nandemo

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by nandemo 15y ago
Not a single company hiring in Tokyo?
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by nandemo 15y ago
The Ruby thing is probably due to the fact that EUC and Shift-JIS were then (and to some extent still are) the prevalent encodings . It's not so much about character sets, after all Unicode includes every kanji defined in ISO-2022. Please
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by nandemo 15y ago
> Japanese computer systems are often not using Unicode but are based on other encodings like shift-jis. That's true but doesn't really answer GP's question. Shift-jis is an encoding for one of the JIS X character sets. Unicode includes
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by nandemo 15y ago
> Ideally there is a one-to-one mapping between text and speech. Ideally, yes, in the sense that if you were to create an artificial language, you would strive for that (at the beginning at least). In practice, the speech->text dire
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by nandemo 15y ago
> According to the Foreign Service Institute, Mandarin and Cantonese (you didn't specify what kind of Chinese) are among the hardest languages to learn for a native English speaker. But their criteria is the study time required to reach
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by nandemo 15y ago
Just a few weeks ago: "After grad job slump, big hiring is back at U.S. colleges" http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/01/us-economy-hiring-...
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by nandemo 15y ago
Still, I don't see it as downside of the method at all. If Joe learns how to say "Excuse me, where is the Hilton Hotel?" in Chinese with really good pronunciation, and some Chinese people go on to assume he speaks really well, then that mea
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by nandemo 15y ago
Divio doesn't go so well in divio's test: https://www.divio.ch/github/u/divio/
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by nandemo 15y ago
I know you're already an accomplished language learner, but why bother listening to English audio if you're learning Portuguese in Brazil ? If you really need subtitles, at least it should be the other way round: Portuguese audio with Engl
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by nandemo 15y ago
> On the other hand, this caused some problems-- people consistently over-estimated my language abilities, and as a result said a ton of stuff I couldn't understand. I don't see how that's a downside of Pimsleur...
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by nandemo 15y ago
Sorry, I meant to say "the every-N-seconds auction is not a good idea, even with the itayose method". The reasons are basically the ones traversal mentioned above.
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by nandemo 15y ago
Tokyo Stock Exchange uses the "itayose" method for its opening auction: http://www.tse.or.jp/english/faq/list/stockprice/p_b.html But yeah, it wouldn't be a good method for an every-N-seconds auction.
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by nandemo 15y ago
Interesting. I'm also in Tokyo. How can I contact you? Or, can you send me an email?
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by nandemo 15y ago
Can you clarify who is "us"? Facebook employees? Or programmers working in American tech companies in general? I live in Japan. In 99% of Japanese companies, and even most of the foreign ones, there's no such thing as flexible working hours
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by nandemo 15y ago
> O(n log n) algorithm can be made O(n) by replacing eager evaluation with lazy evaluation. My question is, does this count as using the same algorithm or not? I don't think anyone is claiming that it is the same algorithm. Rather, they
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by nandemo 15y ago
I'll quote Brazilian writer Alexandre Soares Silva (the translation is mine so please don't blame him if the quote doesn't match the original Lovecraft's): > Critics always laugh at H. P. Lovecraft, the American horror writer -- they l
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by nandemo 15y ago
I'm talking about a), of course. In this context, I don't see the point of talking about b) regardless of a). You might as well say that the pre-war German mark "is still around" since some people happen to be holding old German coins, and
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by nandemo 15y ago
I'm not a quant, but you also have to consider the operational and regulatory risk of dealing in bitcoins. The people who are currently trading bitcoins don't necessarily have to follow the same regulations that banks and trading houses do.
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by nandemo 15y ago
There's no link for "protecting attribute mass-assignment in the controller vs. in the model".
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by nandemo 15y ago
Given that it was 60 years ago, I'm not so surprised. For what is worth, even today the majority of landlords in Japan will not rent to foreigners.
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by nandemo 15y ago
Indeed the comment is better than the post.
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by nandemo 15y ago
I'll only consider it when they implement infinite scrolling.
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by nandemo 15y ago
> So basically religion doesn't impact you, and therefore you chose to not think about it at all? I suppose you don't believe in sarcasm.
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by nandemo 15y ago
Well, her statement seems more reasonable in context: > Before the crash, I had spent a year and a half with my parents on their research station only 30 miles away. I learned a lot about life in the rainforest, that it wasn't too dang
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by nandemo 15y ago
- 3 algebra (linear algebra + number theory + abstract algebra) - 4 calculus (!) - 3 statistics (2 basic + stochastic processes) Besides, there was a quite a bit of discrete math in mandatory theoretical CS subjects: Algorithm Analysis, Gra
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by nandemo 15y ago
The quote describes stock grants and stock options for managers (and employees). That's orthogonal to the question of dividends vs buybacks. An individual investor might prefer dividends for tax reasons, while a mutual fund might prefer buy
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by nandemo 15y ago
Arguably, NASA has always been part of the military industrial complex, but it's a relatively less important component now that Cold War and the space race are over. Meanwhile, overall military strength continues to be important to US hegem
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by nandemo 15y ago
Not only the tactile interaction. The OS, the API, the user interface in general, the networking and communication devices, the battery, etc. The thing that is "by definition all display" is called a monitor.
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by nandemo 15y ago
I live in Tokyo. Public transport is very extensive here, though quite crowded. Many people don't own cars. I'd say most single people don't. I used to commute by bicycle in my previous job. It's rarely a problem not to have a car. Doing gr
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by nandemo 15y ago
> You tend to get what you pay for in a global market where the price is efficient. I agree that the proposition is naive. That said, the global market for programmers' salaries (or contractor's rates) is most definitely not efficient.

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