Re: [tlug] Looking for Summer Internship in Japan

[Noda Yoshikazu <noda.yoshikazu@example.com>]

Hi Stephen,

Ok I know I am a prophet of doom. I talk about the Fuku1 nuke spread,
Mt.Fuji going off and the huge earth quake in Tokyo. I like talking about
them. And now I add the decline of Japanese software developers.

I am basically thinking of those low level mass programmers when
I talk about Japan's IT crisis. Do you know what is happening at those
system integration companies (called SIers in Japan)? They hire a lot
of Haken people with a very little programming skill. Do you know why?
They think programming is something anyone can do. Is the same thing
happening in the U.S.? I always hear about high level people at Google
or Apple are getting so much money in America but what about the rest
of them?

-Yoshi



2015-03-16 13:54 GMT+09:00 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@example.com>:
> Noda Yoshikazu writes:
>
>  > Do you mean the Japan's 5th Generation project?
>
> Yes.
>
>  > It didn't succeed but Japan was seeing a future in software at
>  > least back then. Those were the good old days that would never come
>  > back.
>
> MEXT is betting 50万円／年 that I can help them come back, though.
> PyCon 2015/Mailman Sprints, here I come!
>
> Seriously, I really do think FLOSS can help.  Matz is something like a
> genius, so I'm not going to claim that NaCl's success is replicable by
> a million young Japanese software entrepreneurs.  But his company is
> kicking serious butt, and that's in Shimane-KEN Matsue-SHI, my
> friends, not in "the streets are paved with gold mekki" Tokyo.  I'm
> sure with a little encouragement there are thousands of Japanese
> software engineers who could do the same!
>
>  > Japan had already realized they couldn't compete in software
>  > field.
>
> "Can't compete" is a huge exaggeration (although MEXT aka Monkey-show
> might believe that kind of FUD).  Japan has the best (non-military)
> robots and cyborgs there are, and that's not because of some wizened
> old metal-monger in the backstreets of Osaka.  *Somebody* is writing
> high-quality code in this country, and I bet it isn't 17-year-olds
> fresh off the boat from Bangalore.  (In fact I can tell you that for
> Cyberdyne, which designs assistive cyborg gear for nursing and the
> like, it's the cream of Tsukuba grad students in CS.  Dunno about the
> rest of the industry, but I'll bet most of it is the same.)
>
>  > Thus no more money would be spent - not to mention on
>  > education.
>
> A self-fulfilling prophecy, indeed. :-(
>
>  > Japan is controlled by some old people came from country. They
>  > usually turn down the things they don't understand. I think what
>  > Matz is saying is correct in all aspect.
>
> Well, Matz doesn't approve of the current state of affairs, but he's
> hardly despairing.
>
> I'm-gonna-soak-up-some-sun-tell-everyone-to-lighten-up-on-their-country-ly y'rs,
>
> P.S. Come to think of it, I just did soak up some sun.  From
> FOSSAsia@SG:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSKBM6H1qIM&list=PLECEw2eFfW7hYMucZmsrryV_9nIc485P1&index=14
>
> and there are a number of good talks indexed at http://engineers@sg.
> The first 18 as of now are from FOSSAsia.  More should be coming, the
> best was by "Bunny", watch for it!
>
> Footnotes:
> [1]  http://www.iihs.org/iihs/ratings/vehicle/v/toyota/prius/2015
>
>
>
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