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w00kie's ramblings

w00kie's ramblings

Living the good life in Japan

  • About me
    My name is Francois, I’m a french guy living in Japan, working for a big french company as an System Analyst/Engineer somewhere deep in Saitama. Here are a few facts about me: I’m a co-founder of the successful french website MacBidouille.com It has spawned an english version at HardMac.com I’m bilingual in french and english thanks to studying at EABJM in Paris as a kid There, I also studied japanese for 9 years, but I could barely make a sentence before coming to Japan I graduated with an Engineering degree (major in Information Systems) in September 2004 After that I worked as a freelance web application developer to pay for my numerous travels around the world, all the while looking for a good job in Japan I finally found it and moved to Japan in November 2005 with a 2 year contract I was hired in Nov. 2007 in that same big French company, working on R&D Information Systems Other links of interest: My web presence portal (fancy word for “links to my profiles around the web”) A post I made describing my job as of February 2009
  • My Web Portal
  • Some of my photos

Important Events

  • Arrival in Japan:
    17 years, 2 months, 23 days ago

Time Machine

Japan Blogs

  • UnknownGenius

Other Websites

  • Chuchulu
  • Imagine Science Film NYC
  • MacBidouille

Quotes

Feature requests

The key is to ignore the feature request, and focus on the problem.

Users don’t come to you with problems, they come to you with shitty solutions.

You need to take their solution, reverse engineer their real problem from that, then work out a good solution for that problem that fits well with your product.

— Taken from a comment on HackerNews

Format QuotePosted on August 5, 2016Categories RandomLeave a comment on Feature requests

Social Status

Most people want to become wealthy so they can consume social status. Japanese employers believe this is inefficient, and simply award social status directly.

Doing Business in Japan – Kalzumeus Software

Format QuotePosted on November 8, 2014Categories japanLeave a comment on Social Status
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