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From my friends working in the game industry in Kyoto, it doesn't surprise me that he had this kind of experience...

But, yes, on my end, working in a small company in Kyoto, it was not as extreme. There were of course a few parties, but not much more than in Europe or the US...

One thing though, when I first started work there, the thing that chocked me is that nobody left work at 7pm (our official work time was 10am to 7pm). They just kept on working as if being the first one out was a bad thing (and indeed I've had comments from my coworkers to that effect later on when I started to make an habit of leaving on time).

For the rest of his rant, I understand where he's coming from and I've sometimes had the same criticisms as him. But now that I don't live in Japan anymore, I miss it and want to eventually move there again... Go figure :-)
You have no idea how perfectly that describes my life.
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Wow. Realtime counter of Google Searches in day.
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The GPL (KHTML's licence) doesn't require releasing as GPL or porting to Linux other products of a company if it uses GPL code for one of its products. I don't think there's any moral/legal obligation for Apple to do so - otherwise, the authors of KHTML would have chosen a licence that made that compulsory.

They have, however, released WebKit as GPL (complying with the terms of KHTML's GPL licence) which can be easily built on Linux.
I knew that damn bunny looked suspicious.
Surely you could get 60-80% right just by saying "brown".
USB data blocker - totally awesome idea. It could double as a protocol sniffer if it had a buffer.
I think nonsolicit is quite unfair. You can't force any of your co-workers to leave with you, and if they're happy where they are most of them won't. If the company sucks, a Good Friend would try to take as many with him as possible when he found something better. That's just people helping other people out of crappy situations.

I've heard some people espouse the idea that there might be some ethical misconduct in courting [soon-to-be] ex-co-workers. I don't see any basis for that belief. Again, the most you can do is make an offer; if your company's staff is all going to jump ship when someone comes to them with vague and shakey musings about founding a startup together, that should really tell you something about the company you work for. There's nothing wrong with making a proposition, imo.

I have worked with people who have signed oppressive contracts. I find it deeply sad that some people have done that. Neither of my co-workers from my last job would be available if I wanted to proposition them, as they are both engaged in multi-year contracts which state departure before Month Year is punishable by big, big financial penalties. Only for the employee, of course; the employer can terminate them at its leisure without any responsibility according to these documents.
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I understand that everyone is on a tirade against software patents right now, and a patent on a springy list control would seem pretty silly.

Buuuuut... honestly, the UI guys at Apple actually invented that, and its awesome. Maybe the REST OF THE MARKET could maybe bring something to the table? I'm almost to the point of being with Jobs on this one: Apple made a solely multi-touch UI work, and now that everyone wants one it doesn't seem fair to allow competitors to just Do What Apple Did and be successful.
I'm thinking about giving this a try too. What I would suggest is to get a desktop for this. Otherwise there will always be a blurry line if the laptop is always at hand when you are home.
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Further, regardless of whether their political views bias their reporting, it's highly unlikely that their political views biased this story.
If I understand that correctly: your score dropped, so you hacked the scoring algorithm to display a number you liked better?

Shouldn't you have instead started a new round of the "game" and worked to fix the bugs -- thus improving your score legitimately?
A lot of the things you do in a host culture are things you have to memorize and "just do" rather than coming naturally from your growing up years. It's mentally exhausting to keep referring to your catalog of do's and don'ts all day, every day. It doesn't get put onto the back shelf for a great many years.
Ask HN: What are your strategies for marketing on FB/Twitter
There's a lot of literature out there on best practices and times to send out your email marketing, but I was wondering if there was similar thought leadership on social media tools such as the ones mentioned. I'd be interested in hearing whatever thoughts the community has but some specific questions I have include:
1. When is the best time in the week to share something with your fan club (kind of like how we know Wed afternoon is the best time to send out an email)
2. Have you found FB ads worked directing people towards your fan page and if so, why?
3. Are you more likely to get followers on twitter if you follow them first?
4. Is it a good approach for a company to message back/RT people who have matched a keyword that you've searched.

Thanks in advance for any insights you might have
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> My solution when dealing with that is to drop into the shell and do the import there to get a better error message.

What kind of software developer is afraid to (or don't know how to) do that?
I take it you have privacy issues with GMail. Otherwise you could use GMail as your mail server and sync Thunderbird with imap.
Why would you "Unautomate" your finances?
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This has just reminded me I've got a lot of data backed up with you and no idea if the restore works :)
You mean like this http://ericholscher.com/projects/reusable-app-docs/ ?
There is also this, from a couple of years back: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/09/programmings-dirties...
Some mobile phones will not charge their batteries from the USB port of you don't have special software installed on the PC to activate that function.

