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Whenever I buy something with a zipper I check that it’s YKK first. If it isn’t, I know there’s a good chance they’re cheaping out on other places as well.

Congratulations! I just checked when I started using VWO, and found a really nice exchange between you and me from Fri, Dec 11, 2009. VWO is still the absolute best split testing t…

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I was curious, and it looks like it only has good connotations in Chinese: https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E9%87%91%E7%8E%89/4846 Kintama was the first thing I thought of when lookin…

Note that if you don’t go during the festival, the downtown is pretty much dead. There is a nice knife shop that caters to tourists (刃物センター blade center) but the festival is defini…

You are 100% correct. Land is valuable, houses & buildings are not. The small house on my land has decreased to the point where I pay less than $100 a year in taxes on it. The land…

We had a similar thing happen in our town -- pachinko place went bust, and they bought it. Next town over they bought an old local supermarket (again, with huge amounts of floor sp…

So, interesting workaround for Netflix: If the language of your account is set to something other than English, it unlocks subtitles and dubs for that language that you wouldn't no…

I'm in the middle of nowhere, so in my case I would need a smattering. However, almost all doctors can read/write English, even if they can't speak it. I've had 80 year old doctors…

I'm heading back from Japan today, and my family got a bunch of checkups and medical stuff done while we were here. Even without insurance all our procedures cost total less than ~…

Question about how these UI Kits are made: Generally when I'm building a UI on top of bootstrap, I import all the LESS files into my project, and then compile them together with my…

I saw one of these here in Portland yesterday driving home. Didn't realize it was a Model 3, just thought I was seeing some body-mod for the Model S.

I was curious, so I asked Siri your question: what is the last name of Susan from Britain's got talent? She successfully answered Boyle.

One of the. Eat distinctions in this article is the difference between a great worker and a great remote worker. I've worked with many people who were brilliant, but couldn't get t…

I'm crazy excited that this might actually have a chance to come to fruition. Back in my salary-man days, I worked for Hiroshi Fujiwara when he was doing work on Superconducting DC…

It's probably a cloudflare instance that they're running on top of the page. CloudFlare's default protection scheme is pretty harsh to non US/European users. I've gotten blocked fr…

Ironically I was just lamenting the fact that my daughter won't get access to a computer in her Japanese elementary school until 5th grade. And she goes to public magnet school. Wh…

You are mostly correct, it is one of the more interesting things about Japanese that the context outweighs the use of the word in many situations. That being said, there are a numb…

While I don't mind personally, it is generally frowned upon to use affiliate links on HN. Just FYI

In my experience, immigration as a westerner is pretty easy -- especially after the horror stories I hear about the U.S. You need to have some sort of sponsor (business is the most…

YAY! Japanese support for Stripe. Unfortunately, I found a few issues: http://imgur.com/vZbheUP 1) The Zip-Code lookup is GREAT, except it looks up the town name, not the 都道府県 (pre…

Check out Webpay for payments in Japan. Their API was originally supposed to be a clone of the Stripe API, but have gone off with their own API updates based on the JP market. http…

It's the better end of the deal, to be honest. He used to live here in Gifu, and while this is a great place to live, there are many things you have easier access to in Tokyo.