Well, one use is you can access the contacts of your contacts, so it helps you get information about (and get in contact with) a lot of people...
But I agree it seems weird to add 50 'strangers' to your list... We don't know anything about each other really.
EDIT: Although I have seen a few people do it on LinkedIn already, they post message in groups and tell people that they want everyone to add them. They gather thousands of contacts that way, I wonder if it does them any good tho.
I think this technique is bullshit. I have a few people on LinkedIn that I don't know very well. When I find that I can a connection-of-a-connection through them, it's a big groaner. Because I know that I can't use them for a recommendation and be like: "Yeah, we shoke hands once at a tech meetup."
My current policy on LinkedIn is only link to people to whom I could give a warm referral or expect one in return.
Yes, that caption gave me high hopes for the article. I thought it might be about slow living, enjoying the journey, and how optimizing these things make them harder to enjoy. Instead, it was just a trite lambasting of apps I'd never be caught using, rolled into a broad brush to paint the entire userbase.
Whatever you do, don't work too much on side jobs while writing your mémoire/thesis. I have seen many people get a part-time or full-time job when they were done with their project, alas not with their writing. It takes them years to finish the whole thing.. (I've seen 4 years for a master's)
It depends on where your priorities lie. If your goal is to finish your masters or PHD then I agree, I wouldn't work more than you absolutely have to on side jobs.
If you already have a career and are working on your masters on the side, then you need to focus on your job and do the masters as time permits. For instance, I expect my masters to take 7 semesters (3 1/2 calendar years) and it wouldn't bother me too much if it took 4 years. I have a job I like with a salary that pays the bills. I am working on my masters primarily for personal growth and hoping for some career advancement edges down the road.
A much more interesting user interface used in a movie was developed by Oblong (see John Underkoffler). I am talking about Minority Report ;) They are making it into a real UI.
However, it's not the first time we hear from google cancelling adsense accounts and cut all communication. I know it's the user's responsibility to make sure his stuff is clean, but most the time the user has no f*ing clue what stuff he did/does wrong.
OK, seeing as I'm being downvoted, I take it back.
Debian is the greatest operating system ever made, and already solves all problems that ever have or will arise. It totally didn't crash on my computer last night, and can be installed by anyone with a pulse. Yay :)
Seriously though, Debian is a great effort to integrate and package software. This doesn't mean it's the OS to end all OS's. Also, there is no "best operating system". There is only such a thing as "the best operating system for this application, at present".
Found via a variant of "try the simplest thing that might possibly work." In this case, just enter 'blub' into Wikipedia (search the simplest thing that might possibly get a hit).
