jankcorn

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by jankcorn 10d ago
When I lived in Japan and was asked "Why are you interested in Japan?", I used to respond "It is the only non-Western country(at the time) where I have seen an extremely high level of technical/economic development and i
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by jankcorn 1mo ago
When Japanese is written horizontally, it can be read either left->right or right->left. (occasionally, quite bewildering) I have only seen right->left on signs; I have never seen it in books or magazines.
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by jankcorn 1mo ago
Many comments point to "monoculture", but I think that a more useful lens to look at this is "the importance of maintaining society vs the importance of individual rights". In Japan, if you maintain society, my experien
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by jankcorn 2mo ago
This seems little different from the Automated Parking Systems that I saw in widespread use in Japan from the 1980's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_parking_system (The main difference being 3D in Jap
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by jankcorn 10mo ago
I usually think of the ideas behind "composition" as "how do I assist a future developer to replace the current (exported) implementation of a type with a new one by restricting external visibility of its internal implementat
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by jankcorn 1y ago
Legacy corporations have a very hard time incorporating fundamental technology shifts (moving from ICE engine/drivetrain dominant designs to software dominance). They walk into the future looking backward, unable to identify/vet t
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by jankcorn 2y ago
Instead of looking at your high quality software as an "asset to monetize", I would recommend thinking of it as a "way to introduce your high quality skills to attract high quality customers that are more than willing to pay
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by jankcorn 2y ago
I spent ~11 years in Japan, porting/building telecom protocol software and, more importantly, trying to build software development and business competence in our teams. Sadly, although I had a reasonable impact on individual software
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by jankcorn 2y ago
When I first met him in 1978 and asked for his last name, he replied "Arvind is my name". He was very deeply against the caste system and felt that using last names (IIRC, which also indicated caste) was something that he refuse
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by jankcorn 2y ago
I have always liked the book "日本語擬態語辞典" by Gomi Taro: < https://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/product?item=0000193814 > It has great illustrations that quickly get the idea across for Japanese onomatopoeia. To give
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by jankcorn 4y ago
The biggest case I know about is Enron. IMO, it seems like they are obviously liable, but I expect they were pretty strongly manipulated by the CEO: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CPRT-107SPRT80393/
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by jankcorn 4y ago
Having had interactions with board members at 2 Fortune500 companies I worked for, I have pretty much lost faith in the "board members reflect the shareholders and manage the executive team" model. In one case, the board member sa
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by jankcorn 4y ago
Strongly agree. When you feel like the combination of administrative hassle and/or work content no longer fits you, it is trivial to just wrap up the current work cleanly (as mentioned above) and just move onto another, more appealing
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by jankcorn 4y ago
We go up to SF every 3-4 weeks and find it pretty unnerving each time. The homelessness (mentally ill), open drug use, and theft/vandalism are pretty draining. I lived for a long time in Cambridge/Boston and very, very rarely had
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by jankcorn 4y ago
> religion of rituals that aim to gain some measure of control over a chaotic world Yes, my experience is that most Japanese are into "actions/practice" more than philosophical "big ideas". Ise Jingu is my favori
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by jankcorn 5y ago
In Japan, properties have "sunlight rights", so that neighboring properties above a certain height are not allowed to shade them (causing lots of sloped, north-facing roofs). In addition, height of buildings is determined by the w
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by jankcorn 5y ago
+1
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by jankcorn 6y ago
As creator/chief architect of Meltemi (p.132 of the pdf), I was way too close to the events in the book. In the end, I think that Elop was pretty honest, if not too bright, "good old boy" type of person. Sadly, he never cam