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atgm

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About atgm

I am a mostly-deaf American doing full-stack development in Japan.

I work on the front end, back end, and infrastructure to provide a user-friendly environment monitoring system.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #7317238

    > I can't imagine a more elitist, entitled attitude than being seriously upset at people trying to pay you lots of money to work. I think the recruiters that most people complain a…

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    Comment #7316854

    > Why do recruiter emails bother people so much? Imagine that you're thinking about buying a house sometime in the future or are in a situation where you know you'll probably buy a…

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    Comment #7316209

    > ICQ originally had an interface which didn't show a running log of the conversation. The earliest version I remember, before 98a, had a history button that would show the running…

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    Comment #7315963

    > I just moved out of the US. This is purely tangential and me venting about recruiting spam in Japan. I live in Japan and still get a bunch (~3-5 messages a week) of low-quality r…

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    Comment #7311069

    How can I get in touch with you?

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    Comment #7311062

    Thank you for the clarification!

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    Comment #7310985

    I think there's a difference between something being factually true (you will die) and something being imminently factual (you have cancer). Those are really negatively-biased exam…

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    Comment #7310902

    > But if it would restore public confidence in the protocol and economy It actually scares me. If any private body or group could somehow amass 51% of the miners in some way, they …

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    Comment #7310866

    > Wacom will not be making Maverick drivers -- ever For the Cintiq, or in general? Are they necessary? I ask because I have an Intuos Pro and haven't had a problem on Mavericks.

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    Comment #7310588

    I just realized why your username looks familiar -- we just talked in the Kyoto HN Meetup thread the other day.

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    Comment #7310408

    > I work in the pharma industry in Japan I wonder if we've crossed paths in some way before. I also work in the pharma industry (peripherally?).

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    Comment #7310232

    I think this was a big factor in why AIM trumped ICQ in America. ICQ had that "sending mail" icon that took a few seconds (or more) to "send" your message and it didn't quite feel …

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    Comment #7310061

    > 2. A login page that literally just two inputs and a submit button. > 3. A signup page that was similar. I don't think I'd be amiss in pointing out the login page of the site we'…

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    Comment #7309572

    > Y combinator startup regalii is working on the first point. They seem to be aiming to pay bills from the US; I want to send money from another country to the US and just do whate…

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    Comment #7304112

    Apparently they don't support JPY yet, but thanks for the heads-up!

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    Comment #7303613

    Sending money internationally. Comparing products across brands (they all have specs but the way they sort the specs is different and it's a pain to flip through tons of tabs). Fin…

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    Comment #7303604

    Ahh. 2500 yen, huh.

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    Comment #7303561

    Thank you! Edit: Hmm, they don't look as well-organized (no central homepage) and the last post is from last October. :-/

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    Comment #7303544

    Is there one of these for Kanto/Tokyo? I really wish this had been posted more than two days in advance.

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    Comment #7303310

    > If I were making one of these I'd make several tethers, spaced such that a single object can not break more than one at once. What I'd worry about is security, honestly. What if …

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    Comment #7302179

    There's not a whole lot in the chat that I would have hoped for; more casual banter than anything.

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    Comment #7209110

    > That's not actually how we define "amazing public transportation network". It's pretty comparatively amazing to me. I grew up in rural Pennsylvania in a town with no buses or tax…

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    Comment #7208990

    > Well have you heard of these things called buses and trains? They're awesome. They ARE awesome, but often come at the expense of time. I live in Tokyo, which has an amazing publi…

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    Comment #7194661

    > the major feature in this release is schema migration And I think a lot of people aren't commenting about that because it's not "new" per se and is done well by South.

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    Comment #7135592

    Does anyone know how to get a version of this without the animations and stuff? It's a little hard to read.