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Also very impressive (and delivered with great humor)

!!Con 2015 - Kevin Lynagh: I made a cell phone! (DON'T TELL THE FCC KTHX!)

https://youtu.be/FlRa-iH7PGw?si=8OlGBQNcQRo_biuU

I still have the circuit diagram (paper copy) that shipped with my Acorn Atom in, ahem, 1981. Didn’t ask for it!

(Edit: with the help of the circuit diagram we did make a simple mod to one of the output ports of the device)

3/20 Have been using AWS since S3

Ouch! Horribly wrong on https://www.agedfish.com/blog/meiwaku-and-the-brompton-bell....

Maybe the Star Wars reference threw it.

Echoing @ivvve. Keep it up and thanks for sharing.

I happened to need exactly this and was putting off coding it up myself. Signed up and was testing a live set-up within minutes. Very nice!

Not quite useless. POST tells the server to check for a body which I think is a reasonable indication of intent. But otherwise, yes, it’s all arbitrary and just vague hints to the server program as to what you might possibly be thinking of doing…

Can verify this having been woken up more than once by a -very- attention getting earthquake alarm on my or my employer’s iPhone. A contender for Most Shock and Awe in a single notification.

Still got my copy somewhere; will dig it out and re-read, though I suspect with some disappointment and sadness.

I’ve undertaken information security training in a number of Japanese companies. They all had what I thought was a disproportionate weighting on the “blind drunk salaryman falls asleep on a train and leaves behind a laptop, mobile phone, USB stick etc.” scenario.

I stand corrected.

Edited for clarity

Most Japanese kitchens have a combined microwave and oven; the oven is consequently small compared to one in the US but works well enough. Woks are used for Chinese cooking and so aren't standard in a Japanese kitchen.

The fridges are small by comparison but, especially in cities, most people shop several times a week and so space isn't a problem.

Great to hear. Have used Dead Man's Snitch in the past and plan to do so again in the future.

Forth was available for the Acorn Atom (early 80s). Sadly, didn't have the money or time to go down that route then. Had fun with its Basic though...

+1 for The Culture Map. I would recommend for both old timers and new comers to multi-national/ multi-cultural workplaces.

This is utterly wonderful - brought to mind the film Brazil's fly in a typewriter.

I'm now going to have to go down the rabbit hole of each of these ghost kanji. Good times.

Agree. The $25/month stops me using it for side projects that generate small but non-zero revenue. Love the concept but not sure when I'll get to play time on something genuinely personal.

Tokyo (not sure about the rest of Japan) has similar with a number of 'play parks' within larger parks. Rope swings, makeshift slides, saws, hammers and nails abound. The kids come back smelling of smoke from the communal bonfire though...

See http://playpark.jp (Japanese only)

Different article (same subject though) already discussed on HN at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16320964

Both the original Japanese (meaning 5 times) and possibly pun Japanese (meaning misunderstanding) are read as 'gokai'.

In fairness, on site the itself it is pretty clearly highlighted as sponsored content.

Must admit that I was disappointed on clicking to find that it wasn't actual reporting.

Doh! Many thanks; have updated.

Got me!

The Ministry of Testing is a good starting point, http://www.ministryoftesting.com

If doesn't sound like you are providing an API but if you are feel free to mail me directly (email is in my profile) for some resources; my company works in that area of testing.

Another of the SOAS intake at that time was Bernard T Smith, an RAF officer, who was posted to Japan in 1946 to take part in the rebuilding process. Bernard was subsequently involved in the UK computing industry. His paper on a general purpose query language, SPECOL, is interesting to read today given it was published in the 60s. (http://comjnl.oxfordjournals.org/content/11/2/121.full.pdf)

(My company published a Japanese translation of his 1946 memoirs and I had the very good fortune to meet Bernard. Sadly, he passed away last year).