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by nandemo 14y ago
The social pressure does exist, but the Christmas cake thing died down with the Showa era. Nowadays the average wedding age is closer to 30 than to 25.
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by nandemo 14y ago
Better translation somewhere in the comments of previous HN submission: http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4629969
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by nandemo 14y ago
For the record, she never mentions Zynga, only Gree and Mobage. The translator must have inserted Zynga since Gree and Mobage aren't very well known outside Japan. Also, later she mentions she works for one such company.
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by nandemo 14y ago
Given that Tesla is a startup, it's a fair bet to say that "huge success" or "bust" are the most likely outcomes. But regarding point B: many makers already have an electric model: Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Ford. I think Tesla is a cool compan
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by nandemo 14y ago
Honestly, I think your username is more recognizable than your name. I "know" who jedberg is but until I saw this post I didn't know your name was Jeremy.
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by nandemo 14y ago
Of course "not obvious" is subjective, but I offer this example: f = log n! and g = n log n .
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by nandemo 14y ago
That's the problem of induction, a.k.a. "how do we know the sun will rise tomorrow?" problem. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_induction
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by nandemo 14y ago
Indeed, municipal bonds are much riskier than good ol' Treasuries. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/16/business/municipal-bonds-d...
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by nandemo 14y ago
On the contrary, it would be impressive if Google managed to make them port half (or more of) their codebase from Lisp to Java and still keep the ITA employees, some of whom are hardcore lispers.
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by nandemo 14y ago
That's the spirit! I don't understand why people get so defensive. I have a BS and a master's degree in CS and I didn't know about MESI cache coherence. And I've never run into it in 7+ years of professional experience. But that doesn't mea
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by nandemo 14y ago
Clickable: - ShitHub http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4622805 - CodeCrap http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4622630
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by nandemo 14y ago
That's right. Some people get confused due to the rather unfortunate convention of writing f(n) = O(n) instead of the correct f(n) ∈ O(n) .
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by nandemo 14y ago
I don't know exactly what you mean by underclass (though I think I've seen a similar comment of yours), but one answer is what plinkplonk said in this thread: immigration restrictions, combined with the concentration of "elite" software com
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by nandemo 14y ago
This seems overcomplicated. Why wrap String (which is already a monoid) inside Maybe? You can just use concat; if the result is the empty string then print the number. If you want it to work for any monoid, then use mconcat, and test for eq
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by nandemo 14y ago
That max looks suspicious. It (ab)uses the fact that the strings "Fizz", "Buzz" compare higher than any printed integer. If you try to extend it to (7, " Bazz") it fails, because " " comes before digits.
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by nandemo 14y ago
I'm glad you liked it. I was lucky to take a statistics course with Prof. Toom at undergrad.
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by nandemo 14y ago
> the value of investments by its 50 or so venture capital fund members increased to 24.6 billion yen ($316 million) in 2011, 35 percent higher than the previous year. But that was a small fraction of the $12.6 billion in venture fundin
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by nandemo 14y ago
For such jobs, big corps do hire PhDs. These jobs are almost always in a research department (i.e. they won't hire a PhD to code). But these jobs are maybe 1% of all jobs in big corps.
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by nandemo 14y ago
Still, it is a rational approximation of pi.
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Sometimes they arrive 1 or 2 minutes late due to stuff like urgent track inspection/maintenance. This is generally not considered a big deal, although the conductor will still announce it and briefly apologize for it. Leaving 6 minutes (let
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by nandemo 14y ago
I think the usual answer would involve looking at articles about customer development, lean startup, etc. But if you're still employed at your current company, it might be tricky (legally and ethically) to talk to potential customers and wr
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by nandemo 14y ago
The title on HN is innacurate. The original title is about Japanese tech giants i.e. Sony, Panasonic, Sharp and the like. Note that these aren't primarily software companies. So although some of your points about software in Japan are tru
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by nandemo 14y ago
That advice is specifically for people applying to Y Combinator. Not very relevant to marketing videos in general.
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by nandemo 14y ago
The ones I use the most are RunKeeper, SleepCycle, iReal b (great tool for practicing jazz), plus Yahoo Japan's app for looking up train routes. I also often use Skype on my phone because it sucks less than on my Linux desktop.
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by nandemo 14y ago
Perl was mainstream well before Python and Ruby became popular. Back in the 90s, anyone who was adopting Linux-based servers was likely using Perl in some way: web companies, small ISPs, even banks. So there are tons of legacy Perl out ther
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by nandemo 14y ago
That's true, but it's probably a temporary measure (a decade or so?). And even with a backup driver, automated cars have the potential of vastly decreasing traffic jams.
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by nandemo 14y ago
For what is worth, Rakuten is #1 at online retail in Japan. Amazon.co.jp is #2 but the difference is pretty significant.
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by nandemo 14y ago
> At the events, applicants are commoditized by filling out forms with the same subset of credentials, everyone wears pretty much the same suit, and even those with naturally lighter hair dye it black. I'm confused. Why is this partic
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by nandemo 14y ago
> Is this an unreasonable request from an employee? To put it kindly: if that guy posed the question here from his point of view, very likely the majority opinion would be "walk". There's a lot of programming jobs out there that pay m
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by nandemo 14y ago
Purchasing-power parity is an approximation, it doesn't take into account the fact that relative prices can be very different depending on the country. E.g., suppose day labourers get paid $15 an hour in developed country X, but only $1.5/h

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