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    Thread: Exploring Job Options in Japan
Post: RE: Exploring Job Options in Japan

Congrats to you again zx573! I'll reiterate again to you TheVinster, you should check out some of the companies on paiza and google their name and check their careers page. You might not be a coder, ...
vix86 JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 51 6,487 2016-06-13, 6:09 am
    Thread: Living Japanese DVD
Post: RE: Living Japanese DVD

Bit of googling shows there was a thread about the product by IceCream years ago, kainzero appears to have had it, whether they still have it is a different question. (IceCream had her account closed ...
vix86 Learning resources 10 690 2016-06-06, 10:08 pm
    Thread: Exploring Job Options in Japan
Post: RE: Exploring Job Options in Japan

Oh dam, I forgot about that. Well, something you could do is maybe check out the companies listed and then find their web sites and see if they have something you are looking for. Keep an eye out for ...
vix86 JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 51 6,487 2016-06-01, 11:15 pm
    Thread: Exploring Job Options in Japan
Post: RE: Exploring Job Options in Japan

Yep its those people. I too had a "WTF" moment when I saw it and laughed pretty hard since I can only imagine how much shit they'd get if they were a western site. But their recruiting section seems p...
vix86 JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 51 6,487 2016-05-31, 6:24 pm
    Thread: Exploring Job Options in Japan
Post: RE: Exploring Job Options in Japan

Fixed, they don't have the www subdomain setup apparently.
vix86 JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 51 6,487 2016-05-31, 5:54 am
    Thread: Exploring Job Options in Japan
Post: RE: Exploring Job Options in Japan

(2016-05-30, 8:06 pm)TheVinster Wrote: I'm mostly using LinkedIn, and sometimes Indeed's JP site. My problem is, as I said, I'm really not sure what I'm most interested in still. I'm currently in a ...
vix86 JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 51 6,487 2016-05-31, 12:19 am
    Thread: Alternatives to paying with foreign credit card
Post: RE: Alternatives to paying with foreign credit car...

He's not talking about Tenso he's talking about another website. He needs to buy it off some website X that only takes Japanese credit cards and have it shipped to Tenso. I'm guessing its not one of t...
vix86 Off topic 6 616 2016-05-18, 4:33 am
    Thread: Alternatives to paying with foreign credit card
Post: RE: Alternatives to paying with foreign credit car...

Nope not really. I know you've signed up for Tenso, but you might want to look around and see if there is a deputy service that will do middle man purchases for you.
vix86 Off topic 6 616 2016-05-17, 4:00 pm
    Thread: Starting to learn again...
Post: RE: Starting to learn again...

(2016-04-25, 9:06 am)Robik Wrote: http://shop.whiterabbitjapan.com/product...-brush-pen I know of the brush pens but thats too "calligraphy" oriented and I'm not aiming for writing for calligraphy's...
vix86 The Japanese language 18 2,073 2016-04-25, 6:00 pm
    Thread: Starting to learn again...
Post: RE: Starting to learn again...

(2016-04-25, 1:54 am)Zgarbas Wrote: I also noticed recently that seeing kanjis outside context has become a bit confusing - If I have see a kanji I instantly refer to it as 'the 構 in 構造'. Lol this ...
vix86 The Japanese language 18 2,073 2016-04-25, 6:25 am
    Thread: How would you replace the Kanji writing system?
Post: RE: How would you replace the Kanji writing system...

(2016-03-07, 7:32 pm)gc_3k Wrote: A color-based writing system, to account for the language's endless homonyms. How have I never imagined something like this!? ▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉
vix86 General discussion 25 2,583 2016-03-07, 10:35 pm
    Thread: Japanese NLP Libraries
Post: RE: Japanese NLP Libraries

Oh crap, sorry. You are 100% right. I'm thinking about the furigana adder in Anki, that runs on Mecab I think. @OP: Another option might be to write a web server and deliver your results to the app. ...
vix86 Learning resources 14 1,352 2016-02-29, 5:05 am
    Thread: Japanese NLP Libraries
Post: RE: Japanese NLP Libraries

Rikaichan uses Mecab i believe.
vix86 Learning resources 14 1,352 2016-02-29, 12:50 am
    Thread: Japanese NLP Libraries
Post: RE: Japanese NLP Libraries

Have you looked around on the Google IME website and see if they mention any licenses for NLP packages/software? That might be a good place to look for hints on whether they are using anything in thei...
vix86 Learning resources 14 1,352 2016-02-27, 2:41 am
    Thread: Japanese NLP Libraries
Post: RE: Japanese NLP Libraries

Something that might be worth exploring is how difficult it would be to port Mecab to a NDK .lib for android. You'd have to check if the android C headers are sufficient for Mecab's requirements. You ...
vix86 Learning resources 14 1,352 2016-02-27, 12:00 am
    Thread: Life in Japan and bubbles
Post: RE: Life in Japan and bubbles

(2016-02-25, 8:41 pm)Zgarbas Wrote: It was also weird to see just how openly westerners practice sex/wife tourism (and how many of the prostitutes assumed that it was the case with my friend and I.....
vix86 General discussion 47 5,896 2016-02-25, 11:59 pm
    Thread: I want the truth about teaching English in Japan.
Post: RE: I want the truth about teaching English in Jap...