The motivation is that you might not want to charge from USB all the time, especially if your notebook is currently running on batteries, too.

Of course it's much more practical to have a corresponding switch on the plugged in device, instead of having it in the PCs driver.
I would say László already won this argument:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judit_Polg%C3%A1r

She and her two older sisters, Grandmaster Susan and International Master Sofia, were part of an educational experiment carried out by their father László Polgár, in an attempt to prove that children could make exceptional achievements if trained in a specialist subject from a very early age. "Geniuses are made, not born," was László's thesis. He and his wife Klara educated their three daughters at home, with chess as the specialist subject. However, chess was not taught to the exclusion of everything else. Each of them has several diplomas and speaks four to eight languages. Their father also taught his three daughters the international language Esperanto.
All those are non-differentiators. Sharing them means sharing cost while losing no revenue. Differentiators like the iPhone and iPad, on the other hand are locked and patented. Patents are even enforced.

Apple aren't friends of free software, they just use Open Source according to their needs. The parroting you speak of does not contradict what you just say.
Again, how about a citation? On what basis do you believe that they're not reflecting the long term?
I think Chris is mainly writing for the Ruby community; in a talk he gave at RubyConf '09 (http://tr.im/Rbui) he talked about things that Python did better than they and one big thing he said was how adamant the Python people are on documentation.

I think it's probably 20% newest programmers are getting less and less interested in the command-line, 20% article is ridiculous and 60% dude was bored wanted to write an easy and thorough article on a programming topic.
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Nice idea, nice web site layout, nice presentation. Now to my questions. How do you ensure that a common word (e.g. 'Bruschetta') is pronounced right? Can user obtain a certain trust level (like Translators over at Twitter), so they can approve the correctness of a pronounced word? Or, expressed in a more general way: how do you fight trolls (Yes, I'm quite interested in spam/troll-fighting techniques :)?
My team's washing machine prototype achieves 200+ Gs in the spin cycle.

There are some problems in this video that have since been corrected, but check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK2vpqXk8Jc
> the few minutes at the start of class are the period where students have the best potential for paying attention

Oh, bull. Most are groggy, not thinking about the subject, and far from at their best. If you're an interesting teacher, their attention level goes up with time, not down. Learning in general exhibits a bell-curve-ish shape, not 1/x. Those first few minutes are best spent getting people back into the swing of what they're going to be learning about, starting the rise up that bell.

> time is wasted in review

Not saying it's a waste. Just that it's nothing that can't be picked up later by paying attention in class. That's kind of the nature of reviewing information - it's been covered before. Yes, the beginning is an ideal time to review, but that doesn't mean that it's impossible to make up, and by missing you simply can't learn anything that class period (which turning them away does mean). And remember, especially with a berating teacher, the ones that arrive late are the ones who want to learn. If they didn't, it's far simpler to just avoid the class. And interested students effectively come pre-primed for learning.

To sum up, my main point in all this: yes, arriving on time is important. But taking time to berate the student is the interruption, and is easily the least efficient way of dealing with the issue, and the most likely to alienate the student on both the subject and the teacher.

How, precisely, is this productive? It's just cutting them down when the teacher is feeling vindictive. If the teacher isn't aware of this, then they should really start looking at their motivations, because this is how it comes across. Unless they're a "repeat offender", in which case the class is probably on the teacher's side. It's simply downright mean, which is childish, which does nothing to further learning or respect for the teacher.

edit: I read your article, and it sounds like the sort of class I'd like. Most classes fail miserably at retaining info from the beginning, and the three-thirds setup sounds like a really good fit. The homework policy also appeals to me, as on-time is on-time, and very importantly it allows flexibility if needed. As a heads-up however, though frequent Q and A works with some professors, and when it does work it definitely keeps the class more alert, it's definitely not a one-size-fits-all solution. One of my gen-ed professors would be a perfect failing example of this; he'd end up waiting 10+ minutes for someone to answer his simple question, because everyone was sick of it. But he was hardly an engaging teacher.
You're making an assumption. My guys rarely, if ever, work more than 40 hours a week but 30 hours a week is unacceptable at this stage.

I agree with you about inspiration in some regards, I spent the first half of my career as a creative in the advertising industry. However, not staying focused on the problem you're solving is generally very dangerous when it comes to technology startups. If you think you need a lot of new and unique ideas every week, your startup will likely fail for a variety of reasons including but not limited to a sub-par product that does a lot of things but not one thing well, and a convoluted marketing message that confuses consumers.

Second, we're a team. There is no "I" that can sit at home and work whenever they feel like inspiration has granted them the ability to produce. I have to manage the product and UX (try communicating that over IM), another guy is responsible for the iPhone which is entirely supported by web services (a 3rd person).

