Most [serious] companies will have catered breakfasts/lunches/snacks on a regular basis. They don't advertise it as part of the "culture" nor do they offer it as a form of compensation. They just do it becaise it's convenient to the workflow and creates a positive feeling in the workplace if done right. Fruit deliveries, lunch once a week, snack cabinet, pizza night, ice cream social, etc. all boring yet part of what's considered normal behavior. If you work at a company that doesn't then you should ask yourself if the bosses actually know what they're doing or care to provide the basics or their employees.
Alcohol in the work place is a serious problem, either existing or waiting to happen. Just ask your favobrite insurance company. Also, if some clown in an executive position brags about the size of their weekly binge-drinking bar tabs as a reason to work for them, walk away. They're trying to ply you with drugs in the same way a pimp does a prostitute.
Paging Mr. Best...to the red courtesy phone, Mr. Pete Best, red courtesy phone please.
Guy comes up with the idea to blog about the concept of working his way around the world. Neither is a novel concept. People have been travelling the world whilst working since times immemorial. People have also been blogging about their experiences lives since, well, times immemorial. See: Herodotus.
Also, he apparently didn't do any fancy legal footwork prior to creating his brand, image and web persona that would enable him to protect his work in the future. Sucks to be him.
Again, nothing novel about any of this. That he did well enough to convince some sketchball employment agency to use his concept in their promotional work is a measure of success and well, that's probably the pinnacle of his for this particular project. Maybe it's time that he invest his energies into something will a higher barrier to entry.
That needs to be a lot simpler and inviting. Let me play with the app first and then pitch me the membership and make it as light touch as possible. Keep in mind that I may see anywhere between 2 and 10 new apps a day and a speed bump such as the one you have up there doesn't make adoption easier.
I'd give my left nut to halve a room full of young, inexperienced and underpaid programming enthusiasts into a small group of know-it-all graybeards. Unfortunately, the human management mechanics don't work like that.
It may occur to someone that the person begging for resumes is nothing other than a low-level gnat who is fishing for applicants in the hopes of landing a scouting fee. After receiving no response from someone listing positions on HN, I worked myself into their company's recruiting workflow and landed an hour-long phone screen with the very same unresponsive individual. Turns out he was a turd and I was overqualified for the job. A simple salary query would've sufficed.
They're just trying to throw the whole enchilada at Uber to make them either go away or somehow curb their practice. The recent Boston Globe Spotlight Team's expose on the taxi business in Boston, coupled with the fact that some of the larger taxi companies own limousine services will not help their cause. It's simple intimidation through litigation.
Talk about putting the cart before the horse. Having worked for spinoffs, spunouts, "we're from MIT" and a host of others throughout my career, I can attest that those with the greater chance of success are those who identify a need in the marketplace and focus all of their efforts, business, design and engineering, on solving a problem that people are ready to buy into. Building a framework for the purpose of later trying to find ROI on it is an expensive and often futile endeavor.
It's a clear reflection of the market. Both creative producers and creative-minded consumers will flock to a platform that inspires grass roots design. Android is neither from a production or consumption point of view. And there's nothing wrong with that. RIM survived for a very long time living off of soulless business users interested in nothing more than reading an email.
Not when you have your entire team/company using gmail as a paid service. And when you factor in the part about the user being the product in social networking, basically you're forcing a paying customer of one product to become a revenue stream in another.
Monopolies find themselves in trouble over this all time, just like when a customer service agent from your credit card company or local energy conglomerate passes you onto a sales rep from a third party without your knowledge. It's how they scam the old, ignorant and uninformed.
tl;dr: you cannot change your bookmarks when you have no other options.
I don't shop local any more unless it's for a premium item and the customer service is beyond average. Not when Amazon can deliver consumer items the next day.
Most [serious] companies will have catered breakfasts/lunches/snacks on a regular basis. They don't advertise it as part of the "culture" nor do they offer it as a form of compensation. They just do it becaise it's convenient to the workflow and creates a positive feeling in the workplace if done right. Fruit deliveries, lunch once a week, snack cabinet, pizza night, ice cream social, etc. all boring yet part of what's considered normal behavior. If you work at a company that doesn't then you should ask yourself if the bosses actually know what they're doing or care to provide the basics or their employees.
Alcohol in the work place is a serious problem, either existing or waiting to happen. Just ask your favobrite insurance company. Also, if some clown in an executive position brags about the size of their weekly binge-drinking bar tabs as a reason to work for them, walk away. They're trying to ply you with drugs in the same way a pimp does a prostitute.