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by shioyama 15y ago
As someone who has not yet worked professionally as a programmer (nor hired one), I might not be the best person to comment on this article (so take what I write with a grain of salt). But as someone aspiring to do so, I find this article a
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by shioyama 15y ago
I've been living across an ocean from my family for over 10 years, deactivated my FB account 2 years ago and never turned back. So I really don't understand your "ridiculous to even consider" -- there are many other ways to keep in touch, a
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Malaysia's Ministry of Defense Blames Google Translate for Website Errors(globalvoicesonline.org)
1 points by shioyama 15y ago|0 comments
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Groundshifts in the Japanese Systems Integration Sector(blogs.metropolis.co.jp)
1 points by shioyama 15y ago|0 comments
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by shioyama 15y ago
I was going to post something similar. Glad to see I'm not the only one who felt that line stood out.
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Ethan Zuckerman wants you to eat your (news) vegetables(niemanlab.org)
2 points by shioyama 15y ago|0 comments
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by shioyama 15y ago
There's a site like that for Japan, unfortunately only in Japanese though: http://www.datadata.jp/chintai/ You select a price range & other conditions, and a spot on the map with a radius, and it shows you all places that fit those re
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Agile vs Waterfall: A Japanese perspective(globalvoicesonline.org)
15 points by shioyama 15y ago|0 comments
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Japan's Former Computer Lag(neojaponisme.com)
1 points by shioyama 15y ago|0 comments
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Japan's IT exodus: A personal perspective(globalvoicesonline.org)
47 points by shioyama 15y ago|11 comments
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by shioyama 15y ago
The classic case of this is Google vs Yahoo in Japan. Yahoo is more popular, and if you look at the layout, you'll see that it's much more cluttered (or at least, that there's loads more information). At one point Google caved in (in Japan)
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by shioyama 15y ago
Have you looked at Japanese websites? Most of them have pretty terrible design/UI. It's the same thing. My take on this is that you have to look more broadly to understand the tendency for cluttered design in Japanese interfaces. Walk aroun
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by shioyama 15y ago
The malaise comes not from the absolute position of Japanese companies in the world, but from the direction they're headed in. There was a great article in the Economist a while back about this: http://www.economist.com/node/14793432 Sinc
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by shioyama 15y ago
I'm the author/translator of this article. Thanks for your thoughts, which I agree with entirely. I actually think that although the post I translated is interesting, it is in fact missing the point, in a sense. There's a deeper malaise in
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Japan: We're losing to Apple, and here's why(globalvoicesonline.org)
112 points by shioyama 15y ago|77 comments
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by shioyama 15y ago
This is a fantastic podcast, I only wish they would put out episodes more frequently. I know that it's based on the format/style of This American Life, but honestly I think it's actually better.
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by shioyama 15y ago
agree 100%.
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by shioyama 15y ago
On the other hand, I will say that even as an English-speaker, I find myself recently skipping the "human language" explanation and jumping directly to the code when I read results from Google etc. I think this is probably the best strategy
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by shioyama 15y ago
Yes, that's correct. Ruby is much more widely known that Rails, although I have the feeling that is changing. A few years ago Cookpad ( http://cookpad.com/ ), a Japanese recipe site with millions of users, switched to Rails. That may be con
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by shioyama 15y ago
Quoting from the post: I hear the weeaboos across the world now screaming “what about Ruby!”, but Ruby just proves the point. A Mormon Japanese dude (read: English literate, world-focused, non-Otaku, non-loner mindset) coupled with an excel
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by shioyama 15y ago
Repeating what I commented on the post itself, but this is a really interesting observation. I can confirm from limited experience that this is happening. But the problem is that “giving Japanese programmers good frameworks and libraries” i
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Force Multipliers and Japanese Programmers(tokyomuslim.com)
102 points by shioyama 15y ago|54 comments
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by shioyama 15y ago
Is this the article you're thinking of? The Case for Working With Your Hands http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/magazine/24labor-t.html?pa...