Lastly, I've spent about 13 years working very closely with designers and developers, and I can't decide which group has the most self-appointed prima donnas. You either got it or you don't, but those that don't have a lot of reasons why they need special treatment. I generally avoid these people and I hope they avoid me. I don't have time to drop pedals in front of their feet where they walk. I go to great lengths to make our culture and work environment relaxed and enjoyable for the TEAM, but there's no room for loners who need special treatment just to create.
I consider this a mistake because the author depicts the project under value.

Saying a project is free when it is in fact Free Software ... well, that's like saying "they have more than 1.000 users" when there are in fact 50.000 users.

It isn't really wrong, but it's a mistake that should be corrected.
1) Don't underprice your app.

2) It's a plate, not an IV - you still have to make something people want to eat, and then convince them to eat it.

This guy has 20 apps floating around the store... how much analysis and marketing can he really be doing? Then he justifies this by saying it might only take him from "$20 to $30" a day. If you are a company, it is your job to experiment with acquiring customers and determining the ROI on marketing.

The AppStore just attracts a lot of armchair entrepreneurs. Some of them hit gold, some didn't. I'm tired of hearing about all of them.
See, a blocker and a sniffer would have almost entirely opposite functions. Both are cool devices that could be built from essentially the same hardware, so you do have a point there, but I wouldn't combine the two. Too easy to end up doing the wrong thing and compromising your data.
Why do you assume that a phone should have no more than one app store?
Good to know. And makes sense, as they truly aren't providing a CDN.
Not really. The problems with specs is that you get no feedback when writing them, and as a result, it's easy to completely forget about very important parts.

When you are writing code, you can't forget about important parts. Because if you do, your code won't work at all.
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With source code, you can reason about edge cases.

No matter how many tests you do, you can never catch all of these.
Royal Mail also think they have a trademark on the colour red.

Seriously.

(These days they have had the grace to amend their claim, so it now says that it is only the colour red as used in their logo that is the trademark, but it didn't always do so.)
the total freedom

What does this mean?
The GPL takes away other people's freedom.
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First, I am not in US.
Second, I don't see how limiting everyone's freedom maximizes it. Nor do I think that imposing some particular understanding of freedom does that.
Consider me releasing my code under GPL in one case and MIT in another. Which leads to maximization of freedom for those who may be interested in reusing it?
How about this one from Ars

Why Google keeps your data forever, tracks you with ads

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/03/google-keeps...
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Whatever happened to the email app?
A little more reading material:

http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/G/Godel_universe.h..., and:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gödel_metric
Energy may go by radius squared, but the rpms change to match.

For visualization: the ice-skater who spins slowly & pulls arms in. By spinning faster, no energy is lost, as can be seen by extending the arms. However, a slower-rotating device can more easily be predicted and avoided / hand-stopped if needed.
I agree. One thing that came to mind is that if we take a pure scientific view then humans are 99% like apes, and apes are reasonably intelligent and can learn. Are we to believe we can extrapolate and say that environment has more to do with the intelligence averages of apes than genes, and further, that they too can potentially be geniuses?
Be pragmatic with your (coding) time
Absolutely no relation to Google so most likely their data is bogus.
First 'web 2.0' website I am seeing that is so well designed AND uses extensively tables for HTML markup.
The site is basically one large image without any real text, so far for SEO.
Yep, patents ara bad. Now tell me, what obligation does Apple have to ditch them, if competitors don't?
Good. You can then test if a lava lamp would work on a neutron star.
I agree. Mostly. I think we need to remember he's talking about kernel specs. For those of us writing end-user applications, you can (and should!) get feedback during the spec writing process. You write a draft of the spec (which should capture requirements, not include implementation details), put this in front of your users, get feedback, then lather, rinse, repeat. This process won't be perfect, but it gets you closer to reality.

Of course, even that doesn't work for all situations. Some shops can be "agile" enough to quickly get new iterations out there based on feedback. And that can be nice. There are other industries that are very much requirements/documentation driven (see medial software and devices) and the spec does matter.
The average work environment is all relative. Maybe you should be a web developer for advertising agencies -- after all, print is dying. :)
Just wanted to point out that Symbian phones allow installation of application downloaded from any source with only some platform security restrictions. I guess those 47% Symbian phones in the smartphone market [1] are not a better majority?

That said, I hope you're right and people force Apple to loosen the app store licensing agreement.

