IMHO this numbers must be compared with employment rates of people who haven't got into a PhD. We may discover a similar (or even more significant) downfall. I think that it is not an awful market specifically for young scientists, its an awful market for everybody.
Sometimes even the topic is what makes the difference (not even location or device) between talking synchronous or asynchronously. I'm not a very assiduous Facebook user, but at some point I've noticed it can blur the edge between sync/async. Maybe it is not perfect (and maybe it is no longer there), but I think its possible to mix both ideas. Neither should be left out.
I never fully understood why everybody is using XMPP in walled gardens (e.g. Whatsapp, Facebook, Messages...). Do you think they get anything from that? Is any of those services monetized successfully?
Seemly Whatsapp is, and what they are doing is genius, I would pay even more for the service than what they are charging (99 cents year).
At first I did not understood, what it had in special, until I figured that it was the fact that it used your phone contact list, thus taking out the boring task of managing that, and making adding people to your list easy as finding someone phone number.
Yet, I would not use it as my primary messenger (neither Facebook), because of how they are tied to something in particular (phones, Facebook) and thus allow less flexibility in where or how I use them.
Why would you pay for such service if one can get a normal secure and federated XMPP service for free? Whatsapp offers no advantages of XMPP (no interoperability and no federation) and only adds problems (flawed security). Paying money for such kind of disservice is simply strange.
Adoption. That is one of the main reasons why most people won't mind paying for whatsapp ; almost everyone on their contacts list already uses the app and frankly most people don't know or care much about whatsapp's security measures.
None of my contacts use it, so I can't say anything about adoption. But if someone needs to use an IM network - there are good XMPP services. Simply invite your friends to any federated XMPP server and you have an interoperable way to communicate with them.
Explain to them what's bad about walled IM networks (it's like not being able to send e-mails between AOL and Compuserve back in the day) and explain what is the point in the federated XMPP networks. Then explain why Whatsapp security is totally broken. If people won't care after that - just leave them alone. :) Most people understand, but claim they are too tied in the existing walled networks. Some don't mind registering on some XMPP server in addition, so you can get a range of results.
Wow, I didn't know they charged 99 cents/year to Android users now. It wasn't like that in the past! iPhone monetization continues as a single payment. Do you think that this is enough to maintain the company? Many other companies should be perfectly capable to reproduce the contacts-promiscuity that Whatsapp is using. And they could even mix it with compatibility to other XMPP platforms...
Tango has identical address book auto friend finding and also does video calls on top of IM. And it's free. There are several apps that do that and are free actually.
Indeed, mastering Vim is a result of practice and not of configurations and plugins. However, most people get sucked into Vim to have this personalization, and only a few stay to really master Vim. In other words, almost everybody goes through that step, hence the "configuration madness". I don't think it is inherently bad, it is part of Vim's wizardry.
It is not being reindexed (it is really difficult to know when it is actually triggered). Do you think that it is a problem? You could let them notice this flaw at http://www.apple.com/feedback/
I've been a Glipho user since its recent launch... and I'd definitely say that you are being nitpicking :P
This is a newborn platform. Even though, it has a lot of things to do, it is a nice approach. You can't expect it to be a perfect fit in every way yet, can you?
Nevertheless, this post was about MongoDB, why focusing on usability?
Absolutely, many changed their perception. But, don't you think that that's a really specific public? Mainstream commerce may respond differently to the hypothetical change. Nevertheless, this feelings could be contagious.
