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by ojii 12y ago
Or chose the heights of new buildings. Tokyo Skytree was built 634 meters high, because that number can be read "Musashi", the name for the ancient province of what is roughly present day Tokyo.
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by ojii 12y ago
Agreed. It also solves another problem in Japan, namely that brand names etc are usually written in Japanese letters, but URLs in ASCII (yes, I'm aware of IDN, but haven't ever seen it used). This is obviously not limited to Japan
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by ojii 12y ago
I already see this happening in Japan. Rarely do I see ads include URLs, they have a search term.
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by ojii 13y ago
those examples all sound like very good parallels. you're building something "by hand" to learn how they work/are constructed. the software you ship you will still build using "robots" (eg linux, nginx, your fr
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by ojii 13y ago
First sentence of the article: "The U.S. Navy is planning sea trials for a weapon that can fire a low-cost, 23-pound (10-kg) projectile"
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by ojii 13y ago
Absolutely agree with you. It is most certainly possible to not use Facebook (and I commend you on doing so successfully). But stating "Facebook sucks" as fact, as opposed to opinion, is just wrong in my opinion (and it looks like
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by ojii 13y ago
I'm not being robbed if I give it away of my free will. I'd call it "paying" with privacy. Facebook sucking isn't fact, it's your opinion. Yes, the things I mention are possible thanks to The Internet, but The
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by ojii 13y ago
For me, Facebook doesn't "suck". It helps me stay in touch with friends on other continents in a more user-friendly and convenient way than email/phone calls/letters. It makes it easier to organize events/get t
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by ojii 13y ago
Was completely unaware of the upcoming Formula E. Thanks for sharing. I'm a bit surprised by the "single provider" system used there. Read the Wikipedia article and it sounds like McLaren will supply all teams? Doesn't s
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by ojii 13y ago
There's http://www.skulpt.org/for Python in the browser.
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by ojii 13y ago
In my opinion, appointing someone as CEO can not be base purely on professional performance. The CEO position is too public to ignore personal actions. Eich is of course allowed to have his own opinion on issues, such as gay marriage. But n
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by ojii 13y ago
And while you're on the way to Sao Paulo, mind stopping by in Tokyo? it's impossible to find decent bread here...
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by ojii 13y ago
I am aware of the VLC workaround. But I like Twitch enough that I'll actually watch their ads, as I think they're reasonably placed etc. So until they're implementing a flash-free solution (and I'm sure they're inte
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by ojii 13y ago
I always wish we had some sort of standardized way to do Oauth-style payment via e-banking. As in, I go to onlinevendor.com and click "pay", it redirects me to my bank, I log in and accept the charge, it directly charges my bank a
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by ojii 13y ago
The sad thing is, more widespread, high profile (eg government) deployment will likely increase the amount of those news stories. Until now attacking desktop Linux with viruses was simply not worth it.
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by ojii 13y ago
Unfortunately, as far as I know there's still no decent solution to stream video without flash (I'm talking Twitch et al here). Twitch is the only reason I still have flash on my computer (and not actually for watching games being
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by ojii 13y ago
I'd agree. Python developer myself and I think the missing colons might be an issue here.
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by ojii 13y ago
How are referendums not democracy? It's just direct democracy as opposed to the far more common representative democracy. It does occasionally result in (in my views) appalling choices, but that doesn't make it non-democratic.
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by ojii 13y ago
May I suggest Switzerland? At least quite close to a democracy in my opinion.
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by ojii 13y ago
or else funding stops?
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by ojii 13y ago
I'd like to disagree. I used to pirate quite heavily back in Switzerland, due to the legal situation, now after having moved to Japan, I do not pirate anymore because I don't want to risk my visa over it (plus we have hulu here wh
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by ojii 13y ago
I'd prefer buying a downloadable file.maybe 5~20 bucks for a movie. not a fan of streaming services charging per month.
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by ojii 13y ago
I also didn't see the connection at first, but as I understand it the sexism claim comes from the implication that her experiences are at least partially due to her gender. as in, the situations were handled the way they were because s
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by ojii 13y ago
Android user here, so forgive me for being unfamiliar with the iOS app ecosystem. Is it common for free apps to offer paid, ad free versions on iOS?
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by ojii 13y ago
In Django you might have a nullable TimeField and check if it's set via "if obj.time_field".
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by ojii 13y ago
Google tried that with Wave, which unfortunately was released before it's time.
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by ojii 13y ago
Yes it's one of those "funny" words in Japanese that is highly context sensitive, so you're probably right.
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by ojii 13y ago
couldn't one make 3 copies and take the two that are equal as non-modified?
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by ojii 13y ago
Ruby is the subject in that sentence, not sure why gtranslate injects an "I". I'd translate it as "Ruby is scary, isn't it?"
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by ojii 13y ago
We have Kit Kat in any flavor you can imagine over here and recently the worlds first Kit Kat store opened in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. Haven't been there yet, but will definitely check it out.

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