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Just woke up this morning to this and I'm still reeling from the news. It's almost too hard to accept.

Always sucks to lose a pioneer.

Wow are you me?

I'm consistently amazed at the quality of free CSS resources posted online these days.

I first started learning webdev in 2005 and just a decade later the number of educational resources blows my mind.

I find meaning in work because it's what I leave behind once I'm dead. What I create, build, and put out into the world is part of my legacy. That's pretty important to me, perhaps not the same for others.

> Hacker News is a cocktail party

This makes me feel so fancy online at 8AM in my pajamas.

Seriously Github has been such a pleasant surprise time-and-again. I love to find these little nooks & crannies hidden among all the other repos.

I've never thought to do this but the methodology does make sense. I've been studying Japanese for about a month and while reading through various textbooks I'll run into so many examples of miscellaneous grammar notes which I never thought to write down. Partially because of apathy while also convincing myself that I'll remember it all and don't need to bother taking notes.

But I wonder if results would differ between taking notes digitally vs physically hand-writing with pen and paper.

Thanks I really do not know much about Mixins, but I have seen the discussion countless times here on HN. I will have to look into it soon.

Certainly a valid argument, and thanks for the link I will check it out.

I haven't played many games since the early 2000s and I feel a bit like an old geezer stuck in the mentality of "back in my day..."

Thank you for this explanation it really puts the topic in a better perspective for me.

This was such a solid analysis through-and-through. I feel that so many companies are getting real antsy and feel the need to grab for complete 100% ownership over all creative rights for everything with no leeway whatsoever. We, the people who actually pay for & consume these games, have no right to redesign or modify or record or promote anything without their consent - which would probably be denied most of the time anyways. From my point of view, it's just very difficult to continue supporting the video game industry anymore.

Coming from somebody who has always wanted to visit Tokyo, I can only imagine what the HN meetups are like.

Now that's an interesting analogy.

Is there any benefit to cutting the spine vs using heat to loosen the glue and remove the pages manually?

I have been doing this with old video game strategy guides for about 6 months now. To me it provides a better solution because I still have the spine and all the content which is printed very close to the book's seam. It does take a LOT longer to scan page-by-page, but I also get to keep the single pages instead of throwing them away.

I have also tried using an exacto knife but the results aren't as clean. I am still waiting for a better solution and your comment certainly does make me think.

Great link thank you for sharing.

It could have been a lot worse, for sure. I'm just happy they resolved the issue and it's back online with minimal damage.

Building & maintaining a website is always a learning lesson because there are so many different areas to study.

Reading in the comments this also gave me a chucke as I have caught myself doing it constantly:

"ctrl+c ctrl+c ctrl+c, just to make sure :)"

I love finding quirky little stuff like this. Google is one of the only companies which I have seen that does this constantly.

I don't have an answer but I do have a follow-up question.

There are no pre-built GChat clients and I have been planning to create one using Phono, which is built on jQuery. Are there better solutions other than this, or the linked example Superfeedr?

Google Chat is my main IM client and I know it's built on XMPP. I just want to pick a solid JS library to build with and make a web interface that can work for people.

Great insight thank you for sharing!

I try to convince myself Twitter is for wasting time and that getting work completed is 10x more fun.

I have never heard that before but it is a very truthful proverb.

> They usually won't tell me if they don't understand something

Why do you think that is? Because I was raised to always ask questions and learn what you don't understand. I have never really "studied" with a Japanese friend or colleague so I can't say I've ever had the same experience.

I've never considered the texting issue with limited characters. It must be the same with tweeting in Japanese vs English characters, too.

This is a really great comparison. I would love to write an article on this someday comparing the Eastern/Asian media websites along with Western/American media.

Hey that's Japan for ya!

I am by no means an expert of Japanese culture. But from what I can tell, web designers would rather portray the custom animations and glossy menus that you can only achieve through Flash. That is why so many websites are coded strangely, and most of the game/anime websites are using a Flash intro.

I think it's a little of both TBH. I do notice that Japanese designs like to kind of go their own way.

Maybe the Flash layouts are more "exciting" and so it sells more products? This is a great question. It is understandable that it may be easier to add custom renders & graphics of the characters. I would love to speak with somebody from Japan or someone who understands the culture to gauge their opinion.

That's a very eloquent way of putting it :)

Then the members of those governments should be indicted on a long list of felony charges against the rights of human beings on this planet. The general people suffer because all the money addicts need their fix, and so they pay our politicians to change the laws to accommodate their needs. They don't care about us and they never will as long as they control the printing presses.

Yeah this is great! Pretty recent as well, thanks so much for sharing it looks interesting.