aerialcombat

This open source project has been in development for about 5 years by SKT (SK Telecom), the biggest telecommunications company. (think Verizon) They launched a marketing event giving people a Starbucks gifticon, a mobile voucher to use at Starbucks, for starring their Github project.

A bunch of people(developers) lashed back, while hoping that maybe it was just a mishap by their marketing department.

Then the lead developer of the project, kyungtaak, posted a comment saying that he would do it again if he had to because he "loves" the project so much. And that people just need to cut him some slack.

The developers got furious by the comment, and it's going semi-viral among developers in Korea.

The company shut down the event, and posted an apology.

Maybe he's just using YouTube as a giant backup machine.

probably not

It’s easier to fake it when you’re working onsite. How do you tell if someone is really working? Just by seeing them at their desk? It’s is absurd to think that someone is working hard because they sit long hours at their desk. Get some tools.

Crossing fingers...

Yeah it's a tough problem. Maybe it's a problem without a clear answer. I do think it's more intuitive when reading a tree structure until it breaks somewhere in the middle and starts again. Then I'm lost. But I think about a flat system where I have to connect all the dots myself in the head, and it's not so pleasant either. It'll probably have to be some type of hybrid system where it takes the best of both worlds and combine nicely into one. I have yet to see such system, personally.

Keep it functional and beautiful. If you had to choose one, choose functionality over design. I believe that’s what this article is essentially saying. Bad design hurts functionality, in that case it’s better to have little to no design at all. If you can keep it functional while applying beautiful design do it by all means.

How good of a job are they doing at advertising? Advertising is tough since it has to satisfy both the ad buyers and the users. It’s very easy to turn off one or the other side.

Personally the sad part is that I wouldn’t mind living like him given my current life situations.

A question to self: Would I have done the same had I noticed the same kind of exploit? Probably not. I need to get off my ass.

Why don't girls wear pants to the prom?

Almost every night! wow. Gotta try this.

Ahhhh... This article was so therapeutic.

I'd say it's pretty damn close.

I watch TED videos.

I would rather want to see Redis go public

The judge is known to have received scholarship from Samsung in the old days.

I love Redis!

I'm sorry, but lifelike? Not yet. More like better robot.

Typical Samsung

I think the answer to the question went a bit off-tangent. IMO, what the original questioner had in mind was, "Why do you (or some people) take less challenging and/or mundane computer jobs over something that seems more "exciting" or something that will make a lasting impact?" And "Security" in this question was just an example of a mundane job that most people have in mind.

Sure, security can be/and is very challenging, exciting and lasting, but that's besides the point of the question.

The question was not whether security is challenging to the brains or "lasting", but more like "why do some programmers settle for less challenging jobs when they can do a lot more with their brains?"

My kind of playground!

Maybe we need to find the answer to 'how to fight procrastination even when knowing the answer to fighting procrastination'

Very sneaky but clever.

They should seriously do something about the review times. I'm sure they can come up with a plenty of good solutions if they wanted to.

I suggest maybe giving developers a bank of a set number of expedited review passes per year or so, so they can use it when they really need it. Damn it.

Not all trust them. Some do, some don't. But services like Mint exist because there are enough who trust out there to keep the service going. 100% trust is impossible for any service. There are people who don't even trust themselves.

Only thing annoying about emails is the long address. Other than that, how much simpler can it get? I don't see email addresses getting any shorter than they already are. They are somewhat easy to remember (a lot more so than a phone number) and they are somewhat descriptive. I don't see the form of email getting replaced by any other form. I do think there could be some underlying technical changes though.

This is what being a fish must feel like...

You are free to fail all you want at 25.

I agree with you that good advertising will go long ways. But what about bad marketing? Isn't it so easy to market badly and end up losing any originality?

I've seen so many cases where marketing turned me off leaving no chance for considering the product.

And it's so hard to advertise well.