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A mistake that killed Japan’s software industry?

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Re: A mistake that killed Japan’s software industry?

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Post by djmips »

IYasha wrote: post #345
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I'll also speak to 'elitist' of the top comment. One of the first times I had felt prejudice was when I wrote a very good piece of code for their video card which accelerated some video processing by 4X or more. Seriously they (the Japanese) were surprised and started treating me like a miracle talking dog as they just couldn't seem to get their mind around me being able to figure out their systems and contribute som…

But, seriously, how did you do that??

Mostly by eliminating a lot of individual copying steps - also understanding how the texture swizzling worked and writing directly to that format and combining all the steps and writing very good code that used MMX. Often these types of optimizations are things that add speed at the expense of generality but I still think they are useful.

Re: A mistake that killed Japan’s software industry?

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Post by courgette »

csomar wrote: post #102
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France had more than ok software company. Bull for instance. Ubisoft and a bazillion other video game company. Alcatel / Lucent / Thales for industrial stuff. For the deepness of my ass I would say failure was tree fold : - France like a good old top down approach. That … mostly don’t work for software. - France decided to listen to our American friends and sell the familly heirloom to the market. ( I’m bitter on thi…

By that definition, Japan has its own software companies too. They are also big in the gaming world. I didn't check the numbers, but I'd bet it's bigger than France. The US has won the Software (ie: not the games, but the core Software market) because it had pocket deep VCs that understood tech. Everything else is secondary. This is of course, my opinion.

I think you are correct :)

I work in startup on both side, it’s … different

Re: A mistake that killed Japan’s software industry?

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Post by courgette »

ubercore wrote: post #149
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France had more than ok software company. Bull for instance. Ubisoft and a bazillion other video game company. Alcatel / Lucent / Thales for industrial stuff. For the deepness of my ass I would say failure was tree fold : - France like a good old top down approach. That … mostly don’t work for software. - France decided to listen to our American friends and sell the familly heirloom to the market. ( I’m bitter on thi…

This is an aside, but you can explain the phrase "For the deepness of my ass"? Never heard that one before!

It’s me freestyling English :)

Just to say that I probably wrong / not very informed.

Re: A mistake that killed Japan’s software industry?

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Post by courgette »

anthomtb wrote: post #312
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France had more than ok software company. Bull for instance. Ubisoft and a bazillion other video game company. Alcatel / Lucent / Thales for industrial stuff. For the deepness of my ass I would say failure was tree fold : - France like a good old top down approach. That … mostly don’t work for software. - France decided to listen to our American friends and sell the familly heirloom to the market. ( I’m bitter on thi…

Nitpicking but Lucent was an American company. A Bell Labs spin-off according to the wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucent . It merged with Alcatel (French indeed) but that was in 2006. Well after the rise of Silicon Valley, right around the time of the Web 2.0 pivot.

Very valid nickpick. Thanks, I had no idea.

Re: A mistake that killed Japan’s software industry?

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Post by courgette »

makeitdouble wrote: post #135
courgette wrote: post #78

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France had more than ok software company. Bull for instance. Ubisoft and a bazillion other video game company. Alcatel / Lucent / Thales for industrial stuff. For the deepness of my ass I would say failure was tree fold : - France like a good old top down approach. That … mostly don’t work for software. - France decided to listen to our American friends and sell the familly heirloom to the market. ( I’m bitter on thi…

Yes. Also France made a real big effort to protect its agriculture, wine and luxury industry. LVHM grew and flourished, but there was no love for the software industry. I kinda think there was no alternative scenario where it would have worked out, culturally most people really don't give a damn. Also having a smaller internal market makes it harder to bootstrap new ideas to a decent size before getting it out. Even…

I’ve seen the market thing play out first hand : my former company was dominant in France ( in a tiny niche market )

But that was bringing just enough to get by. Then we expanded to Italy and Germany with great effort. Each country was a whole new market with different regulations, customer expectations and so on.

We ended up spreading ourself very thin.

In insight, we also made mistakes, but that was not helping that each next 500 deployment was a large, hard to quantify effort.

Re: A mistake that killed Japan’s software industry?

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Post by cutemonster »

quercusa wrote: post #331
cutemonster wrote: post #324

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What if one person disagrees? If s/he is "lowest in the hierarchy"? What if is in the middle of the hierarchy?

Don't know if it still works the same way, but "rubber stamping" used to be real - everybody would stamp a document with their 'hanko' [0] (name stamp). Those who were not completely on board would make their stamp at a slight angle. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_(East_Asia)#Japanese_usag...

Thanks, interesting :)

Sounds the same as ignoring the disagreement, and a bit remembering who disagreed.

Re: A mistake that killed Japan’s software industry?

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Post by cutemonster »

fxtentacle wrote: post #400
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Less liability? When selling through US? How does that work (I would have guessed the opposite, thinking about patent trolls who ... live in the US?)

The US company is liable because they're the ones selling to end users.

So that's how it works, thanks. And good to know.

You've setup companies in other countries as well, to mitigate risk, or only in the US? If I may ask

Re: A mistake that killed Japan’s software industry?

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Post by yurishimo »

com2kid wrote: post #339
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Dishes have been known to sit in my house for 3-5 days depending on how many we use. The only reason we don't run it every day is to save on washing pods. Ideally, I would probably run it every day right before bed and then unload it first thing in the morning. As is, I forget, then there are too many dishes to fit in the machine and I need to wash them by hand to cook with immediately.

Don't bother with the dishwasher pods, they cost more and don't work as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rBO8neWw04

I know I'm a little late replying here, but I wanted to follow up anyway. I have seen this video before and used the powder when I lived in the US. Now that I've moved to the Netherlands in 2022, I cannot find the powder easily in stores. I don't really want to order it online as it's so cheap I might spend more on shipping than on the product itself. The pods work "good enough" for our purposes.

Maybe the appliances sold here are also better optimized for pods? I do have a brand new dishwasher so that could be a factor as well.

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