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<wormy> 1. 002388 Adieu (long version) by Emily Bindiger from Cowboy Bebop - Limited Edition Boxset CD3
<wormy> 2. b3d086 Under cloud by NAGI feat. 美歌 from Rebirth Story II
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Also helping its success is a nice API, but mostly it's used via the IRC bot.
I wonder if the problem isn't the AppStore itself. It is so difficult to find good content, and the 'Top 10 Lists' are the primary place people go to find games. This has led to rampant spamming and other dirty tactics to get on these lists, and now there is no market for higher quality content.
I think another problem is scarcity - there isn't any anymore, making it hard for me as a customer to focus on a few higher quality products. Now there are just too many apps.
They make comics. Lots of comedy is about trying to find a balance between what is offensive and what people are willing to laugh at.
If you're creating humorous content, then you by necessity cross the boundary into the offensive (but you don't necessarily publish it!) as part of the creative process. Otherwise you'll never strike the best balance.
If you're familiar with the webcomic or the blog, you'd recognize that this is probably a reference to off-color language and humor that undoubtedly is typical of their work environment. This doesn't actually offend me at all, but the rest of the job posting does.
Comedians tend to offend once in a while, it's part of the gig. And PA is smack in the middle of the comedy/video game business, sometimes they might trample your delicate sensibilities[1].
As someone who isn't easily offended, that sounds a hundred times better than working in a constant state of fear that you're not being PC enough. But, to each his/her own. At least they're upfront about it, so potential candidates know what they're getting into. Doesn't sound like the environment you want? Don't apply.
For example, I will work for you under the understanding that I will keep giving you shit about the "dickwolves" thing until you finally understand what you did wrong -- and no, you don't have to give your kids' entire college savings away to charity.
"I am an absolute moral authority. Apologizing and shutting up is the only acceptable response when I am pissed off. Any protestation will be taken as further evidence of your complicity."
Or maybe you're just a self-centred special snowflake.
"I'm happy with the status quo, so I'm going to write condescending remarks that could equally apply to anyone who has ever felt the need to stand up for somebody else."
I assume what they mean by that is the work environment will resemble what they've put on camera in their PA TV and other series. It will probably be both more mundane and more "offensive" than what is shown on screen, so the goal would be to find someone that can handle the situation.
I think the answers is Yes, absolutely. But I think I have a different idea about what the mentorship should involve then you do. I think you can learn more from studying his thought process and his experiences with sr. management, customers and partners then you will from simply following his technical suggestions.
I also think you should bring a couple things to the table that you want to teach him. It could be some new fancy tech, or some online community or something that will help expand his perspective and better understand where you are coming from.
At the end of the day, it is really relationship problems that hold us back - not technology problems. And your ability to form successful mentor/mentee relationships will help you much more in the future than learning new tech of the week. (It will also give you perspective when your future mentee posts to hacker news v.next about her stodgy old mentor that doesn't know anything ;)
I used to run the Bing Webmaster program, and I know they do support crawl-delay. It could be someone masquerading as BingBot, or simply a bug. Ping me if no one gets back to you and I can follow up.
Most people don't buy a house for investment, they buy it because they have reached a point in their lives where they want to settle down and live someplace with their kids for 10+ years.
In that world, I think you can simplify things quite a bit. First, buying a house is more of a hedge against inflation than an investment. The market goes up? You've got more equity to move somewhere else. The market goes down? Well, you lose money, but everything else is cheaper too.
For the average person, I think the real lesson here is to make sure you can afford the house, put 20% down and it is within x2-3 your annual income. If you live in low-supply/high-demand markets like Seattle, SF, then you might end up paying more, and it is just a trade off you need to make.
There is possibly more than just design at stake here. It can be a really difficult technical and cultural problem to get such a large website to the point where they are capable of changing their site every day - and ostensibly compare the impact of each change on their metrics.
It can also be difficult for a company so firmly rooted in one brand identity to make a 'big bold change'. Forcing this type of churn onto the company could make the organization more comfortable with change, and could lead to an actual 'big bold change'.
I don't know if any of this will happen, but large organization often have a lot more to balance than just having one designer come up with what they think is right.
I was at Yahoo! for the last logo change (from web safe red to purple), and that I was seeing the correct logo every day across the network is pretty impressive.
I spend a lot of time thinking about this too - because computer/ robotic automation is not just going to take warehouse jobs, it will eventually come for all of our jobs.
But this doesn't have to be a bad thing, if you think about it from a community perspective, how great would it be if all our basic needs were automated and low cost? Theoretically, this should free people up to pursue other interests, like science, art, sports, religion -- kind of like the premise Star Trek TNG.
Unfortunately, this isn't the reality today. If things keep going like they are, then this automation will enable a small oligarchy even greater wealth and power, and leverage over the civilization. I don't mean this to be alarmist, this is a really logical progression, and 'they way things are' has created some pretty amazing achievements for us to-date. I think this will be the next big social evolution and I can't wait to see how it unfolds.
