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I usually hear 'ore' from people who learned their Japanese by watching shonen anime. Even outside of a business meeting, in normal conversation, it would be offensive to most people I think.
What does the use of 'ore' imply and what makes it rude? Is it a snobby way of referring to yourself?
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Sure - is there a reason not to? That's similar to what you should be doing with dates too - store as UTC at the highest precision you'll need and present in local timezone/format.
Only one I can think of is 32 bit architectures, but those are phasing out pretty fast. I wasn't being incendiary at all with my comment - just a general question from a novice software engineer.
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I usually hear 'ore' from people who learned their Japanese by watching shonen anime. Even outside of a business meeting, in normal conversation, it would be offensive to most people I think.
It's not offensive, it's just not right for business. Outside of work, men use ore (tough and manly) or boku (boyish and charming) in regular conversation. Some my co-workers even use ore at the office if they're making a joke or something.
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Way too much schadenfreude given Gox's history. Although contrary to popular belief Gox was never a Magic exchange, they were a Bitcoin startup at a time when Bitcoin was not much more than internet lols and pizza deliveries. The first thing you do when hacking together a stupid exchange for a joke e-currency isn't writing unit tests. You just write the code and blast it up on a domain you had lying around for a diff…
> The first thing you do when hacking together a stupid exchange for a joke e-currency isn't writing unit tests. As soon as you write anything where a bug causes money to change hands, even on a laugh, you write some tests.
The code is ... interesting. Smells organic, not designed. Comments are rare but usually useful. Highly coupled. Static methods everywhere. Violates SOLID principles. Basically, ignores current best practices. Clearly not designed for any sort of automated testing, which should be the first damn thing you do when there's any sort of money involved. Hell, even when there isn't money involved. We'd already guessed that…
Way too much schadenfreude given Gox's history. Although contrary to popular belief Gox was never a Magic exchange, they were a Bitcoin startup at a time when Bitcoin was not much more than internet lols and pizza deliveries. The first thing you do when hacking together a stupid exchange for a joke e-currency isn't writing unit tests. You just write the code and blast it up on a domain you had lying around for a diff…
Thought I'll quickly scan the source code... On the first screen: $bean->Coins = (int)round($info['balance'] * 100000000); Really? Currency as a float and rounding? Just so that he can later: $client->sendToAddress($addr, $bean->Coins / 100000000); I'm ready to believe in any error "due to a bug" they claim now.
The code may be buggy but it is actually quite clean...more than I can say for most code (my own included)...at least it is actually readable :)
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They have passport scans? I'm impressed by how hard MtGox is fucking up.
This is why I have had to stop using a number of services which requested a photocopy of official government documentation. I am specifically thinking of how I had to dump my Dwolla account.
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Although the rules are complicated, I lived in Japan for awhile, and almost no one Japanese would be offended by a foreigner getting it only mostly right. This is not terribly hard. It suffices for foreigners to observe the basics. As explained below, Karpeles referred to himself as "ore". "Ore" is mostly used by men, and carries a boastful tone. Moreover, pronouns aren't necessary to make grammatical sentences, e.g.…
A fairly close analogy in English would be to randomly sprinkle the word "fuck" in your speech. I was once speaking to a good friend of mine here, in English. "Do you want to go out for yakitori?" "Go fuck yourself!" "... switches to Japanese Have I recently done anything very major to offend you?" "No, of course not." "Oh, OK, I was worried. So that phrase, that's something you would only say under extreme distress…
Along the same lines, I was getting a shave from a super hospitable barber last November in Gifu and the topic of conversation in very broken English (from him) and correspondingly broken Japanese (from me) was basically whether I had seen all of his favorite American movies. We were chatting and laughing quite a lot. When the time came for him to shave around the Adam's apple, he pointed right at my face and said: "You! Shut up!" It was so funny: He had obviously picked that up from a movie, but it took everything in me not to feel a little hurt, even though I knew he didn't mean to say what he said with that sort of edge. I can only imagine how many times I've done something similar in reverse. :-)
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It's not offensive, it's just not right for business. Outside of work, men use ore (tough and manly) or boku (boyish and charming) in regular conversation. Some my co-workers even use ore at the office if they're making a joke or something.
What would be the correct pronoun for a business setting? My knowledge of the language is rudimentary at best (several semesters in High School); we only really learned watashi/atashi/boku (and were reprimanded if we used the wrong pronoun for our own gender).