The reason why people don't use Windows Phone is because they don't want to.
It's easy to say in a place like HN that there is a "social stigma" around using Windows, but for the average consumer this is clearly not the case. For a lot of typical desktop users, Windows is the computer ("reboot your Windows", "start up Windows", etc). Microsoft simply couldn't find a way to leverage that in the mobile space.
I don't know if it is a question of whether they are in or out of fashion. Some people can pull off pleats, but when they don't look good, they really don't look good. If someone is reading this primer, they are probably not in a position to tell which is which.
A fair point. I suggest only that whether or not you can pull off pleats has a lot less to do with your build or any other personal characteristic and a lot more to do with the kind of pants you're wearing (and whether you are wearing them properly). (To be fair, if you have massive thighs, you basically have to have pleats; this is not an issue for most people though). And so as regards fashion, it's not a matter of whether pleats are in fashion, but how high a rise is fashionable.
If you wear your pants anywhere near your hips, you will look like a clown if you have pleats. Likewise, pants which were made to be worn near the hips are clown-pants if they have pleats.
If your pants, however, have a high rise, and you are man enough to wear them at your natural waist, then pleats will make it possible to sit _and_ stand in your pants and not look like a total fool.
My standard answer to this, assuming I am starting out with a normal job-posting's worth of information, is "I don't know that I do want to work at X yet. That's one of the things I hope to figure out in this process." Said nicely, of course.
People forget that an interview is a dialog between two parties. As a candidate I am not trying to "win" by getting an offer; I am trying to find out if this is a place I actually want to work.
If you don't know if you do want to work at a company, then you either haven't done any research on that company whatsoever, or you need to ask yourself if there's even a reason you are applying, outside of the money.
Except that prejudices aren't always developed so much as taught/learned. The standard trope that "the young folk get technology" is accepted as axiomatic, and passed down, regardless of actual experience.
The slightly different statement "young folk use technology the best" is closer to the truth. Just the other day I was saw my cousin's toddler pick up her father's iPhone, unlock it, and pick the game she wanted to play. Even at 4 years of age, she's a decent user of technology.
But they don't necessarily understand the technology they're using. For example, teenagers these days are addicted to their cell phones, and texting is such an integral part of their social lives that taking away their cell is tantamount to locking them in a room for all the social isolation it causes.
They are expert users of technology, yet they don't necessarily understand the technology they use. As an example, if you give a teenager a URL for a page with information they need, instead of typing/copy-pasting it into the address bar, most will type 'google' into the address bar, put the URL into the search box, and click the first link.
Just being a highly proficient user doesn't make you an expert. Young folk are highly proficient users of technology, but they're not experts unless they've deliberately learned how the technology works.
I was lucky to be a kid around the time NES was the new thing and people were starting to get PC's at home so I've played video games from 5 years old. Still when I first started programming games, I had to start from square 0. I don't think there's any correlation with being a "natural" user of the web and understanding the technology behind it. As a engineer though, you'll immediately start dismantling that tech in your head.
I was luckier, because I got an actual computer instead of a console, and in the era when kids were just as likely to get an Usborne book of BASIC programs to type into their computer if they wanted to play games.
Kids getting consoles and similar hermetically-sealed boxes depresses me.
Based on experience, I would agree with you on the Magento front (as my perpetually-in-the-planning-stages blog "I Hate Magento" will attest), but I have yet to find anything more usable (and customizable) for larger scale operations. I know there must be something less bad. Thoughts, anyone?
Is there something along these lines that has data for multiple open source projects? I think a lot of folks (myself included) would benefit from something that could provide some guidance, rather than randomly clicking around Github.
She's wasn't upset that there was less bathroom capacity for women, but rather that this illustrated the (in her view) woefully meager representation of women at the conference.
Not necessarily. It's possible that with a lower minimum wage, Canada's unemployment rate might be even lower. The best you can hypothesize is that all things being equal minimum wage does/does not negatively affect unemployment numbers. Obviously the economies of Canada and the US are vastly different.
At the same time it has received a ton of press up-front, in exactly the circles early adopters of the service would frequent. I think there is a feeling (right or wrong) that if the problems App.net purports to solve were really as bad as claimed, people would have been jumping on in droves, at least to give it a good spin around the block.
It's easy to say in a place like HN that there is a "social stigma" around using Windows, but for the average consumer this is clearly not the case. For a lot of typical desktop users, Windows is the computer ("reboot your Windows", "start up Windows", etc). Microsoft simply couldn't find a way to leverage that in the mobile space.