jhandl

You'd pay for speed-ups that come from reworking algorithms to make them more efficient, but how do you avoid someone adding wait loops in strategic places and then selling you the software again after taking them out? IBM sells you an increase in processing power for your mainframe by enabling processors that were already there the whole time but disabled by configuration. I don't think I like that business model.

Have you seen http://resume.linkedinlabs.com?

I guess I use it as another online CV.

I don't think the network should be reporting views to profile owners. Of course I'm spooked by this.

So you're essentially freaked out that a prospective employer or business contact is looking at your CV.

Not finding employees.

HR departments are paying for those premium accounts because they use it to find employees. Are you suggesting they don't know what they are doing?

Not finding work. Can I even separate my contacts into people-that-can-see-that-im-looking and people-that-shouldnt nowadays?

You can update your profile without broadcasting the change to your contacts, and you can answer job offerings privately too.

A lot of people use it as the de-facto rolodex: you can learn a lot about who you're going to meet without being "stalkish" because people expect to be searched (well, not you apparently). You can use it to contact people in specific positions (cold call), I've done it with great success to get past unresponsive customer services.

Many people don't agree with their growth tactics, but few would say it's useless.

Why did you create a profile? If you don't want to connect with your professional network, if you don't care who looked at your profile (and are even spooked about it), if you (likely) don't use it to find people... What do you think is the purpose of having a LinkedIn account?

How should anybody know, from an email address alone, if the owner is alive?

How is growing their user base not making the experience better? Most people use LinkedIn to find people, no?

Although the basic idea sounds great, I can't help but think this is a scam. I watched the video and bolted out in disgust.

Starting with irrelevant video footage: big-city homelessness and world hunger are different problems; a healthy newborn baby is hardly an example of a malnourished child; several scenes attempt to associate being black with hunger but show well fed kids instead, one even being fed with a spoon by an overweight caregiver...

Then, the video never explains how the system works. Could have explained the idea while you had me watching.

Not to mention that world hunger is not something you can simply throw cash at. It's been done, doesn't work. This is a very complex problem, involving distribution costs, poverty, corruption and many other factors.

And Deepak Chopra? Seriously? You lost any credibility you might have had.

The whole thing reeks of "for every forwarded email Bill Gates will pay $1 to X". Except Deepak gets that $1.

Hmm. No offense, but that looks like somthing my 12 year-old son would use. I can't be seen with that! :)

Answered elsewhere but the Coin is not a good idea for reasons also answered elsewhere (merchants wouldn't take it, your account could be flagged, etc).

I carry two government-issued ids; one driver's license; two medical ids; three credit cards, two debit cards and two coordinate cards (two-factor auth) related to three bank accounts; my mother's two debit cards and one medical id (she's elderly and I take care af all her needs); and one medical emergency info card. That's 16. Membership and discount cards are the non-essential ones.

I do have all of those cards scanned and stored in dropbox with 1password, but I don't have good 3g coverage so I carry them just in case.

I carry my fat wallet in a fanny pack. Not very elegant, but incredibly practical.

I love the idea behind Coin but what I need is a fat wallet.

I carry 19 cards, of which 16 are essential. Some of them are not for swiping so they wouldn't benefit from Coin. The solution for me is a wallet that can hold 20 to 30 cards, but as far as I can tell there's no such thing.

You could look it up by yourself, but here's the gist of it: the flight attendant's top priority is your safety, not your happiness or comfort. They are trained in emergency procedures and if at all possible they will be the ones who make sure you get out of a cabin full of smoke after a crash. To cite a recent example: http://jezebel.com/no-ones-talking-about-the-flight-attendan...

I think of flight attendants as firemen (or firewomen) serving us drinks and food. Because that's what they are. They will be the ones saving your ass if the situation comes to that.

That's precisely what LinkedIn is for.

The disinformation in this one is strong. It's not illegal nor hard to get money from ATMs.

The Cedin trades for official dollars... How is that better than selling bitcoins?

I agree with some of the liberties they took, for example the ISS, the shuttle+hubble and a chinese space station being next to each other, but I'm not so sure about staying in micro-gravity during acceleration phases. Was it because they didn't think the public would understand what acceleration looks like?

Good to know. Luckily I haven't had the opportunity to find out.

Banks do use email for that and for everything else if you told them to do so because you care for the environment.

"This is your bank/IRS. There's a problem with you account/taxes. If you don't respond by date X we'll close/fine your account/you. This is the only notice you will get."

How long ago was that?

I can't help but think that they agreed to word this so similarly as a way to hint that the words have been put in their mouths. It's like what somebody that's being held hostage would do to make you understand that they can't talk freely.

Well, these are the four constants: 0, 1, i, e and tau. Yes, that really is four constants.

Hmm, but video takes much more bandwidth and having communication problems is the last thing you want during an interview. Also, does this have sound? Would be pretty useless without sound.

Doesn't work for me. The language selector seems to change on its own, the right pane never finishes "Loading...", the feedback button opens a blank page.

Also, the start page shows that the right pane is for the camera view of the participants. Why would I want to see the interviewee's face? I want to know how they think, not how they look.

A better use of that space would be a drawing tool, as sometimes it's easier to explain something by making a diagram. Build that and I'll use it.

I added the "seriously though" to clarify the obvious joke. Sorry you took it seriously, though.

Having interviewed about a hundred programmers who responded to a job search specifying that we're looking for "brilliant coders", I can objectively say that 90% are below average...

Seriously though, your perception depends very much on the quality of your peers. I'm lucky enough to be immersed among the very best, so the average developers I regularly interview seem - to me - incapable of programming their way out of a paper bag, even though they hold normal positions in normal companies, presumably successfully.

Thanks, I might try them as they are not in-ear (which is what I can't stand). Chemical help for sleeping while sitting is still needed though, not that I mind.

In-ear plugs don't work for me, I can't even stand the soft squishy ones for 30 seconds. Given that I also can't sleep while sitting and I can't afford (and my company won't pay) business seats, I have to resort to pills. So the solution for me is Bose + pills.

I'm with you. But my Bose headphones cancel best the kind of sound that is easily ignored. Typing and talking go right through and even become more prominent against the quieter background. I found that full isolation can only be achieved by playing some music, which is better but still not ideal.

Anyone starting a Kickstart project for a better system can have my money.