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ephesus

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ephesus··on Amazon, Apple, and the beauty of low margins
The iPhone has a huge portion of the Japanese market. Just glancing around the train right now I see about 75% iPhones.
ephesus··on Hacker News Tokyo Japan Meetup #8 – Friday 21st of October
So is the main language for this going to be English or Japanese?
ephesus··on Ask HN: Beta test my video editor for OSX
I will definitely be using this to split avis. I had been using a program called "explicit" up until now. Is there a readme somewhere? "Trim" and "Extract" seem to do nothing.
ephesus··on Fullscreen for GVIM in Linux
Agreed. I've never understood why people insist on running vim outside of a terminal. You can use a mouse with macvim in iterm, but if you're using the mouse you're probably not using vim very efficiently anyway.
ephesus··on FireShepherd is the antidote for Firesheep hacking mania
It's for Windows only.
ephesus··on IPhone commands 60% of Japan's Smartphone Market
On standard Docomo phones? I've been able to browse the internet on a 1000yen AU since 3 years ago. I could also download music. If the link considers 93% of Japanese phones not smart phones, the term "smart phone" should be defined more clearly.
ephesus··on Google Translate might not be as good as people thought
The funniest part is that Nate's response is almost equally bad Japanese.
ephesus··on Linus Torvalds became US citizen
Only income above the equivalent of $80,000.
ephesus··on What I Did When I Couldn't Find a Job [in the US]
The jump between JLPT 2 to JLPT 1 was huge. I'm not sure if it's still that way, I heard it's been expanded to 5 levels now. I worked for 18 months in Japan, but if I'm going to work 12 hour days, I would rather be doing it at a startup with a little variety in the work (and stock options).
ephesus··on Poll: When do you usually go to bed?
I start checking my mail and notifications as soon as I wake up around 7:30, but I don't get in to the office until 9::30-10. I usually leave the office at 7pm. Startups can be a time-sink.
ephesus··on What I Did When I Couldn't Find a Job [in the US]
That's interesting. I speak JLPT 1 Japanese, and have never had it be useful in finding work. I do far better for myself not working in the Japanese business culture, and hacking away at a tech startup.
ephesus··on Ubuntu needs to work on user experience
He managed to write the entire post without pointing out a single thing he found fault with. Kind of a waste of time.