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Re:82-Year-Old Japanese Woman Finds Success in Coding by Something1234 on Monday May 21, 2018 @07:44PM (#17122753)
Kind of off topic, but I've always found Japanese domain names to weird. They always seem to be subdomains of someone else's site. Why is this?
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Re:82-Year-Old Japanese Woman Finds Success in Coding by oceanman888 on Monday May 21, 2018 @08:00PM (#17122826)
She is probably using some hosting service provided by Japaneses company. edit: the company hp is cocan.jp a lot of personal home page are host by them. since normal Japanese don't exactly know how to use heroku and AWS.
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Re:82-Year-Old Japanese Woman Finds Success in Coding by pimlottc on Monday May 21, 2018 @08:21PM (#17122923)
In case you're not aware, you're being downvoted for "Jap". Perhaps you were just abbreviating "Japanese", but it's considered offensive.
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Re:82-Year-Old Japanese Woman Finds Success in Coding by oceanman888 on Monday May 21, 2018 @08:25PM (#17122934)
That is good to know, I am not from the states. I thought Jap was abbreviate for Japanese what have the internet done to me lol.
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Re:82-Year-Old Japanese Woman Finds Success in Coding by astura on Monday May 21, 2018 @09:49PM (#17123229)
"Jap" only became an ethnic slur in American English during/due to World War II.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jap

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Re:82-Year-Old Japanese Woman Finds Success in Coding by gaius on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @05:08AM (#17124627)
The rules are complicated, as a non-native English speaker it would be very easy to get caught out. Brit and Aussie are fine, Jap and Paki are pejorative. Best to use the full term if in any doubt.
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Re:82-Year-Old Japanese Woman Finds Success in Coding by giancarlostoro on Monday May 21, 2018 @10:56PM (#17123426)
Reminds me of my early days in the web (early to mid 2000's) when people had GeoCities websites, Angelfire, etc... For the record GeoCities never closed for Japan probably due to this phenomena you mention where they just host somewhere instead of buying a domain. I wonder how many pay for hosting despite only having a subdomain.
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Re:82-Year-Old Japanese Woman Finds Success in Coding by wodenokoto on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @02:53AM (#17124169)
Even more crazy, the Japanese Geocities is part of the Japanese Yahoo.

Sometimes it really feels like they have a parallel web going on over there!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_GeoCities#GeoCities_Jap...

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