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Podcast που αξίζει να ακούσεις: Recode Decode

Το πρώτο podcast που προστέθηκε στη λίστα μου το 2018 ήταν το Recode Decode. Πρόκειται για ένα τεχνολογικό podcast του οποίου όμως η θεματολογία “μπλέκεται” με ζητήματα κοινωνικά, πολιτικά, πολιτισμικά, κ.ο.κ. Το επιμελείται η κα. Kara Swisher, μία δημοσιογράφος με τέχνη, κατά τη γνώμη μου, στις συνεντεύξεις. Το παρακάτω επεισόδιο τιτλοφορείται “How to fix the […]

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

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 εκείνη που μπορεί να ενδιαφέρεται […]

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Tim Harford on the Importance of Being Messy

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

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Plato’s cave

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 the prospect of death.

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It’s not about Open Source

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 them. Open Source fueled my research […]

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Open Talent Era

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.

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

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 is used to measure the […]

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Matt Mullenweg talks about coding in open source, business and productivity

(via: fourhourworkweek.com)

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Everything you need to know about WordPress 4.0, the Benny Goodman edition

Just updated to WordPress 4.0 and everything went smooth. I love the video mashup with the latest changes. It’s probably the best way to communicate the most important features to a WordPress fan 🙂 As you probably know, WordPress versions get their names from famous Jazz musicians and 4.0 is dedicated to one of my […]

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The Zero Theorem: top 3 favorite quotes

Bronze Metal – Nothing adds up. – No. You’ve got it backwards, Qohen. Everything adds up to nothing, that’s the point. – What’s the point? – Exactly. What’s the point of anything?   Silver Metal I’m sorry to interrupt, but I couldn’t help but notice this young lady’s pathological attempt to project upon you her daddy issues of abandonment… […]