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justusw

910 karma · joined September 17, 2015

hello@justus.pw

My interests are: telecommunication, FOSS and decentralisation.

I run a consultancy in Tokyo focusing on software development and Open Source. I organise an online APL/J/K user group on meetup.com

Hire me!

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justusw··on One-night stands will be illegal at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar
And what happens, when you get caught smoking weed in Qatar?
justusw··on How I would start my next startup in Germany without a GmbH (2020)
If you never make any profit, you don't need to set aside 25 % of your profits.
justusw··on Ask HN: How do you record your personal finances?
I switched from YNAB to Gnucash and I am very happy with it. I even wrote a couple of scripts to convert Shift JIS encoded csvs to work with Gnucash transaction import. I have an accounting routine that I run through every month and import everything from dozens of bank accounts.

The community is also very nice and they were very accommodating towards my bug reports and fixed them very quickly (it had something to do with IME not working well on macOS).

justusw··on Penkesu Computer – A Homebrew Retro-style Laptop
Is this available for purchase?
justusw··on There's been a big rise in monitoring workers at home
That’s just plain creepy. Germany had many cases of super market and drug store chains secretly spying on their employees and they were rightfully punished for their practices. https://www.focus.de/finanzen/karriere/berufsleben/spitzel-v... (2013)
justusw··on Stripe hiring issues make some lose job offers
In Japan, a written job offer is almost as good as a job contract, so if the company decides to rescind it, you’ve got legal grounds to sue them. I assumed that something similar should exist in the US and I am relieved to hear that might actually be the case.
justusw··on Event Sourcing Is Hard (2019)
Is Event Sourcing compatible with GDPR?
justusw··on Why don’t we just open the windows? Covid-19 prevention lost in translation
In Tokyo most train companies agreed to keep the windows open at all times and encourage passengers to lower the windows if they see a closed one. Cooperation is very high and I only see them closed when it rains.
justusw··on Proof of stake is incapable of producing a consensus
But we the people is usually restricted to one country. How do you get multiple countries to cooperate and ban cryptocurrency mining?
justusw··on Proof of stake is incapable of producing a consensus
How were Charles Hoskinson and Gavin Wood enriched? Is this about Cardano and Polkadot?
justusw··on I hate password rules
Could that mean that the password is stored unhashed?
justusw··on A guide to organizing settings in Django
Furthermore I would like to add that having DEBUG set to True by default could lead you to accidentally enabling Django debug mode in production which could lead to accidentally leaking secrets.
justusw··on Show HN: Hamilton, a Microframework for Creating Dataframes
This project reminds me a lot of Dask https://dask.org/. A library that allows delayed calculation of complex dataframes in Python.
justusw··on Japanese death row inmates sue over same-day executions
It’s absurd that Japan despite being such a developed country still has the capital punishment.
justusw··on Coconut: Simple, elegant, Pythonic functional programming
Nice project. It reminds me of dogelang (dg) for Python: https://pyos.github.io/dg/
justusw··on A viable solution for Python concurrency
I’m not an expert on Node.js but I was always under the impression that you couldn’t write await outside of an async function. Has that changed recently?
justusw··on Black Children Were Jailed for a Crime That Doesn’t Exist
The judge, Davenport, sounds like an insane person.
justusw··on Thoughts on chess improvement, after gaining 600 points in 6 months
Isn’t that called cheating?
justusw··on Thoughts on chess improvement, after gaining 600 points in 6 months
Regarding the toxic community, there is a reason chess.com hides chat unless you enable it.
justusw··on Bitcoin is a Ponzi
That sounds absolutely terrible. Were you ever able to take legal recourse?
justusw··on Apple requires account deletion within apps in AppStore starting January 31
This is great news. I've struggled so many times with websites that either don't offer a deletion option in the account/profile settings or where customer support never responds to requests. My hope is that deletion in this case really means deletion: The user data will not remain in their database to then eventually be accidentally leaked or hacked.
justusw··on How I Failed to Change Wasmer
It's not worth it to sacrifice everything over a WASM runtime. I hope the author takes more than just a couple of months to gain some perspective on what is important and get out of his burnout. I've been in a similar situation and burnout really sucks. Hope you get better!
justusw··on Sqlfluff the SQL Linter for Humans
I guess it depends on what you want out of a linter e.g. if you want it to check just syntax or semantics as well. Is “= NULL” syntactically correct?
justusw··on Postgres Full-Text Search: A search engine in a database
Same story for performing searches in Japanese.
justusw··on When Vaccine Apathy, Not Hesitancy, Drives Vaccine Disinterest
Do you have a source on this?
justusw··on New LinkedIn Data Leak Leaves 700M Users Exposed
This is why it’s good to only share data with LinkedIn that you expect to be leaked.
justusw··on Puppy Pregnancy in Humans: A Culture-Bound Disorder (2003)
What is a true female only space? That sounds like transphobic rhetoric.
justusw··on UiPath on track to be the best-ever European seed investment
And what exactly are those rules that Western Europe is coming up with?
justusw··on Zero arrests in 6 months of health care professionals replacing police officers
> Psychiatry does not know how to cure mental illness.

Source on this? Keep in mind that psychiatry doesn't only deal with mild to moderate depression, but some really severe disorders.

justusw··on Simulating the PIN cracking scene in Terminator 2
I used to adore JT’s work after seeing it on Hacker News Monthly and feel very sad to hear about her fate.
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