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My favourite part: While the deficient student will generally not know how to ask for what he wants until he doesn't get it, the lazy rich student will know exactly what he wants. He is poised for a …

There seems to be many factors besides race that could be the actual cause of this, such as that people of one race are most likely to be around people of the same race, and people's family is from th…

This is standard feature, called footprints, on Japanese Social Networks.

You probably haven't heard of any Japanese startups because there haven't really been any who have been successful abroad. Here's a good presentation that can give you an overview of the web startup s…

I'm also in Shinjuku so feel free to shoot me an email. Mobile Monday is another international tech event that is happening on the 18th ( http://momoto.doorkeeper.jp/events/43 ), so if you are not to…

Thanks Jawaad!

Thanks for organizing this event and promoting doorkeeper. It's still lacking polish, so if anyone tries it out and has any questions or feedback, please let me know!

When generating a QR code, it's important to keep the URL short, as the size of the QR is proportional to the length of the URL.

If age doesn't matter, why is it on the application form to YC?

You can run Rails on GAE by using JRuby.

In Japan, these kind of games have been popular for at least a couple of years. One I know of is "Keitai Kunitori Gassen" where players check-in to different regions of Japan to get points and take th…

Android already indicates things like whether the app requires network connectivity. I've never submitted an android application, but it should be possible to determine whether an application uses ne…

The number is from a press release, so unless there was a mistake in it, I don't see why they would intentionally under-quote it, as they want to encourage developers to use their platform. Also note …

The ARPU for mobage town is higher because these games are just for Japanese mobile phones (using flash lite). Because Japanese phones have integrated billing (you buy something and it shows up on yo…

To organize a successful conference, you need support from the community. Why do you need to buy ads on these freelance blogs and sites? If your conference is truly a great resource, those sites sho…

I'm not sure why the Japanese don't adopt romaji more - Romanized Japanese. Japanese already has two syllabaries - katakana and hiragana - so if anything replaced kanji it would be these. However K…

I'd be interested to see the converse as well - the countries that let the most other countries' citizens in without passports.