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If you are interested in working as a developer in Japan, it's a topic I've written about a bunch: http://www.tokyodev.com/jobs/ One thing you might be clear is whether…

My criteria for a cofounder would be someone who has complimentary skills, and that I think has a good chance of being a successful entrepreneur. Sharing interests might be a nice secondary thing, but…

For website content (landing pages, articles, etc), you want it to work without Javascript so that crawlers index it properly. For web applications where you don't care about content being indexe…

Wow, that's amazingly low. Especially because I'm guessing most of these transactions are just mixing services. I wonder how much represent actual transfers of wealth between individuals? I …

Heroku only has two regions, Europe and US. Many applications not targetting the American market are still hosted on the US region. For instance, I live in Japan, and all the heroku applications I kno…

If I search Vancouver and Python, this is the first result: http://www.meetup.com/vanpyz/ The next event is this Wednesday. The organizers of that event probably know of companie…

GitHub has an enterprise plan where you can run it behind your firewall.

With a payment gateway, processing billions of dollars per year is still peanuts. For instance, PayPal processed $52 billion in Q4 2013.

Someone bought the domain for SEO purposes. The article about "how to get [his] wife a bit more excited about ‘adult’ activities" mentions he "found this other site about attracting wom…

The next one is in March: http://hntokyo.doorkeeper.jp/events/9149 All the events are listed here: http://hntokyo.doorkeeper.jp/ …

Big companies have big budgets for recruiting, which is why you'll see their ads everywhere. Interesting jobs often rely on referrals. You might try attending some of your local developer events …

The Homebrew Computer Club was a networking event that helped launch Apple.

The top page of https://www.userapp.io/ looks great. However, it leaves me wondering who your service is actually for. I'm a web developer, so login, sign-up, and user storage ar…

As these machines gain prevalence in America, maybe it will end the tipping culture. By placing an order through a machine, perhaps patrons won't feel obligated to leave a tip.

Thanks for the advice. I noticed bugcrowd has a mailing list with 4100 researchers that get notified when a new site is posted, so I hope it is not too late...

Thanks. I wasn't thinking that I was setting up a bug bounty program when I created the page, I just wanted to thank people who had helped us so far. I didn't realise what I was getting myse…

Thanks for the advice. I'm frustrated because adding this page made us a target whereas we weren't one before. I agree we would have eventually become a target regardless, but hopefully this…

This sounds confusing even for someone who is fluent in Japanese. Perhaps seeking professional help would be wise. It sounds like the kind of thing this guy does: http://www.langleyesquire.…

In Canada and the US, it is common to not payout in the case of suicide within two years of creating the contract (the same as Japan).

Japan isn't any more xenophobic than the US. I've lived seven years in Japan. Even if I were to get Japanese citizenship, I wouldn't identify myself culturally as Japanese (and neither …

If you don't have a CS degree, it is harder to get a job here, because visas are tied to your career path, and for an engineering visa, you need a related degree or ten years of professional expe…

This sounds like a coworking space.

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Actually, the phrase used in the original document, 少し変わった開発者, clearly referes to Yegge as being "a bit unusual developer".

Read books. There is plenty of sci-fi that deals with exploring the intersection of computers and consciousness. Authors like Neal Stephenson, Charles Stross, and Vernor Vinge are well known in this a…

We were complaining about the lack of Stripe. There have are some Japanese startups, such as Coiney ( http://coiney.com/ ) who are already doing the same thing as Square.…

Haha isn't the normal word for mother, you only use it when talking about your own mother to someone else in a formal setting. Mama has the most casual sound to it. Okaasan (or one of its derivatives)…