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It depends very much on your current scope of influence. It can be hard to change a whole company, but easier to start with yourself and your team. Try doing one and see how it is received.

A previous CEO used to hold breakfasts once a month. It was really informal with a mix of people and a wide variety of work related topics got discussed. We could ask him things and he could ask us things. The setting made it really good for breaking down that communication barrier between juniors and The Boss.

In the town I grew up in (South Africa), there was a planning law that prevented the footprint of a house from being larger than a certain size. It had been that percentage for years and I'm hoping that it doesn't change because it's helped the area stay green and lovely without becoming overly built up.

Do similar planning laws exist in other countries?

There are two classes of payments - consumer and business.

This API is designed for business payments. Companies that process tens, if not hundreds of thousands of payments on a monthly basis. Think about the companies that sit behind businesses like Etsy or Uber - they need to take a lot of payments from customers and pay the supplier.

Many of those payment companies are financial institutions themselves who probably already have some kind of connection to programs like Visa.

* How do you handle the cost of shipping if the user is not based in the USA?

* If I buy from a non-USA based site, how are the customs charges handled when the items arrives at your warehouse?

* How will you handle returns if the item is defective or damaged?

I was in the same position as you but replace PHP with Java.

I thought I didn't need a degree but then met people in the industry that I wanted to be like, but I was limited by not having a degree.

It wasn't possible for me to study full time and I didn't really want to as I wanted to continue to have my years of work experience growing, so I signed up for a part time course.

Two years before my degree was finished I was nearly passed over on a job because I didn't have a degree so it really encouraged me to get it finished.

With the last round of job interviews there are many that said I would not be being considered without the degree.

If I were back in that same position again, I'd choose to do it the same way. Your relevant work experience keeps growing but you still get a degree - it's hard work and long hours but I think it was worthwhile.

The article seemed common sense. I've enjoyed reading the other comments here more and found the links useful. Does anyone have good reading material on your long term financial health? (Longer term than budget and save?)

Does anyone know if it's possible to sign-up to trek with their kit for them to map out other remote places?

Comparing the use of positive and negative words doesn't take sarcasm into account.

I'd use this but not as a resume tool. I'd use this as a motivational tool to keep track of the todo items I have since some of them are quite long running and to motivate me into getting those personal projects finished.

Looks really excellent. Wanted to check it out to see if it's something I could get in to - didn't realise it was iPhone only until I already gave over my email address. Would be nice if this was clear on the website.

* Tell them how much money and how much time it saves.

* Where possible convert time into money.

* If it costs a lot of money, tell them how long it will take to recoup the investment.

* Give numbers.

* It is possible that your boss does not control the purse strings - so when you give your numbers make sure it's in a format that they can forward to their boss with few changes

I always love reading these CV's.

What do you think is the developer / programmer equivalent of CV's like this?

The real products that I've seen pinned are mostly clothing. People will pin a look or a series of pictures that build up a look.

There are two drivers for this that I've seen. Either bookmarking clothes to build up a look that they will then go and buy, or bookmarking clothes to buy once they go on sale.

One of the things I struggle with buying clothes online is being able to look at all the things I like on the same screen and then decide what I will buy. (H+M does this well). Some retailers limit the baskets to 10 items (Next used to) so even though I'll only buy a few in the end, the only other way to compare items is to open lots of tabs. This doesn't work at all when it's a flash based store. (Esprit.com suffers from this) So I use pinterest for this.

The other time I pin products is when I want comment from other people. I'd rather have these comments on Pinterest than on Facebook.

One thing that would make me pin products more would be if I could make a board private. Then I would pin ideas for Birthday presents and I would have used it to pin ideas for wedding dresses. But private boards are not what they're aiming for and doesn't fit into the context of the article either I guess.