 locks his own safe to the safe of person #2, making sure th

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