Candyman @kendywidjaya - Candyman: The Beatles Live Megamix
I love this sequence. Nice transitions and wisely chosen tracks.
We and the Conscious Universe
“You and I also began with the Big Bang, because all substance in the universe is an organic unity. Once in a primeval age all matter was gathered in a clump so enormously massive that a pinhead weighed many billions of tons. This ‘primeval atom’ exploded because of the enormous gravitation. It was as if something disintegrated. When we look up at the sky, we are trying to find the way back to ourselves.
All the stars and galaxies in the universe are made of the same substance. Parts of it have lumped themselves together, some here, some there. There can be billions of light years between one galaxy and the next. But they all have the same origin. All stars and all planets belong to the same family… we too are stardust.”
Jostein Gaarder, ‘Sophie’s World’
As part of the universe and result of its evolution we are in someway the conscience of the universe. When we as human beings become conscious about ourself the universe has some how managed to become conscious too. When we look at the sky staring the stars we are in first instance the universe looking it self.
Having a permissive open source policy is important if a company wants to recruit truly stellar programmers. Or put another way: great programmers will be less inclined to work for you if you have a restrictive open source policy because being involved in open source projects is one of the best ways for a programmer to increase his market value.
Traditional methods for measuring programming ability are ineffective
The job market for programmers, especially the top programmers, is notoriously inefficient. This inefficiency is due to employers lacking good methods for evaluating programmers. The standard techniques used to evaluate programmers — resumes, on-the-spot coding questions, take-home projects — are at best crude approximations of a programmer’s ability, and none of them will be indicators of the truly visionary people. Sure, there are other indicators like being involved in successful companies or having past impressive titles, but those are still indirect indicators of programming ability.
by Nathan Marz
"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads"
— Hammerbacher
at BusinessWeek
Why Architecture Matters (Rick Branson, Instagram), #Cassandra12
"When talking about big data try to think about storing verbs, not nouns. It may fit in most scenarios"
— Rick Branson, Instagram Engineer
I keep saying the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians. People think I’m joking, but who would’ve guessed that computer engineers would’ve been the sexy job of the 1990s?
