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by jmadsen 11y ago
"Sumasen is likely regional" Apparently it is very "親父" and after 13 years my wife informs me I should switch to sumimasen :-)
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by jmadsen 11y ago
My "source" is 13 years in Japan living with Japanese wife, children & extended family :-) But I'm not going to argue - for example, it may just be that here in Kansai we use them differently. We would definitely say &quo
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by jmadsen 11y ago
EDIT: after reading the post above, I'd like to add that there may even be regional differences with all of this, so let me state this is based on my own experience. No, not really IMHO - much more complicated. The first article (I onl
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by jmadsen 11y ago
If I may extend my own post for a moment, this is a common problem of trying to translate words & phrases directly. For example, most people know that "Arigato" is Japanese for "Thank you". Except that's really
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by jmadsen 11y ago
Perhaps he doesn't understand that "thank you" is usually meant as a simple, polite acknowledgement. A heartfelt expression of gratitude in English is said not with a stock phrase, but by stopping, looking at the person, and
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by jmadsen 11y ago
" We forget how truly isolated a place like the Isle of Man could be _in_postwar_Britain_." 60+ years ago was a bit different, I'm sure
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by jmadsen 11y ago
that's not quite what I mean. saying, "I think it will need feature X, which will require parameter x_id, so I'll add x_id = 0 now" is wrong. writing (just as an example) a function that takes an config array as its para
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by jmadsen 11y ago
I think it is important to differentiate between "early building" of features you don't yet need, and building in a way that doesn't require much refactoring in order to extend/add those features on. More common tha
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by jmadsen 11y ago
There are so many tangents to go off on, but let me pick this one thing to comment on: Read Justin Jackson's story about the Mayor vs. the Ad Agency Whichever price model you chose, you must learn early which clients are just wasting y
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by jmadsen 11y ago
As I stated, I was using America as the context, as I thought the parent post was. Our history with drugs and alcohol does not match all places, in all times. More importantly, we are talking about people's _perceptions_ of these event
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by jmadsen 11y ago
I question how genuinely accurate that is. Drug use _started_ as illegal, and so many who have experimented and might have continued to casually use instead later on shied away. Alcohol started as a perfectly normal thing (until modern time
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by jmadsen 12y ago
Nice! Endless learning tools & games to come out of this one
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by jmadsen 12y ago
Get involved in your community & then ask what programs they have. For example, in Php we have http://phpmentoring.org/ I don't know what Python, Java and C# communities are currently offering
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by jmadsen 12y ago
Is that your idea of a "comment"? "Seriously?" Perhaps going beyond the first word and explaining your thoughts would have been worth more of everyone's time?
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by jmadsen 12y ago
you mistake my meaning - it is "more makes way for less". With boats, maneuverability. With "road sharers", survivability.
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by jmadsen 12y ago
I don't understand why people would have trouble with that, unless they are arguing from a purely selfish perspective. It is essentially "Marine Law" - the most maneuverable must make way way for lesser. Perfect common sense.
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by jmadsen 12y ago
We're like Forestt Gump - dull, but dependable :-)
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by jmadsen 12y ago
I suppose this is pretty troll-ish, but some folks need a good dose of cold water to wake them up to reality. You're not to old, you're too young. Too young to even realize how young and immature you are. I have hard time distingu
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by jmadsen 12y ago
I'm glad they finally stepped in to try to deal with this problem. HN has long ago become something of a joke to the rest of the English-speaking internet at large. When a great many people you know and respect "can't be both
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by jmadsen 12y ago
The "key money" is an archaic thing that really needs to be addressed. There's been a little bit of loosening up on it, but it is still quite obnoxious the amount you have to pay for the "privilege" of a lease.
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by jmadsen 12y ago
One of the things I've found about working remote that no one ever seems to talk about: It doesn't work for teams where the Project Manager/owner/whoever is client-facing doesn't like to sit down and write out prope
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by jmadsen 12y ago
"They are never more than 1.5 mm long, and can only be seen with a microscope" Confused - I can see things that are 1.5mm long. Some sort of editing mistake here, I think.
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by jmadsen 12y ago
Her answer was essentially, "I'm a public official and so I know better than to call you a dumbshit in front of everyone on national TV" It's the news "editors" that need to be taken to task.
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by jmadsen 12y ago
Hi - TrellUp's creator here. Big fan of Trello & use it as my primary Project Management tool. What I didn't like about it was the notifications & the fact that clients have to have an account as well, and then want to get
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Show HN: TrellUp, automated Trello Board reports(trellup.com)
9 points by jmadsen 12y ago|1 comments
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by jmadsen 12y ago
How stupid are the FBI? Do they really want to bring someone "in the fold" in a coercive manner like this? Someone who's entire ###existence### is about cracking systems and spreading information on what they find? They want
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by jmadsen 12y ago
While they can't directly tell a mall "you have to charge", they can encourage it indirectly through zoning laws: For example, they can cap the footprint of parking lot space, leading to stores building parking garages or tak
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by jmadsen 12y ago
Here in Japan, virtually ALL parking in lots is hourly metered. You get a ticket & if you spend money in the stores, they will credit you the price of the parking (making it cheap or free for actual paying customers) on the ticket. This
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by jmadsen 12y ago
There are, of course, many very large databases that would need something like this. However, I've found that most small sites I've worked on, a simple "lineage" system in a completely flat single table is more than adeq
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Why Developers Make Lousy Productizers(codebyjeff.com)
6 points by jmadsen 12y ago|0 comments

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