I guess that's why it's an experiment. Tourist boards are driven by marketing and PR types. It's refreshingly transparent to hear from - apparently - real people... you see the country from their viewpoint.
The Mashable writer might just be a bit sensitive, I like the Sweden account (and follow other similar ones). Users seem to be free to talk about all sorts of sensitive topics without problem. To me, this week is just an off-week, where I am less interested in the person but will be sticking with it.
Your mother sounds like she's using tabs like you would in Excel, where you have different spreadsheets for different types of transactions. You see that quite a lot with users who are experts in one area and try to carry over their skills to another area - rather than adapting to new ideas.
As for forward and back, yeah I use them a lot too. Normally via extra mouse buttons or keyboard though.
I don't know where I read this, but I always thought the EC/EU/Euro was an effort by the allied countries to tame a future German economy. If that's true, then Germany distancing themselves would surely defeat the purpose of the union.
I've got to say, I'm wary of supporting technologies that are linked to disagreeable behaviour like that - for a time I was considering phasing out MySQL for a similar reason. I saw Sun as one of the good guys.
The good thing about legislation is you can go after those minority of bad guys. That's what happens when businesses call individuals who are on these privacy lists, they are reported to a regulator and the regulator investigates.
Indeed. There's a developer bubble around Hacker News and websites like Stack Overflow, where topics like bcrypt have become second nature. Whereas standard developers, i.e. those that program solely as a job, they don't inhabit these places.
Even opting for bcrypt can be sketchy. Native support only appeared a few years ago, older versions rely on the OS - many of which didn't support blowfish without a patch. Fine if you control the server.
Indeed. Some processing is good, but a lot of it just makes the food too easy to eat. I would argue that even processing food at home, such as mashing potatoes can be a problem unless you are careful about the portion size - i.e. remember how many potatoes were used to make it.
Conversely, it winds me up when products boast that they have no artificial ingredients, yet have colours or flavours which are mixtures of natural substances that have little to do with the products that they are being used to imitate.
Even those tests they give developers to do during the interview process are off-putting, especially given there's a talent shortage in many parts of the world. That said, good luck. I think this sort of thing will help most with the recruitment of graduate developers.
The ideal way to change is iteratively otherwise you create a usability problem for your experienced users, which is why you get those revolts. As far as I understand it, FB enhanced their service, whereas Digg reinvented itself, which is a lot more risky.
Most commodity furniture is like this, if you ever look inside a modern couch you'll be amazed how cheap and poor quality the innards are - I mean plastic instead of metal, and low grade wood that's holding the weight and under tension. I guess it's like most things in modern life, if you don't pay over the odds for quality, then it's all superficial.