Hi Mike,
About six month ago you helped me through the "minefield" of eating as a gajin in Japan.
Let's call it a rousing success (it helps if you even like natto, but I digress).
Let me state for the record that your posts are shear awesomeness in contents and the amount of information provided.
Thanks!"
I couldn't find the original comment by "mikekchar", but when you google "site:news.ycombinator.com mikekchar japan" you find many interesting comments about Japan.
Their code explicitly depended on the wording of exception messages because they were using a dynamic language. Java is a typed language, where we can match on exception types:
if (ex instanceof NullPointerException)
catch (NullPointerException ex) {
It is therefore rare for Java programmers to match on exception messages (it would be a mistake).
> "More formally, in owner-occupancy, the landlord–tenant relationship is short-circuited. Consider a model: two people, A and B, each of whom owns property. If A lives in B's property, and B lives in A's, two financial transactions take place: each pays rent to the other. But if A and B are both owner-occupiers, no money changes hands even though the same economic relationships exists; there are still two owners and two occupiers, but the transactions between them no longer go through the market. The amount that would have changed hands had the owner and occupier been different persons is the imputed rent."
> "The government loses the opportunity to tax the transaction. Sometimes, governments have attempted to tax the imputed rent (Schedule A of United Kingdom's income tax used to do that), but it tends to be unpopular. Some countries still tax the imputed rent, such as Iceland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Switzerland. The absence of taxes on imputed rents is also referred to as Home-Ownership Bias."
If the owner-occupier can be taxed for inputed rent, then the owner-occupier should also be able to depreciate and expense every blasted cent put into any expense whatsoever made in connection with the property.
"App Review - We review all apps and app updates submitted to the App Store in an effort to determine whether they are reliable, perform as expected, and are free of offensive material."
I'm actually one of those paranoid doofus. I have a few 2 TB backup hard drives encrypted with Truecrypt (before the Truecrypt devs decided to abandon the project), and I can't remember the password...
I tried to brute-force it using John The Ripper, but after a few hours trying to configure it with a dictionary, I just gave up. I'll need to get back to it some day !
I recently learned that the parisian subway and suburban trains contain a lot of particulate pollution (e.g. PM10), caused by braking (electrical brakes would reduce this) and rail grinding (maintenance done to reduce squealing in curves). The small particulate pollution is actually worse than what you find in traffic jams in the city center...
I'm looking into buying an anti-pollution mask. It will probably look weird, since nobody wears masks there... People will probably think I'm sick or something. Maybe I should buy some techwear clothing to complete the "goth-ninja" look, but I'm not sure how that will fly at work.
I have an air purifier at home since 3 years (Philips AC4072/11). I think it's a good investment, since I spend around 50% of the time at home. It also seems to have helped with my allergies, but that might be placebo.
Wasn't challenge/response / SRP authentication debunked ?
https://www.nccgroup.trust/us/about-us/newsroom-and-events/b...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2859470