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Hey! I can brief you up, just sent you an email. cheers.

There are a couple of note books (CamiApp, Shotnote) that have appeared in Japan that are quite similar. I found the design pretty good, though I stopped using them.. I think mainl…

The patch that was shared on the lkml shows some insight on what is causing the issue. https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/1/27 Apparently the issues might be due "to the leapsecond being…

Otherwise what you are saying is to be afraid of the status quo because they have many ways of monitoring your past so you should behave, isn't it? If your 'future employer' gets b…

This looks great! I tried it with the default settings and could share a sessions very easily. On the other hand I'm trying to use `wemux rogue` but I get the following: wemux rogu…

I agree that open sourcing it is one way, but is it the best way? Since the users depend on it, that would mean that they would pay for it right? I think that the obvious need here…

I'm not a researcher myself, but I have seen the efforts done in this field by the org-babel project very interesting. It is a literate programming mode for Emacs that attempts to …

I was a big fan of library.nu. As a student in Mexico, you just cannot get some of the books that were available in there, so it was incredibly useful. I no longer used the site so…

Interesting, sending daily/weekly reports is default behavior at Japanese companies (where doing busywork is actually a good thing sometimes, since it seems that there are many zom…

This idea has also stuck in my head since sometime ago (I think it was a comment by @jrockway who said that he got up really early because at that time there is nothing else to do …

Thanks for providing the example, this thread was very entertaining and made me become more interested in learning more about how C works.

> Perl is very active here in Japan. Considering the amount of legacy Perl scripts that I have had to rewrite since I got to Japan due to a lack of Perl developers that can mantain…

I have also been somewhat worried about the "safety first" approach that a lot of the Japanese young take around here. I have been in Tokyo just for some months, but I truly believ…

What I like the most about Org syntax is that it gives you a framework to plan your tasks by using nothing but text. For example: - [%] Task 1 + [X] Task a + [ ] Task b //C-c on th…

To apologize is the first single thing I was taught during my 'Hourensou'/報連相 training at the Japanese company I'm working on. Whenever something bad happens, you first have to put…

If the marketing campaign was that effective in Czech Republic, that might explain the recent increase in marketing from Google here in Tokyo since 2011 started. I can't remember h…

Here is a nice tutorial on how set up a server to render tiles with Mapnik: http://weait.com/content/build-your-own-openstreetmap-server If you want to serve tiles you would then h…

"No, I'm not going back to work in McDonalds. I've worked there for three years and frankly I'm sick of dealing with the stress of waking up in wee hours and coming back home past …

I would recommend Alex Kerr's 'Dogs and Demons' book about Japan. It is kind of old (2001) but it is still a great read about what have been some of the specific problems from Japa…

"The amount of trust you build is directly correlated with the difficulty of your situation when you do the right thing by someone. Your short term loss will translate into incredi…