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by shawnps 12y ago
Reasoning behind porting it to Go: https://github.com/github/hub/issues/475 "My Ruby implementation of context.rb is getting unwieldy and in hub v1.11 I feel I've reached the limit of how much I can
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by shawnps 12y ago
It is not near impossible to get Japanese citizenship, but you are technically required to renounce other current citizenships. Permanent residency is a more attainable goal especially for technical workers in Japan.
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by shawnps 12y ago
I'm not sure about that either, I have 32 commits: ➜ go hg log --user "Shawn Smith" | grep user | wc -l 32 Edit: I'm there now. Not sure what fixed it, starring the repo or adding my email address to GitHub.
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by shawnps 12y ago
Interesting, I'll star the project and see what happens. I see other people's contributions showing up that are over 1 year old so I'm not sure if that is why.
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by shawnps 12y ago
Just added it now, perhaps it will update. I'll check back on it later, thanks.
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by shawnps 12y ago
Did anyone do anything special to get their contributions attributed to their GitHub account? Mine are not showing up here: https://github.com/golang/go/graphs/contributors
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by shawnps 12y ago
I agree with this. I moved from SF to Tokyo 2 years ago, and for almost the exact same price as my studio apartment in downtown SF, which was tiny and the bathroom was covered in mold, I have an apartment about 15-20 mins out of Shinjuku in
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by shawnps 12y ago
Come visit Tokyo. Most of the people I know do not own a car. The train is the most popular form of commute. I either walk to my destination, or walk to the nearest train station to get there. It certainly does not have the same garbage sys
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by shawnps 12y ago
Ah, I think I get it. When searching for the term "shin" for example, it would ignore any English definition matches such as shin guard, and only match Japanese terms containing it, like 心配.
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by shawnps 12y ago
I understand what you mean; I've been studying Japanese for five years now and learned hiragana and katakana in the first two weeks of class. I have always told new learners to do that first as you rarely see romaji used in Japan. Do
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by shawnps 12y ago
User hermanschaaf and I live in Japan and set out to build a fast Japanese dictionary: http://nihongo.io Source is here: http://github.com/gojp Take a look if you have time, feature requests are very welcome :)
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by shawnps 12y ago
Thanks for pointing this out. I've been working on a text extractor in Go at work and tried for a long time to get UnRTF working with RTF files containing Japanese characters to no avail. This lib lists catdoc as the extractor they use
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by shawnps 12y ago
Nuclear anything is controversial in Japan recently because of the earthquake. Japan is also under the "nuclear umbrella" of the US on the condition that Japan will not produce nuclear weapons: http://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by shawnps 12y ago
I once talked to someone from GitHub who said that the way he sells people on TDD is to show them the tests running automatically when they save a file. I thought this was a pretty neat idea, and have used it on a couple of projects. If you
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by shawnps 12y ago
Do you mean the author is reinventing the wheel because this already exists in other programming languages, or because there are many existing GUI libraries like this in Go already? It's likely there are many people who are most comfor
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by shawnps 12y ago
Looks like atomic will be the default in 1.3 for this reason: http://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.3#gocmd
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Running the Go Race Detector with -cover(herman.asia)
3 points by shawnps 12y ago|1 comments
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by shawnps 12y ago
A code review tool specifically for Golang projects based on many of the contribution guidelines listed here http://golang.org/doc/contribute.html A few months ago when I made some contributions to Go I realized I like
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by shawnps 12y ago
I noticed that whenever people recommended a movie, book, or album to me, I would take out my iPhone and write it down in a note. This resulted in a lot of notes containing various recommendations people had made to me. I decided to make an
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Show HN: Search for movies, books, and albums and save them to a list.(github.com)
1 points by shawnps 12y ago|1 comments
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by shawnps 13y ago
Thanks. This has been requested before, but I didn't want to show romaji since it's generally considered a bad habit to learn Japanese with romaji (the "correct" way being to learn hiragana and katakana as soon as possib
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by shawnps 13y ago
My friend and I live in Japan and built a simple Japanese dictionary. It's not much but we recently hit 800 unique visitors in a month :) Feedback welcome, and the code is open source: https://github.com/gojp/nihon
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Show HN: Nihongo.io Japanese English Dictionary(nihongo.io)
1 points by shawnps 13y ago|3 comments
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GoShip: A simple tool for deploying code to servers(github.com)
6 points by shawnps 13y ago|0 comments
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by shawnps 13y ago
I used to use my credit card almost every day in America, but now that I'm in Japan I don't even have any credit cards. A lot of places don't accept them, so I just use cash everywhere. The one card I have is a bank card that
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by shawnps 13y ago
Yup. When my mom came to visit me, she came back to my apartment one night and said, "you'll never believe what I just saw." I already knew what she was going to say, it was that she saw a homeless guy pull his pants down in
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by shawnps 13y ago
Ah, that's unfortunate. The other thing that drives me crazy is the fact that no one will give me a credit card here. I understand that I have no credit history in Japan, but can't they at least give me a crappy ~$500 limit card t
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by shawnps 13y ago
Hmm, I don't think so, I was only able to get 3 different pictures because I ended up moving. Here it is, for the record (warning: poo) http://sfdisgusting.tumblr.com/
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by shawnps 13y ago
I've had a very similar experience to what you mentioned with the hotel. Another student and I were totally lost in a train station, and we said "excuse me" to a guy before realizing he was on his cell phone. We felt bad for
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by shawnps 13y ago
I don't mean to defend Tokyo to the death because every place has its good and bad points, but I have to say I've never once seen a "no foreigner" sign or higher prices for foreigners here. In fact, I've only seen l

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