In Singapore, though I'm from the U.S. :)
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If only a group of wealthy individuals who were interested in improving our political process and decision making could form their own lobbying group...against lobbying!
I don't know what qualifies as 'cashing in', but there's more to life than just running a company. Just because you've decided not to stick around for 20-30 years doesn't mean everything you did up until then wasn't hard work.
That being said, brogrammer probably is a bit sexist.
I sometimes wonder to what degree each of the recent movements (Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and now the U.S.) has inspired each other to not put up with the oppression of the status quo. It would certainly warm my heart to know that such different groups from such different backgrounds can inspire the other simply through a common feeling of not wanting to put up with so many unpunished injustices. I think if that were the case, this would be the first time in the history of humanity for this to have happened (at least on this scale).
Or, perhaps a more objective, eagle eyed historian might conclude each movement really was a 'stand alone complex'.
The only bad thing I can think of is that I usually run kde with all the special effects turned off and the look of apps and whatnot in this mode is a bit of an ugly grey. However, if you do turn on all the fancy graphical stuff, I would say KDE looks just as good as anything out there (for linux).
I hope this isn't used by some to push the mantra that 'not everybody can code'.
Is this really that hard to understand?
That being said, like someone pointed out, you're only 20 and still have tons of time and energy to expend on something you truly want to work on. It's easier for me to say this than for you to do it, but you need to find something deep inside that will give you the resiliency to keep fighting and working on what you believe in. I know it's difficult to shut out the naysayers, but that's precisely what you need to have the ability to do if you want to be able to build a startup.
Honestly, if you think staying at your previous job was going to make you happier, I think you're deluding yourself. Not saying it's all flowers and sunshine on this side, but I think you can take heart in the fact that you're actually trying to pursue true happiness compared to many other people who know they're unhappy with their lives, but are too afraid to make a change because they're too comfortable with their lifestyle and the status quo. It won't be easy, but there's almost nothing in life that is easy. Take comfort in the fact that there are tons of us out there struggling like you are but are still fighting and scrapping along. Fight and don't give up. You're not the only one :)
<Edit> After playing with it for a little bit, I've got some suggestions:
- Not the most intuitive interface...took me a little bit to figure out where some things are.
- Since the songs are mostly streams from various sources, things can be slow...could use some sort of feedback when a user has activated an event or clicked a button
I don't doubt the complexity of our current economic situation, but the way our government is currently run by lobbyists who naturally have their own myopic view, I think it would be more an accident than on purpose that our economy gets better.
Or in other words, someone will try to profit from such a revolution, and probably to the detriment of the rest of society. In some ways, this is already happening.
It's definitely still possible to build a RESTful service, but I think if you're primarily building in js, you tend to have more routes that return resources without URLs to other resources than ones that do, especially when you're just starting out and don't have a comprehensive list of resources you want to represent and the accepted mime-types you'd like to be able to return.