njwi332

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by njwi332 6mo ago
Well, your point somewhat stands but there are many examples of retail, contracting and consulting companies in excess of a billion dollars.
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by njwi332 7mo ago
Upway | Software Engineers (All levels), Senior Product Designer, Senior Product Managers | Full-time | Paris (ONSITE) We’re building the biggest bike shop in the world. Upway is the leading marketplace for refurbished e-bikes across Europe
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by njwi332 9mo ago
The OP wasn't about doordash though, it was about uber (poster mentions the ride-sharing part of the business in a comment elsewhere). I don't believe DD is lying about 100% of tips going to drivers, particularly given Tony Xu als
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by njwi332 10mo ago
Great idea. Any pointers for someone who might do the same? I.e. data sources you deemed useful besides Wikipedia
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by njwi332 4y ago
Japans death rate is ~11, not 14. But regardless, no, there is nowhere near as much violent death here in Japan. It is one of the safest countries in the world. The high death rate is due to the aging population: https://en.wikip
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by njwi332 4y ago
Business visas are fine, I've had 5 people join my team from the US in the last few months. The June thing is for tourists, which are still not allowed in. It's great as long as you work for a US tech company. The selection is pre
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by njwi332 5y ago
I'm pretty sure he was talking about the person at the root of this thread, with the name 'matthewdgreen'
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by njwi332 5y ago
> you can live five minutes away by train and enjoy tree-lined streets and cozy bistros with a bit of outdoor seating instead Do you refer to Daikanyama here? Easily my favourite neighbourhood of Tokyo (so much so that I just bought an a
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by njwi332 5y ago
Yeah, I'm currently going through the process of getting a mortgage for a property in Tokyo. I'm also interviewing about a potential job - nothing unusual there, moving around every 2-4 years is common in the software industry. I
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by njwi332 5y ago
Even if you don't like Scott Adams (And I don't particularly like the guy myself), I don't think that should invalidate the specific statement that the article quotes, which should be able to stand on its own regardless of th
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by njwi332 5y ago
Minor correction, it's 就職活動 (shuushoku katsudou) not seishoku. And the age of starting families here is older than you mention at close to 30 [1], especially in recent years. That's not to say it doesn't happen, just that Jap
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by njwi332 5y ago
They exist - I work for Indeed and there's a 4 day week option that started being offered last year in response to covid and has now become an official policy. The problem is that companies that do it don't tend to advertise it I
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by njwi332 6y ago
I completely agree with you. How do you prevent this happening? I've relocated from a team where I used to be a software engineer on the team (and therefore had a peer-level understanding of the systems) to one in a different company w
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by njwi332 6y ago
He's not comparing drones to drones, he's comparing drones to say, an F22 or ICBM.
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by njwi332 6y ago
He alludes to an example in the article > none of us are safe - not the random grad student with a Twitter account making fun of bad science From that I assumed that the sort of people being referred to are those who are debunking or cri
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by njwi332 6y ago
As a counterpoint to the sibling replies, I speak fluent Japanese and was still refused entry to a local izakaya in Hakodate. It wasn't about the language, I made plenty clear that I could speak it well. They just didn't like fore
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by njwi332 6y ago
>AWS started because they already had the servers for holiday surge capacity. That's a myth. Source - worked at AWS for four years, but also common sense. If you rent out all your surge capacity to customers then what happens when t
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by njwi332 6y ago
Start with why is garbage. Just watch the TED talk - the main idea there is fine, but there's absolutely nothing extra in the book that isn't covered in the TED talk, it's just a cash grab
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by njwi332 6y ago
Fun fact, 'one sided fight' is often nicknamed/referred to as 'Bite' these days [1] [1] https://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/185815973623/does-r-d-...
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by njwi332 6y ago
Another one I've seen recently is the reaction to covid. I live in Tokyo, and being in tech circles was doing my prep shopping and isolating a few weeks before everyone else. I had one Japanese friend invite me out for drinks like 3 ti
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by njwi332 6y ago
I'll back that up with data from Tokyo. My girlfriend is a nurse at a hospital in Kita-Senjuu and they also haven't got any covid patients in the hospital. She thinks it's because they have a large maternity ward so they&#x27
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by njwi332 6y ago
A monolingual dictionary gives 7 definitions. https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/word/%E6%9E%AF%E3%82%8C%E3%82%8... I think the one that best applies here is 4 - 技術や製品などが、その登場から十分な時間が経ち、すでに問題点が出尽くし、解決も済んでいる。最先端のものではないが、不測の事態
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by njwi332 7y ago
> guilt trip employees into learning in their free time If you went to university, not only did you learn in your free time but you _paid_ to learn in your free time. Why should the calculus suddenly flip when you get a job and all of a
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by njwi332 8y ago
FWIW I highly value your posts about life in Japan! I've been studying the language two years now and intend to move there, and the Japan posts in your comment history have given me a lens into life there that I cannot find elsewhere.
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by njwi332 8y ago
Amazon Web Services - Redshift | Sydney Australia | Full-time | Onsite, relocation covered Tech stack: primarily Java and Ruby I'm not sure if the big tech co's are allowed to post here. I'm a hiring manager for AWS in Sydney
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by njwi332 8y ago
I think his point is that it was already well known by 2017 and didn't have to struggle to distinguish itself in the current market, because it had built momentum and interest.
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by njwi332 8y ago
I can't offer any direct comparison with Iceland, but the software scene in Australia has been improving rapidly the last couple of years - particularly with US visa laws making it worse for immigrants wanting to move there. To offer s
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by njwi332 9y ago
This isn't actually correct, or at least it's not a correct interpretation of the data. The absolute number increased, but it decreased as a percentage of population, which is the relevant number here.
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by njwi332 9y ago
Notably, the cost of doing so was over 50 million. So it's perhaps not realistic for majority of companies using AWS that are much smaller than Dropbox.
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by njwi332 9y ago
The article specifically mentions Chasing the Scream in the second half. I do recommend finishing it.

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