"This happened because of the amount of FTs in Singapore..."
This comment by the owner caught my attention.
"This happened because of the amount of FTs in Singapore..."
To generalize crimes as a result of Foreign Talents is just so narrow minded. I worked with so many so called FTs everyday. So many local companies consist of FTs. Can't imagine what will happen to the economy without FTs.
The power of Internet, and in particular social media, has resulted in information widespread at a tremendous and scary speed.
Uganda's Kony
This is the best example.
The video was created and uploaded to Youtube by a charity group called Invisible Children 4 days ago on 5th March.
The video was very well produced and with the push of social media, the video has 52 million views in 4 days.
Invisible Children manage to raised $5Mil in 48 hours, reported by National Post.
A lot of people (I'm referring mostly to my friends) talks about supporting the cause instantly after watching the video. I was quite convinced with the video without second thoughts at first, until one of my friend posted on my Facebook wall.
I started digging down the rabbit hole.
Some artist, including Justin Bieber supported the cause.
It stinks of easy answers, of foreign do-goodery, of over-simplistic interference that gives us all a nice warm fuzzy glow.
- Tory Shepherd
Invisible Children reports that in an official account of the $13.7 million raised in the 2010/11 financial year, $8.8 million was allocated for expenses - including filming costs, transportation and production.
- news.com.au
And another video spawned after a few days, titled Somebody is Lying.
Epilogue
Until the facts are made clear, I shall withhold my judgement on this issue. Indeed the video clearly delivered the information that justify the supports for arresting Kony. But on the other hand, the other video seems legit also.
"People Aren't Smart Enough for Democracy to Flourish, Scientists Say"
- livescience.com
The power of freedom is good, but sometimes it boils down to this fundamental problem - Are majority of people capable enough exercise critical thinking or... are majority of people still "lack the mental tools needed to make meaningful judgments".
I find web development (HTML, CSS, Javascript) interesting because theres just so much to learn and the whole language and standards are evolving very fast, which is a good thing!
Despite the restless schedule everyday (including weekend!), I enjoyed the whole learning process.
Looking back the my codes half a year ago makes me feel "oh my, how can I code in such a inefficient way".
Just hope that I can have someone to sit down together to work with, and discuss. A bit "lonely" to work alone... hahaha.
A sneak peek on the coming soon feature of TackThis :)
In case you are wondering. This is one of the product of the startup company that I'm working in - PayWhere. Its a platform for casual sellers to setup their online shop in Facebook, and other Web platforms, while maintaining just one inventory.
I'm one of the application developer there, and yup, my footprints is all over the code base.
A lot of development plans coming up for TackThis, and I'm excited about it. Actually I'm more excited about the application framework restructure. This will make the code changes, and maintenance much easier.
