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by wapz 9y ago
Do you really think that someone passionate about work is indistinguishable from someone "faking it" after 40 years? I can't imagine doing what I would consider a mundane task for even 5 years straight at regular work hours.
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by wapz 9y ago
> one of the most insanely hostile work environments in living memory > encouraged at all levels of the company Do you have any sources for this? There have been a few blog posts and some independent investigations to my knowledge but
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by wapz 9y ago
I really don't like how racism comes up so often in these situations when I think the closer term is probably familiarity or customs. A lot of bosses like to work with people that have a similar mindset and work ethic that they do. It
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by wapz 9y ago
Yeah, even if you buy a prepaid sim and it doesn't work on your device the store probably won't refund you (unless it's "cracked" or something when you open it).
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by wapz 9y ago
It's really unfortunate how that is the case in the US particularly. I moved to Japan and was shocked at how the service is in Japan compared to the states (particularly restaurants). All the employees work hard to please customers bec
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by wapz 9y ago
> they haven't figured out how to do well in moderating live chats with thousands of people This is surely the case. Blizzard has tried various moderation techniques as you have mentioned and they don't seem to work. If I watch
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by wapz 9y ago
Yeah I've made it a habit to never share or click any facebook stories anymore (anything that links to another site). If something interests me, I open up firefox with noscript and search for the site on google to find it. Not sure it&
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by wapz 9y ago
At either of the airports you can buy a sim card to use in your phone for internet (and use google voice for outgoing calls). They are sold at convenient stores (only the tourist ones like at the airport) and the electronic shops (the tempo
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by wapz 9y ago
In Japan you can buy it at the convenient stores and the "mini" electronic store (haneda) at the airports. Switching sims, setting up the APNs, and the NO REFUND AFTER OPENED on the sticker make people buy it and jump on the bus
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by wapz 9y ago
I didn't read anything that implies the games could be shared or uploaded online so a profanity filter wouldn't be needed would it? I also imagine there to be a touch-screen interface for placing objects on the screen (like unity
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by wapz 9y ago
Why are you tying customer service to quality of goods? If you don't like their quality of goods that is a fine reason to not buy from them, but I don't see anything in your argument disputing their customer service (the only part
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by wapz 9y ago
> you'll have normal merchandise commingled on shelves side-by-side with third party supplied garbage I don't think this is fair or even reasonable to say. It's going to be in a B&M store. You can inspect the item. The
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by wapz 9y ago
I'm guessing most family members are most likely not going to ask the question on facebook instead of just call their loved ones or send a text or email. My personal line of thinking is (maybe check facebook if they're super act
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by wapz 9y ago
Do you have examples of key guys getting poached in the Japanese market? From my experience here most people tend to stay a long time or move on their own will (not as often as US IMO though)
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by wapz 9y ago
I work for a Japanese company. Even if something is illegal in Japan it still happens. One particular thing is unpaid overtime. Most employees are hourly and they can be "forced" to work overtime for 50+ hours/week (all the t
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by wapz 9y ago
Wow, I was a manager at a swimming pool and the "HR" told us when we get calls from prospective employers we can only tell them the dates of employments and the job position. We couldn't rave about how good the employees were
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by wapz 9y ago
The SurfaceBook should be thought of as a laptop and not a tablet imo. I have the surface pro and it a terrible tablet. Well, it's good if you are an artist and doing sketches/artwork but not for the casual programmer. I'
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by wapz 9y ago
Your story reminds me of when I ordered a $200 video card from Staples ship to store. I went to the cashier and told them they should have a video card I ordered. They asked for my name and gave it to me (inside the shipping box so they di
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by wapz 9y ago
I used to use penhold because I thought it was cool and my serves were good. Then I learned from a competitive player (~1600 rating in whatever US rating system they had iirc; not too high), switched to shakehand and never looked back!
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by wapz 9y ago
I'm a unity developer (50% games, 50% 3d desktop programs)
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by wapz 9y ago
Unfortunately if there is a "default" whitelist, it will become a "whoever pays $x money gets on the defaulted list." (I'm not referring to only Apple but if Chrome, Firefox, etc come out with the feature).
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by wapz 9y ago
I've studied Japanese for a long time (and work in Japanese only now) and if you want to work on pronunciation I learned to "shadow" in my Japanese class. You watch any tv show and you repeat exactly what they say right after
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by wapz 9y ago
I don't think there are too many products that you can make money from buying. The few I can think of are things like bee hives (paid to remove it and paid for the bees), dirt/sand in abundance areas (I'm not sure they sell
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by wapz 9y ago
I personally do not think auto-pilot will help with congestion at all unless they are used as carpool vehicles to pick up and drop off people on route. Once you have auto-pilot, you have another group of the population that don't dri
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by wapz 9y ago
Can I ask what type of skills you recommend for upwork? I've done a lot of mobile and now I'm working in Unity and when I looked through Upwork I didn't see many opportunities.
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by wapz 9y ago
Are you referring to the new company when looking at a potential employee's past experience? Couldn't you just ask them why they were terminated? I don't think Uber is going to fire actual scapegoats that weren't relat
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by wapz 9y ago
I don't disagree with you but I'm not sure all your questions are reasonable/respectful. Here are a few examples from my situation. The AC in Japan has two settings--one is cool and one is "dry" for dehumidify. The
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by wapz 9y ago
I just googled WMDs Iraq and NYT and was surprised to see an article in 2014 about 'confirming' WMDs in Iraq [1]. I never read this story before and don't know how widespread it was (I'm not a huge news junky but general
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by wapz 9y ago
> And then again, your media all saw proofs of WMD in Iraq I'm an American and maybe completely out of the loop but I never saw any news report that WMD was discovered in Iraq. I'm guessing it may have been circulated online bu
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by wapz 9y ago
Foreign teachers often have a lot of leeway, particularly if they teach English. I taught English at first and all the Japanese were super friendly and kind (and I didn't work any overtime). If it's a Japanese teacher's exa

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