Having recently (about 8 months ago) moved from a small town in the US to Berlin, Germany where I had no contacts whatsoever, I can certainly echo to advice in the article. I have met many people through sites similar to Meetup. The internet is such a great tool for meeting people—some people that also know almost no…

I have used a mixture, but primarily stick with SMS. SMS simlply ends up being more reliable in terms of notifying me that I have a message than many other services. I also spend a decent amount of time going in and out of the subway, so will have periods of time where I have fine phone signal, but no internet.

I generally ask questions of people as well in an attempt to find the thing that they are passionate about. Once you find that, conversation gets very easy.

Can't say my go to look (or any clothes I wear) are anything like yours, but I can certainly relate. I don't have a too well defined sense of style, so get lost on the third prong... fit is definitely extremely important, though.

Will do so when I get a chance and email the app support email, if that works.

I'm a professional Web/UX Designer and absolutely prefer windows. More than half of my work at the moment is in graphics based programs (photoshop, illustrator, etc) and I can completely agree with the complaints voiced here. I truly find that the Macbook that I was given at work consistently has problems with running…

I am an avid windows user as well—including tablet (with surface RT) and phone (WP8 and a WP7 before it), but have to use a macbook pro at work. Have been doing so for about 8 months now, but still get annoyed daily at the little things that just are more difficult with OSX.

I really don't find most of these odd as much as just funny. I can see how trying to be too funny might confuse people that don't speak the language well, but it is all perfectly clear if you do...

I can completely agree with all of that. My issues was with the "I see colors" bit, which has basically no value... My question was more to what age of child this was geared toward. Because at a certain age (depending on the kid) you are going to need to do more than point out that you see colors.

I will second that.

I have a windows phone, so haven't gotten to try either function... but am very interested in the chat heads functionality. I use facebook messenger to keep up with quite a few people and the windows phone integration just doesn't cut it. Would love to have a reliable, well designed messaging app.

Makes me feel a little weird as well, but I am happier to see things that I actually might be interested in. That said, I don't have much info on my facebook account so the ads are generally not even close to something I would be interested in.

Same for me (but that I was still 17). Just used the family computer before that. That said, I was the primary user of the family computer from about 14-17 as my only sibling was off to college and the parents didn't need to use it too often.

I work for a company that provides application management software—i.e. software that companies use to sift through applications that they receive. Part of what this provides is an online application process through which an applicant uploads his/her cover letter, CV, etc...

I really didn't understand the immense hatred for the ending. It wasn't fantastic, sure, but it wasn't that big of a deal to me.

An interesting side note that I have discovered living in Germany as an American (i.e. a country whose language is not your mother tongue): when I hear people speak English it invariably sounds way louder than people speaking German. It is incredibly easy to tune out German as I do not speak it with native fluency.…

Exactly my comment to this. I am at the point where I would very much like to be able to buy media, but in Germany it simply isn't feasible. On top of that, two of my primary gadgets are a Surface and Lumia 920, but microsoft's Xbox Video, etc, doesn't offer content for sale here. Even the things that I had purchased…

It certainly is cheaper overall, but most plans have much less data than do those in the US. True they are "unlimited", but they throttle after only 3-500mb often. Haven't experienced how slow it actually gets when throttled. And no, not vodafone or telekom :P

Living in Germany now (am from the U.S.) and was astonished at how much data costs here. Am really missing the unlimited (non-throttled) data I still had in the States.

Looks like a nice resource. I can also echo that codeacademy is a pretty good site. w3schools is, as has been added, not the most accurate or reliable source.