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A Tokyo trip report

A Tokyo trip report

Posted Jul 19, 2007 20:44 UTC (Thu) by njs (guest, #40338)
Parent article: A Tokyo trip report

>It turns out that this can be a problem with Japanese companies; one developer talked about "stone-headed managers" who are deathly afraid that somebody will post something which embarrasses or shames the company.

So then what they end up doing to prevent this is... post embarrassing code that hurts their company's reputation? This is a lovely arrangement.


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