Kevinjmireles

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Are Your Users Idiots or are You? Product Development & Design for a Lazy World(kevinjmireles.wordpress.com)
2 points by Kevinjmireles 15y ago|1 comments
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by Kevinjmireles 15y ago
Hacker is such a loaded term... but the point is they have some technical skills that are actually valuable and can lead to decent paying jobs as well as additional study/development if they choose to... vs. cosmetology or some of the other
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by Kevinjmireles 15y ago
Bummer! But your school is way more advanced than the ones around here where the closest thing they have is Intro to MS Office :( P.S.My daughter's in IB too and she thought it was pretty cool that you are too :) Now if I could just get he
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by Kevinjmireles 15y ago
Having done the startup thing and lost my shirt in the process - you can read my Lessons from the Land of Hard Knocks - http://wp.me/1pqm - realize there are no guarantees of an ROI in monetary terms. However, as a teacher you have a much
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by Kevinjmireles 15y ago
I'm fluent in Spanish and can butcher French & Portuguese pretty well, but the reality is I've needed technical skills much more than I do language skills.
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by Kevinjmireles 15y ago
If you're interested in changing the world, I've got a public service project MyRepresentatives.com in need of a developer(s) to help me take it to the next level. It's your one stop shop for engaging with your political representatives onl
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by Kevinjmireles 15y ago
Bootstrap looks pretty cool and I really like the way its designed to integrate with the math concepts students are already using. And as for the language thing, agree with your comment about languages coming and going - the basic point is
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by Kevinjmireles 15y ago
Organizations are designed to do what they did yesterday. In order for schools to attract and retain highly-skilled professionals they need to begin to offering more flexible work schedules/careers for people like you. And while startups ca
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by Kevinjmireles 15y ago
What I've discovered over the years is that organizations are designed to do what they did yesterday and that people and institutions follow the cheese. In order to get high schools to begin offering programming as a core offering, college
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Teach Hacking in High Schools(kevinjmireles.wordpress.com)
39 points by Kevinjmireles 15y ago|30 comments
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Why does my BlackBerry have a flashing light?(kevinjmireles.wordpress.com)
1 points by Kevinjmireles 15y ago|1 comments
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by Kevinjmireles 17y ago
Software for collision repair shops....
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by Kevinjmireles 17y ago
Getting people to change their habits is hard. After all shouldn't you be going to gym instead of watching mindless videos on Youtube? But are you? Read my post for some key product lessons http://kevinjmireles.wordpress.com/2006/08/03/pro
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by Kevinjmireles 17y ago
Fail quickly doesn't mean let your company fail. The goal is to figure out what doesn't work.Too many people try to develop a perfect product, etc... instead of investing the minimum amount required to get feedback and test the concepts wit
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by Kevinjmireles 17y ago
Check out my posting Product Adoption: Lessons on how to maximize product adoption and avoid common pitfalls: http://kevinjmireles.wordpress.com/2006/08/03/product-adopti... I appreciate the encouragement and challenge to write some more.
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by Kevinjmireles 17y ago
The problem is when you're the sole bread winner with 3 kids...When I was much younger I chucked it all and spent a year biking through South America. People asked me how I could leave everything behind - and my response was, "what behind?"
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by Kevinjmireles 17y ago
I guess that goes to the old saw about don't bet more than you can afford to lose. The losing the life savings generally happens in chunks and you keep hoping things will get better - and then they don't - and suddenly you have the new prob