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Ironically, back in the 90s Anchor Steam was just about the only good craft beer I could get in Japan.

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I'm seeing issues in 2a but not 2b. Anyone having issues in 2b?

Reminds me of this brief scene from Community. RIP Michael K Williams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8e2f9j-iJo

I would first ask them what they mean by "it worked for me". How long did it take? How well can you read? If you're talking about learning Kana, then my argument would be that some…

Very well said. I was immediately reminded of those awful "Remembering the Kanji" books when I read this article. You don't "reason" meanings of characters. You drill the meanings …

That was my impression, too. You weren't grandstanding or sounding sanctimonious, but rather saw an opportunity to write an informative article using Sqoot at an example. It was we…

I think you're being a little unfair here. You need to talk to a salesperson because payroll is complicated, every business's needs are different, and most small businesses want so…

This makes sense. I majored in Japanese in college. There were 3 kinds of students in our language classes: 1. Students for whom it came naturally 2. Students who could be competen…

- The recession disproportionately affected rural Japan. In Tokyo you see lots of shopping and commerce. However, prefectures in places like Kyushu have unemployment rates above 10…

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I don't besmirch LEGO for doing what is an entirely rational for them: design products whose pieces, like puzzle pieces, don't have much versatility outside the context of that pla…

I am going to try using this for an employee scheduling tool I'm working on. It's nice to see everyone's shifts all at once, to see which shifts overlap, how many people are workin…

No, it's not "almost free". It's paid for by the company. You are correct, but large companies get dramatically better rates and better coverage than small companies. My family's s…

Parenthood is kind of a good rehearsal for founding a company: you won't sleep much, you're very emotionally invested, you're on the hook for everything, and boy is it hard without…

There are a few currents working against startups in Japan: - Smart, ambitious people tend to join large, prestigious corporations, or government agencies - Up until a few years ag…

Real estate agents are not allowed to collect more than 1 month's rent as a fee. This means that the borrower's and landlord's agents will have to split the fee, each of them getti…

I meant choosing a project that is not too difficult, but is interesting. Solve a real problem, even if it's small. One advantage you have is that instead of being a programmer, yo…

I started programming when I was 24 (11 years ago) and working at my first job. A coworker was my mentor early on, and we pair programmed frequently for a couple of months. I read …

The 1.5 million you cite includes franchised employees, while the 60K revenue/employee number does not.

"I won’t bore you with a long description, let me just say that it sucks. I means really sucks. I mean sucks like a collapsing star sucks." No, please, bore us with a long descript…

One downside with image buttons: they are really, really, annoying to localize. A compromise would be to have the button itself as an image and overlay the label in HTML.

Mother-in-Law

Sure, but by that time she had already committed to getting her money back. People don't constantly re-evaluate their decisions as new information comes in. They're not machines.

Well, "the east" is often shorthand for "low cost outsourcing countries", so in that sense Japan is a country apart from its neighbors. These discussions also neglect the enormous …