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As a nitpick, this isn't actually true: "Before the advent of computers, katakana was never used to write entire sentences." There were quite a few books written entirely in katakana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, since it was seen as more accessible to the uneducated poor. Japanese socialists in particular tended to use katakana as an anti-elitist gesture. For a while there was even an active reform movement aiming to abolish kanji entirely, similar to the one in Korea that successfully abolished Chinese characters there in favor of the phonetic Hangul (the Korean switch happened in the 1890s, a time when the Japanese debate was also particularly heated).
I wouldn't be so sure about that - the greatest womanizer I've ever known is a lanky, almost scrawny nerd with curly hair. What he lacks in looks he more than makes up in his personality - he's the life of the party, knows everything about everyone, a master socializer... etc.

He's a shoot first ask questions later sort of guy - will never betray a moment of doubt, I think that's what makes him successful at both life and women.
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got off the ground. The presence of two world wars during the intervening period is not entirely coincidental.
Yeah; unfortunately, this seems like it might not end well.
hmm, in viewing HN from the IE9 platform preview it centers all the text which is promising ;)
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plus had, again, the power of AT&T behind it.

Yeah, and nobody has heard about that company, how is it… Google!
I don't buy that. To me, you want to lose weight eat less and in particular eat less of that which contains the most energy seems very reasonable. To the point where people who claim otherwise sounds like they are going to tell me that the world is actually flat.
Yeah, by spawning a new process for every request. Fork is fast, but not forking is faster.
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FYI - I created this simple site for myself. I use it as my homepage to get a little motivational reminder every time I open a new tab.

I thought it might be useful for startup founders, entrepreneurs, freelancers, or anyone who works alone.
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Hebrew does, but only really because it imported it from modern European languages recently. Classical Hebrew and the religious Hebrew of the middle ages didn't have much in the way of punctuation, but when it was revived in the 19th century as a living language by European Zionists, it borrowed (adapted versions of) the punctuation common to European languages of the time.
That's exaggerating quite a bit; but more importantly leaving off the other half of the equation — it's a lot easier for a woman to contract it from a man.
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Think of it as hacking your body. Think of it as a long-running science experiment where you are your own test subject, and where you can measure and graph your progress every day, where you can test hypotheses and see their result, etc.
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Agreed. He's #5 on the Amazon best seller list for a reason.

Similarly, it'd probably be a bad idea to do an attack piece on religion, however silly the idea of religion is to most of us here.
Better than what Bill Gates called the iPod: a hard-drive with a headphone jack.
I think the way to determine if the word "design" should be used here , is to see if before this robot , the word design was used in this context. otherwise will be doing the same "it's not AI" fallacy all over again.
From the abstract:

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Why there is no one standard for configuration files in linux?
Or you might die a little death!
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Google Navigation already does this, apparently. I was checking out one of the state parks in the Santa Cruz mountains a month or so ago. Naturally, I lost my cell reception once I got into the foothills. But Navigation continued to direct me, turn by turn with map, until I arrived at my destination.

I lucked out on GPS though - in some cases, the GPS signal has died just when I need it most. Darn Nexus Ones.
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The problem is that as an engineer, he's depending upon his track record of past products to make sure he can get his next job. If the company fails, he suddenly has 2-5 years on his resume at a company that nobody's ever heard of, with a product that nobody uses, and the only thing people know about it is that it failed. Not exactly the best recommendation.

And even if your bosses give you a great recommendation, it can sometimes still hurt your career. After all, the company failed. Maybe these bozos recommending you were idiots too, and the fact that you were working for them means that you were also an idiot.

This attitude is thankfully pretty rare in Silicon Valley, but it can be quite common in other parts of the world. Early employees actually run more resume risk than founders do, because if the company fails, the founders can at least put "Founder & CEO" on their resume, but the engineers can only put "Software Engineer, company you've never heard of."
Non-competes can be enforced (even in California) if you are a founder and get bought out.

