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I guess it's different strokes for different folks. Personally, I feel I can communicate much more efficiently via chat/messaging mediums than email. Chatting, in my opinion, at least in a late 20 something (27 year old)'s mind, emulates a real conversation where if you don't respond it's essentially ignoring the other person. If you have a bigger thought, sure you can type it out and get that message to multiple people in a better format - but for the majority of quick Q and A's I don't see any issue with messaging.

I think the greatest thing about the German language is its practicality. "Ausgang" or "exit", literally from the words 'go out' or 'gone out' but that describes the action and noun. It is the description of the word that becomes the word. "Escalator" is "Fahrtreppe" or "Rolltreppe", literally moving/going stairs or roll stairs.

I recently used maps.me while in Europe (Germany and Poland), with no data plan and only GPS on Airplane mode. With the downloaded maps, it was great. It even included entertainment, restaurants and some transportation options.

One of the biggest things people seem to miss is the discounts offered by business through Foursqaure if you checked in at the right time or X amount of times. How FSq didn't exploit that or at least leverage that successfully is beyond me. To me, that was one of the coolest features at the time. Check in at so-and-so restaurant, get a free this or that or $2 off. In addition, it made an easy way to see where other people were at downtown at the bars in college.

Flat UI Colors 12 years ago

Yep... used to design anime sites with that all the time, font was 04b03. Size 10 with 2 pix border (black text, white border!)