Wall St. protests (mostly small compared to the others you mentioned) did happen..
People do express their dissatisfaction, though it seems to be dwindling with more acceptance of whatever is being thrusted upon them..
Just wondering how committed are the sports fanatics in US/Latin America/India or movie fanatics in India and then comparing the (missing) outrage when liberties are at stake.
The whole premise of interviewing and opening to the pool of candidates is to evaluate and give every applicant a fair chance after passing a minimum bar. If the whole point was to favor or employ someone (pre-decided or friend), then why this facade?
Nice advice! One finds 2 paths I guess- to focus on the medium (code, framework, etc) or on the results for a MVP.. once the MVP gets enough traction, then even rewriting the whole app is not bad as long as we know the idea has potential.
The trend seems to be that the long url is the actual webapp location whereas the contracted one is for the short url (ff.im vs friendfeed, google vs goo.gl)
is the sliding back due to the need to do "something to wind down" or to get some buzz. If former, cooking and gardening have proven to be therapeutic to me, if later, then it is addiction.
After reading Siver's post (http://sivers.org/punish), this development seemed like a perfect data point (though I am unaware of the extent of threats etc which drove them to take the decision)
to each his own, but what okcupid might be aiming at is something similar to comments-->leading to blog posts (if I strike a chord with your concise comment at HN, I would be more inclined to check your profile and follow links to say your blog etc and read more.. similarly for dating sites). this is like the trailer->movie effect which is an effect of short attention span and saves time.
"out in the wild" approach- I had native friends who were more than willing to help me, by correcting my mistakes, and ofcourse making fun of it as well.. and referring to a book whose lines I would use in everyday activities, like buying groceries, normal chitchat during commutes, etc..
also, this might sound weird, but I sometimes forced myself to "think" in the language I was learning.. this was a good practice as it made me more articulate by mapping words to mental images
the 37signals post had one of the comments suggest the same, I chatted with a rep and found no OCR/search (though coming shortly ~summer, supposedly) and no reminder/alert (which would again be tied to the ocr capabilities)..
"upgrade eligible" is the keyword.. for gen1 iphone users, the prices, as per the att/iphone website, calculated on the basis of my contract specs was the same as advertised, i.e., 99/199/299
nice idea of converting blurbs/tweets about stuff people talk into a list.. It might be a nice idea if you had some kind of ranking with things that are most talked about on the top.. got the thought from tweetdeck which shows wordclouds with largest words being the ones most talked about, to see the trend
People do express their dissatisfaction, though it seems to be dwindling with more acceptance of whatever is being thrusted upon them..
Just wondering how committed are the sports fanatics in US/Latin America/India or movie fanatics in India and then comparing the (missing) outrage when liberties are at stake.