nandemo

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by nandemo 14y ago
The gist of your comment is correct, in the sense that a megacorp job in Japan is safer than a job at an American one. However, the principle of lifetime employment in Japan has been slowly eroded in the past couple of decades. Toyota's emp
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by nandemo 14y ago
Is it really the case that teaching music theory is hard? I suppose what is hard is teaching music without using actual music -- which is what these sheets attempt to do. It's pretty easy to teach what a tuplet is, even without written no
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by nandemo 14y ago
> There seem to be a lot of comments centered on “wow, this sounds great – I wish I could charge more” or “how do I find these high paying contracts”? Actually, I'm wondering how can I get gigs that pay $100/hour in Japan.
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by nandemo 14y ago
Hmm, I think the question is why such growth was exponential.
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by nandemo 14y ago
Besides what others pointed out, there's evidence that the proto-humans of 500 thousand years ago hadn't developed spoken language yet [1]. So it was hard to teach what you knew to people living next to you, let alone pass on knowledge to o
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by nandemo 14y ago
The Iraq war alone has resulted in at least 100 thousand total deaths (including civilians) according to the most conservative estimates. How is the 5k figure relevant? That's like AlQaeda claiming 9/11 wasn't very violent, since they lost
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by nandemo 14y ago
Are bidets really that common in Brazil? I had one in my old home but I don't recall spotting them in new houses or apartments.
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by nandemo 14y ago
Here's a Brazilian comedy sketch that portrays that exact scenario: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFd5_YtbScs (not-so-good English subtitles available)
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by nandemo 14y ago
> I'm not saying this is an insurmountable problem, I'm contrasting the difficulty. Fair enough. I'm not claiming there's no homophone ambiguity either, just that it's a relatively easier problem compared to, say, the stuff Microsoft is
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by nandemo 14y ago
> 上, 神, 紙, 髪, and 加味 are all pronounced かみ. This can be mostly solved by context. There are very few situations in normal speech where you'd hear "kami" and not know if they're talking about 神 (god) or 髪 (hair). Also, it's not particula
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by nandemo 14y ago
> To me, it's rampant materialism to buy random items at Target/Walmart/etc. and replace them often. OK, but how often do you have to replace spoons or towels?
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by nandemo 14y ago
That's not the point. Yes, there might be people who will ignore the UI feedback and cast the wrong vote. The point is that, if you're going to tamper it, you'd rather tamper the back end. As it is, if this is happening to a lot of people,
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by nandemo 14y ago
Indeed. These are some other headlines on the BBC sidebar at the moment: Deadly car bombings rock Syria S Korea shuts nuclear reactors Two killed in Bahrain explosions
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by nandemo 14y ago
One example of the first one: http://mikehadlow.blogspot.jp/2010/03/functional-dependency-...
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by nandemo 14y ago
For the record, many haskellers agree with you that the quality of many libraries and their documentation isn't good enough: http://blog.johantibell.com/2011/08/results-from-state-of-ha... Still, Haskell is largely a volunteer effort. Thi
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by nandemo 14y ago
I second this. There are also qualified people asking the questions, which is also a good indicator (e.g. I recently saw questions from Edward Yang and Brent Yorgey).
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by nandemo 14y ago
That blog post seems fairly outdated. There are several lenses libraries that provide decent record support: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5767129/lenses-fclabels-d... Personally, I'd much rather have a better baked-in record system,
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by nandemo 14y ago
I read his "The Disappearance of Childhood" many years ago, I should put one of these in my queue soon.
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by nandemo 14y ago
> You also did not wear a pink and blue striped hat, and did not get an offer. I don't understand the point of this quibbling. Say I was asked 30 questions; I missed 3 of them and didn't get hired. It's a reasonable to assume that these
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by nandemo 14y ago
You seem to be disagreeing with something I haven't said. I'm simply describing my experience interviewing at Google: I didn't give an optimal solution to a couple of problems, and didn't get an offer. So I infer that the other items mentio
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by nandemo 14y ago
I got that book. While the questions and answers are useful, in my experience this book alone is nowhere near enough to get prepared for a Google interview (not that the author claims that). I studied CLRS's Introduction to Algorithms and a
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by nandemo 14y ago
(sorry, couldn't edit out the typos)
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by nandemo 14y ago
Note that Samsung is a huge conglomerate. I suppose this is news is posted here because some many people on HN tend to view Samsung is an "Apple rival" (and for some odd reason a lot of people "root" for tech companies), but Samsung is more
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by nandemo 14y ago
> Isn't it stupid to just to have one job, one car, Indeed people who own a job, a car or a house are well advised to have insurance. And insurance is a form of diversification. For countries the analogy is flimsy, but if you live in a
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by nandemo 14y ago
His quine relay is impressive: http://asiajin.com/blog/2009/09/22/uroboros-programming-with...
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by nandemo 14y ago
From http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4699862 (also at the front page right now): > We funded the Lockitron guys back in the summer of '09—that's them at their YC interview. A year after YC, they were still figuring out their idea
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by nandemo 14y ago
That might make sense, but perhaps the securities agency considers that preventing insider trading and market manipulation outweighs letting employees hedge their companies' stock. Besides, in Japanese companies non-execs typically don't ge
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by nandemo 14y ago
In Japan it's actually illegal. Your broker won't even let you do it.
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by nandemo 14y ago
Given that (IMO, rather unfortunately) Techcrunch stories are posted and upvoted to the front page on a daily basis, this is also front page worthy.
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by nandemo 14y ago
> It's hard to convince people to pay anything for software, If that software is for "entertainment" (e.g. games, social networks, cool email clients), yes. But most companies and professionals will gladly pay for software that makes t

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