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by T-R 14y ago
Good point. We plan to add something along the lines of "counterpoints" ("X does Z badly"), and we have other viewpoints ("Y does Z well"), but directly pointing users toward solutions that solve those counterpoints ("[take a look at Y, bec
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by T-R 14y ago
Great ideas! Thanks kindly.
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by T-R 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback. Regarding sockpuppet accounts and the like, we do have that information - some of it will get more visible as we build out profiles and moderator tools, it's just been on hold while we focus on more user-facing feat
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by T-R 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback. One of the projects that our front-end engineer is currently working on should fix this issue, though it may not be live for a few days. Very sorry for the inconvenience.
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by T-R 14y ago
The timeframe for getting citizenship in Japan is quite long, and from what I've heard from all those I know who have it, largely not worth it - if you don't look Japanese, you will generally continue to be treated as not Japanese. Landlord
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by T-R 14y ago
- Most likely they're doing specific financing: whenever you pay with a card (or with your cell phone) in Japan, they ask you how many monthly payments you would like to pay over. There's also a general aversion to going into debt - cash a
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by T-R 14y ago
> My only wish now would be to include a full keyboard (with pgup, pgdown, home, del in their own row) Curious, why do you prefer them in their own row? I look explicitly for keyboards with them overlaid onto the arrow keys, so I don'
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by T-R 14y ago
Phones do come with email addresses, and that's primarily used instead of text messages, but there is SMS/MMS (at least, I'm pretty sure that's what Softbank's S!Mail is, though, I get the impression it's mostly just used in-network, by peo
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by T-R 14y ago
Definitely odd that they didn't at least go with "Rakuten Buy.com", as they did with play.com...
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by T-R 14y ago
That's not a name change, per se - Rakuten (楽天) is Japan's largest e-commerce site, and recently has been expanding overseas. They also own Play.com, Linkshare, and Kobo - it appears they've decided to get all of their websites under the Ra
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by T-R 14y ago
Also, a preemptive apology for the fact that the site currently requires Javascript - it's being worked on at this very moment.
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by T-R 14y ago
That's great to hear. Thanks for the heads up.
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by T-R 14y ago
A large part of the reason that many APIs fail at content negotiation has to do with the fact that many clients don't support it properly. Chrome in particular completely ignores the Vary header (and its devs have marked the issue as "won't
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by T-R 14y ago
If I recall, I think the over-styled but less-usable drop-down list was a deliberate decision, much like the call to setTimeout. (I'm a housemate of StuieK and Firehed, and also contributed to the page)
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Show HN: We're building a home for subjective programming topics(slant.co)
10 points by T-R 14y ago|1 comments
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by T-R 14y ago
Hey - I'm the back-end engineer for Slant. Thanks kindly! We're just getting started, so any feedback you might have would be tremendously appreciated.
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by T-R 14y ago
An excellent and practical article. I do want to emphasize one thing, though, since I feel like the article almost seemed to downplay its significance: MongoDB does not support joins; If you need to retrieve data from more than one collect
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by T-R 14y ago
I'd maybe argue that "framework" is a bit of a misnomer - Opa is a programming language based on ML (it was originally called MLState) where the compiler determines/enforces what runs on the client or server. It originally compiled down to
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by T-R 14y ago
I believe he's right, though - I've heard that Mode 7, and specifically the fact that it could simulate a 3D perspective with that effect, was a selling point of the SNES over the Genesis/Megadrive to developers (that, and its higher number
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by T-R 14y ago
For anyone who's wondering: Mode 7 was the SNES graphics mode that allowed for things like rotating and zooming a background layer - used for things like the track in Mario Kart and F-Zero, or the worldmap in Final Fantasy 6 (while you're
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by T-R 14y ago
Even after the Recruit scandal[1], Recruit still has pretty much an absolute monopoly on HR in Japan. Their massive recruiting events are the primary method of finding a job. At the events, applicants are commoditized by filling out forms w
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by T-R 14y ago
My understanding is that the thickness comes from the fact that the body isn't a single piece of metal, so you can swap out the RAM and HDD (unlike the 31A and 21A). Also, apparently you can repartition the SSD that's used as an OS cache in
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by T-R 14y ago
Why do you say to be wary of the 32VD? I was literally just about to buy one.
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by T-R 14y ago
Are there really no instances of rewrites succeeding? Are we sure that projects that failed doing rewrites wouldn't have failed more painfully if they'd continued dealing with the cruft of the old codebase? It's possible the problem is more
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by T-R 14y ago
I use 2FA, but it's an absolutely frustrating experience. Most apps just don't support it. Google Music Manager requires a trip to accounts.google.com for a new App Specific Password every time I restart my computer, whereas Swiftkey just l
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by T-R 14y ago
> I believe just the starting of the timing is done by hand. The stopping is done when a contact is automatically detected. That's exactly the issue, though - there are a handful of mechanisms in place to ensure that the clock stops and
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by T-R 14y ago
Chrome's excessive caching is so broken for RESTful web services that I've just given up on letting it cache any requests from Javascript. It completely ignores Vary headers, too, so hitting the back button after an AJAX request to the same
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by T-R 14y ago
It was Japanese - it was the Kanji for sakura (桜) - hence the cherry trees in the background.
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by T-R 14y ago
Am I mistaken in my understanding that WebSockets is a stateful protocol? If your problem maps well to resource oriented architecture, when would the benefits of switching to this outweigh the fact that you'd be giving up response caching a
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Save Hacker Dojo(hackerdojo.com)
9 points by T-R 15y ago|0 comments

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