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by pwim 8y ago
Technically there is no law requiring there to be a shutter sound, but rather a standard practice that all Japanese mobile phones implement.
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by pwim 8y ago
Interestingly, sometimes the system is used for future dates. For instance, my drivers license expires in September of H.31, which I guess will never happen now.
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The Subtle Art of Hiring World-Class Engineers(medium.com)
2 points by pwim 8y ago|0 comments
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by pwim 9y ago
Here in Japan, I've never been to a place where you don't flush your toilet paper. In fact, they sometimes run into the opposite problem, with tourists not knowing you're supposed to flush the paper ( https://www.ja
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by pwim 9y ago
It sucks to hear you've been getting one year renewals. Unfortunately when it comes to bureaucracy here in Japan, things are on a case by case basis, so its hard to make any sweeping judgements. As a counterpoint, I came here on a work
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by pwim 9y ago
Having lived here a decade, I consider it my home. While I’ll never be considered Japanese, I do find acceptance in society here. Japanese society classifies people as insiders or outsiders. The key I’ve found is to become active in some co
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by pwim 9y ago
In Tokyo it is possible to get a job as a software developer without speaking Japanese. After living here a couple years someone decides they like life here, but want to run their own business. Maybe they want to run a SaaS or something tha
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by pwim 9y ago
Almost all participants are English speakers. Typically 70 or so of the participants are non-Japanese.
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Hacker News Tokyo Japan Meetup (Dec 6th)(hntokyo.doorkeeper.jp)
2 points by pwim 9y ago|0 comments
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by pwim 9y ago
The linked article looks like SEO spam to me. There's no sources and the article looks like it's a rehash of Linus's wikipedia page. Given that his employer is the Linux Foundation, I'd be surprised if they were paying h
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by pwim 9y ago
The author of the post agrees with you that library code is different: > I should mention that almost all of my open source projects have 100% code coverage. This is because most of my open source projects are smaller libraries and tools
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by pwim 9y ago
Your pricing is way too cheap, and makes it hard to take seriously. As a business, there is no difference between $5 and $15 per month (and if someone tells you differently, you don’t want their business).
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Babies at Work: It’s Weird That It’s Weird(medium.com)
3 points by pwim 9y ago|2 comments
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by pwim 9y ago
According to the article, more than half the states have no firm minimum age for marriage. For many states, it is below the age of consent. In some states, statutory rape is not considered such if the partners are married. It seems that the
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by pwim 10y ago
One of the first guidelines, "Assume no malice", is one I take to heart, and wish it was applied by people here to this announcement. Maybe you've never experienced any problems with the open source community. Personally, I k
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by pwim 10y ago
1) Subdomains. If you're app utilises subdomains, you need to use a TLD. 2) Integration with development tools like http://pow.cx/ or https://github.com/puma/puma-dev allow you to automatically st
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Saving Sprockets(schneems.com)
1 points by pwim 10y ago|0 comments
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by pwim 10y ago
Previously I thought hiring diversity for diversity's sake didn't make sense, and hiring should be based solely on "merit". After all, as a company, you want to hire the best people. However, since then, I have found the
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by pwim 11y ago
If you require a visa to visit a country where you need a visa, I would suggest contacting the organiser for an invitation letter. Organisers of international conferences are used to getting this kind of inquiry, and know how to deal with i
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by pwim 11y ago
While there are many companies in Japan where people do work a ton of overtime, there are also companies where people work little to no overtime. For instance, I'm currently doing consulting for a Japanese start up where most people le
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by pwim 11y ago
For some interesting insight into why trade agreements are negotiated in secret, listen to this planet money episode: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/06/26/417851577/episo... . Part of th
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by pwim 11y ago
Are your top customers really only paying you $97/month? Seems like you could charge them substantially more money.
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Hagoromo president explains why he closed down his beloved chalk business(asia.nikkei.com)
307 points by pwim 11y ago|110 comments
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by pwim 11y ago
As someone who has a startup with a multilingual web service (English / Japanese), I normally tell people considering translating their service to hold off as long as possible. Going from have a unilingual website to a multilingual one
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Environment Variables Considered Harmful for Your Secrets(movingfast.io)
193 points by pwim 12y ago|109 comments
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by pwim 12y ago
If they are sharing an account, they aren't really cheating - your application just isn't providing them any benefits to have multiple users. If you find a large percentage of accounts are shared, then maybe you should take a look
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by pwim 12y ago
In my experience, bots don't execute JavaScript (yet). I add a hidden "spam" field to the form. When the form is submitted, I use Javascript to remove it. If the field is still present when sending to the server, flag the ent
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by pwim 12y ago
It's hard to come up with concrete numbers, but here's a unscientific survey I did: http://www.tokyodev.com/2014/02/13/japanese-developer-salary...
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by pwim 12y ago
If you are doing web development in Tokyo, your salary is probably between ¥400,000 and ¥800,000 per month.
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by pwim 12y ago
If you are interested in working as a developer in Japan, it's a topic I've written about a bunch: http://www.tokyodev.com/jobs/ One thing you might be clear is whether the positions are for English speakers

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