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by shioyama 7y ago
That's an interesting point. A value of '0' is at least better than a negative value. The problem here IMHO is that nobody else is seeing an opportunity to pay more than zero and make a correspondingly larger gain on the othe
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by shioyama 7y ago
> It's possible to combine good business or operational strategy with a value system that manages to include things beyond just dollars alone. Sure it is, and that's fine. But the moral framing of the issue (recycling/reus
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by shioyama 7y ago
Exactly. I'm so sick of all these stories framed as how we should all be good sumaritans and recycle. That's not the way to do it! This stuff has value. It's a business opportunity. If you're doing it to feel good, or to
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Question mark hangs over trendy tech startup domains(theregister.co.uk)
108 points by shioyama 7y ago|63 comments
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The Elusive Attribute(youtube.com)
1 points by shioyama 7y ago|0 comments
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by shioyama 7y ago
I learned Japanese to fluency from zero starting at age 26. I don't know if these qualify as "greatness" but I have read books in Japanese, headed meetings in Japanese, written blog posts in Japanese, presented in Japanese. I
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by shioyama 8y ago
I don't think it's only this. People passively contribute to this with their shock at hearing that another parent has let their kids run free. It may have started from media-stocked paranoia, but it has now blossomed into society-
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by shioyama 8y ago
Yes I do.
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by shioyama 8y ago
> Today, however, if I were to learn that my young kids had left the house in the early morning by themselves to rock climb, explore the forest and encounter heaven-knows-what out in the woods, I’d probably start hyperventilating. Why? W
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by shioyama 8y ago
Completely agree. > After age 9 or so, they really can go off on their own without parents around. I'd say more like age six, depending on the kid. Kids are much more independent and aware than adults give them credit for. > I wi
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by shioyama 8y ago
Slightly more approachable intros to this topic: Hello, declarative world: https://codon.com/hello-declarative-world Reasoned PHP: https://igor.io/2014/08/06/reasoned-php.html
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Building Generic Software(youtube.com)
2 points by shioyama 8y ago|0 comments
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Metaprogramming for Generalists(dejimata.com)
4 points by shioyama 8y ago|0 comments
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by shioyama 9y ago
Degica | Multiple Positions | Tokyo, Japan | ONSITE | VISA | https://degica.com Based in Tokyo, Degica is the leading provider of Japanese payment and game publishing solutions. Work with our team of skilled engineers at our Tok
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If you need your shower to be installed, please call Frankie(github.com)
2 points by shioyama 9y ago|0 comments
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by shioyama 9y ago
Degica | Programmer | Tokyo, Japan | 7,500,000 - 10,000,000 yen / year Degica is a leading provider of Japanese digital commerce solutions. Our e-commerce and digital payment technologies provide global businesses and developers the ac
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Rediscovering Modularity in Ruby(tech.degica.com)
3 points by shioyama 9y ago|0 comments
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The Module Builder Pattern(speakerdeck.com)
1 points by shioyama 9y ago|0 comments
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The Metabolist Routine (2013)(domusweb.it)
3 points by shioyama 9y ago|0 comments
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by shioyama 9y ago
The younger one is only a toddler - but the older one certainly mixes words from each language (Japanese/English). Sometimes he doesn't know at first which language a word is from, and only learns later. I don't really think
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by shioyama 9y ago
Even so, I find "forcing" a kid to speak a language via any sort of artificial "rules" (i.e. one language with one parent, etc) is counter-productive, and can have potentially negative consequences if the kid learns to d
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by shioyama 9y ago
> “There is certainly no research to suggest that children need to have languages lined up with speakers or they get confused.” This goes against the mantra that each parent should speak to their child in their native language, which I h
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by shioyama 9y ago
This was actually the inspiration for them :)
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by shioyama 9y ago
Author here. As a longtime fan of Scheme and Lisp-based languages in general, I take responses like this very seriously. I'm not a huge fan of method_missing, and in practice I don't use it terribly often, but it has its place. Th
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The Ruby Module Builder Pattern(dejimata.com)
94 points by shioyama 9y ago|20 comments
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Translating with Mobility(dejimata.com)
2 points by shioyama 10y ago|0 comments
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by shioyama 10y ago
Give Qutebrowser a try (with the WebEngine backend): https://www.qutebrowser.org/ I switched from pentadactyl a while back and never looked back.
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by shioyama 10y ago
Degica | Tokyo, Japan | Full-time or part-time, Onsite | https://degica.com / https://komoju.com About us: Degica is a leading provider of Japanese digital commerce solutions. Our e-commerce and digital payment
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by shioyama 10y ago
I guess because "double" rhymes with "trouble" maybe?
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Is “Uber for Trash” Silicon Valley’s apocalypse–or its best bet yet?(vanityfair.com)
2 points by shioyama 10y ago|1 comments

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