jrs99

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   by jrs99 13y ago

   That's probably why Steve Jobs cared so much about how the inside of computers looked. He was obsessed with it. He probably read some Japanese book when he was in his youth and his culture became radically different in some way. Much m
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   by jrs99 13y ago

   as a consumer, i would never return an item that was dirty. that's just too extreme.
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   by jrs99 13y ago

   if Google becomes a mess and Yahoo keeps rising and rising, then we'll know how valuable she was.
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   by jrs99 13y ago

   extremely rude of them to sit at a McDonald's. Hypocrites. They would probably not like it if I went into their house and sat in it forever. Yet, they'll gladly go to a McDonald's and sit in it after buying a coffee.
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   by jrs99 13y ago

   agreed. they'd ask you to leave because it's private residence and not a business for people that buy only 1 coffee or small french fries. I do admit i go to a cafe and sit with a laptop for several hours. But these guys don'
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   by jrs99 13y ago

   I don't think it's a generalization if someone did the research and everyone in Japan says that perfection = quality. Then that would be a fact, not a generalization.
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   by jrs99 13y ago

   Totally. Reminds me of Apple. Man, those fools were perfectionists. And they were bureaucrats too. Same thing happened. Dirt on screen? Just send it back. Let them deal with the clean up. Bureaucracy at its finest.
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   by jrs99 13y ago

   Everyone in Japan would say quality was equal to perfection, so I'd probably say nobody in Japan is a Samurai anymore who needs a bow.
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   by jrs99 13y ago

   Well, it's not #1 and getting consistently upvoted more than anything else on hacker news at the moment for no reason at all. So it's probably a revelation to most people and very relevant to all programmers. If you go to: http:&
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    by jrs99 13y ago

    I also didn't know everyone in japan would think that perfection = quality. That really is a revelation to me. And if you ask everyone in Korea, they'll tell you new = quality. They are kind of related culturally, yet they are rad
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    by jrs99 13y ago

    Well, the article says that almost everyone in Japan will say that quality = perfection. But wabi-sabi is definitely the aesthetic of imperfection. Maybe that is something older people and the ancient japanese people believe in? wabi-sabi d
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    by jrs99 13y ago

    Article is VERY accurate. Japanese, especially, hate imperfection and believe that everything should be perfect, without any asymmetry or irregularity.
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    by jrs99 13y ago

    sounds like every starbucks in manhattan. i've seen people with desktops in manhattan starbuckses. if these people go into a cafe as a group of three or something with a laptop, nobody would flinch. Once the group becomes 6 or 7 people
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    by jrs99 13y ago

    i think saying you "feel like" going out and buying something is not the same as "i will absolutely buy it now without looking into reviews or anything else whereas before i saw the ad i would never have bought it." The
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    by jrs99 13y ago

    good to know. I almost assumed that everyone would have believed it without seeing the prize get awarded.
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    by jrs99 13y ago

    is this like saying China is being unfair by hacking into our stuff?
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    by jrs99 13y ago

    who ISN'T leery? do you think a single person reading that is thinking some objective ranking has been established?
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    by jrs99 13y ago

    Facebook doesn't force real names. But they do sometimes force you to use a fake name. If your real name is Ben Dover or Mike Hunt, or Mike Michaels-Michaelson, then you might have to use a fake name.
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    by jrs99 13y ago

    so a writer can get a paycheck.
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    by jrs99 13y ago

    which frameworks did you try for JS? and what were your needs?
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    by jrs99 13y ago

    also, not sucking and financial success are two different things. You can be a financial success with a game that sucks. Getting to where you're consistently making good, innovative stuff really does come sometime after your 10th game.
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    by jrs99 13y ago

    hopefully we won't be obese though. Because science will have solved that problem by then.
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    by jrs99 13y ago

    If that point in time comes, and the computers still "obey" humans, yet still have enough control so that there are no wars between different computer groups, then nobody will have a job and we'll just ask robots to make us s
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    by jrs99 13y ago

    The number of jobs do diminish. There may one day be a point where all jobs are automated. No human being will need to have a job.
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    by jrs99 13y ago

    Do they still keep pushing irrelevant articles from the 1980s?
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    by jrs99 13y ago

    If they are completely straightforward, it would have saved someone a trip to the post office. companies cause stress when you can't trust them. You don't have 100% confidence that you'll even get a refund. You don't kno
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    by jrs99 13y ago

    They could always just go ahead and give him the money back.
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    by jrs99 13y ago

    i don't think it's about the money. it's almost never about the money. if you had a ten dollar bill on a table, and you saw an acquaintance take that money and put it in their pocket, you confronted them about it, and they to
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    by jrs99 13y ago

    Whenever I don't need something, I actually do pack the item back up and drive down to the UPS store and ship the product back to the company. It is a waste of resources and rare metals and stuff like that. Everything should be recycle
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    by jrs99 13y ago

    reminded me of a book: http://www.amazon.com/How-Soccer-Explains-World-Globalizatio...