You know, I really want to like it, but I just don't.
I think Material works very well on touch surfaces. There are a ton of good design principles that it champions, but the interactions are strange on desktop.
This is interesting. I've assumed ride-sharing services would benefit self-driving cars, but the thought that individuals could own cars and rent them out in an AirBnB like manner is something I hadn't considered. That's very cool, considering that today cars are a pretty poor investment.
I think that leisure, perhaps, has the wrong kind of connotation with it.
I spend much of my own free time designing, writing and tinkering with things that I find interesting. To many of my coworkers, it appears that I am working, but to me it's working on something I enjoy—and more importantly things that other people may one day enjoy.
The challenge is to get more people to pick up an instrument, work on a new project, learn something new in their free time instead of starting at a television.
What about when campaign finance reform was passed? I thought that it was a fantastic idea, but we ended up with super PACs, which have seemingly unlimited funds. Even worse, the politicians they support can say that they don't have control and shed any liability.
I too want to hear ideas for fixing the system, but I think it is going to take more than just a few laws being passed.
Unfortunately, those direct mailers are the U.S. Postal Service's customers.
There is a rather inflammatory statement from the Postmaster General in the story about the demise of Outbox. “You mentioned making the service better for our customers; but the American citizens aren’t our customers—about 400 junk mailers are our customers. Your service hurts our ability to serve those customers.”
Slightly off-topic, but if you're looking for a good party console I'd recommend a GameCube. You can buy a used one and a few controllers for about $100. There are a ton of great local multiplayer games: Smash Bros, F-Zero, Def Jam, Mario Kart, Blitz 20-02. Plus, no need for updates.
Although this is genuinely a positive article about young people, I feel that pulling conclusions about all 18 to 29-year-olds is painting with a broad stroke.
Oddly, I was thinking about this exact topic this weekend. When I joined my current company, I signed a document saying whatever I build belongs to the company.
I'd like to go back and have this reversed. What is the best course of action? Write a letter saying that what I create on my own time is my property, and have the CEO or HR Manager sign it?
Why not seek out a frontend job directly out of high school?
Improve your skills on the job. If you feel like you need a CS degree after a year or two of work, then you can always get one—perhaps then you won't have to take out as much of a loan.
I am just trying to provide alternatives. I have no idea what twitters revenues are. Perhaps a tiered system like mailchimp has? If you have under a certain amount of requests it would be free. Paid applications which heavily use the API could be charged more.
Also, as I mentioned in my comment above, I think a premium subscription would be in order. I would pay for a service that saves tweets, and provided basic analytics. I am just trying to get the conversation going about alternatives. If anyone else has possible revenue alternatives for Twitter, I'd be interested to hear them.
I know this has been mentioned before, but Twitter should just charge for access to their API. They are really squandering opportunities, and I hope they will take a look in a new direction. Perhaps they could take a page from LinkedIn as well, and offer premium accounts where they save every tweet.
Personally, I think Twitter Ads are useless. For the price, I would have a hard time imagining that marketers would not get a better return out of Adsense or FB Ads.
It is too bad that Democrats and Republicans rule the political sphere. It would make the political environment much more interesting if the Libertarian and Green Party played a bigger role.
> Today, the scenario is like as if its cool to run a Start-up (and fail).
I think it is great that startups are cool. We need more entrepreneurs, not less. Most people don't have a clue what they are doing with their first company (I sure as hell didn't). Fail, and you won't make the same mistakes again the second time around.
Perhaps, like purchasing a license to all forms of the work? I too would like to start purchasing ebooks, but used books are much cheaper than a kindle versions on amazon.
I think Material works very well on touch surfaces. There are a ton of good design principles that it champions, but the interactions are strange on desktop.