This is the opposite of what I encountered after moving to Japan. Japanese people work way longer, and have less paid vacation. This is slightly counter balanced by more public holidays but my experience is that people take vacation less. In the states' employees where I worked had at least 3 weeks vacation per year and many had as much as 6. People regularly took 1,2 and sometimes 3 week vacations; something that is practically unheard of in Japan. My parents' vacation rolls over so they have practically unlimited vacation and take it whenever it pleases them. Another thing that pretty much doesn't exist in Japan.
The folks here in Japan already don't sleep enough and use all kinds of bad for you stimulant drinks to wake you up and give you energy. I can just see everybody and his brother taking this drug in order to avoid sleep even more. But of course with Japan's record of approving and/or not banning known dangerous drugs (currently there is a scandal going on about people contracting hepatitis from dangerous drugs) that have been banned by the FDA in the 'States, I'm sure they would approve something like this for general use anyway.
Companies have long been keeping records of our offline purchases too. What do you think those point cards at the supermarket are? Nothing but tracking mechanisms with a little price reduction to sweeten the deal (of course the membership and price reductions also entice you to use that supermarket more exclusively). Did you read the fine print when you got that card? Who knows what they do with the info on what you purchase.
Actually, double-width characters are quite pervasive in Japanese software and are used in everything from mobile phones to PDAs to normal PCs. In fact Windows IME, and any input system in Linux or Mac lets you enter these characters wherever you like. You can hardly say that it is only used in "broken" software. As with some of the people you're criticizing, I wouldn't make such sweeping statements without knowing the target domain.
True, I recently started using wireless card on a linux laptop and didn't specify an ESSID when setting up the card and it chose the neighbors' ESSID and connected to his insecure network.
Windows has it's flaws but it does take flak for stuff that isn't it's fault.
It is a myth that since you have thousands of users you have thousands of eyes looking at the code. Most end users don't look at the code, it's true, but some do to some extent. Maybe several hundred.
Thats better than a closed source solution where that number is reduced to zero, in fact in many cases it's illegal.
CVS is an important part of concurrent development. It solves the problem of how to maintain a single codebase with multiple developers working on it quite nicely. I think if you want to work with a group on an open source project you should take the time to learn this.
CVS isn't really that hard especially if you don't actually maintain the server yourself (i.e. sourceforge). If you know how to code I think it should be a piece of cake to pick up CVS and it's concepts.
A guy I know used that used to work for erickson confirmed that radiation does affect peoples heads and this is why they develop these sheilds and the headset devices using bluetooth. I guess they do not want to lose sales while these things become standard and common.
What you say is true. Japan has a much different idea of the employer, employee relationship and this is indeed a cultural Miscue. The relationship between employees and employers is seen as a family relationship where the employer is the parent and the employee is the child. When a employee leaves a company to work for another it is seen as a betrayal. There is also the idea that Japanese seek to avoid shame. Employees leaving to seek better oppurtunities that their previous employer could not provide may bring shame on the company.
I'm not sure what you mean by yamato because it is my understanding that yamato are the original inhabitants of japan, much like the native americans in the united states.
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My experience is that PHP folks leave the commit messages blank. It's a lovely practice really as it makes source control essentially worthless.
This is the opposite of what I encountered after moving to Japan. Japanese people work way longer, and have less paid vacation. This is slightly counter balanced by more public holidays but my experience is that people take vacation less. In the states' employees where I worked had at least 3 weeks vacation per year and many had as much as 6. People regularly took 1,2 and sometimes 3 week vacations; something that is practically unheard of in Japan. My parents' vacation rolls over so they have practically unlimited vacation and take it whenever it pleases them. Another thing that pretty much doesn't exist in Japan.
The folks here in Japan already don't sleep enough and use all kinds of bad for you stimulant drinks to wake you up and give you energy. I can just see everybody and his brother taking this drug in order to avoid sleep even more. But of course with Japan's record of approving and/or not banning known dangerous drugs (currently there is a scandal going on about people contracting hepatitis from dangerous drugs) that have been banned by the FDA in the 'States, I'm sure they would approve something like this for general use anyway.
Companies have long been keeping records of our offline purchases too. What do you think those point cards at the supermarket are? Nothing but tracking mechanisms with a little price reduction to sweeten the deal (of course the membership and price reductions also entice you to use that supermarket more exclusively). Did you read the fine print when you got that card? Who knows what they do with the info on what you purchase.
Yah, but a lot of applications, like Anki, or Gnucash, just do this with local html widgets. You don't need remote html to do that.
This kind of brings up the question, What about HTML parsers that read the source on my behalf?
> even if we're doing nothing wrong at the time of surveillance.".
I might change this to "especially if we're doing nothing wrong at the time of surveillance.".
Actually, double-width characters are quite pervasive in Japanese software and are used in everything from mobile phones to PDAs to normal PCs. In fact Windows IME, and any input system in Linux or Mac lets you enter these characters wherever you like. You can hardly say that it is only used in "broken" software. As with some of the people you're criticizing, I wouldn't make such sweeping statements without knowing the target domain.
Don't you know that forest fires are good for the environment?
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/birds-eye-v iew-of-mountaintop.html
True, I recently started using wireless card on a linux laptop and didn't specify an ESSID when setting up the card and it chose the neighbors' ESSID and connected to his insecure network.
Windows has it's flaws but it does take flak for stuff that isn't it's fault.
It is a myth that since you have thousands of users you have thousands of eyes looking at the code. Most end users don't look at the code, it's true, but some do to some extent. Maybe several hundred.
Thats better than a closed source solution where that number is reduced to zero, in fact in many cases it's illegal.
CVS is an important part of concurrent development. It solves the problem of how to maintain a single codebase with multiple developers working on it quite nicely. I think if you want to work with a group on an open source project you should take the time to learn this.
CVS isn't really that hard especially if you don't actually maintain the server yourself (i.e. sourceforge). If you know how to code I think it should be a piece of cake to pick up CVS and it's concepts.
A guy I know used that used to work for erickson confirmed that radiation does affect peoples heads and this is why they develop these sheilds and the headset devices using bluetooth. I guess they do not want to lose sales while these things become standard and common.
What you say is true. Japan has a much different idea of the employer, employee relationship and this is indeed a cultural Miscue. The relationship between employees and employers is seen as a family relationship where the employer is the parent and the employee is the child. When a employee leaves a company to work for another it is seen as a betrayal. There is also the idea that Japanese seek to avoid shame. Employees leaving to seek better oppurtunities that their previous employer could not provide may bring shame on the company. I'm not sure what you mean by yamato because it is my understanding that yamato are the original inhabitants of japan, much like the native americans in the united states.