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Monday, April 8, 2013

Интересное


Домашнее образование в США и Канаде: от экстрима к мейнстриму

Ольга Писарик 
В 2007 году в газете «Сан-Франциско Кроникл» вышла статья под заголовком «Они снова сделали это!». Автор – заместитель директора Гуверовского института Стенфордского университета Ричард Соуза (Richard Sousa) – был восхищён американскими хоУмскулерами… 

«Ну что же, они снова сделали это! В мае 13-летний Эван О’Дорни выиграл национальные соревнования по правописанию (National Spelling Bee – одни из самых престижных соревнований в США, ежегодный финал проходит в Вашингтоне и транслируется по национальному телевидению). Эван учится дома, и не он один. Из тех, кто попал в финал в Вашингтоне, 12,5 % – хоумскулеры, в семёрке лидеров таких было трое. В прошлом году 13,5 % детей, прошедших в финал, обучалось дома.

Чемпионами Национальных соревнований по географии (National Geographic Bee) в 2003 и 2005 году были школьники, обучающиеся дома. В 2005 году 16-летний хоумскулер выиграл первенство США по шахматам, став самым молодым чемпионом после Бобби Фишера, который в 1958 году получил этот титул в возрасте 14 лет. А ведь хоумскулеры составляют всего лишь около 3 % от всех американских детей».

Sunday, June 17, 2012

Sunday, April 1, 2012

Thursday, March 29, 2012

тяжелое детство, железные игрушки. 7 лет.

а я не знал в 7 лет, что такое машина руба голберга.

Sunday, March 18, 2012

про стартапы и лошадок

Душевная статья: 
10 фактов о работе в стартапе в сравнении с работой в большой компании.
Ниже цитаты и чуток собственных мыслей по поводу и без.
...At a startup it’s unavoidable to have lots of responsibility and accountability. There’s no doubt, too, that being at a startup will put you in a position to make a huge impact. If you do amazing work the entire company and all of its customers will benefit from it. And you’ll be loved for it. On the flip side, if you make a big mistake, the whole company pays for it. But keep in mind that most startup cultures prefer agility and speed to cautiousness. It’s likely that your mistake won’t actually get you in trouble, as long as you were trying to do the right thing.
Ну, это понятно - в толпе легче спрятаться.
Одна мысль как бы не по теме. (далее КК = Контроль Качества, QA):
Стартап как вид бизнеса в ИТ - это всего навсего проверка концепции на жизнеспособность.
Стартапу КК не нужен. Более того - стартапу КК противопоказан.
Это потеря темпов и нецелевая трата заложенных в стартап и без того ограниченных средств.
С точки зрения бизнес-системы, вопрос качества в стартапе эффективнее решать другими способами. Например: no-bug development + continuous integration.

Friday, March 9, 2012

далеко. далеко?

конечно, кто-то должен подумать и о законодательстве...

Saturday, February 18, 2012

интроверты, экстраверты



The Power of Introverts: A Manifesto for Quiet Brilliance: Scientific American

In our society, the ideal self is bold, gregarious, and comfortable in the spotlight. We like to think that we value individuality, but mostly we admire the type of individual who’s comfortable “putting himself out there.” Our schools, workplaces, and religious institutions are designed for extroverts.

Many introverts feel there’s something wrong with them, and try to pass as extroverts. But whenever you try to pass as something you’re not, you lose a part of yourself along the way. You especially lose a sense of how to spend your time. Introverts are constantly going to parties and such when they’d really prefer to be home reading, studying, inventing, meditating, designing, thinking, cooking…or any number of other quiet and worthwhile activities.

According to the latest research, one third to one half of us are introverts – that’s one out of every two or three people you know. But you’d never guess that, right? That’s because introverts learn from an early age to act like pretend-extroverts.

о безумии бизнеса

хорошая статья.
хорошо укладывается в теорию бизнес-ритуалов.


Given some preparation and calibration, you can bake the same cake from the same recipe the same way every time. But a business is not a cake – not even a cake-making business. You can retrofit “success factors” to businesses that made it big, but you can’t then reapply those factors to another business and expect the same results. Every new business is an experiment with too many variables to possibly control for: the concept, the execution, the stability of the people working on it, market forces, political turmoil, the weather, and on and on. 

