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Last login: 9 hours agoAlex is a guy from San Francisco, California, USA.
I do human-based computation. My project at 3form combines intelligent abilities of many people and focuses this collective intelligent power on solving their problems. My main blog is here.
China Limits Use of Online Currency Used by Game Players - NYTimes.com
Jun 30, 11:23am    (1 review)  internet  http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/01/techno...
From the page: "Chinese officials have worried that online currencies could ultimately serve as an alternative to Chinaâ€s official currency"
MICHAEL JACKSON LYRICS - Jam
Jun 25, 10:43pm    (1 review)  music  http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/michaelja...
From the page: "Nation To Nation
All The World
Must Come Together
Face The Problems
That We See
Then Maybe Somehow We Can Work It Out"
Engineers Are The Best Deal - So Stock Up On Them
Jun 23, 10:01pm    (1 review)  entrepreneurship  http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/23/eng...
From the page: "The productivity of a software engineer has increased 2-3 times that of a marketing person in the last ten years. Yet their relative compensation has remained about the same. That means if you are a savvy company, you should stock up on engineers. In fact, you would want as many great engineers as you can get a hold of."
Customer driven iteration vs Whiteboard driven iteration - Momoro Machine...
Jun 23, 9:52pm    (1 review)  software, software-development, software-engineering  http://themomorohoax.com/2009/04/12/cust...
Whiteboard iteration vs customer data driven iteration in software engineering: "In customer data driven iteration you iterate over a perceived customer need until your metrics show you that your solution is effective, or that your customers do not have the problem you thought they did. The point of a release is to learn."
Lessons Learned: Pivot, dont jump to a new vision
Jun 23, 3:10am    (1 review)  entrepreneurship  http://startuplessonslearned.blogspot.co...
"The hardest part of entrepreneurship is to develop the judgment to know when it's time to change direction and when it's time to stay the course. "
Continuous Deployment | AKF Partners Blog
Jun 23, 1:45am    (1 review)  programming  http://akfpartners.com/techblog/2009/06/...
"The topic of this post is taking continuous integration to an extreme and performing continuous deployment. And it is exactly what it sounds like, all code that is written for an application is immediately deployed into production. ... If engineers know their code is moving straight into production upon check in they might be a lot more vigilant"
Higher Education Is Stuck in the Middle Ages -- Will Universities Adapt...
Jun 22, 6:42pm    (1 review)  university  http://www.alternet.org/story/140703/
From the page: "Universities are finally losing their monopoly on higher learning, as the web inexorably becomes the dominant infrastructure for knowledge serving both as a container and as a global platform for knowledge exchange between people."
Annals of Medicine: The Cost Conundrum: Reporting &Essays: The New Yorker...
Jun 22, 2:20pm    (4 reviews)  medical-science  http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/...
From the page: "Costlier care is often worse care."
Craig Newmark: Geek of the Week
Jun 21, 4:02pm    (1 review)  entrepreneurship  http://www.simple-talk.com/opinion/geek-...
Crag Newmark: First, run and persist running a site that's a genuine community service, without specifically intending to get rich at it. Then, surround yourself with people who are smarter than you."
Humans prefer cockiness to expertise - life - 10 June 2009 - New Scientist...
Jun 21, 12:32pm    (2 reviews)  business  http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20...
From the page: "The research, by Don Moore of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, shows that we prefer advice from a confident source, even to the point that we are willing to forgive a poor track record. "