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by alid 14y ago
Brilliant article! It's so important to highlight the multifarious roles played by women throughout the tech sector. Although I'll temper that by noting there's work to be done in addressing the gender balance in engineering and encouraging
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by alid 14y ago
Impressive designs veritas9, nice one! :)
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by alid 14y ago
All the best orangethirty! My two cents…the obvious benchmark / status quo in search is Google's no-fuss solution - a kind of 'wham bam thank you ma'am' (before you urban dictionary it, I mean that phrase in the context of quick & to-th
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by alid 14y ago
None! (ok one ridiculously small thing - you could add a Favicon). It will obviously change as you scale to more campuses. Exciting! :)
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by alid 14y ago
Hey man! I love it, great concept!
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by alid 14y ago
Intriguing! It makes perfect sense given the nature of her role and position, but I'm curious how she operates at such a strategic level without it - if not to send messages, to receive them? I thought mobile networks would be just as liabl
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by alid 14y ago
If you choose not to go to uni, employers will want to know that you didn't go because you were too busy building, learning and achieving. So if you choose that route, be hungry to learn and experience more. Stand out by learning best-pract
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by alid 14y ago
You're right, it's not politically correct to say that. Nor is it legal to act on it. Why? Because it engenders discrimination. Women are different to men - culturally, biologically, etc et al. However any reference/inference/undertone to t
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by alid 14y ago
Try this one then - an in-depth, fact-based, study by McKinsey & Company: http://www.mckinsey.com/locations/swiss/news_publications/pd... "Statistically significant studies show that companies with a higher proportion of women on thei
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by alid 14y ago
Sorry man, I appreciate your point but the general tone of your argument comes across like you think women are more of a 'risky' hire?
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by alid 14y ago
Hey man, here's the link: http://www.forbes.com/sites/forbeswomanfiles/2012/01/26/the-... "Companies with more women at senior levels earn upwards of 33% more on important financial metrics. Failure to resolve the obstacles that keep wome
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by alid 14y ago
Hey man! I didn't quite understand your argument, but in this arena looks shouldn't come into it. The greater weight attributed by some people to women's appearance is a form of unconcsious discrimination. I appreciate you weren't sure what
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by alid 14y ago
This is such an important issue, and it affects bottom line! - a recent Forbes article highlighted that companies with more women at senior levels earn upwards of 33% more on important financial metrics. Global research group Catalyst recen
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by alid 14y ago
Linking Alzheimer's to insulin is a new one to me - I've heard about plaque on the brain and toxic proteins called beta amyloid…the question around all of these is still whether they're a symptom or a cause. To simplify the path to a cure:
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by alid 14y ago
Hey man! Nice question. Our current system of education was designed for 19th century industrialism, yet today we’re preparing our kids for jobs that don’t yet exist, using technology that hasn’t been invented, to solve problems we can’t ye
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by alid 14y ago
As a newbie/wannabe programmer this completely resonates with me. It's not so much 'dumbing down' as about beginning with the end in mind and providing frameworks of thinking - it’s a lot easier to put the pieces of a puzzle together when y
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by alid 14y ago
I love that on so many levels! Especially as they're microfinancing the machines to provide local employment. As for the revolution, it's like they say - the future belongs to the creators, the innovators, and the entrepreneurs.
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by alid 14y ago
One of my favourite books is 'On Giants' Shoulders' by Melvyn Bragg, based on Sir Isaac Newton's quote "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants". As you say, it goes to show we're all inspired by, and building up
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by alid 14y ago
I noticed my comment was down voted, but I wasn't being sarcastic & thought it was a pretty innocuous comment. Being relatively new here I'm genuinely intrigued, was it what I said or how I said it? Feedback appreciated :)
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by alid 14y ago
Being an Aussie, welcome mate! I'm surprised USA doesn't have a national broadband agenda...is there a reason for this?
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by alid 14y ago
This is awesome, I'm going to get the book. Key takeout: "be sales animals".
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by alid 14y ago
Nicely put! I assume everyone here loves the role of technology in our lives...but that didn't stop me downloading LeechBlock the other day minimize my distractions.
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by alid 14y ago
That sounds amazing! I'm locking that in for my next Europe trip, thanks for the tip :)
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by alid 14y ago
I agree! And the mixes feature looks cool. They're definitely plugging a gap in the music market.
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by alid 14y ago
Awesome quote: "Innovators ask provocative questions that challenge the status quo. They observe the world like anthropologists to detect new ways of doing things. They network with people who don’t look or think like them to gain radically
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by alid 14y ago
By 'collective growth in our emotional intelligence' I meant that because of factors like the internet, mobiles, globalization and the speedy virality of ideas, for a lot of the world their frame-of-reference is so much broader. Our ways of
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by alid 14y ago
It's always cool to see how multifaceted everyone is! Ok mine are playing Celtic fiddle and everything foodie-related.
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by alid 14y ago
Great question! Self-directed learning is the way of the future. I'm a big fan of Trello for breaking learning goals down into manageable blocks - create a board of your overall goal, then create a list of specific learning outcomes you can
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by alid 14y ago
I agree - life is becoming more transparent, but this is corresponding with a collective growth in our emotional intelligence, so hopefully as we share more we're also more empathetic to the human condition. We none of us are perfect. The a
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by alid 14y ago
Navigating corporate bureaucracy (its politics, legacy systems and cost centers) is the pain point and the reason efficiencies are sometimes not implemented, even by people working within corporations. That said I see that very thing as the

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