The factors that appear to make a business successful change from week to week, article to article, tweet to tweet, blog post to blog post. This week, everyone is trying to figure out how to replicate Facebook’s “hacker way” because that’s where the money is going. But eventually, the money moves on, and with it goes our idea of how to manufacture success. It was Taylorism in the 1880s. It was Japanese management theory in the 1980s. A few weeks ago, before our collective attention shifted to the Facebook IPO, it was whatever Steve Jobs had done, from hallucinogens to yelling at your employees. Next week, it will be the philosophy of whoever seems likely to make the most money right then.

Monday, February 13, 2012

штучка для знатоков

вся эта красота случилась буквально в прошлую среду.



просмотров на ютубе: 21 722 291
я проверил - это не постановка.
реальный мужчина, с реальной информацией о нем в сети.
сам в айти, жена ветеринар.
реальный эккаунт на ютубе:
http://www.youtube.com/user/alornmage

парочка ссылок на прессу:
Daily Mail
The Globe and Mail

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

новое поколение программистов

замечательная, просто программная статья.


сама статья


перевод гуглом на русский

Sunday, January 22, 2012

Heine Heinrich
Doktrin

Schlage die Trommel und fürchte dich nicht,
Und küsse die Marketenderin!
Das ist die ganze Wissenschaft,
Das ist der Bücher tiefster Sinn.

Trommle die Leute aus dem Schlaf,
Trommle Reveille mit Jugendkraft,
Marschiere trommelnd immer voran,
Das ist die ganze Wissenschaft.

Das ist die Hegelsche Philosophie,
Das ist der Bücher tiefster Sinn!
Ich hab sie begriffen, weil ich gescheit,
Und weil ich ein guter Tambour bin.

Thursday, December 29, 2011

Thursday, November 10, 2011

империя зла

эта карта очень хорошего разрешения, можно рассматривать в отдельном окне.

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

знаменитые уроженцы верчелли

искусство (художники, музыканты, певцы, актеры) - 5
футболисты - 3
религия - 2
философы\политики - 1 (анархист)

молодцы!





Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Sunday, August 21, 2011

барышня и компьютер

Girls Go Geek… Again!

July 26th, 2011 by Anna Lewis

Computer science has always been a male-dominated field, right?
Wrong.


In 1987, 42% of the software developers in America were women. And 34% of the systems analysts in America were women. Women had started to flock to computer science in the mid-1960s, during the early days of computing, when men were already dominating other technical professions but had yet to dominate the world of computing. For about two decades, the percentages of women who earned Computer Science degrees rose steadily, peaking at 37% in 1984.

In fact, for a hot second back in the mid-sixties, computer programming was actually portrayed as women’s work by the mass media. Check out “The Computer Girls” from the April 1967 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine. It appeared between pieces called “The Bachelor Girls of Japan” and “A Dog Speaks: Why a Girl Should Own a Pooch.”

Don't worry, ladies. According to none other than Grace Hopper, programming is just like "planning a dinner."

There were many reasons for the unusual influx of women into computer science. Partly, it was just a result of the rise of the commercial computer industry in general. There was a tremendous need to hire anyone with aptitude, including women. Partly, it was the fact that programming work itself was not yet fully defined as a scientific or engineering field. In fact, many computer science programs were first housed within a variety of departments and colleges, including liberal arts colleges where women had already made cultural inroads. Not least of all — and you knew this was coming — women quickly noticed that some programming work could be done at home while the children were napping.

Saturday, August 20, 2011

перепост от shlyahtich

История расизма

"Большая восьмерка" Копейкина

Thursday, July 21, 2011

из истории хип-хопа. оказывается негры там и рядом не валялись...



а у вики еще веселее: там сами хип-хопстеры говорят, что корни брейка вообще тянутся из России:

Breaking


Breaking, an early form of hip hop dance, often involves battles, showing off technical skills as well as displaying tongue-in-cheek bravado
According to the influential graffiti artist Mare, documentation has been discovered tracing the origins of Breaking back to 19th century into 20th century Russia.[64] Breaking, also called B-boying or breakdancing, is a dynamic style of dance which developed as part of the hip hop culture.