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Anecdotally, I saw a neat open-source cryptocurrency system that come from Japan. From hearsay, I heard he is a cryptography researcher since he published a nic

by kiba 16y ago

Anecdotally, I saw a neat open-source cryptocurrency system that come from Japan. From hearsay, I heard he is a cryptography researcher since he published a nice professional looking technical paper on his system. Other than that, nobody knows who he really is. Other than that, I used the Ruby programming language. There's not much else that I knew come from Japan in software. If they did come out though, they are pretty awesome.

patio11 16y ago
There's not much else that I knew come from Japan in software. If you routinely play video games, use consumer electronics, or travel via automobiles, odds are quite good you have used Japanese software recently. Don't worry: you are hardly the only person who forgets to count those. The other category of software Japan is big in is Big Freaking Enterprise backoffice ware, which is overwhelmingly sold to Big Freaking Japanese Enterprises and a few foreign customers who have to interoperate closely with them. (Totally hypothetically speaking, imagine you had a large automobile manufacturer whose supply chain could practically apply for membership to the United Nations. Their backend software might have significant uptake among companies who enjoy pleasing their #1 customer.) We're really, really behind the US curve in the consumer web space, though. (Working on it!)
- tezza 16y ago
  Yeah Mitsubishi, Mitsui and of course the huge Fujitsu... there's plenty of software gorillas in Japan. Maybe the parent poster has just never needed a Nuclear Silo/Underground Railsystem/Maglev Train.
- gaius 16y ago
  The article says, embedded software is completely different.
  - kls 16y ago
    And it is, for some reason, maybe higher barrier to entrance, embedded seems to foster an older alumni it is also far more rewarding to those who stay on a technical tract. The way I see it, in pure play software dev, it up or out or freelance (which is really management but you get to sling some code). I chose the latter after doing a stint in embedded and later executive management. The problem with embedded is that there just are not a lot of opportunities in the states outside of some concentrated areas.

by kiba 16y ago

patio11 16y ago

There's not much else that I knew come from Japan in software. If you routinely play video games, use consumer electronics, or travel via automobiles, odds are quite good you have used Japanese software recently. Don't worry: you are hardly the only person who forgets to count those. The other category of software Japan is big in is Big Freaking Enterprise backoffice ware, which is overwhelmingly sold to Big Freaking Japanese Enterprises and a few foreign customers who have to interoperate closely with them. (Totally hypothetically speaking, imagine you had a large automobile manufacturer whose supply chain could practically apply for membership to the United Nations. Their backend software might have significant uptake among companies who enjoy pleasing their #1 customer.) We're really, really behind the US curve in the consumer web space, though. (Working on it!)

tezza 16y ago
Yeah Mitsubishi, Mitsui and of course the huge Fujitsu... there's plenty of software gorillas in Japan. Maybe the parent poster has just never needed a Nuclear Silo/Underground Railsystem/Maglev Train.
gaius 16y ago
The article says, embedded software is completely different.
- kls 16y ago
  And it is, for some reason, maybe higher barrier to entrance, embedded seems to foster an older alumni it is also far more rewarding to those who stay on a technical tract. The way I see it, in pure play software dev, it up or out or freelance (which is really management but you get to sling some code). I chose the latter after doing a stint in embedded and later executive management. The problem with embedded is that there just are not a lot of opportunities in the states outside of some concentrated areas.