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> The guys lying in the street like that (even if not homeless) is actually culturally accepted. It isn’t. It, however, is precisely what the blog talks about: newcomers explaining…

Additionally, in normal Japanese companies that 6M _is_ the senior salary with starting salaries around the 3M~4M range. A 10M salary is basically a non-starter right off the bat a…

They don't account for revenue from outside the stores. Apple technically doesn't allow purchases to happen outside its stores, in practice that has always been a bit of a grey are…

> Do you visualize the shape of the word "bee" Not sure about Chinese, it is supposedly much more phonetic, but the Japanese unquestionably do visualize words to the point where th…

A lot of people think that and personally as someone fluent in Japanese (as a second, well rather something like fourth, language) I also sort of feel the same way. However if you …

Generally they are kept very clean and the photo is not at all unrealistic. The cultural norm is to never litter, instead if necessary trash is taken home with you to dispose of fo…

Cookpad used to have a lot of foreigners and was considered to be one of the best places to work. From what I heard that has changed about two years ago, now most of the foreigners…

Considering how long English has been mandatory and what the average level of English proficiency actually is, it might be a little too early to be overly optimistic. The potential…

In my experience Japanese site are way more cluttered than Chinese sites. Even with the large number of links and pictures Chinese sites look more organized and designed where Japa…

Code search is available - if somewhat hidden. Add /search to the end of the repository url on github (eg. https://github.com/rails/rails/search ).

This is pretty neat (even if not realtime :)) I'd really love to know where the data is coming from. I played[1] with a similar idea a few months ago creating a simple visualizatio…

Hi, I added shift counting to Mahdi's code a while ago: ( https://github.com/zaki/Keyboard-Heatmap-1 ), so it should be easy to generate more correct heatmaps (in multiple keyboard…