Asiajin
asiajin.com · Group blog · on HN since 2007
Asiajin covers Japanese and Asian technology, startups, and social media in English, along with occasional programming curiosities.
What HN saysHN links it for coverage of Japanese startups and for a post on a quine relay across 11 programming languages.
21HN people shared it
6linked it in comments
31stories submitted
223story points
14 years agolast shared
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Most-shared posts
- 1Uroboros Programming With 11 Programming Languages4 people · 56 points · first shared 2009 · 10 comments on HN
- 2Game made using only CSS1 people · 76 points · first shared 2011 · 18 comments on HN
- 3Learn Javascript In Manga1 people · 15 points · first shared 2010 · 5 comments on HN
- 4Facebook Japan Bans Pseudo Names And Requires ID1 people · 12 points · first shared 2011 · 6 comments on HN
- 5Studies of Japan and Social Media1 people · 11 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 6Japan’s Book Publishers Decide To Go With EPUB Standard1 people · 9 points · first shared 2011 · 8 comments on HN
- 7Japanese Hackers use Kinect for Virtual Reality1 people · 7 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 8World First NFC Tag Location Based Service1 people · 4 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 9Groupon Japan Creates Offer Matching Donations For Japan Earthquake1 people · 3 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 10China-made “Apple Peel” Turns Your iPod Touch To The iPhone1 people · 2 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 11Groupon Fails To Bring Happiness To Japanese New Year Holidays1 people · 2 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 12A font made from human leg hair1 people · 2 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 13Japanese Entrepreneur calls for co-founders over retweets1 people · 2 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 14Japan Gets “How To Use Instagram” Book1 people · 2 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 15How DeNA Beats Facebook and Zynga1 people · 2 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
mreinsch · 2010-12-05
Asiajin (http://asiajin.com/) is covering Japanese startups (among other stuff)
hkmurakami · 2013-02-02
Of course he made the right decision! The CEO is Harvard Business School educated, "fluent" in English [1], and has mandated that all company meetings shall be conducted in English (even in Japan) [2]. Out of touch you say? Nonsense!</sarcasm>
[1] The reality is far from this, of course.
[2]http://asiajin.com/blog/2010/05/21/english-please-rakuten-bans-japanes…
nandemo · 2012-10-26
His quine relay is impressive:
http://asiajin.com/blog/2009/09/22/uroboros-programming-with-11-progra…
bediger · 2011-03-14
Apparently these are called "ouroboros programs". http://asiajin.com/blog/2009/09/22/uroboros-programming-with-11-progra… (which serves an empty page to me right now) used to have a period-11 cycle of programs. I wrote a period-3 program (http://www.stratigery.com/source.html#Ouroboros).
pwim · 2011-01-17
On the other hand,
I think fair amount of Japanese will be satisfied with this, and even like Groupon more than before the incident. It looks like similar to apologies done by Japanese executives, though Mr. Mason did not do deep bow.
http://asiajin.com/blog/2011/01/17/groupon-ceo-andrew-mason-apologies-…
h4n · 2010-04-23
To put things in perspective, iPhones were 4.9% of all new phones for 2009 (http://asiajin.com/blog/2010/04/23/iphone-2009-takes-4-9-share-in-japa…