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by demian 15y ago
The cover designs of O'Reilly books are truly awesome (and I don't use that word often). They are not only recognizable in a "brand" kind of way, but they are also professional looking, simple but with a twist of the creativity that differe
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by demian 15y ago
In an enviroment where people hate failure, the slogan "fail fast" can help to "tip de balance" to a more iterative and feedback-oriented kind of managment. BUT, when the balance has basically reached the other end, the "slogan" looses it's
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by demian 15y ago
His approach seems to be one of "crafting" an experience, by mostly testing it by playing the game himself after every change, instead of trying to "engineer" a piece of software. A great aproach for designing an interactive piece.
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A Software Design Manifesto.(hci.stanford.edu)
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by demian 15y ago
Wasn't the "startups are for/mostly created by young people" myth already debunked?
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I had this problem, and this aproach helped me: First, indentify if you are stuck. Create metrics if needed ("if I don't advance this cuantitative variable in a week, then I'm officially stuck"). Second, when you are officially stuck, you
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by demian 15y ago
Suburban areas and coworking facilities seems such a good combination, I don't understand why it isn't common.
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by demian 15y ago
I believe there is value in: 1) a place where scientists and profesionals can get together with younger people interested in their fields and expertise. 2) a place where this young people can form groups with similar interests. 3) a curate
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by demian 15y ago
Besides that, at least in the US, most "computer science" degrees don't seem to create an analog experience to classic engineering diciplines. They don't focus on how to design and build software systems per se, but in the science behind co
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by demian 15y ago
Besides the point brought up by jeltz about what "renewable" includes, I fail to see how the speed of innovation, or the fact that people can "hack it", will determine which energy source is "the future". Argentina, a developing country wit
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by demian 15y ago
True. In some countries, specially in the developing countries, going to the goverment for money is actually a common course of action for relatively risky but promising tech ideas.
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The game changed, it went beyond the "microcomputer" concept in ways this guy couldn't conceive. But that does not mean he was wrong. The days of the lone hacker writing assembly code for the "microcomputing" business DID came to an end. So
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by demian 15y ago
It does looks great. Especially the examples.
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Some of that does include statistical analysis.
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So, basically, you are saying that the main difference is that data scientists also make desicions based on the data, while the BI/DA works as a "data guy" for executives. Is that a correct way to put it? In a way there seems to be a parall
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by demian 15y ago
Maybie it's just me, but "Data Science" seems to be basically enterprise information systems (ETL, dataflow diagrams, data mining, Data Warehousing, business inteligence, and so on) but with a cool mobile-social-esque feel associated to the
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by demian 15y ago
I would like to think that the sentiment of this piece is to move programmers to go and explore more disciplines. Or to make the point that computer programming is such a powerfull tool that it's a shame to see that a lot of competent progr
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by demian 15y ago
I believe the lack of unionization is an effect of what I wrote.
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by demian 15y ago
Based on the comments and complains I heard and read online (in other words: it's only my wild theory) what it seems specific of programmers is the willingness to comply, without trying to negotiate. Maybie it's because the ideal is passion
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by demian 15y ago
There is nothing wrong with working 10 or 11 hours, if you want to. The problem is when programmers DON'T want to stay overtime. Have you read "In Praise of Idleness" by Bertrand Russell? It raises some interesting questions. http://www.zp
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by demian 15y ago
I don't agree with the hole post, but the "administration layer" paradigm Joel has been proposing is kind of interesiting. In a way, it's the extreme opposite of the norm, and that's good, it challenges the way people normally think about "
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by demian 15y ago
To be fair, you can apply the scientific method to almost anything, but that doesn't make it "science" per se. For example: product design. You make hypothesis, create a prototype to test it, and then draw conclusions from that. Maybe "scie
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by demian 15y ago
That depends. In some countries, there are "Exact Sciences" (basically Math and all the derivatives like statistics and computing) and "Natural Sciences" (like physics, chemistry and biology). But it's all semantics, the important thing (an
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by demian 15y ago
Design and methodology can be learned, but are hard to teach. And they are even harder to teach inside science or engineering schools.
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I attribute that confusion to the fact that the term "Computer Science" is used as a facade for both Computing Science (a branch of mathematics), and the skills necessary to create and deploy software systems (which most of the time doesn't
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by demian 15y ago
There is a difference between "self-taught" and "polishing skills with experience". Whatever you study in school, you will never be 100% prepeared to work. That being said, code/program design IS a very important skill that seems to be hard
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by demian 15y ago
Very interesting post! What I also find fascinating is the way words shape the way we see the world, instead of letting the world shaping the words we use. I believe that we are creating artificial limits between jobs. Unless you are coding
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by demian 15y ago
No it isn't. The intention to kill 1 person is not as reprehensible as the intention to kill 1 million.
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Leakymails.com posted e-mails from goverment officials (the idiots used services like hotmail for work-related communications).
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"No reason to add extra complexity just to dodge having a single global variable" Yes, yes there is. It's called "reducing side effects".

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