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Technically there is no law requiring there to be a shutter sound, but rather a standard practice that all Japanese mobile phones implement.

Interestingly, sometimes the system is used for future dates. For instance, my drivers license expires in September of H.31, which I guess will never happen now.

Here in Japan, I've never been to a place where you don't flush your toilet paper. In fact, they sometimes run into the opposite problem, with tourists not knowing you're supposed to fl…

It sucks to hear you've been getting one year renewals. Unfortunately when it comes to bureaucracy here in Japan, things are on a case by case basis, so its hard to make any sweeping judgements. …

Having lived here a decade, I consider it my home. While I’ll never be considered Japanese, I do find acceptance in society here. Japanese society classifies people as insiders or outsiders. The key I…

In Tokyo it is possible to get a job as a software developer without speaking Japanese. After living here a couple years someone decides they like life here, but want to run their own business. Maybe …

Almost all participants are English speakers. Typically 70 or so of the participants are non-Japanese.

The linked article looks like SEO spam to me. There's no sources and the article looks like it's a rehash of Linus's wikipedia page. Given that his employer is the Linux Foundation, I&#…

The author of the post agrees with you that library code is different: > I should mention that almost all of my open source projects have 100% code coverage. This is because most of my open source …

Your pricing is way too cheap, and makes it hard to take seriously. As a business, there is no difference between $5 and $15 per month (and if someone tells you differently, you don’t want their busin…

According to the article, more than half the states have no firm minimum age for marriage. For many states, it is below the age of consent. In some states, statutory rape is not considered such if the…

One of the first guidelines, "Assume no malice", is one I take to heart, and wish it was applied by people here to this announcement. Maybe you've never experienced any problems with th…

1) Subdomains. If you're app utilises subdomains, you need to use a TLD. 2) Integration with development tools like http://pow.cx/ or https://github.com/puma/…

Previously I thought hiring diversity for diversity's sake didn't make sense, and hiring should be based solely on "merit". After all, as a company, you want to hire the best peopl…

If you require a visa to visit a country where you need a visa, I would suggest contacting the organiser for an invitation letter. Organisers of international conferences are used to getting this kind…

While there are many companies in Japan where people do work a ton of overtime, there are also companies where people work little to no overtime. For instance, I'm currently doing consulting for …

For some interesting insight into why trade agreements are negotiated in secret, listen to this planet money episode: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/06/26&#…

Are your top customers really only paying you $97/month? Seems like you could charge them substantially more money.

As someone who has a startup with a multilingual web service (English / Japanese), I normally tell people considering translating their service to hold off as long as possible. Going from have a …

If they are sharing an account, they aren't really cheating - your application just isn't providing them any benefits to have multiple users. If you find a large percentage of accounts are s…

In my experience, bots don't execute JavaScript (yet). I add a hidden "spam" field to the form. When the form is submitted, I use Javascript to remove it. If the field is still present …

It's hard to come up with concrete numbers, but here's a unscientific survey I did: http://www.tokyodev.com/2014/02/13/japanese-developer-salary... …

If you are doing web development in Tokyo, your salary is probably between ¥400,000 and ¥800,000 per month.