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by pwim 16y ago
Japan doesn't normally dub movies, but it doesn't score well. On the other hand, it does have a strong domestic film industry, so perhaps that is part of the reason.
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The End of Monkeypatching(rubyinside.com)
28 points by pwim 16y ago|22 comments
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The Sunk Cost Fallacy(youarenotsosmart.com)
5 points by pwim 16y ago|1 comments
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by pwim 16y ago
Judges face bureaucratic pressure to maintain high conviction rates. According to the following paper, it can have negative effects on a Judge's career if he appears to be lenient: http://www.rasmusen.org/published/Rasmusen-01.JLS.jpncon.p
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Guy Kawasaki on Creating Enchantment(ecorner.stanford.edu)
2 points by pwim 16y ago|0 comments
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by pwim 16y ago
They're good at their jobs, too: The clearance rate for murder in 2010 was an unbelievable 98.2 percent, according to West—so unbelievable that some attribute it to underreporting. High clearance rates don't mean police are good at their
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by pwim 16y ago
If you're just going to host static files, just host them directly through Rack as described here: http://mwhuss.com/2009/12/13/static-sites-on-heroku-in-two-l... Also, make sure you are using http caching - that way Heroku will use Varni
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Slicehost: How A Goal-Setting Bootstrapper Launch & Sold His Business(mixergy.com)
39 points by pwim 16y ago|7 comments
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by pwim 16y ago
I never considered it when choosing my apartment, but living on the first floor has been quite advantageousness over the last week.
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by pwim 16y ago
Count me in.
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Japan's Earthquake and Technology(tokyodev.com)
1 points by pwim 16y ago|0 comments
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Hacker sets up Geiger counter in Tokyo and puts it on Ustream(ustream.tv)
5 points by pwim 16y ago|0 comments
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World’s Deepest Breakwater Failed to Stop Tsunami(japanprobe.com)
4 points by pwim 16y ago|0 comments
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by pwim 16y ago
Tests detected low levels of radioactivity on 17 U.S. Navy helicopter crew members when they returned to the USS Ronald Reagan These were members of a rescue crew, who were most likely far closer to the incident than the ship itself.
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Japan 2011 Quake - 1 quake per frame/second(youtube.com)
3 points by pwim 16y ago|0 comments
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Groupon Japan Creates Offer Matching Donations For Japan Earthquake(asiajin.com)
3 points by pwim 16y ago|0 comments
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Dentsu Becomes Official Sales & Marketing Representative for Facebook Japan(asiajin.com)
1 points by pwim 16y ago|0 comments
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by pwim 16y ago
From the post, I'm assuming one of the victims is limedaring who just a week ago launched her site http://www.weddinginvitelove.com/ , which was covered in this item with almost 500 points: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2227770
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by pwim 16y ago
Your hourly rate should depend on your skills, not the job for the client, so it really depends on how skilled a developer you are.
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More bad press for Groupon in Japan(japanprobe.com)
3 points by pwim 16y ago|0 comments
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by pwim 16y ago
Is twitter the only way to get in contact with you? I don't see any contact page (or really anything besides the articles themselves).
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Instead of protesting change, adjust your own career(blog.penelopetrunk.com)
2 points by pwim 16y ago|0 comments
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by pwim 16y ago
It sounds like the issue is with how you are writing you tests. For instance, you state "refactoring breaks a lot of test cases". As the normal TDD cycle is test-code-refactor, refactoring shouldn't break your tests. Without seeing your act
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Harvest: A Bootstrapped, Profitable Business(mixergy.com)
2 points by pwim 16y ago|0 comments
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by pwim 16y ago
Except that isn't always simple to do. When a domain name we wanted was taken by a squatter, we tried to get in contact with the owner, but never received any response.
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The best way to deal with getting fired(blog.penelopetrunk.com)
1 points by pwim 16y ago|0 comments
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World First NFC Tag Location Based Service(asiajin.com)
4 points by pwim 16y ago|0 comments
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Facebook Japan Bans Pseudo Names And Requires ID(asiajin.com)
12 points by pwim 16y ago|6 comments
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by pwim 16y ago
With Google anayltics, you can see the current day's traffic. You just need to manually adjust the date range to include it.
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by pwim 16y ago
On the other hand, when I tried Plenty of Fish, the fact that they sent me my password in plain text completely turned me off the service.

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