A good employer should allow you the freedom to read the articles and do actives that will enhance your skill set (e.g. The Google 20% time).

I have never asked if I can, but every job I have always read articles I have found. Some companies I have openly told my boss that is what I do and sometimes those articles have not been directly related to my job, yet still this has been thought of as ok.

So my advice is, do it at work, your employer should be pleased that you want to broaden your skill set, it can only benefit them in the end. Just don't do it to a capacity that has a negative impact on your deliverables.

Excellent reply. I actually track my time on Personal R&D. Even on HackerNews. It's nice to have an employer that facilitates a continuous learning environment.

Thanks. I one day plan to create my own company and free self learning time is going to be encouraged.

It is slightly cliché but this was recently posted on our internal "social network"... CFO asks "what if we spend our money training our staff and they leave?", CTO replies "what if we don't and they stay?".

So many jobs, especially technical, require constant education, an employer who wants the best employees know and encourage that.

Would be better with Levels, once you finish a game, the next level should start, even if it is the same it could be timed with a scoreboard for each team.

Yup, that was our idea at first actually, but we didn't have enough time to implement that. But I guess we will keep on working on it from time to time, so this feature will definitely come!

I built something similar (in Ada O_o) when I worked at Blockbuster video 12 years ago... until today I have been amazed that IMDB haven't done this.

Gratz, I will start using it when I get home :)

Thanks! Yeah, we were wondering the same thing - maybe this piece of pie just isn't big enough for them.

We created it to solve the issues we wanted to fix and we think there are many others out there like us.

http://blog.thevideosdb.com/how-thevideosdb-came-to-be/

Two not mentioned here that I use daily: - DevIsland (for cheap sandbox hosting) http://www.devisland.net/ - Freedcamp (for all project management, like basecamp, but free and excellent) http://freedcamp.com/

I think geographical location makes no difference, because If it were me I would ask them for what I was currently on. Not take a pay cut, but not expect an increase either.

With the lack of security in a start up I might also ask for something in my contract which meant if the product/company were successful I would get recognition (financial or otherwise) in relation to my contribution.

I can't speak from experience, but how about asking them to match your current salary and a equity share to account for the risk?

Has been there for a while, also works with the correct spelling http://www.google.com/search?q=christmas also songs and count down http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=christmas+songs http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=christmas+countdown but not cheese http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=christmas+cheese

I find it amusing that this is "Microsofts answer to Dropbox" when it actually came out first, just no one used it.

For the past year and a half the problem has been their message, leadership and being too afraid of letting go of the Windows brand. Both W7 and WP7 are terrific products and they have as many great engineers as any other company.

Instead of properly promoting their products they have creepy commercials and concepts of products that don't exist.

JavaScript Polaroid (you have to shake it like one) 404 http://fatjed.com/404

From an entrepreneurial perspective this web site is a gold mind for film locations and location scouts.

Sad as it is that this is the state of such a city, but it could be turned on it's head for profit.

Unfortunately, Rick Snyder is doing away with the state's film industry credits: http://thedc.com/nPBpLQ

Thanks, Rick!

Yeah, that isn't good, but just means location scouts and film makers will have to get creative, now there is a real challenge for an entrepreneur.

I have "found" jobs on web sites, but all the jobs I have ever been offered were as a result of me being contacted directly, mostly because an "agent" has found my CV on a recruitment web site.