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There is next iteration of 3DS rolling out right now. Many countries adopted it already. It's designed, among other things, to minimize the friction for the buyers.

I see a lot of HN users living in HN bubble completely forgetting that we are a minority of consumers. Most of Reddit audience is either not educated enough, don't have enough exposure to see the difference or simply don't care. Did we all forgot about eternal September already? So, unfortunately, no - users won't even notice this because they have no idea what's valuable to them and they will buy anything as long as it's packaged nicely. For the same reason they also won't vote with their wallets even when (as you say) "everyone" knows that testimonials are garbage.

I see you have your reasons so I am not going to try to sway your opinion. But other languages I have experience with, recently, are Go and Rust and there is no better platform to code like the JetBrains IDEs. I've tried VSCode myself and I know people who were trying other platforms, VI included. It's just no comparison.

Some people have strong preferences and that's fine but for general audience I strongly advise - try JetBrains IDE for your language od choice. Try it for a month and then go back to your old tool. In my case, JB IDEs are so convenient, accurate, feature rich and just fun to use that I find going back not pleasant experience.

I'm not saying that katsu kare is not existent in Japan, but in the UK it is basically the only kare you can get. On the contrary in Tokyo you have it among ten other options and it is definitely not the most popular one. I can say only about my experiences but I'd say the most popular is one with beef which is put in the stew.

The name of the dish is simply kare rasiu (curry with rise) and that's most common form. It's also super simple to make if you have rice cooker at home. Just pre-fry some onion, carrot and potatoes on the pan, then boil it with considerate amount of water and add curry blocks to it - done. You may add meat but it's just an additional ingredient which can be easily omitted. You can make it once and it lasts for couple of days. You can even freeze it if you want.

What's wrong with Timex? IIRC it was almost a perfect clone.

Not sure about Chinese, but Japanese food in UK is mostly not edible, by my standards at least. Being fusion is a huge disadvantage for me. I go to Japanese restaurant when I want to taste original Japanese cuisine not some generic Asian mishmash. Either this or some obscure version of the dishes. Like, where does it come from that kare (curry) must always be katsu? Funnily enough this katsu is chicken. First time in my life I see katsu chicken. It should be pork. Or katsudon without an egg on top. Or tonkotsu ramen (in super hyper popular and regarded place) that doesn't look nor taste like one. It was good enough ramen, but why call it tonkotsu if it doesn't resemble it? Sure there are one or two good restaurants in city but that takes 1h minimum from zone 4 - one way.

The thing is that you have to kill to eat. Doesn't really matter what do you eat - something has to die for you to live. When you realize that, it's much easier to treat not only cows but everything around you with respect. We've got this respect long time ago and we've forgot about it all after agricultural revolution. Kind of sad...

You do but it requires minimum effort from your side. Have to be friendly and speak Japanese, even if just a bit.

It looks to me like listening practice, really. This is something that people usualy do when they want to learn a new language - we are learning languages not by sitting in class but through immersion. I'm wondering how the results would look like if they'd introduce third group - people who actively watch/listen to Chinese TV shows or podcasts.

I don't want to discourage the author but, to be honest, what I see is nowhere close to what I figure would help me to learn Japanese. Questions I see on home page have nothing to do with learning - some about traveling around the country, some about translating "good morning", etc. True - I haven't registered. TBH though I don't see why should I.

When it comes to learning any language, but Japanese in particular, I can't thank enough to the guys who created Mass Immersion Approach web page[0]. Their method is based on Stephen Krashen's "language acquisition through comprehensible input"[1] and... it just works.

I've been learning Japanese in the classroom for around 2 years. I've been living in Japan for 5 years and my Japanese was rather mediocre. I've left Japan for a year and forgot a lot. Grammar is gone now, most sentence patterns are gone, mose kanji (and I've never been big on kanji) are gone.

Now, after 4 months of MIA I am better then I've ever been. If you truly want to learn the language - read the page, watch their YT videos[2], just do yourself a favor and stop wasting your time.

PS. I am not related. Just a happy learner.

[0] https://massimmersionapproach.com/

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiTsduRreug

[2] https://www.youtube.com/c/MATTvsJapan/

Did you read the article? Author knows about, mentions it in first sentence and still is against putting secrets there.

Unfortunately being senior is not a good indicator of someone's ability to design and write good code. Yes, it should be. No, it not always is, as my experience shows.

Now, if you are senior yourself, probably, you can see that. But when you're junior developer it's very easily to misguide yourself by looking at the senior staff without questioning anything.

