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I'm confused about it to. I suggested some possibilities in the "How did it get locked in the first place?" of the article.

Yes, I was kicking myself for not putting a sticker on it. I didn't mention it in the article, but I was going through security with my young child, so it was a bit of a hectic situation to begin…

Unfortunately, this wasn't covered by the travel insurance that goes along with my credit card. I didn't purchase additional travel insurance, and I'm in the fortunate position that I c…

I'm in Japan. From what I've heard, chargebacks are nearly impossible to initiate here. Besides, I bought it with a corporate debit card, so it wasn't an option either. With small claim…

I didn't set up "Find My". The connection with the Activation Lock wasn't obvious to me. The main thing Apple emphasizes is that you can recover a missing device. But it wasn'…

The serial number matches mine. I suppose they could have scratched it off and repainted it, but that seems doubtful.

I started blogging about developer events I was attending in Japan back in 2010. As I was the only one writing about it in English, the content naturally ranked well. That led a fellow Canadian to my …

As someone living in Japan, this doesn’t strike me as something locals would complain about. Heck, my Japanese in-laws did a week long van camping trip last year, and I think they’d be impressed with …

I’ve been on the opposite side of this, being a native English speaker working in Japan. I’d talk to your manager about it, but focus on your feelings of exclusion rather than proposing any specific s…

Google has been encouraging job boards to add structured data to job postings: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/structure... . LinkedIn is presumably u…

The thing I’m most interested in isn’t in this article nor the source it cites: how was the tweet itself reported or discovered by the authorities in the first place?

That’s not the case in my experience. I’ve been living in Japan since 2006 and can’t recall seeing an iPod in forever.

Radiolab did an interesting piece on gender and sports a couple years back. https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/dutee Gender is a nuanced thing, and …

While the broken windows theory was popular in the past, the research doesn’t support it: https://news.northeastern.edu/2019/05/15/northeastern-univer... …

The History of Japanese Economic Development: Origins of Private Dynamism and Policy Competence ( https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B075FX5X5J/ ) is the best source I fou…

Well, potentially it can if you aren't following the regulations, and it is classified as recruiting. For instance, if your job board recommends sends recommendations to individuals to apply to a…

In the UK, recruiters actually used to be licensed, but this requirement was largely removed in the 1970s. In researching my other article on recruiting in Japan ( https://www.tokyodev.com&#…

Match Group owns and operates several online dating services including Tinder, Match.com, Meetic, OkCupid, Hinge, and PlentyOfFish. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Match_Group …

From the article, the question asked was "Would you rather the police spend more time, the same amount of time or less time as they currently spend in your area?", and was "administered…

To be pedantic, Mt. Fuji's is called Fujisan in Japanese (the character 山 can be read as yama or san).

According to this article ( https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/12/national/scienc... ), Japan doesn’t currently have the capacity to test everyone.…

Any hiring process will by definition favour certain kinds of candidates at the expense of others. Having a week long paid trial is a great way for the company to be less conservative about who they t…

With Japan's incarceration rate of 41 per 100,000 people, one of the lowest in the world, your chance of being falsely convicted is exceedingly low (as only a very small percentage of the populat…

Stripe has built a type checker for Ruby that they're using internally. I don't think it has been released yet, but you can get a preview of it at https://sorbet.run/ .…