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by osdiab 6y ago
Oh, I didn't answer the how - I had been to Japan a lot, so I already had friends here. When I made the move permanent, I had cofounded a company with a few friends, piloted doing remote work from here a couple times before actually mo
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by osdiab 6y ago
I do believe city governments play an enormous role in these issues; the most obvious is the ridiculous and convoluted process for housing approvals in SF that has made it impossible for the city to come even close to providing adequate hou
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by osdiab 6y ago
I hope US cities wake up, become humble, and actually try to fix the deep hole of social issues they’ve dug themselves into. Best I can say is be active and vocal in your local government, since that’s where these messed up policies come fr
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by osdiab 6y ago
I’m half southeast Asian, which is different enough people can tell if they get close, but close enough that I can blend in in a crowd. It depends where in Japan you’re moving to as well - but being in Tokyo it’s definitely global and peopl
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by osdiab 6y ago
Then great news, SF has built almost nothing since 1979, so you’re more likely than not to be covered! Maybe I was being a cheapskate for keeping my rent under $2k per month when I lived there, but I never lived in an apartment that wasn’t
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by osdiab 6y ago
I don't think the purpose of these policies are to produce a "better" student population, but are more that a) there are too many qualified applicants for the number of seats and they need a good alibi to justify cutting peop
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by osdiab 6y ago
While the Chinese government has forced the majority of young people to learn Mandarin in schools, even just taking a 1 hour train ride from Shanghai to Hangzhou, both cities have local languages that are mutually unintelligible. Elderly pe
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by osdiab 6y ago
Unfortunately I haven’t found any good cycling mapping apps for Tokyo. Most apps try to take you down tiny streets but here those can be pretty dangerous and slow - lots of blind corners and super complicated routes. Best I’ve found is NAVI
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by osdiab 6y ago
Yeah, there are so many alternate syntaxes, shortcuts, and ambiguous statements in Ruby; just reading through Matz’s reference book on Ruby was a trip for me.
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by osdiab 6y ago
I’ve found that doing it has helped me sleep when I’m restless at night - I think it’s more about giving you something concrete to focus on in order to make you more conscious of your body’s sensations, not necessarily something special abo
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by osdiab 6y ago
It's mostly been word of mouth for me - Japanese friends telling me DeepL is way better for Japanese, people on HN complaining about Google Chrome performance vs Firefox. And competitors are coming pretty close to other Google stuff, A
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by osdiab 6y ago
The US is so loud! I don’t know if it’s true but one of my theories is that a lot of US cities consist of uninterrupted grids, and noise from a much larger area than in cities with messily organized roads like those in Tokyo where I live no
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by osdiab 6y ago
They definitely store location for the majority of users who use Google Maps, their location history is both very accurate and opt-out buried in settings menus. I don’t have numbers on percentages given that Google likely doesn’t share this
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by osdiab 6y ago
I live in Tokyo now and I can confirm a solid number of these are! Though also the thread notes several that have been demolished too.
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by osdiab 6y ago
I grew up in a wealthy American suburb, the nearest grocery store was a 40 minute walk from my home, and I would have looked like a madman for simply walking on any street in the entire city because literally only beggars don’t ride cars. I
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by osdiab 6y ago
FWIW I moved to Tokyo in part because it’s not a hellscape, but a great place to live if you like cities (and have income). I guess if you only consider American cities then maybe you might conflate cities with hellscapes.
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by osdiab 6y ago
Tokyo already passed and is enforcing an ordinance that banks smoking in all restaurants, cafes and bars. It’s great! There are some straggler restaurants not complying with it though, having just been in place since April.
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by osdiab 6y ago
My friends actually are making a startup, Cupper [1], for ordering high quality decaf beans on the web, you should check it out :) [1] https://www.gocupper.com/
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by osdiab 6y ago
I do think you get a specific "tourist curated" version of Japan traveling this way - not that that's necessarily a bad thing, nor is it unique to Japan, but having spent my fair share of time both as a non-Japanese-speaking
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by osdiab 6y ago
The impact of having a site work without JS depends on who your site targets - if your site is mostly focused on young US professionals in cities using Macbooks and iPhones, bandwidth and browser support is going to be good enough with or w
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by osdiab 6y ago
The Unpaywall iOS workflow worked fine for me! https://ios.gadgethacks.com/how-to/bypass-paywalls-safari-re...
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by osdiab 6y ago
Or at least that government has the incorrect values which may or may not align with those of society at large (I would argue, not)
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by osdiab 6y ago
I think that you’re fast at what you practice - if you usually write clean code, you get better at writing clean code faster. And if you complain that writing clean code takes a long time and don’t usually do it, then yes - it will take tim
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by osdiab 6y ago
A major difference is that JS developers have little control over the runtime of their users, while all these other languages and especially compiled languages do. JS is a special case because it's the sole supported language of browse
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by osdiab 6y ago
If web programmers had the choice to install an arbitrary language's runtime in users' browsers, they would. But users have disparate browsers with disparate JS implementations, so if you want to code in a sane language with consi
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by osdiab 6y ago
Eh, I also think a lot of people overengineer things that are made simple with recent technology and that in fact most companies don't need the best engineers to get their job done. I think it's totally true that one can leverage
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by osdiab 6y ago
I think while it's true that new tools allow fewer people to do more work, that also expands the pool of tasks engineers can work on - more fields come to value software, work gets deeper in the fields that already did, competition get
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by osdiab 6y ago
I love city life but US cities are so poorly managed that I've lost hope that they'll be affordable nor pleasant to live in before I die, so now I've moving abroad to Tokyo and am living the lifestyle I'd hoped to in US
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by osdiab 6y ago
I usually do this kind of thing by making a new branch and interactive rebasing. Generally works well for me too!
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by osdiab 6y ago
The boring work has to get paid better because companies can't exploit the fact that people have no other choice. I think the businesses based only on that exploitation and not on real innovation will probably suffer as a consequence.

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