marlek

I believe actions like this can actually drive away regular facebook users. Their need for income is taking them further away from what should be their goal and that's to "be cool again". Naturally, people's interest has been dropping and they need a way to restore it. Gambling is not a way to do it and they can lose much more than they can gain with it.

If you took your time to go through scribd's ('the fruity game' authors) blog and info you would see that they are a company that looks for people exactly opposite from you. They race go carts inside the offices, challenge other people in simple AI programming and do a lot of stuff that has nothing to do with coding, deploying or 'helping to solve real problems'. They do it in free time because it's fun, and they want similar people around the office. And this is probably the case for most of the companies that have similar ways of attracting employees

If you have given this any thought instead of blindly trying to find any information to mock Light Table, you would recognize the shallowness of your own question. That is just one of many features of both of these tools, which by the way have very different purposes.

Are there any repercussions on choosing more courses and then dropping some after a couple of weeks? I guess it will be hard following more than two with college semester coming to an end, but I like at least 4 or 5 of these online courses and I'd like to see how some of them are going for a few weeks