I spent either money on good memorable experiences (dinners, traveling, friends etc), entertainment (movies, games) or investments in products/services which will earn back their value (books, courses, hosting etc)
I think the other way around is also hard, many startups require such diverse combination of skillsets that its hard to know what you should learn in order to be hirable. As college grad student I have no clue what to learn to get hired by an "exciting" company. The only way seems to learn either the .net or the java platform as "safe" path, which in turn these exciting companies are not looking for.
Banning Oracle from Windows won't happen with the EU sueing MS to oblivion. And I think Google banning oracle "from the internet aka its search engine" would do a lot more harm. Anyway I think the reasons of Oracle are still unknown so we just have to see what happens.
You are right I'm a techy, I talk to people who run online businesses, they use PayPal and other methods. PayPal is by far the biggest problem when it comes to payment solutions. Also I'm from Europe, which means I talk to people who use the common solutions in Europe to deal with payments, which is direct bank transfers or an online alternative provided by banks (such as iDeal in Holland). While our banks don't require as much documentation as PayPal sometimes requires, you also don't have to threaten them with lawsuits to get your money (I've seen that happen). They even have an chief escalation officer who jumps in in case clients threaten them with lawsuits.
PayPal doesn't have the right to just freeze money for periods of 180 days without providing sufficient methods for their customers to quickly resolve the issues. 180 days for freezing all money for one suspicious transaction is absolutely ridiculous. I don't claim PayPal achieves profitability by freezing accounts, I do claim they regularly screw their own customers with questionable account balance freezes.
Why are the names of Eric Reis and Steve Blank there? Are they involved? If not, make that more clear, else it looks to me like you are trying to sell your services by using their names to promote it..
He forgot to mention it has an extremely large number of false positives using that system. The reason it might work is because they take/freeze money from innocent customers. The amount of horror stories about Paypal significantly outnumber the horror stories about regular banks or credit card companies.
I've actually never seen anyone on the internet calling themselves a 'rockstar' or 'ninja' in a software related context. They always call others 'rockstars' or 'ninja's'
Having any logo which looks like a "security seal" boosts conversions by a percentage, I recommend to put something up, even if its a logo linking to your own page with information about the security using an A/B test to see if it works for you.
As much as I love seeing other people on video, this method of applying for jobs is not for everyone. Somehow I feel really uncomfortable when there are cameras pointing at me.
Can you tell a bit more about the startup scene in Seoul? In my experience Korean web companies are very focused on the local market or they make computer games (but don't hire international people).
Can you elaborate on that great startup scene? I'm only aware of companies with relations to "thenextweb" and their founders, but don't hear a lot about other Amsterdam based startups that much. I'm not aware of any regular meetups or stuff like that.
I say Haskell, the way you can build abstract syntax tree's as data types and do pattern matching on them is a very natural way to write a compiler, it is almost a one-to-one match with a language definition.
Well, seems for this app, it would still have some stuff on it's checklist to check off...it indeed looks nice, but not very flexible to what designers might do.
Many advice here will be from people who are not aware of the Asian culture, hope you don't get too depressed by their responses. The truth is that your environment does matter! Just read this article: http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/06/can-indonesias-ciputra-prov...
If you need an environment for motivation, consider relocating. Singapore is a nice option.
Another option is to go work for a startup, and after some more experience you will have a better network with other entrepreneurs and startup minded people.
I believe there are some startup groups in kuala lumpur too, try to hang out there.
That's more likely to happen in the US and the least likely to happen in Asia. There might be good programmers, but that doesn't mean they will be good founders or even want to be founders! The cultural mindset to become Enterpreneur is very high relatively in the US, but in general in Asia it is not, and it is expected that you work for a big company after you are done with school, the bigger the better. Even though it's good advice, realize that it's not as easy as you make it sound!
There are a lot of reasons why Haskell is not used in the industry that much, which would be the same reasons as why other functional languages are not used as much as their imperative counterparts. But this article is completely bullshit and nothing other than a personal attack on Haskell users and researchers.