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by teek 4y ago
This is not correct. Sushi menus for restaurants in Tokyo use a mixture of kanji, hiragana, and katakana.
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by teek 5y ago
I've been living in Japan for over 5 years. > Japan has a serious problem with lack of sound proofing in most of the buildings you'll come across In older or cheaper buildings this is true. However if you pay you can have bette
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by teek 7y ago
3rd party packages are already a problem because a github repo shouldn't be treated as a dependency source. Gomod solves some problems but still uses git repos as the source. The primary reason Go can get away with this strategy is bec
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by teek 8y ago
I don't agree. The ruby community had a recent love affair with dsl. Taking a peak at rspec library source made my eyes bleed. There's also a huge preference for "magic" even outside of rails, so much that when you want
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by teek 9y ago
This isn't accurate. It is more like: Customer: I want a table with four legs. Dev: Ok, give me 2 days and it is done. after 2 days Here's your particle board table about 1 meter off the ground with seating for 4. Customer: Grea
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by teek 10y ago
I'm not so sure what you're defining is completely different. Doing things the "right way" in Japan and other east asian cultures has more or less the same effect as trying to be "perfect" in American culture.
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by teek 10y ago
> Google’s adoption of gradle has been a disaster and proved to be a terrible decision. It did help out with some previous issues, namely multiple app targets, but it’s slowed down compilation severely. It also makes for masochistic conf
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by teek 10y ago
If they were replacing the connector with a royalty free standard connector, then I'd be with you. But the reality is this is a proprietary connector play and if they win we'll all be paying while Apple profits. $9 isn't reas
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by teek 10y ago
> Putting that problem aside for a moment, it says that transit gets a smaller share of the funding pie. So what? Roads blanket the nation--I don't think this article would suggest operating public transportation to compete with eve
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by teek 11y ago
Spanish speakers love to tout the simplicity of pronunciation but I'd argue conjugation and gender are just as complicated because they add additional memorization and dimension in order to speak correctly. This is the main complexity
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by teek 11y ago
The first one: > If people's hopes of coding bug-free code in Python 2 actually panned out Python2 developers wanted to write bug-free code . code = for the purpose of processing text and binary data > then I wouldn't consi
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by teek 11y ago
This is mainly second-hand information. I haven't worked at a Japanese company, the closest I've gotten was interviews and a sort of off the record job offer. I have lived in the country for 1 year though, so I definitely saw the
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by teek 11y ago
Free parking is kind of mislabeled. The correct term is minimum parking requirements. Most build standards now enforce having a minimum amount of parking for any new building or housing development, including for low income housing. In orde
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by teek 11y ago
> Even Tokyo has most of it's trains above ground. See Yamanote line with 29 stations versus the 16 cumulative underground stations that both the Tokyo Waterfront Area Rapid Transit and Saitama Rapid Railway Line serve. I've li
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by teek 11y ago
For someone well versed in typography, his monospace font Triplicate is absolutely terrible looking to me. The t's, f's, and a's all look oddly slanted and upset the balance.
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by teek 11y ago
Japan is incredibly stubborn and ignorant when it comes to addressing core social and psychological problems in their society. It isn't even recognized by most of the population so when people begin to complain of their own social issu
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by teek 11y ago
Good. I've been waiting for a non-SMS and non-iMessage way of communicating. Americans shouldn't be tied to cell phone plans or the Apple vertical monopoly in order to communicate. In Japan, for example, we are starting to see ind
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by teek 12y ago
On carmax a 2005 Corolla with over 100k miles still sells for over $9000. General car advice is the minimum you should spend on a used car is at least $5000. And that's if you're really lucky. If you want a problem free used car
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by teek 12y ago
Let me counter your argument as an American living in Japan (though not working). > Not because their job is inherently more noble than the lowly paid ones In Japan engineers are treated like janitors because that's how Japanese bus
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by teek 12y ago
I've been living in Japan and access across the pond is a bit flaky at times. Most of the time I can blame my local service provider (a sharehouse) for their piece of shit router, but there are countless numbers of times when a stream
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by teek 12y ago
I'm living in Japan at the moment (language student) and it is certainly different here compared to the west. For example in Silicon Valley it is acceptable to pretty much give up a college education for a startup. In East-Asia, that i
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by teek 13y ago
What's good about windows: * Explorer is better than Finder. * Right click that works * Start menu + Win7 taskbar is better than OSX Dock/Launchpad (can't comment on Win8 metro but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't like it
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by teek 13y ago
I would say that the average Japanese is more worldly not because of their own insight but more because of the rigidity of the culture and the import/export of American/European (Western) culture into the country. Every Japanese e
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by teek 13y ago
There's a solution to this problem... I got it! I'll rent a room and put a bunch of giant TVs on the walls so it's even better than home. You'll be able to watch 5 or more games all at the same time. To make things bette
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by teek 13y ago
And maybe one day the we'll actually write the numbers on our coins so they can be friendlier to visitors...
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by teek 13y ago
American English speaker here. 1. I'd say that the non-phonetic approach allowed this to happen in the first place. In languages where the writing system was pinned to a phonetic system, there is no room for saying something incorrectl
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by teek 13y ago
Me today: I don't get social networking. Me as a teenager: social interactions on the internet--so cool and interesting. My hypothesis: social networks create a virtual world where we can construct the identity we hoped to construct.
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by teek 13y ago
Tesla and SpaceX are both iterative technology. They both use existing technology and iterate improvements on it or apply it to new fields. The electric car was already proven feasible by GM and other companies or products like golf carts.
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by teek 13y ago
You can blame government for the dysfunction, but I wouldn't be quick to completely blame local government for the stalls in public transit development. The majority of NYC subway development occurred prior to the introduction of envir
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by teek 13y ago
Train regulations are retarded in the US and haven't been reformed for over 50 years. Basically if you plan on having a crossing or sharing track with a freight train you automatically are stuck with the FRA regulations which apply to

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