aerialcombat

This open source project has been in development for about 5 years by SKT (SK Telecom), the biggest telecommunications company. (think Verizon) They launched a marketing event giving people a Starbucks gifticon, a mobile voucher to use at Starbucks, for starring their Github project.

A bunch of people(developers) lashed back, while hoping that maybe it was just a mishap by their marketing department.

Then the lead developer of the project, kyungtaak, posted a comment saying that he would do it again if he had to because he "loves" the project so much. And that people just need to cut him some slack.

The developers got furious by the comment, and it's going semi-viral among developers in Korea.

The company shut down the event, and posted an apology.

Maybe he's just using YouTube as a giant backup machine.

probably not

It’s easier to fake it when you’re working onsite. How do you tell if someone is really working? Just by seeing them at their desk? It’s is absurd to think that someone is working hard because they sit long hours at their desk. Get some tools.

Crossing fingers...

Yeah it's a tough problem. Maybe it's a problem without a clear answer. I do think it's more intuitive when reading a tree structure until it breaks somewhere in the middle and starts again. Then I'm lost. But I think about a flat system where I have to connect all the dots myself in the head, and it's not so pleasant either. It'll probably have to be some type of hybrid system where it takes the best of both worlds and combine nicely into one. I have yet to see such system, personally.

Keep it functional and beautiful. If you had to choose one, choose functionality over design. I believe that’s what this article is essentially saying. Bad design hurts functionality, in that case it’s better to have little to no design at all. If you can keep it functional while applying beautiful design do it by all means.

How good of a job are they doing at advertising? Advertising is tough since it has to satisfy both the ad buyers and the users. It’s very easy to turn off one or the other side.

Personally the sad part is that I wouldn’t mind living like him given my current life situations.

A question to self: Would I have done the same had I noticed the same kind of exploit? Probably not. I need to get off my ass.

Why don't girls wear pants to the prom?