makdad

Tokyo, Japan

longweekendmobile.com

Age: 30

Lifelong Web geek, but now 2 years of Cocoa Touch. Little Ruby here, a little SQL there. Finally, some Android.

My company Long Weekend LLC develops Awesome mobile experiences for you and your kids (no, really).

I post interesting stuff on Twitter: @makdad

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What is the difference between 〜となる and 〜になる?

grammar particles particle-to particle-ni asked May 31 '11 at 23:21

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16 votes

What are the differences between 〜ので and 〜から?

grammar nuances particles conjunctions asked Jun 2 '11 at 12:23

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11 votes

Since when is it possible to declare Objective-C 2.0 properties in a category?

objective-c properties category objective-c-2.0 asked Dec 27 '10 at 16:34

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10 votes

What is the sense of 気配がする (けはいがする) versus 気がする?

word-choice asked Jun 12 '11 at 4:12

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9 votes

How do I use うく as casual slang (as in ういた)?

slang asked Jun 6 '11 at 7:01

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9 votes

In Objective-C on iOS, what is the (style) difference between “self.foo” and “foo” when using synthesized getters?

objective-c properties setter getter asked Aug 16 '10 at 14:38

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8 votes

Which is better for a sales budget: 予算, 推計, or something I haven't even thought of yet?

word-choice business-japanese asked Aug 5 '11 at 2:36

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8 votes

TCP Socket communication between processes on Heroku worker dyno

ruby sockets tcp heroku worker asked Feb 17 '12 at 3:48

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8 votes

How do I set NSNumberFormatter to display numbers using “万” (Japanese/Chinese 10,000 marker)?

ios currency nsnumberformatter asked Jan 23 at 2:41

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7 votes

What's the word to use for “confidential”, as in a company report?

word-choice business-japanese asked Oct 21 '11 at 2:26

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what is the git equivalent for revision number?

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Do 以上 and 以下 include the number preceding them?

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What's the difference between the kanji forms for わかる?

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アニメと漫画で日本語を勉強することについて (On learning Japanese from anime/manga)

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Do people actually look down on you if you use a regional dialect as a Gaijin?

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is “超” (chō) seldom used in written works?

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Unit testing in XCode 4

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Usage of なんて and なんか as emphasis.

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At work, when is it not ok to finish an email with どうぞよろしくお願いします?

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Some questions about radicals

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Xcode 4: Run tests from the command line (xcodebuild)?

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Which is correct: こんばんわ or こんばんは?

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What is the correct usage of 承知しました, 了解です and かしこまりました, the more formal forms of 分かる?

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When should one add さん at the end of a name?

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What differences should I look out for between male vs female speech?

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how to set uitoolbar's background similar to my navigation bar

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How do you force audio to come out of the iPhone speaker when a headset is attached?

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What is the difference between 「ほど」 {hodo} and 「ぐらい」 {gurai}?

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What's the difference in usage and nuance between やはり and やっぱり?

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set UITextField as non editable - Objective C

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What is “-[UIApplication beginIgnoringInteractionEvents] overflow. Ignoring.”?

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When do you use 下さい　as opposed to ください

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Can you build an array of items from folder contents?

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Question About id and Delegate Usage in Obj-C

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SenTestingKit (integrated with XCode) versus GHUnit on XCode 4 for Unit Testing?

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Chinese words in Japanese

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When going somewhere, is there any difference between e (へ) and ni (に)?

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Where does なう on Twitter come from?

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Use of 自分【じぶん】as a personal pronoun in direct speech

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Unable to sign iPhone app with distribution certificate

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