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by jbm 17y ago
Only way to get Japan's eMobile service working is with pon scripts, or WVdial. The redialing support is fantastic.
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by jbm 17y ago
“Locking down everything is complete,” Shen said. “Our security approach in the future will have to be deeper.” I'm not sure how much I believe someone who says that after storing his passwords in plaintext.
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Borland Sprint: Separating Content from Layout(en.wikipedia.org)
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by jbm 17y ago
Perhaps off-topic, I was a bit put off at his definition of a friend. I wouldn't want to befriend someone who keeps me around to solve his problems for free while I'm at work. Being that I've only interviewed at big-ish companies and in Ja
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by jbm 17y ago
My first B.Sc will come in handy for the second time in my life. :/
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by jbm 17y ago
I was one of the people who ran UEStudio on Windows. When I switched to Ubuntu, I did not find the open source editors to my liking (yes, I know, heresy). However, over the past year Komodo has stopped crashing enough to be the perfect edi
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by jbm 17y ago
I had no idea that there was a higher language level version of Hadoop. http://research.yahoo.com/project/90 Considering the number of venture capitalists who are swarming about in the Hadoop space, it's definitely worth the effort to get
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by jbm 17y ago
I hate browser rejection of any kind. Even in a worst-case scenario, just setup a browser redirection that sends IE6 to a stripped down version of the site. There are a lot of people who have no choice about their browser and can't update
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by jbm 17y ago
Excuse me for being obtuse, but is the key sticking out at all times while you are wearing the ring? Does it fold out or something? Is there a picture of someone wearing this? I don't see any way in which this is practical (although the co
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by jbm 17y ago
Fantastic article. Back in the day when I was working for a search engine company (not a big one), my superiors would use this sort of reasoning ALL THE TIME. At one point they were trying to buy out 10 different bittorrent sites and the re
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by jbm 17y ago
I can't say with certainty now, but when I was a genetics student in a fairly decent University, I remember we laughed at "The Bell Curve". It wasn't considered classic scientific reading. There are a million places to start if you want to
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by jbm 17y ago
Please, by all means, elucidate your "non-PC" ideas, with relevant, broad-based (not cherry-picked) evidence.
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by jbm 17y ago
I'm not sure why you believe that it is necessary to do stuff like <?=$varname;?>. Certainly, a competent PHP programmer can use file operations and str_replace to do templating; it's pretty much what I do right now. The template
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by jbm 17y ago
Ditto. Messy code is difficult to maintain. You are incurring a penalty whenever someone needs to go in and make changes, a situation that is made all the worse when it is someone new. Perhaps my narrow programmer's mind can't appreciate
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by jbm 17y ago
Although I realize it is nothing more than a detail, I found it quite amusing when the drug dealer attempts to reassert his masculinity at the end by saying "I don't like small talk. I don't like having to ask them how their day was."
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by jbm 17y ago
I think this is some kind of coding visualization software, but I can't find any useful information online. On top of that, the submitter has no comments and seems to have made his account just to submit this. Flagged.
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by jbm 17y ago
Woah - did he write the book "The Humane Interface"? I just finished reading that a few days ago, it totally changed my views in regards to interface and even coding style.
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by jbm 17y ago
Kudos on the post-anything sentiment; to steal a quote from a monster, whenever I hear post-something, I want to reach for my Browning.
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by jbm 17y ago
While I agree with some of the ideas (in spirit), I find most of the positions advocated to be hard to stomach. On a practical note, it hard to see how any sort of "national educational reform" could survive the kind of political backlash i
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by jbm 17y ago
It's been a while since I've taken a math class, but I'm not sure what the problem is with calling it a 21.2% improvement. The old conversion rate was 24.4%. The new one was 29.6%. (29.6 - 24.4) / 24.4 = .213 = 21.3%. Is it misleading beca
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by jbm 17y ago
Here in Tokyo, I see a lot of people sleeping in cardboard boxes outside. They've never bothered me; frankly, I'd prefer them to be there. It forces you to acknowledge their existence, and I'd rather they be there than in jail and being d
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by jbm 17y ago
Tokyo, Japan.
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by jbm 17y ago
The lack of social skills leading one to contribute more often online sounds about true, in my case anyway. I used to post a lot more on BBSes (the old dial-up kind) and message boards during high school / pre-college when I suffered from
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by jbm 17y ago
I've been thinking about this for years now. I could never understand why no one had ever set 100 "minutes" to an hour.
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by jbm 17y ago
200 mil? It's funny because I built an effective copy of the site a while back. Maybe I should put up instructions and open source it.
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by jbm 17y ago
I studied genetics as my major, but that was a while ago (7 years ago now?). Here is the short version of what I remember. Telomeres are areas of non-expressed DNA at the end of your chromosomes. If the telomeres are too short in a strand
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by jbm 17y ago
I was working for an airline website - which was weird, because I had been promised I would be working on something else. I bit my tongue and agreed to it, since it sounded like fun. Then the Chairman of the company, a fellow who supposedl
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by jbm 17y ago
I don't know if I agree. The old generation of online project management software (see: dotproject) was awful, had no UX design, and probably was less efficient than a wiki. However, new programs like basecamp and thymer are much easier to
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by jbm 17y ago
x100. Mixi, the Japanese social networking service, has a mobile site. I was trying to surf to it via my DSi; but they refuse mobile connections from anything but a mobile browser that is recognized in their DB. They might have complicate
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by jbm 17y ago
Disclaimer: I live in Japan, I'm Canadian. My girlfriend works at Proto, a company that produces a bunch of entertainment-related websites. Large company, 10k people. Between meetings and actual work, she spends approximately 15 hours a D

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