Patio11 AMA about Japan, Technology, Business and Startups

&quot;Far better to do it at a startup (or at AppAmaGooBookSoft) than at a traditionally-managed Japanese company&quot;<p>From what I&#x27;ve seen at least Google and Amazon don&#x27;t have much engineering effort beyond localization in Japan. I&#x27;m curious to know if any of these guys are hiring for Software Engineering or SRE type roles (in Japan).

“My agreement with my employers mostly forecloses personal side projects”<p>Understandable that he doesn’t have time, but the agreement sounds a little unfair.

Also from same author, on the emergence of AWS EC2 and S3:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;slashdot.org&#x2F;comments.pl?sid=194921&amp;cid=15971343" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;slashdot.org&#x2F;comments.pl?sid=194921&amp;cid=15971343</a><p>&quot;... not going to set the world on fire.&quot;<p>But see (also on front page currently):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;finance.yahoo.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;amazon-com-announces-fourth-quarter-210100782.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;finance.yahoo.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;amazon-com-announces-fourth-q...</a><p>It seems like AWS is doing quite well.