I've seen a non-compete enforced on a normal employee in Virginia - someone left a tech company that did graphics visualization to do graphics programming at a game company. While he probably would have eventually won the suit, the new company defended him - eventually settling for like 60k.
I don't think blintson gave you a good answer for your first question. In fact,

（i) words derived from Chinese (kango) are a large part of written Japanese vocabulary;

(ii) kango came to Japanese largely through the writing system (not through massive Chinese immigration);

(iii) and most of the problematic homophones are kango. There aren't that many homophones in "yamato kotoba", the "native" Japanese words.

So, yes, a large number of homophones emerged through use of the written language. Of course they're part of the spoken language now, but the written language is significantly more formal and so still contains more kango, and therefore more homophones.

For some evidence on (i) and (ii) see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Japanese_vocabulary

There are at least two reasons for (iii): spoken language naturally leads to different words having different sounds; on the other hand, many words that sound different in old Chinese end up sounding the same when adapted to the Japanese phonology. This is because Chinese has tones and consonants and vowels that don't exist in Japanese. So Chinese "kang1", "kang2", "kan1", "kan2", etc, all become "kan" in Japanese.

As blintson said, context is enough most of the time in conversation. Example for "yamato kotoba": hana can be "nose" or "flower", hashi can mean "bridge", "edge" or "chopsticks". As you can imagine, most of the time the intended meaning will be clear.

From the top of my head, I can only come up with 2 pairs of homophones that often elicit clarification in conversation: shiritsu can mean both "municipal" (市立） and "private"（私立). Annoying when you're talking about schools. Another is kagaku which can mean both "science" (科学） or "chemistry" (化学).
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The simpler answer is "Steve Jobs isn't Japanese". Any one else remember about the single button mouse on the Mac?

Aside from the snark remark, my perception of the Japanese is that they are willing to put up with difficult equipment.
> you did some blatantly unfair editing there

You don't get it. You are treating the original article like a Bible. In my opinion, the original article is the one which did the blatantly unfair editing; it bended over backwards to make the man look good by sandwiching the sexism carefully between the praises.

What I did could be constituted as wrong only if I was quoting Feynman and then cut off the last part, for example.
doh... but then does it matter? The name fits the phone so well... do Androids dream of electric sheep? I dunno, ill check the market place.
Shouldn't making the conversation better be its own incentive?
True, women are more likely to get it from a man than vice-versa, but my number (1 in 10k) is not exaggerating all that much.

http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/insite?page=ask-05-10-11

"Two large studies in California and Europe found a per-contact risk (meaning the risk of a man becoming infected from each instance of penile-vaginal sex) of 0.0001 (1 in 10,000) and 0.0003 (1 in 3,000)"
Umm, I use my Nexus One while hiking all the time. I lose cell & data reception, but if I've already got Maps or Navigation open when I lose reception, it'll keep the map on screen.
SF: too expensive, too trendy/hipster.

Olathe: where is the nearest mountain? Sorry, too flat.

Toronto: too cold, too flat.
I thought the dot was a separator. Why do we have to have one at all? Why the canonical URL shouldn't be http://cannon/ ?
This should be called "How Google is actually a business, trying to provide a service, and their automatic software incorrectly analysed my site, but it's unfortunate that there isn't a decent way of getting this revoked"

It's a shame when this kind of thing happens, but people seem to think it's personal, like there is some person at Google looking at web sites saying "nah, I don't like that one" and opening up a big trap door on it.
Hmm, I think it does. You can see the aleph-bet in ASCII here: http://www.ascii-codes.net/cp862.html, seems like it fits into 8x8 to me.
the important thing here for google is opening a channel for unlocked phones.

For them it really doesn't matter if they sold 100,000 or 1,000,000 devices. their goal is an unlocked smartphone for everybody. they let the hardware companies work on making the device affordable , and they work on the unlocked part.
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I'm sorry but no. You'll constantly hear people banging on about how the in-house brands are made by other reputable brands, and the likes of ACA and Today Tonight will constantly reinforce this fallacy.

While it is true that reputable brands sometimes manufacture the in-house brand's product, it is not (as ACA would have you believe) a case of Cadbury's quality chocolate in cost saving packaging. "Reverse tendering" occurs, where the head office "buyer" will set an objective cost and manufacturers will compete in a reverse auction towards it.

