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I don't know what Sweden he has lived in, but me who has lived in Sweden through the 90s, 00s and 10s, I feel that practically the only thing people want to talk about is problems with immigration.

In relation to digging into a major economic shift during thee 30 years, moving Sweden from being one of the most egalitarian societies to consistently having an increasing economic gap.

This continues with the last budget, again giving tax cuts to, not salary work, but dividents. "But isn't Sweden a high tax society", well, it still a quite high tax on work, but all other type of taxes has been remove or dramatically decreased (inheritance tax, gift tax, property tax, corporate tax, divident tax). So it is increasingly cheaper to earn money on others work (also your parents), but if cant afford to invest you will a hard time actually working yourself up by just putting hours in. But hey, the problem is just "immigration" and that people cant talk about it (even though the only thing people talk about is just that).

I would like to have the complete opposite. Turn any app into a website so that I don't need to download them, and can just access them through my browser.

The company control their private property. The labour can only control their own labour, so they choose to use that control. How is that not in their right?

I think the question should be seen as a problem you can solve together, more then an accusation. So maybe phrase it more like ”I’ve observed a change in output from the team. Tickets seem to be taking lounger time. It does not seem to be due to x,y or z. What do you think about it?” People always rather be part of the solution, not the problem, so better to invite them to solving the problem with you

I think the first thing you should start with is to understand if there is less productivity or not, and then understanding why.

Can you see that the tickets closed are less during a similar time period last year? Does the same pattern follow all old developers, or is it the new ones that don't have the same productivity? Are the tickets actually equal as last year, or has complexity increased and therefore decreased speed? If there is a general decrease in productivity across the team including the senior developers, and you don't see any specific reason, then I would suggest talkin to the senior developers, highlighting what you see and start asking their opinions on it, what do they see have changed. So as bullets

1. Try finding out the reason why before taking action (and find out if there is an actual decrease). And trying find where the issue lie is it with individual or team, with skill or motivation, external changes or internal processes.

2. If you cant find the answers, start talking to the teams most senior developers

”I want a smartphone and a fliphone”

Thats a Cat(ch) 22

The question is, do you actually live longer or does it only feel that way?

I actually bothered to install the app, but when it then also needed me to create a login before even understanding what it does I uninstalled it.

Agree. I would like open source + hosted version. Really simple hosted version for a couple of $ so you can have it on personal/project pages. There is of course disqus today, but never liked their ads, and of course its lock in.

Tried to signup, just to check it out and give feedback, but seems to be US only for the moment. I'm ok with only US, especally in a beta phase, but it would be nice if that was stated, at least on the signup page.

Positive: Like the idea, it looks simple to use, like the Freemium offering and the landing page is clean and clear.

You are looking for http://launchrock.co/

Asana is my tool for doing this. Easy to get back on track, when i have clearly defined tasks.

I guess that is the skill you should develop, to write clearly defined and small tasks, then it solves it self.

I have a static angular app deployed to S3. I'm using the AWS CLI tool (http://aws.amazon.com/cli/) to deploy and I thinks it's pretty convient. You can also use CloudFront with S3 to get a real CDN.

"It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages" - Henry Ford

follow up reading: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchfork...

That put a smile on my face

Using quotas is valid if there is quota bias to start with. So if men are more domininant in the tech industry because they are men, then using quotas will actually increase the merocrity. The problem is how do you calculate the true talent of people? My favorite "proof" of this comes from the book Soccernomics where they could show that black fotball (soccer for you americans) players where discriminated, because with all other equal the higher ratio of black players in a team would increase the succes of the team.

Every time something comes from segment.io my interest level goes up. This looks worthy of checking out too.

Post hoc ergo propter hoc.

Some great free marketing resources:

http://headrush.typepad.com/ (highly recommended)

http://www.hubspot.com/marketing-resources

http://blog.kissmetrics.com/marketing-guides/

http://www.sethgodin.com/sg/free_stuff.asp

http://www.fogcreek.com/guide/

"It's a good start...I think we're almost there, but...It needs to Pop" (http://iampaddy.com/pop/)

There are some different APIs, both official and unofficial, most of them described here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1966503/does-imdb-provide... In my opinion, if you would make the match work most of the time, so you get a category and rating that would improve the service. You can still have the users report when the movies don't match.

Great work, have actually been missing a service like this. One suggestion, why don't you match it to IMDB and get automatic categories and rating. This would help when trying to find movies to watch, and would cut out the problem with all movies in uncategorized.