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by wst_ 7y ago
But this is exactly what people do. Donating is not about helping others (in many cases) but to feel better for themselves. And people like to share when they feel better. I'd say we are, not so rarely, being nudged to donate, either b
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by wst_ 7y ago
That may be. But wearer of surgical mask creates moisture by breathing and a lot of it. One would suspect that kind of environment works in favor of a virus.
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by wst_ 7y ago
They won't help you at all. All they do is creating false sense of safety. Viruses are too small and will go through the mask anyway. Also they may protect half of your face against your hands but they won't protect other half, sa
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by wst_ 7y ago
This reminds me of Polish National Library web site. They did the same thing some years ago. They went into great effort to scan and publish digitally huge amount of books, publications, postcards, images, etc. Some books are centuries old.
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by wst_ 7y ago
What if a bookmark title contains multiple words? How do you choose where to put it?
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by wst_ 7y ago
Wouldn't like to be in shoes of GitHub engineers right now. Must be a lot of pressure. I am wondering how does the outage processes look like in a company of this scale.
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by wst_ 7y ago
Seems like push, pull works. At least for me. Web page, indeed, doesn't - can't create PR, can't review code, comment, merge, etc.
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GitHub: Increased Error Rates(githubstatus.com)
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by wst_ 7y ago
I don't think they are common in Tokyo. I've seen them few times, maybe. In most cases people just put their umrellas in an umbrella stands in front of the stores, restaurants or combini. Since most of them look similar, people ge
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by wst_ 7y ago
I wouldn't point any specific companies. It is highly subjective. I know people working in both - Rakuten and Uniqlo - who are happy with their jobs. Those are big companies and, the same as in the West, all is down to luck. If you hap
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by wst_ 7y ago
As someone with similar experience, I disagree completely. It lies deeply in Japanese culture and is thaught since early days. Proiximity to the police station has nothing to do with it. If anything, they will leave things on the street if
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by wst_ 7y ago
These are not the businesses we're looking for.
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by wst_ 7y ago
Depends on a company, as everywhere else. Some companies are willing to pay 10M+ annually which is more than enough to live peacefully in not so cheap area.
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by wst_ 7y ago
Sorry for late reply, I was away on holidays. It's Bromley East St. Small PC/laptop repair shop. I couldn't find any general electronic/electric repair shop. They told me that cables are too thin and the thing is not wor
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by wst_ 7y ago
I'm not that interested in the place and electronics per se but I've found the intro really interesting in terms of culture and language. Great read.
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by wst_ 7y ago
I've got very similar experience in Akihabara, Tokyo. Trivial thing happened to my headphones. The wire broke very close to the jack plug because of the frequent bending. There was a young guy there, I told him what happened using my b
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by wst_ 7y ago
What I really love about Tokyo is the coexistence of high tech and tradition. Like a small shrine in the middle of city hidden among the skyscrappers.
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by wst_ 7y ago
All English is a bit overstatement here. Meetups maybe, but the office it's a different story.
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by wst_ 7y ago
I'm not really sure I follow. What does the WhatsApp has which is missing in Slack?
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by wst_ 7y ago
There is one more anime that comes to mind if we're talking about typography - Bakemonogatari. Throughout the series still images are shown containing vital information about the thoughts of characters, events' second meaning, pun
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by wst_ 7y ago
I really like how Rust authors did it. If you don't need to add additional context, you can use `?` after the expression that may return error and if it does, it automatically returns it. No need for endless `if err != nil` and effect
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by wst_ 7y ago
Could you, please, expand on double closing? I can't find any good reason to do it.
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by wst_ 7y ago
And hundreds of others don't. "It works in my place" is never a good argument. Thing is that people are taking shortcuts. We have that in our DNA. If something isn't imposed on us, will be abused. I saw a code base of al
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by wst_ 7y ago
Somehow I don't buy it. If you don't want rich standard for error handling, nothing prevents you from returning just a string as an error. It's just a value, isn't it? Error handling is generic by itself. This is at the
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by wst_ 7y ago
What was it about pronoun wars? I'm not in the loop. If you don't mind sharing.
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by wst_ 7y ago
And it's not only kids. Grown-ups are supposed to do it at work, too. When casually I suggested in my office, London, that we should swipe our desks weekly people laughed at the idea, others were surprised and upset. It's not thei
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by wst_ 7y ago
They don't in trains, too. Sweet blissfullness of silence in the train is not something you appreciate until you really live there for some time and come back home for a holidays.
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by wst_ 7y ago
Transport for London should politely refrain from any statements like that, I believe. They hardly can allow people to enter the platform because there's no space to fit the crowd. There's sea of heads almost every morning in fron
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by wst_ 7y ago
How can you refuse to pay? It's part of the bill, isn't it? In most restaurants I've been so far at least. Also foreigner, so maybe I am missing something.
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by wst_ 7y ago
I remember the shock of moving from Tokyo to London. Despite of London not being the dirties of the cities I saw in my life, the gap is huge. Litter is everywhere even when the trash bin can be found close by. People do not respect public p

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