I'm still with Slicehost because of Pickled Onion. Only because I know that if I need to do anything with my servers, the articles will definitely help me. Worked every time. And even though there are better and cheaper solutions now, I haven't even thought about moving.
That's a great bit of technical expectation management.
"We'll accept up to 25MB!" And then when you send something 26 or 27MB because you don't notice that it's so close to the limit, the system forgives you.
More likely it is an accommodation of base64[1] (MIME) encoding of binary files, which results in a 30% expansion (3 bytes get encoded to 4): 25MB * (4/3) = 33MB. People who read that GMail is limited to 25MB will expect their 25MB photo to be accepted. This requires the absolute size limit to be set to 33MB (probably bumped up to 35MB to accommodate the HTML body and other spurious stuff like the 25 off-topic replies).
True, but in a salaried job in the UK, it's typical to include those hours in your total (though not if you're paid by the hour). At least in my experience. So if you're "at work" 9-5 M-F, that's still a 40 hour work week.
Status quo for a "40 hour week" at my current employer is 8-5 M-F with an hour lunch. I tried it for six months and decided it was a bad idea.
I was able to renegotiate things to 9-5, but my manager acted like it was this really unusual request and wasn't I lucky that they were willing to let me work "less than 40 hours."
That left me wondering, what do other people consider full time in this industry?
Depends on the place -- at least where I've worked around here, lunch breaks have largely coincided with either individual preference, and the proximity to nearby (fairly quick) eateries.
If you're in a part of town, for example, where it takes a 10 minute metro ride to get to the nearest restaurant, it seems illogical to enforce a half hour lunch.
He is a true friend to all those Koreans. But the map only shows those who have computers. AND access to internet. Which would be his family, government and more or less that's it. The rest would love to show their friendship and devotion to Kim but can't - lack of computers is killing them...
The most important factor is that number 3: music and video uploads. You just didn't present it as it is. Facebook also has an option to upload video. But the real difference is that VK became practically the alternative for torrents: all the movies and all the music is there. On their servers. Free to search, watch and enjoy. Facebook doesn't have and will never have it.
So if you have all your friend on VK AND you have all the entertainment stuff there - why switch?
Unless Facebook comes with some interesting strategies to pull the users, the status quo will remain as is. And from what I hear and see, FB is putting a significant effort into this. It'll be interesting to watch in the nearest 1-2 years.
Access to all those otherwise unavailable, expensive or hard to get data and APIs seems to be the second biggest benefit of applying to YC.
The first one would of course be access to know-how and network of VCs.
"As you can see the Windows Live Network have done their best to make the privacy tools simple and easy to use and yet provide you with a sense of control over who can see what is happening in your activity streams."
It is just beneath the graph that is absolutely unusable and too hard to comprehense for well over 90% of the users. If Facebook had such privacy controls - everybody would bash them for making it overcomplicated.
