Board backgrounds could be useful if you have a lot of boards. Otherwise, it shouldn't be awkward at all, unless you want to give them money and are disappointed they didn't give you a reason to.
It looks like this basically gives you the ability to customize the look for yourself. And add some custom things (stickers and emoji) will be visible by others, but not usable. Thankfully, it looks like a basic sticker set is available for free. While maybe tacky, I can see stickers being used to indicate things that labels are used for now, but they will be more obvious. Labels are a small color bar on the front of the card. Remembering what they mean can sometimes be difficult. Getting attention via a sticker is probably more obvious. But can we filter by stickers? Probably not.
As a Verizon customer, I will believe it when I see it. As it stands, I can't use Isis (not in the right market) or Google Wallet (because Verizon won't let it compete with Isis).
The changes sound nice, but the way they phrase "for all Android phones" doesn't give me confidence.
This was covered in the post, but under the heading of "Undoing the effect of cancelations"
> Undo the effect of cancellations through up-sells/upgrades. Salesforce.com and ZenDesk charge more for every person you add, and more per person when you increase the features in your plan. Their customers grow (on average). Thus, their revenue over four years is not 4R, but rather it might be R on the first year, 1.5R on the second, 2R on the third, etc., so perhaps 7R in four years.
MS, Sony, and Nintendo hope that once you have the console, you will continue to buy games. And the console maker will collect a license fee from each game sold. If MS bought a ton of PS3 consoles, then the general public would have to buy a lot more games to make up for the loss. So the strategy does work, but it would work against any of the companies, not just Sony. But I think the PS3 had one of the biggest losses of any console at $240 - $300 depending on the version of the console purchased.
Also, somehow keeping your competitor's console from being available to real buyers will dramatically reduce the sales of actual games, since all of the sold-at-a-loss consoles will be sitting in a warehouse somewhere.
The really sneaky thing would be to figure out some non-game thing to do with the "enemy" consoles, like turning them into a supercomputer, or scrapping for parts, or whatever.
If a candidate comes in with previous knowledge of FizzBuzz, that would indicate to me they are probably pretty in touch with the industry. That is, they probably read blogs or forums about development and/or interviewing. That would be a good thing, and they would likely get the problem right.
That would be fine with me. If it does get to the point that _everyone_ knows it, then we have to find a new question.
Previous knowledge of FizzBuzz doesn't necessarily indicate competency. They could have easily just read a blog about "The 10 Most Common Programming Interview Tests" and memorized a popular, simple way of creating the code.
To be honest, I seriously doubt the knowledge of FizzBuzz will be a common thing. I was seriously coding for a year or so before I had ever heard of it. When I first saw the question I had what I felt was a responsible block of code that worked. Since then I've tweaked it to be more efficient as my skill level increased. But I've never been asked in an interview to code FizzBuzz or anything like it.
It would be $40 to add a phone now ($10 for the line, and $30 for base data plan), but you'd get 2GB of data with that $40. So realistically it is more like $50 to add another smart phone under the Share Everything plans. But if you have to bump up your minutes when you add the line, then it's probably $50 in all to add the smart phone on the current plans. There is also the possibility of more cost with a texting plan under the current plans as well. So $40 is in line with what it costs now I think. It's just distributed differently.
This is interesting... I'm not as negative as the rest of the group seems to be, but maybe that's because I think cell phone service is a rip off already. This would actually save me money if I switched now, but I would lose the unlimited data plan. Maybe I care, maybe I don't. I have very rarely gone over 2GB, and my wife never has so we could likely share 4GB. But we have 2 kids getting to the age where my wife thinks they need cell phones (and they think they need iphones). Assuming they get dumb phones now, that's an extra $20 a month, plus we bump up to the unlimited family text plan for another $10. And that is a reasonable amount. Especially since we shouldn't have to bump up our minutes because they would mostly be calling us and those minutes don't count. It would cost twice that to add two dumb phones in the share everything plan. But the overall price difference is only $10 more. And as they start to use more minutes, and our third child get's old enough to have a phone, I could ultimately see it being a real savings. Depending on data usage I suppose.
Paying an additional $10 for a tablet or laptop doesn't make sense. Except it is a proprietary network, and they can charge you to access it. Similar to how extra cable/satalite boxes cost money (I realize it is a rental cost usually, not something you own, but I feel the idea is similar). Right now to add a tablet, you are paying an additional $130 premium (in the case of the ipad) + $30/month for a 3G/4G tablet. That doesn't make sense to me either. With the share everything plan, it is $0 extra for my phone to be a wireless hotspot, and now all of our wi-fi iPads, iPods, Kindles and portable gaming devices have access wherever we are. Right now, that would also be an additional data plan.
I don't think these are the only plans they will have, (the old plans aren't going away) and obviously how much sense it makes depends on the individual situation. But I like it as an option.
