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The Anti-Predictor: A Chat with Mathematical Sociologist Duncan Watts(scientificamerican.com)
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by danac 16y ago
Mobile payments have been around in Africa for years, mainly because there's no legacy systems to compete with, and the lack of a solid banking/payment processing industry has made growth occur unopposed. Whereas the incumbent players in No
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by danac 16y ago
And hopefully burdened with less administrative tasks and armed with more data that tracks progress and speed of learning, teachers can act more as a curator of knowledge (and guides, as you described) that cater more specifically to the ne
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by danac 16y ago
If programming is now attracting more mainstream interest as you said, I wonder if the pedagogy of disseminating programming knowledge will change. Will the educators (I can't think of a less formal word for this, but basically refers to an
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by danac 16y ago
So movie-making is becoming more geographically and capital diverse, good for us! Note how little Monsters costed (under half a mil), or District 9 in 2009, for that matter. Some cool movies made outside of Hollywood and released last year:
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by danac 16y ago
It's good to know that quality still sells, and prices aren't everything. Maybe because of Europe's location, I see textiles sourced from places like Turkey and even Latin America, rather than purely from China/Asia in general. What kind o
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by danac 16y ago
I can see how that's very likely, my experience is limited to Western Europe at the moment:) We still see quite a lot of goods in cheaper stores that come from China, but nothing like the market domination I see back in North America. Over
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by danac 16y ago
I think Japan's general economic malaise over the past few decades have been off-putting for investors and entrepreneurs that do not look for only a sizable market, but the promise of a GROWING sizable market. With an aging population, gene
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by danac 16y ago
It is also out of self interest that Germany pumps money back to the European rescue funds from their trade surplus with these less-than-stellar European economies. It's not altogether unlike how China finances the US debts by selling more
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by danac 16y ago
Another relatively male-dominated field is banking (although probably less so than programming), yet one can argue that there's plenty of drama operating within those concrete towers. What differentiates the level of "drama" between the ban
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by danac 16y ago
Germany is the number one exporter in the world, that's very true. But I think China is following the Japan/S.Korea/Taiwan model, versus the German route, in the sense that it's trying to move up the value-adding chain.
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by danac 16y ago
List of talks for entrepreneurs: http://theeducatedentrepreneur.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/10-t...
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by danac 16y ago
Europe in general (perhaps with the exception of the UK) is much less saturated with Made in China goods than the rest of the world, perhaps due to more stringent adherence to standards and quality, or perhaps as a result of its trade laws
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Why Japanese love robots that are feared by Americans(technologyreview.com)
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by danac 16y ago
Nice to see more than one team rolling with the idea. May be best one emerge victorious.
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by danac 16y ago
Most of those excuses mentioned really come down to one of two things: arrogance (I know best so you don't need to know) or laziness (why bother because see former), both of which are hardly unique to programmers.