Unfortunately? These kinds of cultural differences are what make countries different. We could use more variety like this. There are probably a lot of downsides to having everything digital as is done in America.
That moment when the the Jira server goes down but no one cares because the production teams were all working off of good ol' whiteboards to do their Kanban.
> Each year the amount of wood harvested from U.S. forests is much less than annual forest growth. Land covered by forests in the United States increased by 4.5 percent between 1997 and 2012, even as suburban development expanded.
One of my previous projects included replacing an Excel/email based approval process with an online process within the system of record. One goal was to reduce outdated offline copies of approval records being stored in people’s inboxes.
Actual result: everyone began printing screenshots from the system and storing these in file cabinets.
I quite enjoy working with paper when it’s convenient and fun. From what I read, much of the paperwork in Japan is handwritten, which sounds a lot better than sending Word docs all day.
It depends on what you mean by designing operating systems. Usually I've found that OS taught in college tend to be out of date, that is of course unless you are grad/post-grad CS research.
It is written be Andrew S Tanenbaum, the author of minix. The book contains whole of minix source code. Nothing beats learning from reading actual codes. Linus Torvalds was inspired by this book. In his autobiography "Just For Fun", Torvalds describes it as "the book that launched me to new heights".