[1]: 2009 numbers from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone
So if I read it right, according to that link, Royal Mail can't enforce any such "deep linking rule" on their website unless they require all their visitors to click through an agreement page before viewing the site, though it is technically possible for Royal Mail to sue businesses who choose to do so (though they will most likely lose).
Here ya go http://opinbot.appspot.com/reviews/show/agdvcGluYm90chwLEhVy...
The energy is the same. A slower moving larger centrifuge can tear your arm off with the same ease a smaller, faster one.
They are the same of http://www.worldometers.info/, they use some public data and than try to extrapolate.
I'm not trying to be snarky, but has the EFF given the same treatment to the PS3 and Nintendo Wii agreements? Xbox 360?

Also, there is a bit of showmanship on the EFF's part here by going the FOIA route. You have to be able to read the contract before agreeing to it. Anyone (legally) can walk down the path of signing up for the developer account, and then bail when they get to the developer agreement. The reason that "public copies are scarce" is that anyone can go to Apple's website and go through the signup process and decide for themselves if the agreement is to their liking or not.
The velocity of the shrapnel is the same as the linear velocity of the part it detached from. If it detaches from a faster moving surface, it will fly faster.
Agreed. GxE is certainly better then G+E, but that doesn't mean there's a genius in all of us.

I see this kind of response to progress in science all the time. If you change the way you conceive of a problem, like genes and environment, people suddenly think that all the beliefs about genetics from the past are wrong. But GxE doesn't mean that genetics isn't important all of a sudden, simple because in the days of G+E it was important. In fact, I would argue that GXE makes G MORE critical.

In a computer science class I took, our professor would multiply our homework and our exam grades instead of adding them. This way, even if you aced your homework, a 0 on an exam would give you a 0 overall (a solution to the inherent problems of team projects). The same is true for genetics- you can have all the good environment you want, if you ain't got the genes you're screwed (Down's syndrome). Of course, the same is true for environment; take a child with the best genes in the world and put it in a box during the early periods of its life, and it will never learn language well enough to even take an IQ test.

This reminds me when epigenetics started getting a lot of press, IDers were coming out in droves saying, "look! Richard Dawkins is wrong! The evolutionists are wrong!". But epigenetics doesn't mean evolution is wrong any more than GxE means that genetics aren't pretty damn significant.
Very good, if somewhat obvious, point: Ultimately, practices can only help you if you've got the brains to apply them correctly.

There is no substitute for a quality team. No amount of structure can make up for idiots.
i think the concept is kinda weak. i'd use a QR code with a link to a wiki page, if that's what this is.

so they're proposing a wiki page for each unique bar code... that smells like wikipedia, but i don't see "business value" in it.

that site looks like they're trying to market something, which means that they're trying to make money with this. i can't imagine how that's supposed to work.
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I'm also hopeful that proponents of open source, who distinguish themselves from free software are at least now rethinking things a bit.

Why would they?
Nice obfuscated Javascript. It loads engine1327548.js, which does not-much-more than:

google_searches = string((secsToday) * 35112);

Flagged as spam.

I really loved their add-one-and-URI-escape-each-character encryption though. That took 1 line of Perl to decode! I had to uri-unescape, and then subtract 1!

Edit: full source and the decoder, for those that care: http://gist.github.com/326637#file_engine1327548.js

Sorry, but trying to hide code you want the user to execute just amuses me. Lots of nice copy-pasta in there.
Well, from a business perspective, if you're a company with equipment (medical, electronics, tools, etc) you could have employee "check out" equipment with their phones. If you're a company that works with documents (engineering, legal, what have you) you could attach barcodes to physical copies (shoot, you could overlay them on the digital ones to so they print off with the doc itself) and use them to easily pull up a record of the document. These are just a few uses that come to mind, but basically anywhere that you need to identify something or someone, you could use this as a starting point and build out from there.
I would heartily recommend you Distant Neighborhood (Haruka na Machi e) by Jiro Taniguchi

Actually most of the books by Jiro Taniguchi are really good, they are mostly simple touching story that give a good glimpse of japanese culture and the relationship between people.

http://www.amazon.com/DISTANT-NEIGHBORHOOD-Jiro-Taniguchi/dp...

http://www.amazon.com/Distant-Neighborhood-2-Jiro-Taniguchi/...
Its absolutely bogus. its just running a clock. Look into their javascript files, they have encoded the javascript function in ascii so that some ppl dont accidentally figure out! Losers!
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So you're saying that László and Klara were poor genetic material?

This kind of anecdotal evidence means nothing. Undoubtedly these girls had great genes, in addition to being trained quite well. If both G and E are high, the product of the two is quite high.

I'd like to see him try this with a kid he adopted.
Yeah, too bad that of the few games I own on Steam, a big fat zero come from Valve...
Correct on both counts.

Until you can fight a live octopus down your throat between puffs on a cig, and wash it all down with a gallon of beer, you can't be fun.