Comments on: Another Hosted Services Success Story

By: Geirr

Geirr — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 04:56:29 +0000

Reminds mne of the game of trying to spell Japanese words with romaji:

R.E.N.I = ‘unbelievable’

O. N. suru = to cheer someone on,

U. N. G. = amusement park,

Etc.

By: 15 lines of Perl => 1 million/month « Pradeep Sethi

15 lines of Perl => 1 million/month « Pradeep Sethi — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 17:49:53 +0000

[...] via MicroISV [...]

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 02:47:07 +0000

I don’t know if that will kill the ideogram-based writing system, but it stands a good chance of killing me if I see another one. Thank goodness I’m not friends with anyone who talks like that.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 02:40:18 +0000

Wow, that really *is* l33tsp34k! I suppose some would bemoan this as leading up to the breakdown of the ideogram-based writing system.

アリが東 ⑤ザEます!!

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:21:43 +0000

I’m failing to the vast majority of the stuff shown to me by my coworkers. There was significant use of glyphs which only appear on the cell phone. That being said, there was a sentence something like the following:

⑤G②駅に来てくダさぃ

Except imagine it with a lot more changes around the kudasai part, including switching from hankaku to zenkaku characters and back again. There was probably some obfuscation applied to eki, too, I just can’t remember it.

Guide to reading: If you don’t already read Japanese, I implore you, don’t even think of asking. Its not worth the pain it will cause your brain. If you do, read every character outloud individually. That works for this example, anyhow, there were some I was shown where I would have more luck deciphering the meaning by banging the phone rhythmically on my forehead and hoping the resulting stars resolved themselves into patterns.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 11:45:13 +0000

Can you give an example of “Japanese l33tsp34k”? I did some self-study of Japanese for a while, and always found slang etymology an interesting diversion.

By: ~ awasu ~

~ awasu ~ — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 11:26:20 +0000

[...] Maybe all it takes is 15 lines of Perl script… There is a recent fad for Japanese schoolgirls to send each other messages in basically Japanese schoolgirld l33tsp34k. The problem is that, despite this being very trendy, its very annoying difficult to do well on a cellphone. Enter a web service which, if you send it a mail, will l33tify it for your friend without having to do any work. They then charge your phone bill about 5 cents. [...]

By: Joshua Volz

Joshua Volz — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 10:35:45 +0000

Awesome, simply awesome. That’s somebody who is filling a need (eliminating a pain) and also providing an end to end solution (as opposed to providing a program). The simple things often seem to sell and work the best. 15 lines of Perl is apparently doing the job and making whoever $1M gross a month (based on your figures). I would call that a uISV success story.

….ok, I just read the above paragraph and it seems I have now learned how to do web 2.0ish speak, but using uISV cliches (eliminate the pain of your customer by providing a scalable, reliable web service solution). Crap.