Though it's a clear transition, I'm sure there are plenty of EEs left. I wouldn't expect too many to use this site though.
Myself, I wanted to be a programmer my whole life but convinced myself not to in college, went EE/CPE, did a power internship, and then finally realized I should just do what I want.
I would guess this. A memory could essentially be just a combination of pointers to different people/places/concepts. And if you wipe out the pointers, you have indeed totally lost the memory. Anything else would seem redundant.
Sometimes they want to leave their options open. That's fine with us. An outstanding offer from Fog Creek ensures that the first time they have to wake up at 8 a.m. and put on a suit for a high-pressure interview with Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) --well, when the alarm goes off, there's a good chance they'll say to themselves, why the heck am I getting up when I already have an excellent job waiting for me at Fog Creek? My hope is they won't even bother going to that interview.
This doesn't seem like a healthy opinion to have about your employees, especially interns. Maybe I'm just biased, but every place I worked at during college encouraged me to interview elsewhere even if they were planning to give me an offer.
Wouldn't it also be true that the top X% are actually the least likely to take classes at udacity? At least, the way I'm imagining it the top X% are those spending the most time preparing for a traditional university.
Right off the bat though I have a problem conceptually. If this is at all analogous to Facebook (and perhaps it is not), the onus is now on me to block hundreds of millions of users instead of adding a few hundred. What you could do instead is to block groups of users based on the type of content they share. In this model it's like what stumbleupon would be with only a thumbs down option. And I could see that being a really great way to learn about new interests you would never find otherwise.
A reply-all debacle occurred where I was a consultant a couple years back (at a quasi-government corporation with 5000 employees).
In this case, "Should we really expect..." is like saying "should we really expect people to read a dozen emails before sending 5000?" Yea, I think so.
One of our consultants wrote off a sarcastic reply-all email in response detailing what the reply all button actually did as if explaining to 5 year olds. The client demanded that this person be fired.
Maybe this is a common marketing technique, but I had (and still have) no idea what the site does. "reinventing teamwork" sounds interesting, yet it still doesn't tell me much. Don't get me wrong; I do appreciate the minimalism. However, you're asked to enter quite a bit of information before you know why.
One alternative is to start the user out with sample projects and tasks (like Trello does).
One other thing: the "invalid password" message when creating an account is not very helpful.
Most of the calls to boycott companies seem pretty poorly organized (even this article is just a list on some guy's website, albeit one with moderate internet popularity).
What about an app entirely dedicated to organizing boycotts? Users would suggest and vote on issues and companies to boycott. The end result would be detailed guides on which products/service to avoid along with alternatives. The site would only highlight one issue at a time to maximize the effect.
I've been toying with the idea for a while (there are plenty of sites/apps built around single issues, but I've only found one site that does what I've described... though poorly implemented: http://www.boycottowl.com/ ).
Myself, I wanted to be a programmer my whole life but convinced myself not to in college, went EE/CPE, did a power internship, and then finally realized I should just do what I want.