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by demian 14y ago
I'm sure that Patrick didn't "invent" email marketing, SEO or A/B testing, nor it was my intention to undermine the contributions of all the people involved in the field. I myself have an academic background in most of what is now called "
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by demian 14y ago
wow, Patrick Mckenzie is really THE main influence behind this kind of marketing. http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/05/31/can-i-get-your-email/
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by demian 14y ago
I got paid nonetheless, which could be considered a success. Then that's the problem, we mean different things when we say "success". For me, and for a lot of people I believe, "successful software" does not equals to just "the team got p
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by demian 14y ago
This is a cross-industry problem. As engineers, we are trained to find value in concrete products. We see it in software development, as well as in, for example, construction (ask any structural engineer about how architects are perceived)
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by demian 14y ago
But working software does not mean successful software. If it wasn't used, if it didn't helped people or solved a problem, how can it be considered successful?. ALL of those products/projects you list did required managment and business ski
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by demian 14y ago
Which is worse, builing something nobody will use or not building anything at all?
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by demian 14y ago
You are being kind of vague in your definition of "BA/PMs". Developing a business model is very different from doing customer support, planing and managing programming, and doing business inteligence/marketing.
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by demian 14y ago
For some lawyers, lawsuits are just "business transactions". They move in an eviroment where lawsuits are just amuniton in a game. They believe it's ok to use them, so they get suprised with this kind of response.
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by demian 14y ago
As I wrote in another thread: --- 1) Someone uses X (like game mechanics, industrial & visual design or artificial intelligence) in a new or more generalistic way with great success. 2) A lot of people start using X to get the same res
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by demian 14y ago
The Huxley reference could also be used to describe the '80 and the '90. “Amusing Ourselves to Death” describes most of the second half of the XX century. Information Technology is in a core scientific plateau, I also believe that's true,
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by demian 14y ago
I wonder if the investors that got in the wagon of social media would invest in long-term cancer research instead.
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by demian 14y ago
So, basically, nobody uses haskell because nobody uses haskell.
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by demian 14y ago
> It is no coincidence that interaction design is replacing technical prowess as the primary competency at startups. People who create great experiences will be the most valuable to startups, and startups that create great experiences
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by demian 14y ago
I don't believe this post gets the real reason why Jeff said what he said. In my opinion, Jeff projected some of his issues with the current state of the software development profession (mainly the "hack fist, ask questions later" aproach).
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by demian 14y ago
Even "programmer" is, in my opinion, too broad of a term. And the difference between "coder" and "programmer" is not really that clear. Every time a good term, besides "coder" and "programmer", appears, it gets overused by the wrong people
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by demian 14y ago
Engineering is a hard thing to define, and the line between the definition of "engineering design" and plain "design" is a blurry one, but yes, that's what I meant. It's basically a question about the field of design -specifically the natur
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by demian 14y ago
My intention wasn't to provide another index, but to discard the index system as a mesure for something more than what the index actually mesures. For example: the abstract, subjective and esoteric education "quality".
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by demian 14y ago
That's true, the process doesn't need to be 100% "conscious". PS: Great insight on the article about soviet "gamification", I never thought abut that in that way, thanks.
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by demian 14y ago
I believe this phenomenon it's characteristic of highly interdiciplinary areas, mostly practical and technical but with a strong component of humanism. The people that want to do work in industry tend to gravitate to some specific fields. A
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by demian 14y ago
1) Someone uses X (like game mechanics, industrial & visual design or artificial intelligence) in a new or more generalistic way with great success. 2) A lot of people start using X to get the same results. 3) A "consulting" industry st
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by demian 14y ago
The Era of Engineering?
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by demian 14y ago
Anecdotes are not data. In that ranking, they basically measure reputation , citations of papers in other papers and # of PhDs students. It depends how you measure quality. Finally, I don't think being the best government in Argentine h
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by demian 14y ago
There are two "extreme" ways of doing things, the "crafting" way in one side of the spectrum and the "engineering" way on the other side. You can "craft" a car without knowing a single formula, but that proved to be inefficient. In programm
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by demian 14y ago
I believe that designing and building software systems is not "equivalent" to experimental physics, that it is not "experimental" computer science. Following the metaphor, I believe it's more accuarate to relate it to design and engineering
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by demian 14y ago
The emotional can be intelectually aproached.
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by demian 14y ago
I think he didn't meant "produce" as in what a movie "producer" does, but as in what a builder does. It's understandable that programmers tend to be reactionary when approached by non-programmers to make software. The industry has a history
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by demian 14y ago
I don't get it. Does people without (hard) engineering or CS education, and without any kind of equivalent experience, get that kind of engineering/CS jobs even today ? It's like hiring an architect to do the structural engineering of a br
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by demian 15y ago
That's the thing, FP is not only a great model for writing a CRUD or any kind data-processing system, but also things like Haskell's type system makes it incredibly powerfull to "hack away" code while controlling complexity. And both are th
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by demian 15y ago
I know a lot of business/programmer types, and most of them remind me of Architects (not the IT or App ones, but the ones that makes buildings). They (b/p types) also tend to take a kind of "Master Builder" road, kind of "creative but profe
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by demian 15y ago
Almost every problem that involves material resources and time can be modeled and solved using math. The strech people go around to avoid using applied mathematics, either by choice or ignorance, is astonishing.

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