Cadbury and Nestle (and anyone who can keep up) will not simply provide their standard premium product, but look to cut as many costs as possible. What you will get is a final product that will probably be made from different ingredients, probably be manufactured with a different recipe and probably manufactured using different machinery/methods.

What you are left with is a product that barely resembles its manufacturer's name brand product, and as long as it passes unit testing/quality control, Woolies or Coles don't really care. The almighty dollar.
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I'd be totally up for contributing to this.
That's insane. How much are you exaggerating for effect? I have a hard time believing software engineers in the mid-20s can be so unproductive, or that any culture could be so accepting of such a thing.

It doesn't mesh with my foreigners take on Japan, but then I have never lived or worked there.
Bear in mind though your asking them to make out; which is fine, something they probably already planned to do.

(as an aside your first line is bad in terms of a "shock and awe" opener. The second line is better not because of the "unduly offended" (that waters it down) but the "would you")

If you asked them to sleep with you then success rate would shoot down (guaranteed; I tried it for a while just to see)
Can you make a web-based subscription version? I know people who'd never get an iPhone/iPad (no real need), but who'd love this.
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This. My roommate is one of the Garmin Connect members that are leaving. There has been a lot of drama between Garmin HQ and their SF office lately. I told him to login and tell his side of the story.
Since you ask: Iverson. (And Turing.) And, as it happens, he got the 14th Turing award and was the 16th person to get one (because two earlier ones were shared).
The address bar? If so, your parents are a rare breed indeed. Most people, even programmers, even when given the exact domain name, even with "awesome" auto completion, use the search bar anyway.
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I'm guessing most of the people working at Garmin Connect aren't there for "the job". They built this website just to demonstrate their ability to create new products. I moved from Atlanta to the Bay Area because I wanted more than just "a job that pays money". I wanted to do cool things and the Bay Area is the perfect place to meet the right set of companies that fill this void.

I'm just not sure that H&R Block or Hallmark likes to build cool new products like Garmin Connect. One could technically get "a job that pays money" at any city in the USA, so why move out to Kansas?

Keep in mind that these people built Garmin Connect, and have little to do with Garmin-the-company other than being employed by Garmin & using software interfaces from Garmin devices. Garmin probably decided to create a team to build Garmin Connect in the valley because of the talent available there. I don't think it would have been as easy to create such a talented team in Kansas.
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Try getting that suggestion to stick with people who are still likely to use "1234" as their PIN.
Statistically significant (subject to the usual caveats of being careful about the results from a single study). Little is said about how worthwhile the change is.
It's a wonderful anecdote, but where to begin..

I was pretty hopeless at the whole dating game till I read The Game and started to try it out; it was a brilliant read. But the bare truth of it is that it doesn't actually work all that well. Oh yeh sure you can be a PUA and grab some fairly shallow girls - but it's a bit boring to be honest (and your success rate is fairly low - you "win" by asking lots of women). The only thing The Game gives you is confidence; which is 90% of the trick.

Indeed the best advice in this article is twofold.

- Confidence (subtly suggested) is a big factor. She's talking to you - if your not confident she'll only stay out of sympathy

- Dont pay for everything/anything; the best advice you will ever learn. I had plenty of crap dates spending loads of money in the hope of getting laid and it invariably went nowhere (a kiss on the cheek usually, bah). Till one date the girl randomly said "I'm not going to sleep with you tonight, can we just have a nice time" - so with no real investment in the evening we had an awesome fun just spending time together.

Now when I go on a date the first thing I'll say is "so do you want to get the first round or the second?". It's subtle but works brilliantly; usually we share the rounds and have a great time (and maybe sleep together, but I find that a less important conclusion now)

Against all the odds Im a pretty good dater. So when my friends ask for advice or help I usually say:

- go on a date just to have a good time with a girl, not just to sleep with her

- share the costs

- dont be gentlemanly at the end of the night. She's a person too and if she's not interested in getting laid she'll just say no

- be confident. She's on a date with you already!!

