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On and Off at Office

April 2nd, 2009 post by hiro
Off at my desk 01

Off at my desk 01

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.

Off at my desk 02

Off at my desk 02

Not only sleeping is my work. When I turned on, my desk is going to tranform like this.

On at my desk 01

On at my desk 01

Now my bed became a couch behind my desk.

On at my desk 02

On at my desk 02

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.

On at my desk 03

On at my desk 03

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How to get to messaliberty

January 29th, 2009 post by hiro

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

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messaliberty blog in Japanese

January 26th, 2009 post by hiro
Japanese version

Japanese version

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!

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Learn programming tips each other

January 25th, 2009 post by hiro
A coder writing some code

A coder writing some code

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 things during his coding. Thanks!

And one another good point of this event, we can get tons of cookies and chocolates. :P

Sweet audience

Sweet audience

If you’re a programmer, join us next time even if you’re not in Japan.

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The freedom to learn new things

January 9th, 2009 post by ianc
Learning to ride a unicycle by Mikey G via Flickr

Learning to ride a unicycle by Mikey G Ottawa via Flickr

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 course we have other targets, like to be profitable by a certain date, or to get a certain number of users to try out hulor but if our working life turns into uninteresting, draining routine we have failed.

success = (fun+learning) && (profit ||other targets);

Speaking personally, I’ve had jobs where I dread going into work, but it simply isn’t the case here.

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