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by malikolivier 6y ago
Driving through these roads just after they open around March/April is a blast. If you look enough, you can find places where you can actually climb on the snow walls and ski/hike on the snow slopes yourself. You may see a few tre
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by malikolivier 6y ago
> not sure if this is just formal language, or there is some important distinction between 注視 and 見て here. Actually 注視 is as well the word that is used in the law that forbids people from watching the infotainment screen of a car while
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by malikolivier 6y ago
Epigno | Front-end Engineer, DevOps, Data Engineer | Tokyo, Japan | Full-time, part-time or intern | 10% ONSITE / 90% REMOTE Epigno is an start-up that provides management, optimization and visualization (business intelligence) solutio
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by malikolivier 6y ago
I can relate. We use GitLab at our company. I still think the merge request UI is great. Its main problems are its slowness and the fact that files with a long diff are collapsed. As the full merge request is quite slow, I will usually open
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by malikolivier 6y ago
As a manager, I've always striven to apologize for my errors. I do agree that errors are unavoidable and are bound to happen. That's why I actually never cared at all whether programmers apologize for bugs. Fixing bugs is also par
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by malikolivier 6y ago
Aphantasia is a condition I have never heard about. Your experience and the description on Wikipedia lets me think I was born like this as well. I had many arguments with my wife about how I did not have visual dreams and did not see anythi
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by malikolivier 7y ago
How is support for languages other than English? I am especially thinking about Japanese. Our company could probably find good uses of such service if it had Japanese support.
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by malikolivier 7y ago
I have heard from some people that used to work in some major Japanese companies (famous worldwide) that they had a version of COBOL developed in-house that was entirely in Japanese. It seems it was widely used within the company and used t
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by malikolivier 7y ago
Epigno Systems | Full-Stack Engineer, DevOps, Data Engineer | Tokyo, Japan | Part-time or Full-time | REMOTE Do you know that an average Japanese doctor works 124 hours of overtime per month? Do you want to improve health-care and hospita
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by malikolivier 7y ago
Niki Lauda is the man I will always remember as the one who successfully threatened Boeing into admitting they were at fault for a thrust reverser issue that caused the crash of Lauda Air Flight 004, operated by his company [1]. He had the
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by malikolivier 7y ago
It sounds like an appropriate description of Shanghai and Beijing to me. I don't know why you are downvoted. However, I still really enjoy spending time in China. Local young people there are very nice. My experience in Shanghai is tha
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by malikolivier 8y ago
Prepend two white spaces before the line you want to format as monospace. like this
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by malikolivier 8y ago
Comparing these two types of hearing aids is similar to comparing a magnifying glass with normal glasses. A magnifying glass might do the job good enough, and I know people who decided to not buy glasses but just use a magnifying glass to r
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by malikolivier 8y ago
That's exactly what I am doing now. I have been enrolled as a PhD student in computer science and working at the same time for almost 3 years. I cannot really recommend it, mainly because of the workload. However there are things to be
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by malikolivier 8y ago
I am really rooting for understandable software. I do not consider a software without appropriate documentation to be free (as in freedom). Lately I met many companies claiming they make "open source", when their software is in fa
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by malikolivier 8y ago
Indeed, the author of this package is not at fault here. It is the responsibility of the users depending on this package to check in all their dependencies and ensure to have reproducible builds. I think many maintainers would have done the
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by malikolivier 8y ago
Below is the scariest part in this story: "@dominictarr Why was @right9ctrl given access to this repo?" Response: "he emailed me and said he wanted to maintain the module, so I gave it to him. I don't get any thing from
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by malikolivier 8y ago
This reminds me of my local library. For every book one day late, you pay the equivalent of $0.05. If I am late to give back a book that I am still reading, I do not mind giving it back one or two weeks late after I am done with it. The fin
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by malikolivier 8y ago
For those interested, here is the commit where the code of conduct was included: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/8a104f8b5867c682d99... "code of conflict" was rewritten to "code of con
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by malikolivier 8y ago
The author launched a bug bounty program for open source projects: https://bountygraph.com/ . That's a wonderful endeavor and I would gladly try to "convince" people I know to pledge money in it. Monetary ince
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by malikolivier 8y ago
I had the same issue with Facebook. I could not write by birth first name (in a language other than English). It was considered "offensive" by the filters in that specific language. I ended up including some non-printable unicode