So, I'd add to your advice this. Yes, learn from senior developers by observing what they do and then read more about the topic to see if they are doing right thing. Also, try to find out what are the other approaches and opinions. Even if you don't agree with them it's good to diversify your knowledge.

And the best is that Western people would laugh out loud at them for wearing masks any other day. But, irony, that was one of the biggest factor in this case. Considering that they have an elderly society I'd say they did an outstanding job.

To be honest this is how it should be. I am customer of the restaurant and waiter is employee of same restaurant. I am not paying tip to clerk in bank, nor to the hairdressers, etc. In Japan tip is not only discouraged but waiters wouldn't even accept one. Why they can do it and we don't?

Not OP but I think they are talking about Diamond Age. It's set in futuristic Victorian society.

You've made a cardinal mistake of not sharing the minutes right after the meeting or, even better, as a last point of the meeting itself. Would that happen, you could reply: "Well, this is what you saw and accepted before."

Must be a matter of preference but this is exactly what I hate about godoc. I'd love to use markdown or any other structure, really. Just a wall of plain text is sometimes good, but most of the time bad idea for readability. And the idea of starting each godoc comment with function/variable name is terrible. YMMV.

Depends what are you working on. Kernel is nothing alike enterprise environment. If you have services in your architecture, deployed separately, that is perfect argument to split your repository.

Personnel may be partially unavailable, but - home or office - developers are doing the same job as they always did. At least from the users point of view it didn't change that much.

But this is exactly what people do. Donating is not about helping others (in many cases) but to feel better for themselves. And people like to share when they feel better. I'd say we are, not so rarely, being nudged to donate, either by friends or coworkers who did this. I'm observing the change, in some circles, that makes you feel bad if you don't donate. Donating is something people talk about, bragging about, advocating for - it may not be signal per se but people are making it a signal.

That may be. But wearer of surgical mask creates moisture by breathing and a lot of it. One would suspect that kind of environment works in favor of a virus.

They won't help you at all. All they do is creating false sense of safety. Viruses are too small and will go through the mask anyway. Also they may protect half of your face against your hands but they won't protect other half, say, against rubbing your eyes.

They may help you to minimize the spread if you are already sick, sneezing and coughing. Droplets are big enough to be stopped by mask. This is actually the reason why surgeons are wearing masks in the first place - not to contaminate the patient.

Unless we are talking about something more advanced. Like above mentioned N95.

This reminds me of Polish National Library web site. They did the same thing some years ago. They went into great effort to scan and publish digitally huge amount of books, publications, postcards, images, etc. Some books are centuries old. A lot of Polish content but not only. Have to admit, looking at old prints is a magical experience to me.

https://polona.pl/ (change language on the bottom)

Edit: I can see now, both, Smithsonian and National Library of Poland are part of the IIIF Consortium.

What if a bookmark title contains multiple words? How do you choose where to put it?

Wouldn't like to be in shoes of GitHub engineers right now. Must be a lot of pressure. I am wondering how does the outage processes look like in a company of this scale.

Seems like push, pull works. At least for me. Web page, indeed, doesn't - can't create PR, can't review code, comment, merge, etc.

I don't think they are common in Tokyo. I've seen them few times, maybe. In most cases people just put their umrellas in an umbrella stands in front of the stores, restaurants or combini. Since most of them look similar, people get confused about which one is theirs. I've heard that nothing gets stolen in Japan, except for bikes and umbrellas. Not sure about bicycle - still got mine, but indeed I've got my unmbrella misplaced once or twice.

I wouldn't point any specific companies. It is highly subjective. I know people working in both - Rakuten and Uniqlo - who are happy with their jobs. Those are big companies and, the same as in the West, all is down to luck. If you happen to work with decent people you'll be fine.

As someone with similar experience, I disagree completely. It lies deeply in Japanese culture and is thaught since early days. Proiximity to the police station has nothing to do with it.

If anything, they will leave things on the street if there is no koban near by. Every single kid knows that, if you see some unattended property, the safest option is to leave it be. If it's a commodity then you can return it and probably should. Everything else you don't touch (and by any circumstances you don't touch bicycles!)

I don't remember the thread, but there was a story here on HN about the guy who tried to take and return the bike to the police station. He was, to his own surprise, questioned hardly about why did he do that and what was he thinking. They wanted to put him in detention, too.

I do agree about police helpers, though. I am not living in Japan anymore and, boy, I am missing that.

These are not the businesses we're looking for.