jpatokal

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by jpatokal 8y ago
There are a lot of obsessive people on Wikipedia. Back in the days when I was an active editor, I was regularly embroiled in edit wars with somebody who had odd but extremely firm opinions about the romanization of Okinawan (not a poli
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On a related tangent, there was a general expectation that the A380 superjumbo would find a lot of customers on core domestic routes between Chinese and Indian megacities like Beijing-Shanghai, Mumbai-Delhi, etc. Aside from the odd filler
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Fear not, there's a Hong Kong GCP region opening later this year! https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/11/coming-in-2018-...
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Jurong West: https://www.google.com.au/about/datacenters/inside/locations...
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The public ETA on the Los Angeles region remains "2018": https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/regions-zones/#announc... Your local friendly GCP sales rep can share better dates under NDA, and if yo
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Having the third zone means you can now run some pretty important services in Singapore, including Cloud Spanner, Cloud SQL, Cloud Bigtable, and Managed Instance Groups. Also, connectivity within APAC is generally not great, you really want
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by jpatokal 8y ago
But why did it take you three visits to get contacts? It's also interesting that hard (RGP) contacts, which last essentially forever, are now virtually impossible to buy from high-street opticians. https://en.wikipedia.org
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I recommend visiting Tokyo. The view from the observation dock atop the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building is essentially just concrete extending in all directions as far as the eye can see: https://cdn.theculturetrip.com&#x
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Softbank's core business is being a mobile phone operator. They originated as Vodafone Japan and were distinctly third-tier for a long time, but they were the first in Japan to sell the iPhone and absolutely minted money in the first
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by jpatokal 8y ago
No, they're looking for concrete evidence of having and being able to apply a well-defined set of skills. One of the things you learn pretty fast as an interviewer is that charisma and attempts to pitch yourself tend to correlate poorl
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Taking control audition style may work if you're a consultant trying to convince a client to hire them, but you had better know their business backwards and forwards, and unless you're in a very well defined space (like their foot
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Pro tip: Ctrl-Shift-V pastes with formatting stripped in many systems. Also, on most Google apps including Docs and Gmail, Ctrl-\ (backslash) will reset the formatting of selected text.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Problem is, majoring in English doesn't necessarily mean they actually have the ability to really speak English.
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Seems like a step in the right direction though? If BN had won in coalition with PAS, they would have had to bend over regarding sharia, hudud, etc. Acronym decoder: BN = Barisan Nasional = old ruling coalition PAS = Parti Islam Se-Malaysi
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I'm pretty sure each and every one* of those industries is several orders of magnitude larger than the industry for fake families. For example, there are 2 million people in the US alone with artificial limbs. * ..except maybe indepen
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Horseshoe crabs are rather extraordinary creatures. They're essentially unchanged for 450 million years, and look like it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_crab The roe is edible too, but has to be prepare
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by jpatokal 8y ago
It's fully managed, so you don't need to worry about OS security patches, rotating logs and all the other administration that comes with running your own server. Basically the same benefits as using Cloud SQL/Aurora RDS vs m
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by jpatokal 8y ago
One important thing that's not at all clear from the article: this is not a campus for Google employees a la Googleplex, but a capital-C Campus run by Google for Entrepreneurs, meaning basically a coworking space/startup incubat
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Silicon Valley became what it is today because there was cheap industrial land for chip fabs and random startups.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Out of curiosity, did you have a paid support plan for Google Maps, or what are you basing your impressions of their support on? Also, part of the Google Maps Platform launch is that support (as in, being able to file tickets and get answer
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Not a car thing? Welcome to Melbourne, Australia! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh92LirlCf8 My wife used to drive in the Melbourne CBD daily for work, but would always go around the block instead of attempting one.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
I've been using mylastname.name for a while. Works fine, not well known but easy enough to spell out without getting too many double takes.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
> People leaving the workforce to pursue homemaking and childrearing shouldn't be a societal problem if it's done voluntarily. That's a pretty big if, especially given that Japanese regularly comes at the bottom of the tab
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Japan is a world champion at destroying marine & terrestrial ecosystems. Virtually all of Japan's coastline (yes, seriously) is covered in tetrapods, all of its rivers except one (1) have been dammed and largely encased in concr
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by jpatokal 8y ago
The original Rambo is actually surprisingly nuanced and, well, non-Rambo-like. It's the sequels that cemented the word as a synonym for mindless slaughter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Blood
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Stackdriver Kubernetes Monitoring: Comprehensive Kubernetes Observability(cloudplatform.googleblog.com)
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Calling C functions from BigQuery with Web Assembly: A detailed story(medium.com)
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What's more, the subway is apparently one of the safest possible places to be if a big quake strikes.
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Sounds like a great place for a party.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
I'm not saying we should start shipping Mobikes to the Congo, I'm just noting that bicycles are, in fact, quite usable without a lot of fancy infrastructure.

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