:)
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It's not really support for their old browsers, though—it's User Experience support for their new ones. Banishing IE6 allows all websites more freedom to use modern formats and specs. Modern formats and specs give them something to compete on in IE9.

To put it another way—if there was an update they could release to Windows 2000, at this point, that people would install voluntarily, but would make more people buy Windows 7 as an effect, don't you think Microsoft would be all over that?
I think this is something Microsoft is doing wrong these days. They laugh at competition (Ballmer is pretty famous for this), while competition eats their markets.
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A relative of mine recently had heart surgery of a type that is fairly routine nowadays. But when I think of the fact that you can pull apart someone's rib-cage, stick knives into their heart and then put it all back together again such that the person is walking about not long after, I am still impressed.
> They already have a distributed network of sites in the form of Facebook Connect which has deeper integration than AdSense. That means Facebook gets more data about visitors to those sites than Google AdSense.

What about all those sites using Google Analytics? even Twitter is among them.
You may have noticed the quotes I put around "from scratch" in an effort to forestall responses just such as yours. Yes, I realize that they built on a substantial amount of existing work, but every project does. The point is that they did nothing that nobody else could do, there's nothing stopping MS from using WebKit in IE9. The fact that a relatively small number of total developer-hours compared to the efforts having been expended for development of IE7 and IE8 can translate into a top-tier web browser is significant.
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Being any more generous than you need to be to attract good people and get them to work hard is being too generous, hence, not a good business decision, hence, the founders would not be "good" founders.
Are you familiar with the significance of the word "FizzBuzz" as it relates to programming skill levels? Tolerating non-productive programmers for long stretches of time is not a trait unique to Japanese corporations. We expect ours to eventually grow out of it, though.
See figure 1. From what I gather in the paper, this RAPM is a speed measure. If I'm interpreting this stuff correctly at all (never read anything in this field before) performing 40% more tasks per unit time is quite worthwhile!
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It isn't exaggerated, at least not for traditionally managed companies.

Here's something that would shock you. Talk to a Japanese businessman who likes you and does business in Japan. Ask him what he thinks about Japan.

100% of answers (no exaggeration) have been some version of "Japan is finished.". It's hard for anyone to imagine how utterly and completely negative the Japanese self-image is, at least among the business men I've talked to.
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Exactly - users aren't homogeneous. Neither are UIs - which are often meant to be used by different types of user group.

You'll notice the author massively caveats his article near the end, stating "The best strategy is to bring in some set of users, find the problems they have, fix those problems, then bring in another set of users as part of an iterative design and test strategy. In the end, although you're never testing more than 5 users at a time, in total you might test 15 or 20 users."
The marketshare in the general public (the 5%) is almost inconsequential. The general public doesn't build websites for a living. The marketshare amongst tech professionals is more significant, and there Chrome's numbers are much higher. More so, Chrome's marketshare, even among the general public, is growing quickly, only a fool would ignore the significance of that.

Also, marketshare is not necessarily the primary motivator for every developer. A lot of the Firefox developers are motivated to put the best browser possible out there, regardless of marketshare, the fact that there is a leaner, meaner, faster browser even exists (even if the marketshare was less than 1%) might be enough motivation for them to innovate.
Yes, I couldn't put my finger on it but the sync seems slightly off. Great app idea.
Yes, the significance test shows whether it is likely that the changes happened due to pure coincidence.

p < 0.0001 means the changes are very unlikely to be coincidental.

Which measure do you propose to test how worthwhile the results are :) ?
http://canon/ would refer to whatever canon was local to your gateway's DNS host record (I believe; I can't find the exact term for it.) For example, my computer is d207-6-247-238.bchsia.telus.net. If I type "canon" into anything that calls gethostbyname(), it assumes I mean canon.bchsia.telus.net. When that doesn't resolve, then it tries "canon."

http://canon./, on the other hand, refers to the "canon" that is located at the "root directory" of the internet—that is, ".". Most addresses don't need this, because once you specify any more than a host name, it assumes the rest of the domain "path" is a fully-qualified DNS record, and doesn't bother checking your local network for it.