The irony is that Indeed is not the best place to find work for those 2200 who lost their jobs.

Indeed used LinkedIn to hire me :3

Still got a job?

A bit sensationalist IMO. From my experiences costly Tokyo rentals are optional.

During college I lived in central Tokyo on a budget that was much less than what I had in the States (120,000 jpy) - working near full time mind you.

Started out by living in a few different netcafes for a month and moved into a humble flat with initial costs under 100,000 jpy.

Now with a non-Japanese wife and no guarantor, we pick places where these fees are non-existent and landlords or organizations are okay with foreigners working non-traditional jobs using guarantor companies (monthly guarantor fee of around 2600 jpy). More so than the deposits, it sucks I get discriminated against for my race.

> More so than the deposits, it sucks I get discriminated against for my race.

I used to consider Japan as a potential destination country. The xenophobia will come back to haunt them. The cost of integration is outweighed by the economical benefits of a bigger workforce pool.

A country with any level of unemployment, already has a bigger workforce pool than it knows what to do with.

I am not saying that xenophobia isn't bad, but it's a bit of a leap to say that Japan is in any danger of a shortage of workers.

You can argue that countries should aim for full employment, so any unemployment by definition means they're mishandling things. But certainly increased labour supply doesn't automatically increase unemployment rate in market economies - it often has the opposite effect. Otherwise, smaller countries would tend to have low unemployment and populous countries would have high unemployment!

Why do you think Japan's population is in a death spiral?

Birth rates are falling across the board in the first world, but unlike the west, they have few immigrants to make up for it.

Where are you from? What job(s) do you do?

Actually quite a few places allow you to get in without such deposits. I've lived here since my last two years of college - totaling 8 years now - and never had an issue getting in with almost zero down aside from rent and guarantor company fee. My rents have ranged from $350/month to now $1600/month.

On the private side: コンフォリア

On the public support side (subsidized housing): UR (Urban Renewal) JKK Tokyo (東京都住宅供給公社)

Actually, weeklies and monthlies are common in cities. マンスリー、ウィクリー http://www.weekly-monthly.net/search/list.html?todoufuken_cd...

Programmers I've worked with who valued refactoring code instead of building features have also been some of the most negative people I've met.

That says authenticity. You're thought leader material now!

troll elsewhere

I've done email marketing for some pretty big companies over the last 3-4 years, as well as a few smaller ventures. When it comes to generating revenue, HTML wins across the board in my experience with general goods' EC, daily deal, education and food.

The users of this board aren't exactly the type of people who impulse buy.

I really hope Valve takes them on in some shape or form, even if it's their own flavor of Linux. Then Windows will be good for just Microsoft Office. And that's it. http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/07/steams-newell-windows-...

Much as I love Valve, Steams usability is pretty poor. I wouldn't trust them to make good OS X replacement any time soon.

Did you contribute back to the open-source community or individuals you (pick a verb: leveraged, used) for profit each time?

Since I was downvoted please allow me to explain by expanding on that question with more questions:

What sort of license did you have on Nodester's code prior to acquisition?

You said "We also used the following open source libraries / NPM modules written by talented Node.JS / Javascript developers:"

For any open-source work you used, did you leave the original author's copyright or credit in the code?

Did you pay the original authors anything for their work?

What types of licenses were used in the code you forked?

At what point did you let everyone know you were closing the public repository and making it private so you could sell it?

I apologize if this sounds abrasive, but this smacks of getting people to work for free under the notion of a truly open-source project.