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kinbiko··on Retro Computer Museum
In the UK instead of “booster shot” they say “borcester shot”.
kinbiko··on Shoshikantetsu
強 and 共 are read kyou, not kyuu
kinbiko··on Show HN: A Japanese learning app focused on efficient vocab/grammar acquisition
Your timing could not be better. Just this morning I was thinking how I'm set on the kanji front (with Anki) but I could really use a system for learning more vocab and grammar at an advanced level.

Then this came along. Excited to have a go!

kinbiko··on Laundry at the end of the world
Started reading about laundry but ended up reading the entire blog… Very interesting stuff!
kinbiko··on Amazon is not going to make a bid for Electronic Arts – sources
Wild guess, but it could be that Amazon’s strategy involves Twitch somehow.
kinbiko··on Subreply
> English-only, global (…)

That must be a record for quickest contradiction.

Unless by “global” they mean… no, I’m stumped.

kinbiko··on The Grug Brained Developer
Kevin, is that you?
kinbiko··on What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922)
Before clicking on this link I was thinking "oh yeah, I know of one such example near where I used to live in Bath". And then I clicked the link... and now I'm terrified of you.
kinbiko··on Even with Agile and Scrum waterfall will sneak in
> To this day I still don’t understand how one can read the agile manifesto and somehow get to scrum.

It's almost like scrum pre-dates the agile manifesto. (Which it does)

kinbiko··on Ask HN: Most interesting, mildly impractical, well-written books on software?
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code:_The_Hidden_Language_of_C... comes to mind.
kinbiko··on Server-side rendering: how to serve authenticated content
Sick ASCII art.