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by eddyparkinson 13y ago
What to do about it? ..... I often wish I could get points for pointing new users in the right direction.
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by eddyparkinson 13y ago
Shares & Cliff Vesting: I liked this one: http://www.businessinsider.com.au/everything-you-need-to-kno...
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by eddyparkinson 13y ago
Cool home page I wish mine was that good. Impressive UI. Related work: (my stuff) http://www.cellmaster,com.au/AppBuilder.html The product is is different, unlike other approaches, you can create sophisticated custom soft
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by eddyparkinson 13y ago
It is sad that the grant system is focused on selecting "elite" people, rather than improving the system. Improvements to the "research system" should be encouraged.
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by eddyparkinson 13y ago
I suspect it is the "Role model" problem. I am told, this is very well researched. And there is overwhelming evidence that role models do solve the problem. I understand UK office of statistics has the numbers that show how to sol
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by eddyparkinson 13y ago
Do you have a local "hacker space"? They would be good people to chat with about this kind of thing.
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by eddyparkinson 13y ago
Build web applications, with formulas. Formulas that build real software, the kind a programmer is able to create. This way: www.cellmaster.com.au/Build.html?hn (2 min video)
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by eddyparkinson 13y ago
Quality control innovations: Requirements reviews, Test driven development, Agile. Have a read of Software Inspection by Tom Gilb. The exercises at the back of A Discipline for Software Engineering are also very good (although the main boo
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by eddyparkinson 13y ago
+ Top down and Bottom up: In other words, work out "What is wanted" and "What is possible". + Over 20 Quality control innovations exist, use at least 1/2 of them.
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by eddyparkinson 13y ago
How and why: Read "Software Inspection" by Tom Gilb Learn by doing: Read "A Discipline for Software Engineering" by Watts S. Humphrey. Skip to the exercises at the back, as 95% of the value is in the exercises, the main
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by eddyparkinson 13y ago
I am in OZ,(I'm English). From the media I see, Sydney has more "startup" things going on, that Melbourne. But from the people I talk to, Melbourne gets the thumbs up as an easy and fun place to live.
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by eddyparkinson 13y ago
Styles and Graphs - Spreadsheet GNU GPLv2 : http://www.simple-groupware.de/cms/Spreadsheet/Home Keep thinking I need to convert this to JS: Spreadsheet formulas that build web applications - http://www.
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by eddyparkinson 13y ago
If you want to sample a few, University libraries tend to have the major ones on the shelf. But journals tend to be tuned to a topic. So depends what topic you want to know about.
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by eddyparkinson 13y ago
Please post this question every month, see what happens.
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by eddyparkinson 13y ago
Spreadsheet forumlas that build a Web Application Story: When a business needs custom software to solve a particular business problem, such as a special inventory management issue, a recruitment process, expense management or whatever is cu
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by eddyparkinson 13y ago
I have seen a few google questions, and feel they are good quality, and nothing like the quoted question. I suspect google learned from the points rasied in thr book "how would you move mount fuji" (a now famous microsoft question
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by eddyparkinson 13y ago
I would start with a skills test, try to use vloopup in a spreadsheet. If you can get to grips with vlookup, then look for something that fits with how you learn, a book, an online course or even making small changes to programs you find on
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by eddyparkinson 13y ago
Is better possible? I like the "startup weekend" style courses. But run over a term or 2 rather than a weekend. There are a few around.
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by eddyparkinson 13y ago
Role models: I heard the uk office of national stats has numbers that show a working solution, I.e. role models going to schools and talking pupils. but no one will fund it at scale.
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by eddyparkinson 13y ago
live programming of sorts - JavaScript v Spreadsheet - benefits of coding user interactions with a spreadsheet. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuxWduDNgVM because more people are good with a spreadsheet, than programming. T
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by eddyparkinson 13y ago
60% shit removal! A review removes 60-80% shit, to remove more than 80% use compounded shit removal. Compound requirements, design and code reviews to get 99%+ shit removal. finding 60% shit is not hard, every time you spot a little shit sp
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by eddyparkinson 13y ago
hardware: http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/List_of_Hacker_Spaces They have a blog and the one near me has a facebook group.
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A spreadsheet that builds software(youtube.com)
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by eddyparkinson 13y ago
is getting so many hits, it is overloading the google spreadsheet. Try again tomorrow when less people are looking.
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by eddyparkinson 13y ago
I could do with 2 types of up vote, one for "Entertaining" posts and one for "Ideas worth spreading" posts. Then I could filter depending on my mood. (Or maybe stack exchange style tags?)
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by eddyparkinson 13y ago
Been programming since I was 13, a hobby that became my Job. Yes, love software.
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Spreadsheet formulas that build interactive Web Applications(emailapp.cellmaster.com.au)
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by eddyparkinson 13y ago
Seams like it is distributed, in the same way that noSql is distributed, but keeps SQL style transaction locking. Did I understand? .... Is there some way of updating that can deal with conditional updates? E.g. Credit card payment of $1000
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by eddyparkinson 13y ago
I guess you know of BlueJ Java is a bit like this, lots of schools use it to teach programming. Some kind of logging would help people follow what is going on. When I teach, logs often help clear up a miss conception. I guess you are aiming
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by eddyparkinson 13y ago
A PhD answers a question, it is a process for answering a question. Do you know the process already, do you know how to answer the question, do you understand the research process. Are you able to tick all of the todo list items that are us

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