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Personal Blog to Profitable Business: The Story of TokyoDev(tokyodev.com)
1 points by pwim 3y ago|0 comments
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by pwim 3y ago
I'm confused about it to. I suggested some possibilities in the "How did it get locked in the first place?" of the article.
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by pwim 3y ago
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 with.
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by pwim 3y ago
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 can eat the cost of a replacement, so it
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by pwim 3y ago
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 claims court, I doubt my Japanese fluency is
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by pwim 3y ago
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't obvious to me how that would work with
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by pwim 3y ago
The serial number matches mine. I suppose they could have scratched it off and repainted it, but that seems doubtful.
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Not setting up Find My bricked my MacBook(tokyodev.com)
419 points by pwim 3y ago|556 comments
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The Difficulties of Getting a Software Developer Job in Japan in 2023(tokyodev.com)
2 points by pwim 3y ago|0 comments
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by pwim 4y ago
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 blog, who asked how I found a job here.
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by pwim 4y ago
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 this person’s setup.
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by pwim 4y ago
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 solutions. It’s certainly natural to feel
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by pwim 4y ago
Google has been encouraging job boards to add structured data to job postings: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/structure... . LinkedIn is presumably using this data to pull the postings in.
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by pwim 5y ago
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?
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Downs–Thomson Paradox(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by pwim 5y ago|0 comments
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by pwim 5y ago
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.
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by pwim 5y ago
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 there's no way to definitively divi
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by pwim 6y ago
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...
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by pwim 6y ago
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 found. As the author wrote it to help gover
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by pwim 6y ago
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 certain job based on their profile, eve
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by pwim 6y ago
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/2020/10/01/recruiting
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by pwim 6y ago
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
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Recruiters and Human Traffickers: A History of Employment Agencies in Japan(tokyodev.com)
1 points by pwim 6y ago|0 comments
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by pwim 6y ago
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 by web in English and conducted as part
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by pwim 6y ago
To be pedantic, Mt. Fuji's is called Fujisan in Japanese (the character 山 can be read as yama or san).
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Reflections from a Token Black Friend(medium.com)
7 points by pwim 6y ago|2 comments
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by pwim 7y ago
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.
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by pwim 7y ago
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 try out, but will also mean they’ll miss
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by pwim 7y ago
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 population is convicted of crimes, wrongly or o
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by pwim 8y ago
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/ .

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