Have been through this pattern twice with Udacity. The first time I ended up not cancelling when the agent offering me a 50% discount on my subscription and the second time I just needed to keep replying "I want to cancel my subscription" to every response

Defender was my fathers favourite video game and I have fond memories of playing with him when I got a port of it for the megadrive.

Same story for me. I remember him teaching me how to play as a kid while I stood on a stool between him and the machine at the local arcade.

I don't need to be convinced of the benefits of semantic HTML anymore. It's been made clear in numerous similar articles. What I would like to see are examples that are not trivial news/blog type apps.

The problem is that the semantics of HTML are the semantics of trivial news/blogs. Didn't they say that when HTML5 came out that many of the tag names and concepts were distilled by looking at the frequency of class names used across the internet, and isn't most of the open, indexable internet blogs and forums.

The semantics of the web and the semantics of an application are almost completely different, so those of us trying to ship actual applications over the web are torn between trying to find the closest possible HTML element and customizing it, resulting in non-standard behavior, or just rolling our own div with our own needs.

What sort of apps do you think are difficult to get right, and would make good examples?

I think something like a google maps type app where the results in the sidebar can be a fairly complex set of items would be great to see. Or a typical SaaS app dashboard with cards, a sidebar, charts etc.

Yes it reminded me of a similar story about snakes in India. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect

Kobe, Japan.

I currently live in in Tokyo but have visited Kobe many times and loved the more relaxed atmosphere and smaller size of the city compared to Tokyo. You are also very close to Osaka and Kyoto and even getting back Tokyo is easy with the shinkansen.

This seems to be the case for most banks in Japan. Also a lot of government services. Last year I ended up posting some documents to immigration because I could not get their online form to work.

Most JP banks I’ve used work fine with any browser - I use my UFJ account regularly in Safari, etc.

Shinsei is just a crap bank, and IIRC Mizuho can be a PITA depending on what you’re trying to do.

I remember, for immigration process, having to use IE to download a PDF form and install Adobe Reader to open it. Strangely enough, it also had to be opened on a desktop machine, laptops are NG.

Location: Toyko Remote: Open to remote Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Vuejs, React (including Native), Python (flask, django), Firebase

CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daryl-cole/

Email: [email protected]

Looking for a junior to mid level frontend or fullstack role where I can both take ownership of parts of the project but also learn from more experienced developers on the team.

I have gone the other way, after using Vue at work for the last year it feels like such a relief when I get to go back to React and just write plain Javascript.

Having failed the on-site’s with several “big” companies this year these anecdotes resonate with me.

Getting out of an industry I knew I wasn't right for before it was too late. I took a job at an animation company about 5 years ago. Initially making iPhone applications as they were trying to break into that market at the time. That work dried up and I found myself doing more work as a pipeline director and technical artist. Work in that field requires a lot of specific knowledge and I did not want to invest the time to understanding it if I did not see myself staying in that industry forever. I moved to another company as a web developer and never looked back.