captaintacos

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by captaintacos 9y ago
Cool! Thanks for that Already using it to track whenever a couple stores here in Japan put the Nintendo Switch back in inventory or lottery sale
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by captaintacos 9y ago
Some weeks ago someone posted a very useful interactive demo of a bloom filter (implemented in js) that you might want to play with after reading this article: https://www.jasondavies.com/bloomfilter/
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by captaintacos 9y ago
I guess this announcement from VW got fast-tracked now that China is about to announce a ban on gas-powered vehicles China, in turn probably wants to go forward with that not for environmental reasons, but because they have a near monopoly
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HPE unveils prototype of next gen computer ‘The Machine’(wsj.com)
7 points by captaintacos 10y ago|0 comments
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by captaintacos 10y ago
Oh... yep I'm not American But I am afraid I knew the term.. and I completely missed it And this gentlemen is how you start getting old...
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by captaintacos 10y ago
The coordinates you posted point to the sea off the coast of Cote d'Ivoire... The actual coordinates are these: 17.9447247, -90.1666302 And by the way, I also noticed that no news outlet seems to even bother to post the coordinates.
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by captaintacos 11y ago
And there seems to be a town nearby. I think they are so busted on this one. They probably even have souvenirs and guided tours in place.
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by captaintacos 12y ago
ah yes! :) Sounds like it was you. Oh by the way. I think I had 2 players and you had one because you could have hit your other one since the beginning. After you hit one of mine, it was disabled and I was just with one playable Player left
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by captaintacos 12y ago
Just played this and it is great. However the other player (in the chat) was saying that he could not fire sometimes. And later on I was also unable to both post messages and to use the FIRE button. Never recovered. Server problem perhaps?
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by captaintacos 12y ago
Software engineer here living in Japan for about the same time as the author, and with almost the same work experience. This article totally nails it. I have bookmarked this so that every time a non-Japanese comes to me looking for advice r
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by captaintacos 14y ago
Yes, quite open for -skilled- workers and even more open to students. I emphasize the "skilled" part because trust me, you don't want to come all the way here to engage in low-skilled labor. Highly skilled work is already too life-consumin
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by captaintacos 14y ago
Immigration "would be" the best solution but we are talking about Japan in here. Not an "immigrant friendly" country like Canada, Australia or the US. Simply put... Japan is "allergic" to foreigners. Surprisingly the process to get a work/s
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by captaintacos 14y ago
I'd like to comment too, but the game doesn't show up in the Japanese AppStore. Please make it available worldwide (even if they are not localized). Developers: You are all losing sales of expats and people who do speak English outside the
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by captaintacos 14y ago
So in the long term, how exactly will this be different from http://www.topcoder.com/ ? Just wondering... I signed up already anyway.
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by captaintacos 14y ago
It's all very well deserved Ron, your app in fact demystified to me how to actually play the piano. Not to mention that my toddler loves it. Greetings from Kyoto ;)
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by captaintacos 14y ago
Precisely. I see no point in teaching them in anything but English. They're children, if they don't know it, they will learn fast. In fact, teaching them in any other language would be a step backwards. I am not a native English speaker mys
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by captaintacos 14y ago
Well I guess I might as well just order a new 512 with element14 (I wish I knew about those guys). Mine didn't ship at all with RS Components (+4 months waiting) then I complain on twitter to @RSComponents, 3 hours later I get an email from
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by captaintacos 14y ago
Great way to make the prices clear. 15% more for Japan, I think it's time to move my things back to US East (Virginia) and make some savings. It had some pricing on S3 but I think it would be nice to also have the prices for RDS. A medium-s
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by captaintacos 14y ago
I second that. I would like to see what that TED talk has to say about keeping humans employed in something for as long as possible. I want to think software engineering/programming would be one of the last jobs to be replaced by machines.
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by captaintacos 14y ago
The email that did get me to start using Flightfox was another one sent to you a few days later after you had signed up, looked around, but didn't end-up launching any contest. In that email Flightfox said they noticed that I didn't launch
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by captaintacos 14y ago
The spice must flow
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by captaintacos 14y ago
Yep. We all did. Hence the "[sic]" used by some commenters in here when quoting the author -> "Competant [sic] developers, even those..." On the other hand. What would be the difference between a script-kiddie and an "actual hacker"? Th
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by captaintacos 14y ago
Who would've thought. Ironically, flying economy might someday save your life (if Economy Class Syndrome doesn't kill your first that is).
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by captaintacos 14y ago
whoa! why the 3 point down voting? I live here in Japan. Is it wrong to be depressed about this law too?
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by captaintacos 14y ago
And so it begins...
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by captaintacos 14y ago
Depends on what type of train I guess. Probably no bullet train (shinkansen) has even been more than 59 seconds late (under normal circumstances that is). Naturally any type of bad weather like blizzards, typhoons or earthquakes will cause
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by captaintacos 14y ago
Yep, also Github fan and user here, but truth be told, it felt like reading a corporate advertisement on an in-flight magazine. As they said, at least it was short.
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by captaintacos 14y ago
Not if the anti-poaching agreement makes no specific mention about "CONTRACTING employees" of Google. If that is the case, then it's turkey shoot for Apple.
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by captaintacos 14y ago
Sadly, it is almost unheard of here in Japan and I am 99.999% sure it is the same in most of Asia (the real market for diamonds and luxury brands nowadays). Just a couple weeks ago I was at lunch with my Japanese coworkers and the conversat
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by captaintacos 14y ago
I hate to be the devil's advocate but I swear by Facebook's messenger app. It does exactly the same things: international, FREE-as-in-beer, really cross platform (can whatsapp do web?), push notifications on iPhone thereby effectively repla

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