demian

9 ms·

31.
by demian 11y ago
Talk with "domain experts". Your job is to identify and abstract domain problems into models that can be solved using your technical expertise.
32.
by demian 11y ago
Imagine if you could build a skyscraper by running the blueprints through a machine that automatically builds it with essentially zero costs, and then you can just tear it down and rebuild it again deppending on how it responds. The enginee
33.
by demian 11y ago
Creative Destruction is nothing new.
34.
by demian 11y ago
It's really important to keep focus as long as we don't oversimplify the issues.
35.
by demian 11y ago
This is first and foremost a PR stunt by the BA City's goverment to push a goverment "innovation" bullet point.
36.
by demian 11y ago
A known bug is that the counting machines doesn't validate the number of votes per ballot, so you can cast multiple votes by rewriting the RFID chip with a NFC enabled phone. And even if they address that particular bug, because of the
37.
by demian 11y ago
And even that's not happening. The machine also prints the vote on the ballot, and because of the known bugs in the system people are still counting them by hand.
38.
by demian 11y ago
I don't agree about publishing the certs, but that's not the main issue. The main issue was a security flaw that allowed somebody to directly download the SSL certs of the voting system from an URL .
39.
by demian 11y ago
Thanks for the correction, I didn't knew.
40.
by demian 11y ago
That's something the big markets (USA/Europe) can improve by being less crap tolerance.
41.
by demian 11y ago
There are several bugs in the system reported by local engineers, like being able to add multiple votes to a sigle voter's RFID chip. This is a scandal and a complete failure at several levels, not only for the local city goverment but
42.
by demian 11y ago
Wrong. The federal goverment is from a different political party, they are NOT the same people that are running the local city goverment. The police that raided this guy's house was the metropolitan police (BA city police), not the fed
43.
by demian 12y ago
Uruguay is completely dependent on Argentina, in both good times and bad times.
44.
by demian 13y ago
But engineering is not just product design. A solution to a problem that requires engineering expertise may be a hack of an already developed technical system. Engineering, at least in a traditional sense, is more about applying science to
45.
by demian 13y ago
Nothing new. "Educated" latin americans are expected to be able to, at least, read english. More so in tech fields.
46.
by demian 13y ago
Funny, I just call them "engineers". An Engineer (with big E, as in Designer, Doctor or Lawyer) must know the business side of things, must understand how to design technical solutions that solve real problems, and must know how to fa
47.
by demian 13y ago
In my opinion, we are having some serious problems with the words we are using. We are mixing aesthetics and stylizing with things like ui flows and product design. Just becasue it's called "Design" it doesn't mean it can only be done by pe
48.
by demian 14y ago
Spreadsheet is a great model for software. I hope designers iterate on it more in the future, with better engineered and more domain-specific products than excel.
49.
by demian 14y ago
I didn't made any assumptions about that :p
50.
by demian 14y ago
right, I should have used "area" instead of "term". I meant the bachelors/masters/PhDs in "Informatics".
51.
by demian 14y ago
Comment: In English there is a split between Software Engineering and Computer Science. German uses the word Informatik which comprises both disciplines. It's the same for most of continental Europe. There is theory and research focused a
52.
by demian 14y ago
I'm worried about the tendency to letting just "nontechnical" people "define the problem", and the general relegation of "technical" people to only build and execute a vision. Some people have a background that deals mostly in perception
53.
by demian 14y ago
That's key. MOOC have organized material and information in classes, but now it needs to also curate "tracks".
54.
by demian 14y ago
"Awful" is kind of relative. We are talking about a new model, low "retention" seems to be normal for free clases wich have absolutely no barrier of entry. I have taken 5 courses, only finished 2 "on time". For the other 3 I downloaded the
55.
by demian 14y ago
"Be unusual and memorable: if, for example, you reached Level 60 on World of Warcraft, tell your future boss why that means you have monster leadership skills." hahahahaha. No.
56.
by demian 14y ago
He can blame the technicians for being lazy or stupid, and he does it, but the fact remains, they didn't wanted to use his tech. Some front-end devs are technicians that need to generate value quickly, and most can't afford investing time
57.
by demian 14y ago
Feeling like a loser/winner is counterproductive. The first step is to understand that social labels are bullshit, and the only truth is that we are all going to die. Look up, pretend you have purpose, that's "hope". People with hope attrac
58.
by demian 14y ago
The dichotomy is not between "Capitalism" and "Goverment", but "Capitalism" and another form of "social order" (or ways to organize society and production). Goverments that operate inside "capitalism" are still a product of a "capitalist so
59.
by demian 14y ago
what if "woman in CS" programs can help to get woman with intellect and passion into CS?
60.
by demian 14y ago
I see it as a systemic problem. There isn't one root cause, but a lot of factors. For example, the "hacker" archetype really rooted in people's minds is mostly a product of movies, TV and books. At the same time, those movies, TVs and books

More ›