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by enko 13y ago
Since you asked for feedback... get a native speaker to review your copy. "leverage on" - you don't need the "on" (this is in 2 places). "Notes are information that aimed at becoming knowledge" - doesn&#x2
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by enko 13y ago
I know people your age or older who have successfully transitioned careers to software development, from a standing start. I wouldn't let it put you off at all!
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by enko 13y ago
I think there are more similarities than the author supposes between these "networks" and the traditional asian enterprise groups. For example, it's a classic feature of the keiretsu to have interlocking shareholdings, dire
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by enko 13y ago
Got the email as well. I would be looking at a new price of $456/yr, up from my current $39/yr. Needless to say that is totally unacceptable. Thing is I wouldn't even mind paying a little bit more, I know $39/yr is prett
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by enko 13y ago
Hilariously, when I tried to google that exact rapgenius article, 'twas not a direct link to be found. I imagine 2013 has suddenly turned into a "Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year" for them, too.
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by enko 13y ago
That article is textbook character assassination based on an unimportant nit-pick the washington post itself couldn't even "fact-check". Instead, Booz Hamilton provided Snowden's base salary - not how much he actually ea
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by enko 13y ago
> Chinese people being offended by the colonial label of Peking instead of using Beijing I think the only Chinese people who would be "outraged" by calling their capital Peking (the old southern way of pronouncing it) vs Beijin
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by enko 13y ago
> 1.25 TB of Touhou music I am going to have nightmares tonight...
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by enko 13y ago
> Winklevoss twin hopes Bitcoin valuation will top $40k FTFY
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by enko 13y ago
Well, kudos to them for doing that, at least. Of course it's awful that you could be out ~$3k, but imagine how bad it could have been if they hadn't been so proactive.
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by enko 13y ago
> you don't want your investment to get hit by a bus So take out life insurance on the founder. And if two founders are essential for a successful startup, then there is actually twice as much chance of it failing by one of them b
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by enko 13y ago
For my money I'd rather a proper integrated system like the Panasonic range: http://cycle.panasonic.jp/products/electric/ I've ridden a number of electric-assist bicycles and the panasonic system worked
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by enko 13y ago
> Since the iPhone, we've added some pixels to its screen and a fingerprint scanner to the button Did you forget about the 40x speed increase ? Sheesh. I bet you're not still using an iPhone 1. And no, I don't believe ev
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by enko 13y ago
Yeah, was about to comment that that is a very nice bit of CGI. Something about the matte colour of the metals trips my detector. And the lighting on the workers, the too-perfect luminosity of the light sources, that "composited"
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by enko 13y ago
Holograms and personal flying machines required huge technological breakthroughs to make them possible. Those breakthroughs still haven't occurred. Teleporting - questionable it's even possible. Self-driving cars are already on th
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by enko 13y ago
That's an interesting video. I'd quite like to know if it's being coordinated "from above", or whether the cars are making their own decisions - the latter would be rather more impressive, since I think a fully mana
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by enko 13y ago
I think a lot of people are hoping for a "remaster" of FFVII, including me. I'd buy a PS4 solely for FFVII in an instant, assuming they did a good job of course. FFX would be great, but I'm annoyed it's only on PS3,
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by enko 13y ago
> it's not because they're stupid or ignorant They may not be stupid, but that's pretty much the definition of ignorance.
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by enko 13y ago
Congratulations, you've discovered unicode composition! 2.0.0p247 :045 > Unicode::compose("e\u0308").unpack('U').first.to_s(16) => "eb" 2.0.0p247 :046 > Unicode::compose("\u00eb&quo
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by enko 13y ago
Perhaps that's true, but you can be sure they're not getting their fix in the Mail, which regularly takes ferocious swipes at that element of society. Which is another reason I have a kind of grudging respect for them. You'll
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by enko 13y ago
Yeah, I shouldn't have really worded it like that. It's difficult making characterisations and I went a bit too far. I do believe, however, that there's a segment of the middle classes who have a lot of dissatisfaction with t
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by enko 13y ago
I agree with everything you wrote. But the problem is, what can anyone do to fix it? I mean it's easy to come up with a plan to "fix" Murdoch. Simply tighten media ownership rules, so that one family or organisation can'
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by enko 13y ago
> The Daily Mail has to be one of the most repugnant media organizations Hm, I don't know. I sort of respect them, in a way. In some ways I think of them as the authentic voice of the impotent lower middle classes, lashing out at ev
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by enko 13y ago
Well, I'd certainly never pretend to have the first-hand experience you have! I was only reporting my impressions from a TV documentary, 2 years ago. I don't even remember which area it was, or the program's name. You obvious
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by enko 13y ago
This is a fascinating, well-written account, a decade after the events: http://www.laweekly.com/2007-03-22/news/heaven-s-gate-the-se...
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by enko 13y ago
> China and Russia would often give severely challenged children to US adoptive parents About 2 years ago I was watching a documentary about china-to-america adoptions on japanese television. While the point was never explicitly raised,
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by enko 13y ago
If this is a joke, it's a pretty serious one https://twitter.com/CyborgUSA/status/403664555944865792
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by enko 13y ago
Well, you learn something new every day.. It is hard to disagree with you about the third-time DUI. I guess I am against "automatic" laws in general; it reeks of populism and "tough on crime" rhetoric, ignoring the human
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by enko 13y ago
I am not so sure it is such a good analogy. The "business model" of these hawkers in third world countries like Cambodia or Laos is to explicitly present themselves as impoverished, and then pressure or guilt-trip you into buying
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by enko 13y ago
I see what you're driving at (ha!), but "attempted manslaughter" is a contradiction in terms. Attempt implies intent; manslaughter is by definition without intent. Look, I can see your point of view. There needs to be a deter

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