> I was proposing to use the file extension (.xbm above) to tag what format the
image was in, but with the intention that in future, when HTTP2 comes along,
the same format negotiation technique would be used to access images.
Gaijin is just "foreigner" (though it is a slur, as it's an abbreviated form of Gaikokujin). What you're looking for is "Hakujin", meaning "white person". I'm not sure if it's really a slur, though it does feel a bit odd to me if people use it to refer to me.
I wrote my first "game" on a TI-83. Tictactoe. With an unbeatable "AI" (hardcoded if/else lookups for every possible move. the only "intelligent" thing about it was that it could "rotate" the board to minimize the lookups).
Then I downloaded some games from the internet and simply gave up on my TI-83 game dev dreams because I saw no way to compete with these "3d" games that are out there... Still a fun little experience.
But if I have two options: 1) Not watch a Movie/TV Show or 2) Pirate it (there's no option to buy it, which is true for most of the world besides the US), isn't piracy a "victimless" crime as in the producers of the content don't lose sales, because there was no way to do a sale in the first place?
I agree, a "how should we address you field" is ideal. I'd like to add though that in case you might have to call them at some point, maybe ask them for a transliteration too where applicable (eg Japanese).
Does anyone know why this "ships free to anywhere in the world except for Japan"? The Japanese landing page seems to only state that it'll be available soon, though I might've missed something on there as my Japanese isn't that strong yet.
Mind explaining how living inside a rack is comparable to living in Tokyo? My apartment in Bunkyo, Tokyo is as quite as the one in Zurich, Switzerland was. And if that's too noisy there's lovely neighbourhoods like Kichijoji that are even more quite. Where the "cold" and "dark" comes from I do not know, I'd recommend you visit here in summer and experience for yourself that it's anything but cold.
django CMS 3 [1] still uses the underlying admin system (for it's CRUD views etc), but moved all editing into the frontend, thus making it more friendly to content editors.
Or chose the heights of new buildings. Tokyo Skytree was built 634 meters high, because that number can be read "Musashi", the name for the ancient province of what is roughly present day Tokyo.
Agreed. It also solves another problem in Japan, namely that brand names etc are usually written in Japanese letters, but URLs in ASCII (yes, I'm aware of IDN, but haven't ever seen it used). This is obviously not limited to Japan, I wouldn't be surprised if other countries used the same trick.
those examples all sound like very good parallels. you're building something "by hand" to learn how they work/are constructed. the software you ship you will still build using "robots" (eg linux, nginx, your framework of choice) but do so remembering the lessons you learned.