stuartcw

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by stuartcw 1y ago
I want the ability to turn off romaji completely.
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by stuartcw 2y ago
One way to do this, but before the mails arrive, is to use a service like IFTTT or Zapier that can both read your mails that match a search and write to Google Sheets. Then you can configure them to save any mails that match the criteria au
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by stuartcw 2y ago
If you used the kanji names of the cities and towns it would be a lot more realistic. I’ve lived in Japan since 1988 and this just seems like a list of jibberish to me. Japanese city names are, like English city names, made up of meaningful
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by stuartcw 2y ago
I live on the Miura peninsular not too far from William Adams fiefdom. It’s possible to walk up the hill from Anjinzuka Station (The navigator’s hill) and see his and his wife’s grave.
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by stuartcw 2y ago
By the way, the first link on Google for “Japan developer salary” is https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/software-developer-salarie... which is based on an annual survey of developer salaries.
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by stuartcw 2y ago
That’s probably double what a developer in Japan would get for similar experience unless you are bringing some exceptional talent to the company.
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Colliding glass spheres emit triboluminescence(youtube.com)
2 points by stuartcw 3y ago|1 comments
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by stuartcw 3y ago
It’s the last collision of the day but the previous collisions are pretty entertaining too.
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by stuartcw 3y ago
Earthquakes are so common here in Japan that unless there is a death toll it doesn’t make sense to raise them as news.
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by stuartcw 3y ago
Exactly this.
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by stuartcw 3y ago
This is almost a daily occurrence. The news this time is that government used the J-Alert system to mass broadcast to everyone in Hokkaido to announce that, instead of coming down in the sea of Japan, it might come down on the land. NHK is
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by stuartcw 4y ago
10 years ago. I’m in Japan and I go to the nearest convenience store, transfer the pdf document to the printer and get a clean print. I only use the printer for two pages a month to post the document, stamped with my company hanko, to a tra
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by stuartcw 4y ago
I suspect that some readers of Hacker News were not born when this was popular.
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by stuartcw 5y ago
I live in Japan and the one thing I miss about the UK are Marks & Spencer’s sandwiches. If I never had a convenience store sandwich again I wouldn’t be sorry.
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High Quality Drone Footage of the New Icelandic Volcano(youtube.com)
3 points by stuartcw 5y ago|0 comments
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by stuartcw 5y ago
Err.. no. It is generally considered unwise to consider boring sea tunnels along the boundaries of tectonic plates in the Ring of Fire especially considering the distance from Taipei to Naha is 641km, 30 times longer than the current record
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by stuartcw 5y ago
The ScanSnap is a business quality scanner.You can put in a stack of documents into the sheet-feeder and you will get high quality scans out as fast as a printer.The smartphone scanner app are like an emergency workaround in comparison.
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Smartphones Repurposed to Form Inexpensive Earthquake Early Warning System(usgs.gov)
2 points by stuartcw 5y ago|0 comments
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by stuartcw 5y ago
This is all in Japanese but if you watch it you can understand what they are doing. The walls were starting to get dangerous so they decided to take the whole castle wall down and sure it up and reconstruct it. It’s a rare chance to see how
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How to deconstruct and rebuild a Japanese Castle wall(youtube.com)
1 points by stuartcw 5y ago|1 comments
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by stuartcw 5y ago
Yes. I love it.
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by stuartcw 5y ago
I have always wondered whether new ideas are seeded by cosmic rays disturbing neurons in the brain..
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by stuartcw 6y ago
Serious inquiry: does anyone use the word "temblor" outside of journalism?
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by stuartcw 7y ago
I used to manage address data in a insurance company in Tokyo. We had about 20% of all Japanese addresses in the database. It was a challenging job. Parsing the new addresses, normalising them and matching them to existing addresses was a
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by stuartcw 8y ago
Genius name. I wish I had grabbed that domain.
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by stuartcw 8y ago
I was once involved with a software project, actually the DOS version of Lotus 1-2-3 2.4J, which bundled some Japanese fonts that were licensed from a Taiwanese font maker. The QA manager told one of the staff to print out every character a
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by stuartcw 9y ago
Before social media people religiously read the local obituaries column in the local newspaper and called their friends if someone they both knew had died. Families would call all the close contacts and relatives to make sure that they knew
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by stuartcw 10y ago
Once you decide to leave and take a new job your allegiance is now to your future employer. My only regret in leaving jobs has been not taking all my holidays and staying too long after deciding to leave. If you do feel bad about leaving th
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by stuartcw 10y ago
> At Hack Reactor, we’re trained to mask our inexperience [...] > [...] Ultimately, you need to convince companies that you can do the job. > [...]At the same time, you need to convince yourself that you can do the job. Err.. Ultim
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by stuartcw 10y ago
That's cool. I supported an IBM/PC clone keyboard firmware developer in the 1990s. Having an open source USB based firmware has really changed the game as it was a nightmare to clone the IBM XT/AT keyboard controller with all

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