Apostolos Kritikos

Είσαι ή developer ή designer ή sysadmin. Και δεν μπορείς να κάνεις τίποτε για αυτό.

Essays / May 18, 2017

Αν ασχολείσαι με την δημιουργία “πραγμάτων” στο Internet στις μέρες μας, μπορεί να σε προβληματίζει το πως πρέπει να αυτοπροσδιορίζεσαι επαγγελματικά. Λέω αυτοπροσδιορίζεσαι γιατί η ωμή αλήθεια (παρόλο που δεν θέλουμε να το παραδεχτούμε) είναι ότι η πλειοψηφία των ανθρώπων εκεί έξω δεν ενδιαφέρονται για τον τίτλο σου. Αλλά και η μειοψηφία...

Tim Harford on the Importance of Being Messy

Entertainment / January 26, 2017

An excellent podcast episode about how difficulties, obstacles and courageous decisions can shape a persons character and how being messy can sometimes help 🙂

Merry Christmas by Social Mind team

Journal / December 25, 2016

This time every year I wonder: how the Christmas spirit and the feelings that dominate those festive days of the year help us to think more with love in mind. Is this sense of love, the warmth, a real feeling or it is yet another result of “Christmas marketing”. A result of...

Plato’s cave

Entertainment / October 25, 2016

It is the task of the enlightened not only to ascend to learning and to see the good but to be willing to descend again to those prisoners and to share their troubles and their honors, whether they are worth having or not. And this they must do, even with...

It’s not about Open Source

Essays / August 28, 2016

Three days ago we celebrated 25 years from the birth of Linux. I have been an Open Source user for over a decate now and I consider myself lucky to be part of this awesome network. Open Source gave me free access to applications that, have they been proprietary, I would need to pay good money or illegally obtain...

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Essays / June 7, 2016

Φέτος τα (31α) γενέθλιά μου με βρήκαν να υπηρετώ τη θητεία μου ( περισσότερα για αυτό σε επόμενο άρθρο 😛 ). Ο περασμένος χρόνος έφυγε πολύ γρήγορα και δαπανήθηκε σχεδόν εξ’ ολοκλήρου σε δουλειά. Δουλειά, που πλαισιώθηκε ευτυχώς από ενδιαφέρουσες προκλήσεις. Την χρονιά που πέρασε είχα την χαρά να δω την Social...

Open Talent Era

Business / April 29, 2016

Welcome to the open talent economy—a collaborative, transparent, technology-enabled, rapid-cycle way of doing business. What the open source model did for software, the open talent economy is doing for work. From Deloitte, The Open Talent Economy. People and work in a borderless workplace.

3 life lessons software metrics can teach us (and make good resolutions)

Journal / January 12, 2016

Happy new year everybody! In case you are looking for a couple of good resolutions to add to your 2016 list, here’s a bunch of geeky ones coming from software engineering research field 🙂 1. Keep your diff low Diff (short for difficulty) is one of the Halstead complexity measures. It...