November 2010
How Germany got it right on the economy →
“What we have here is stakeholder capitalism, not shareholder capitalism” Klaas Hubner
Recommend Me (pretty please) →
It’s Tuesday again.
If you have a recommendation to spare would you be so kind to send it my way?
It would be much appreciated by me and myself.
P.S. If you have a square to spare be sure to send it to Elaine.
WatchConrad Wolfram: Teaching kids real math with computers | Video on TED.com
“A reality distortion field. In his [Steve Jobs] presence, reality is malleable....”
– Folklore.org - Macintosh Stories: Reality Distortion Field
“Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is...”
– Marcus Aurelius
I don’t know about you, but I love seeing my classes’ unit test code coverage above 90%.
Obvious to you. Amazing to others. →
(via Instapaper)
Reasons to work
For the money
To be challenged
For the pleasure/calling of doing the work
For the impact it makes on the world
For the reputation you build in the community
To solve interesting problems
To be part of a group and to experience the mission
To be appreciated
Why do we always focus on the first? Why do we advertise jobs or promotions as being generic on >items 2 through 8 and...
What Killed Waterfall Could Kill Agile →
I’ve always been an enemy of certifications. Paying a lot of money, spending a couple of hours listening to someone talk and taking a test makes someone an elite expert? Not in my book.
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be...”
– Albert Einstein (via 122782)
Source Code - Movie Trailer →
This movie looks awesome. From the director of “Moon” which was a brilliant movie. Not a huge fan of the name of the movie though.
“I could see what the Polaroid camera should be. It was just as real to me as if...”
– The story of Polaroid inventor Edwin Land, one of Steve Jobs’ biggest heroes (via Instapaper)
“I don’t necessarily agree with everything I say.”
– Marshall McLuhan (via gravityandstuff)
Watch YOUR HIGHNESS Trailer | Badass Digest
This movie looks hilariously awesome!
Why Google can’t build Instagram — Scobleizer →
An Entire Village Flees Mexican Drug Violence :... →
This is sad…
Mexico goes through periods of internal war every 100 years. In 1810 it was the war for Independence, in 1910 the Mexican Revolution and now in 2010 the drug wars. They might say that the violence is mostly between drug cartels but it affects all of the country directly or indirectly.
This week I won't ask for recommendations.
Thanks to the followers that have recommended me I’m on Tumblr’s Developers directory. I don’t want to annoy my followers by asking them to recommend me every Tuesday, so this week I won’t ask you to go to this page and recommend me.
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“All that succeeds is the unreasonable.”
– Seth’s Blog: Unreasonable
About.me / gabrielayuso →
Check out my new about.me page :)
“A few hours ago I was upgrading our continuous integration setup when a...”
– Today’s Outage - GitHub
Definitively not good.