I think one potential thing has been over looked in IT, espc Software Dev, that can make foreigners a high demand asset in some cases. If a company wants to work with cutting edge technology or new li...
vix86 JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 65 24,815 2016-02-25, 4:21 pm
    Thread: Life in Japan and bubbles
Post: RE: Life in Japan and bubbles

(2016-02-24, 1:23 pm)Kamoshika Wrote: Most young people left the village immediately after high school graduation and never came back. So, the Japanese people I was working with were a self-selected...
vix86 General discussion 47 5,896 2016-02-24, 5:31 pm
    Thread: I want the truth about teaching English in Japan.
Post: RE: I want the truth about teaching English in Jap...

(2016-02-23, 9:11 am)Raschaverak Wrote: This is a bit off topik, but only a bit. I would like to go to Japan but definitely not to teach, rather as a software developer. Definitely not for long term...
vix86 JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 65 24,815 2016-02-23, 7:14 pm
    Thread: Japanese "politeness levels"
Post: RE: Japanese "politeness levels"

(2016-02-12, 12:20 am)vonPeterhof Wrote: This is a bit of a pet peeve of mine, but since it's kind of off-topic here I'll keep this brief: Citation needed. Well the webster dictionary has about 500,...
vix86 General discussion 52 4,363 2016-02-12, 2:50 am
    Thread: Japanese "politeness levels"
Post: RE: Japanese "politeness levels"

(2016-02-11, 4:23 pm)vonPeterhof Wrote: I guess it is technically possible to learn to understand Japanese of varying politeness levels without really understanding (or even acknowledging) the logic...
vix86 General discussion 52 4,363 2016-02-11, 8:09 pm
    Thread: Japanese "politeness levels"
Post: RE: Japanese "politeness levels"

(2016-02-11, 12:11 am)RawrPk Wrote: The man asking Ms. Ichinoseki is not at all "inviting the listener" to comment or "asking for approval". The speaker expects the listener to speak and agree or an...
vix86 General discussion 52 4,363 2016-02-11, 3:58 am
    Thread: Japanese "politeness levels"
Post: RE: Japanese "politeness levels"

(2016-02-09, 12:33 pm)Digix Wrote: If so, then usage of polite language is, like I said ,dependent on your own choice and attitude not on some language requirements. The usage or non-usage of polite...
vix86 General discussion 52 4,363 2016-02-09, 5:24 pm
    Thread: Japanese "politeness levels"
Post: RE: Japanese "politeness levels"

The big problem with politeness is that no (learner) books really cover the etiquette very well for someone that wants to operate in a business world. Using desu/masu is all and good, hell you can eve...
vix86 General discussion 52 4,363 2016-02-08, 8:11 pm
    Thread: Tokyo-based iKnow is hiring a Front-End Software Engineer
Post: RE: Tokyo-based iKnow is hiring a Front-End Softwa...

I interviewed with them 3-4 weeks ago for backend, so they are definitely looking overseas as well. Their dev team sounds pretty great too and I think there are some good opportunities possibly availa...
vix86 Off topic 1 643 2016-02-05, 7:27 am
    Thread: I don't really get the point of the "report story" function?
Post: RE: I don't really get the point of the "report st...

Some stories are off color or politically incorrect, the report feature aims to try and hide those so that they aren't the first thing that shows up. Honestly though, I think some of these not-PC stor...
vix86 General discussion 10 1,310 2016-02-05, 12:41 am
    Thread: How Do I Start Investing?
Post: RE: How Do I Start Investing?

Its possible we're late and we somehow missed the "heyday of the universe" by about a billion years, but that seems unlikely. Govt. conspiracy certainly is not an option though; that places way too mu...
vix86 Off topic 42 4,974 2016-02-03, 11:31 pm
    Thread: I want the truth about teaching English in Japan.
Post: RE: I want the truth about teaching English in Jap...

(2016-02-01, 8:45 am)Elliot Wrote: If I may elaborate, on only a couple of your topics, mentioned above, in the hope that it may prove valuable advice to those considering a career in Japan, univers...
vix86 JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 65 24,815 2016-02-01, 5:33 pm
    Thread: What are the little details that make a grammar useful/nice?
Post: RE: What are the little details that make a gramma...

(2016-01-31, 2:30 pm)john555 Wrote: Nonsense.  Even advanced Japanese grammars have romaji, like this one recently published by Routledge: http://www.amazon.com/Japanese-Comprehen...grammar%5C And...
vix86 General discussion 22 1,671 2016-01-31, 8:09 pm
    Thread: What are the little details that make a grammar useful/nice?
Post: RE: What are the little details that make a gramma...

An intermediate Japanese grammar book should not have romaji in it. Shesh.
vix86 General discussion 22 1,671 2016-01-31, 6:18 am