stayjin

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Gabe Newell: Reflections of a Video Game Maker[Video](youtube.com)
2 points by stayjin 14y ago|0 comments
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by stayjin 15y ago
I am in Osaka too. If the schedule is good, I can join for the beer too.
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by stayjin 15y ago
Damn, I can't go. I have very few leave days left for this year at my day job.
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by stayjin 15y ago
Hi Bemmu, I am not sure if this will be of any help, but I have noticed there is a fashion trend among some young people, mostly girls, to dress like babies, you know with ping dresses and stripped stockings, baby aprons etc. They always se
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THE CRISIS OF POLITICS(casss.gr)
1 points by stayjin 15y ago|0 comments
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by stayjin 15y ago
I also believe it is much worth to live with a strong faith in the good nature of people. However I believe one should not indulge in it. This faith is very precious and this is exactly why it is a sin to rely upon it in the wrong circumsta
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by stayjin 15y ago
I read at a financial analysis, that Italy experienced the most massive capital escape of it's recent history, so it is not that _nothing_ has happened, only probably it happened "behind scenes". I agree that the core problem is the lack of
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by stayjin 15y ago
I do not agree with you. As far as I know, the loans did not involve collateral ( at least not until now ), so investors are just entitled profits from interest and have no claim on assets. I don't know if Greece is a third-world country, b
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by stayjin 15y ago
Yes, that is what I believe too. Independently of who is going to benefit from what will happen from now on, the Greek government will be forced sell everything that belongs to the Greek people at ridiculously cheap amounts just to pay bac
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by stayjin 15y ago
No not THIS Friday, it is scheduled for, Jul 29th Fri at 7pm at the 2F of Shinsaibashi apple store. I am very sorry, the site is not updated yet (because I didn't have time to get to it yet :( Sorry, things are getting a little crazy with d
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by stayjin 15y ago
I guess it is not a coincidence, but just in case that you don't know it already, patio11 is giving a talk at a presentation group we have here called "Design Matters", at the Osaka Shinsaibashi Apple Store. It will be great. Check out htt
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by stayjin 15y ago
Yes it is (at least for me it was). It has to do with the change of perspective. When traveling you usually curry your original perspective with you so it is kind of difficult to see things from another angle while bound for back home. I gu
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by stayjin 15y ago
This is so true. My current work as a system engineer implementing ERP systems for overseas affiliates, takes me often to work abroad (from Japan, that is) for a few weeks a time. Although I don't have time to do almost any sight-seeing at
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by stayjin 15y ago
Hi thanks for replying, I am in Kobe, close to Osaka. Do you ever come to Osaka, by any chance?
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by stayjin 15y ago
However it is amazing what an impact does living at a place away from were one grew up in have in the perception of the world. I had already traveled a lot ( as a tourist ) before I left Greece to come and live in Japan, when I started to m
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by stayjin 15y ago
To be honest, when I read the original idea behind the bitcoin, I was thrilled. I thought This Is It (TM). The monetary system, as it exists today is based on debt as a lever for growth. Banks can get a deposit of 1$ and God/King/Char/Presi
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by stayjin 15y ago
This is excellent indeed. Actually, it might come as a surprise but Greece seems to have a lot of public assets which would give it a much better clear position than many other countries in Europe if they were to be compared. However of cou
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by stayjin 15y ago
For me this debate is the monumental evidence that when people get obsessed over something their intellectual openness shrinks to a very small dividend of pi, sorry I meant tau :)
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by stayjin 15y ago
It is not that simple. Have you ever wandered why counties do not have to issue balance sheets at the end of every fiscal year( or at least before every election) ? Do you understand how easy it would be to judge how a government performed
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by stayjin 15y ago
An honest, yet a little bit provocative, question: The "mainstream" explanation regarding Greek dept is because Greeks are bon viveurs who spent all the money they could put their hands on on drinking and gambling without financial control
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by stayjin 15y ago
I guess it depends in how you measure those things. A quote I like is: "What one faces in his/her life is destiny. How he/she faces it is personal choice". We are what we make ourselves into. With our last breath we stop fighting for our go
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by stayjin 15y ago
Thanks for the reply. To be honest I am not sure about the exact amounts that went to weapons(, nor "Siemens", nor the companies participating in the "Olympic miracle") but I am sure, like you say that they only account for only one part of
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by stayjin 15y ago
Exactly. I will put a little more PF (political fiction) to make it a little bit more interesting: How about if your "friend" is a drinker and gambler, but happens to have a big fortune, say islands, nature, ancient temples. So you find hi
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by stayjin 15y ago
Last year I've been working on an unconventional idea of mine: After a project at which I was the project manager, I get into a project managed by someone else, as a team member. This has several advantages: -It gives me perspective: manage
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by stayjin 15y ago
No he isn't. If ( just for the sake of the argument ) RMB replaces USD as the international currency base, US has absolutely nothing to back dollar value and prevent it from dropping.
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by stayjin 15y ago
What I believe he means is that since code is the tool, to code within the programming industry is laboring on the tools themselves, but to code to solve the specific problems of another domain is applying the tools. Ability to code in anot
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by stayjin 15y ago
It is the irony of the tragic nature of human race: we are both, descendants of Promitheus, who courageously fought for our right to harness greater powers, but also of Pandora who just did not have the maturity to know what NOT to poke, It
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by stayjin 15y ago
I can see your point and I think "the value it creates for people" ( including both developer and customer ) is a good metric for how much it should be priced. The problem is, why should we assume that the price is the only ( or the most re
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by stayjin 15y ago
Am I the only one that cannot stomach the idea ( doctrine ) that one should sell his product as pricier as he can get away with or so that one maximizes revenue? I can understand that when I don't have a clue about how much is my product va
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by stayjin 15y ago
I think thar the most valuable documentation are the commit comments for the version control system you use. Especially if one uses the incremental iteration paradigm, the commit history together with the code diff IS the documentation of o

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