Amalfi coast is amazing. Pompeii very interesting. Napels Spanish quarters. As Pimeys says the restaurants are just too good. The seafood is very very good.
Actually, in my experience the private-sector developers doing government contracts are well paid but are sub par skill wise. The software you work with, the slow procedures and the negativity surrounding failing projects ensure only the mediocre stay, which in turn results in longer and more failing projects. The good developers leave for startups etc.
Have a look at Holacracy for interesting ways in how to structure teams and at the same time gearing up for continuous change. It's a very different approach than creating hierarchy, but it's not completely flat either.
That's a great tradition, that could be applied to not just coffee and pizza. Hope it takes off at other food joints as well.
On a side note, you wonder how many poor people go to coffee bar Gambrinus, featured in the article. It's well known, but a caffè costs more than 2 euro's there, whereas coffee bars in living neighbourhoods charge 70 euro cents. Gambrinus is a place where tourists and well-to-do's frequent.
The amount of compendiums sold isn't acurate. The prize pool is being buffed by the purchase of compendium points to garner additional features (with many players sinking money many times more than what the compendium cost).
I wouldn't be surprised if this is a big factor behind how fast the prize pool is growing.
Facebook.com isn't responsive (you'll see fixed width's, just check it out), so it does seem that responsive design is something they disregard purposefully.
Yeah, strafing and walking backwards at least you can do. How would you crouch and go prone for example?
And I wonder how good you would be able to aim with Omni, that's gonna be a deciding factor.
I thought the top bar was nifty. It only showed when you scrolled back up. When you scroll back up you might be looking for a way to continue somewhere else, and that's when they show you the top bar with it's menu.
"you will need them again; maybe at another team, maybe at your next company or next job."
Why does the author highlight this?
So the motive for open sourcing is primarily to help yourself? The collaboration and chances to get better are more important IMHO.
For me the interesting stats are the staggering numbers of engagement the Facebook platform has. 845 million users who've used Facebook the last 30 days, 483 million users who use it _daily_ and 2.7 billion Likes and Comments every day.
For me this is not really about Facebook's stats, but revealing how incredible the next 10-20 years are going to be with internet facilitating this kind of activity on one smart platform. (and it's just the start)