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"At the moment, it actually says nothing about a possible cosmic-ray effect on clouds and climate, but it's a very important first step" - Jasper Kirkby
stopped me getting errors connecting, but it would be unusual if all my contacts are really offline
https://twitter.com/#!/skype now acknoledges an issue
I chose (your) option 1, partly because I figured they were a good company to have on my cv whatever the outcome, and partly because they offered a few k more a year. Frankly I think you should try to ignore the money aspect, but when a few k is a sizeable percentage of your total salary, I know this is difficult to do.
10+ years later I've lived in 3 countries, flown business a lot more often then I would probably have paid for myself, and enjoyed the sort of perks you seem to like the look of in option 1. I've done some interesting technology based work along the way, but I've also done a lot of administrativa.
In my case, it was important that the organisation kept trading for the duration of my year's internship, or I wouldn't have recieved the course credit. If this is applicable to you, it is something to consider in your choice. Remember both organisations (their Australian office at least) could have risks in this regard.
Good luck!
A lot of people, including those who get paid to work in IT roles and are supposedly of a technical mindset, don't understand what information they are sharing about themselves and their friends when they interact with FB applications
This is different from real life, where most people will evaluate what they share about you with 3rd parties. In the case of FB applications, many people don't understand what is happening, and thus the evaluation phase is completely bypassed. Even if you would put your life in somebodies hands in the real world, you have to apply a different set of criteria to that same person / decision in the virtual world.
Assuming that we wish to start again with a flat name space, I'd be interested to understand:
What rules would be put in place to govern the names that would be allowed? Do you believe you should still be entitled to the domain “pedro”? Or are you willing to accept Pedro-Kostelelec-DateOfBirth ? Or some other (likely more complex combination) that is a unique distinguish-er for you globally?
Do you believe there should only be one company globally with any given name? Or is it acceptable to have a “BurgerKing” company in one country that operates restaurants, and another “BurgerKing” in the same / different country that makes BBQ's? How do you allow for those to coexist, noting the rules we already decided on in the previous question?
Personally I don't believe having a flat or hierarchical domain name space makes any difference to the underlying challenge: users need to enter the exact domain name of the business they wish to visit, if they fail to do this the result may not be what they expect. The fact that so many people choose to type some arbitrary text into a search engine and visit what ever site is returned, is fundamentally an error of understanding that should be corrected. I don't believe working around this misunderstanding by modifying the name space used serves any useful purpose in the long run.