Posts Tagged "messaliberty"

Working hard is always fun for me but I don’t like to care about the last train. That’s why I made my den under my desk like the photo above. It’s cool isn’t it? I can enjoy camping everyday if I want. Not only sleeping is my work. When I turned on, my desk is going to tranform like this. Now my bed became a couch behind my desk. In 1996, Japanese TV picked up behind the scene of legendary Silicon Valley start-up “Netscape”. The disclosure of how Netscape guys working, eonjoying and bedrooms under desks were shocked for a 12 years old kid and their passion through the show changed his life. Yes it was me. It was start of my start-up life.

Moved to messa.tv http://messa.tv/2009/01/how-to-get-to-messaliberty/

We finally launched Japanese version of our blog. You can see it here: messaliberty 日本語 We’re waiting for your access and comments!

Like Ian wrote at this entry The freedom to learn new things, we’re always learning new things. It’s a really important thing working in this industry and can’t improve our products without it. Umm, let me tell you my feeling. It’s really fun, isn’t it!? Today I’ll tell you one example of what we do. We did a programming event to show everyone how you write some code. A coder writes some code. Another people watch it and ask some questions to the coder. That’s it. Quite simple. This process can help us to learn how another programmers solve problems or what kind of a productive programing environment does the coder use. The picture above is our friend’s code. He is a great programmer so we all could learn lots of...

One of the best things about working here is the freedom to learn and try new things.  Yesterday, I hacked around and installed Laconica, an open source twitter clone.  We use irc to keep in touch while in the office or in various remote locations but that has a few limitations.  One is the fact you need to have an irc client set up, another is that the history of conversations is not easily viewable by all members and especially so if you are offline when a certain chat or conversation happened.  So after hearing about it on the Stack Overflow podcast, I tried it out.  There was no long approval process, just a short discussion about how it might help us. The point though, is that at messaliberty one of the aims of the team is to have fun and to learn.  Of...