With the recent HN post about trying Helsinki for 90 days (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25003999) I was wondering if there are any other programs like this.Or even if not like this, is there a way to do it yourself and try out another country before fully committing to a move? I get that you can take a vacation to anywhere, but 90 days seems much more substantial. Not to mention this...
If anything, this last election should have exposed this. There is a whole cohort of people out there that feel they've been slighted and left behind because of the shift in manufacturing. They feel like they should still be able to go in and be a drone and get paid well enough to raise a family.
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I don't see this really as a personal use application.
That said I think it has potential in the business sector. Getting feedback from people that you work with and for is very valuable for your career. How often do you really want to provide candid feedback to your manager? But how much would that candid feedback help a manager that is learning and trying to get better and advance? The same would happen in teams as well.
I think this would work well for a business to provide that positive feedback loop to help their employees target their weaknesses and improve their career chances.
Why can't Google offer something like this rather than only allowing it via a Chrome extension?
I created a simple app that allows you to create a blacklist of sites for Google searches.It also allows you to create "preferred searches" as well. These let you list sites that you want ranked higher in the search results as well as blacklist sites specific to this search.Just a note, please look at the about page to see the format that is expected for the URLs.Site:...
I created a simple app that allows you to create a blacklist of sites for Google.It also allows you to create "preferred searches", these let you list sites that you want ranked higher in the search results as well as blacklist sites specific to this search.Just a note, I didn't put too much into handling the url's that get entered so you'll have to look at the about page to make sure you...
Here is the site: http://www.bubltube.com/This is a site that lets you search for You Tube videos and then add comments that will display over the video while the video is playing.This is my first public project so I'd appreciate any feedback.