And teaching English is not a dead end job?

You are absolutely correct, SOPA is totally different in concept for the blocking of sites.

But there are lots of sites and companies that are not alive because the government doesn't allow it. Want to start a video site? sorry, that is regulated. anything to do with online payments? need a license. social network or any communication website. Yup, need a license.

As a foreigner here in China a blocked or crippled internet is zero effect or relevance on daily life. We just VPN out to the "real" Internet daily.

But if SOPA is approved, there may be no more real internet. Not because facebook or big sites will be blocked however. It will be because the government will have the ability to cut innovation and entrepreneurship off by seizing sites at will.

China doesn't allow social networking sites. What will America and Co. not like and allow?

China has plenty of social networking sites inside of China. China doesn't allow major foreign social networking sites, but they do allow minor foreign social networking sites.

Out of curiosity on that last sentence of mine, I just checked MySpace. It works. If the Chinese government doesn't even care to block it... how the mighty have fallen. :)

MySpace can be accessed in China because there's very little Chinese using it, at least not using it to do anything the government dislikes. On the other hand, Facebook, Twitter and Youtube are totally inaccessible.

Take DropBox for example. At the beginning, there is no problem using it. But when people found out they can publicly share documents there, it was blocked. Now you can still use it as a backup service, but public sharing is not available.

Yes, my point is that that if MySpace were popular, it could easily be considered the way Facebook is considered.

I thought the exact same thing. blah

Or just write the spec, make the wireframes and hire someone to build it for you.

You are thinking too much.

Paralysis by analysis. Stop thinking about it and just do it. Launch, then find out what users say about your product.

I am doing customer development and getting feedback from my customers but only using a PDF to show them features. It's like I want everything perfect ... At least useful...

True. Also learn about decision fatigue, it's quite related.

This article is right on the money and it is up to each parent to let their kids get away from TV and screens and get outside and be kids.

Nice. A reason for parents to have an excuse to tranquilize their kids.

Let the kids go outside and play, spend time with them. They don't need these drugs.

We will soon have generations of zombies if this craziness is allowed to continue.

That was a terribly written article.

It's disappointing that a mean comment with no content gets upvotes.

The point was to create values early on and test potential candidates against them before hiring. It was written in an abstract fashion which might not be what you're used to.

How so?

I wouldn't call it terrible, but it was entirely platitudes. Everyone already believes company value systems (more commonly called "company culture") matter, and that's all that's being said here.

Most people think company culture is important in the same way they think life is fragile. Everybody agrees and people rarely act accordingly.

Just put a fake phone number with the right number of numbers.