I think you can feel and show emotion and still be very in control of your words and actions. Certainly looked like the administrator was acting very intentionally and in accordance with their values.
Do they have to maintain decorum all the time or just when they are on professional duty? In any case, I suspect those students were in perfect control of their feelings and very intentionally seeking to call out and disrupt the speaker.
It's a matter of focus. We'd love there to be more self-study content available for kids also. But MOOCs have a famously low completion rate and it's hard to stay motivated without interaction. So we're focused on connecting learners and teachers and having them interact over video chat.
> Not to mention there's very little incentive to amend these policies outside of generating general goodwill.
There is now an incentive for other companies to follow suit since savvy employees will value offers from Pinterest and other companies with this policy much more highly.
It's rare that a company like Pinterest breaks ranks on things like this. I hope they get a lot of goodwill from employees and applicants as a result.
An amusing aside - from the Exchange Visitor Host Site Handbook which is sent to supervisors of J1 program participants:
Signs of Cultural Adjustment Issues
“This country is really stupid…” - A common statement from trainees who are seeing a
cultural trait of the United States through the experience of their own culture, not that of the U.S. A response might be, “Why do you suppose we’ve done that for the last 200 years?”
“English doesn’t have enough words…” - A common statement from trainees who cannot
find a way to express emotions that are described in their native language, but not shared
by the Anglo cultures.
“All I want to do is sleep…” – A common statement of depression brought on by the
overload of change.
“I’m gaining a lot of weight…” – The change in food often results in weight gain. It is often difficult for trainees to understand how to use local and different foods for a healthy diet.
“Americans ask ‘How are you doing, but don’t really want to know…”– An accurate and
common observation that may indicate the trainee is understanding what is said literally,
but not hearing the underlying or cultural meaning.
“Why should I celebrate your holiday; I’m not American…” – A common attitude that
could indicate the trainee is suffering a bit of cultural identity crisis.
It's a reasonably common question and we think we have some quite good answers - you can see a summary on our homepage.
Our customers tell us they choose us vs alternatives for:
- the efficiency of our build / test cycle
- the broader API out of the box including native UI components and integrations with 3rd party SDKs like Facebook, Flurry and Parse
- the ability to push updates to the app without going through the App Store approval process using our Reload feature: https://trigger.io/reload
There are no run-time dependencies on Trigger.io servers except for using our Reload feature that allows you to push updates to your live app code:
https://trigger.io/reload
=> Your apps keep working for end-users even if our servers disappear
We're backed by top-tier angel investors and value our own reputations which protects you when it comes to 1. That said, we do have some more upcoming announcements that will hopefully do more to assuage those concerns.
Great pivot Sean: Zenbox has become critical for us in a very short space of time.
We use it with Stripe, Mailchimp and Salesforce so when we received a support email we can immediately see which plan the customer is on and the details of their recent builds. That allows us to provide personalized support faster.
Request: it would be great to be able to color code emails in our support inbox so we can see which ones are our Go Pro plan customers even before opening them.
You'd need to setup the Trigger.io build / test environment to see the full example code from the post used in a mobile app. Maybe next time we can show that to you in a screencast, we'll work on it.
Reloads will still be applied beyond the limit - you'll just get a nice email from us :). In the future we will charge an overage rate.
Reloads do not block the UI, by default the old version is used until the updating is done. We check and apply updates when the app gains or loses focus, but you can modify the update behavior using the Reload API:
http://current-docs.trigger.io/modules/reload.html#modules-r...