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In some countries the archives can be browsed online so no need for such sites in this case. But those services can still be useful to find an unknown branch of relatives when the …

Interesting idea but I do not see the point: people are able to compute the same results mentally very easily. By the way, I would suggest adding an option: how many consecutive da…

There's the matter of scope but there's the matter of motivation too. When an opensource application like GIMP, Blender, or even Manuksript for a lesser known example, are started,…

Yes, depending on where the stroke/aneurysm the effect can be totally different. I had one a few years ago, I was still able to chat with my colleagues and the hospital staff in Ja…

The interesting thing is that like many people, they guessed that a lot of people would be contaminated during the 3-day weekend a week ago (great weather, cherry blossoms, and las…

It seems to work worldwide: I watch it from Japan. Interestingly most of the commercials are not displayed from here, instead we get the rolling presentation of the channel.

Luckily the work culture is slowly changing, at least regarding the matter of OT: following the suicide of a new recruit of Dentsu that was ruled to be a death by overwork, several…

A friend who is freelance translator sponsored herself when renewing her work visa (previously she was a colleague of mine and our company sponsored her at that time, but since bec…

Salaries in Japan are much lower than in the Bay Area: many Japanese companies use a salary grid and reaching the 10 million yen mark requires decades in the same company. It might…

The image you have is probably close to how in some societies 2 families decide their children are betrothed to each other. The reality is closer to match making: some colleagues m…

There is indeed not tip. But he was comparing with the prices in USA, where you need to include tipping.

It's only cheap if you come to Japan for holidays, or if you're an expat detached by your company to Japan. If you're living in the country, receiving the same salary as any Japane…

I wonder how much it comes from the culture in Korea. I've been living in Tokyo for 3 years, and although I never to the university here, I my observations in the country are that:…

The question was about a tutorial for programmers. What would French brings in this context? There were some variants of basic in French, but nowadays I'm not convinced French is u…

Going to SaaS can be quite an issue depending on the reliability of the company developing the software. One of the company I'm dealing with as a reseller had the bad habit of deli…

Galaxy was a very important magazine for the science fiction literature, but slightly off-topic question: is the content really supposed to be public domain? For everything publish…

I've been part of a community of hobbyist/indy gamedev since 2002. At that that time, there were very few engines usable by hobbyists due to price constraints: - Quake 3 Engine for…

It's a bit light for a press release. Considering RedHat is officially promoting AWS on their website, providing more information to let people know whether the offering on Google …

Is coworking a popular thing in big japanese cities? Being a salaryman since arriving in the country I haven't had any exposure to it. However I noticed the place where the Tokyo i…

That's the point the article is missing. Many people currently creating HTML5 games are not motivated by money. They can be hobbyists or people familiar with JS who wants to try ma…

Another hobbyist here. Back when I was a late teenager I might have contemplated doing it professionally but nowadays it would not my choice. Due to discovering other domains I am …

Although some people are trying to participate to both, I think the Cyberpunk Game Jam could have benefited from not running partially concurrently. * http://itch.io/jam/cyberpunk-…

In my previous job where we developped our own PDF interpreter (neither based on Adobe owns PDF lib or Print Engine) we only needed InDesign in short occasional burst, mainly to pr…