- Academic publishing: Open sesame | The Economist
"When research is funded by the taxpayer or by charities, the results should be available to all without charge" (taxation openness research )
- A Baseline for Front-End Developers – Adventures in JavaScript Development
"I wrote a README the other day for a project that I’m hoping other developers will look at and learn from, and as I was writing it, I realized that it was the sort of thing that might have intimidated the hell out of me a couple of years ago, what with its casual mentions of Node, npm, Homebrew, git, tests, and development and production builds." (advice development git node_js javascript )
- Should we estimate software projects… at all? « neilkillick.com
"After a year or two of “having a hunch” about this, and after many years of either estimating work or working to someone else’s estimates, I’ve now finally come to the conclusion that the use of estimation of any kind in a project is not only a waste of time but is actually destructive." (dopost agile estimation )
- Working In Uncertainty: Uncertainty Locations survey report
"The results of this survey indicate an opportunity to expand guidance on risk management so that it helps people deal with uncertainty in all aspects of decision-making and similar management activities, rather than focusing just on uncertainty around predictions of the future. Remarkably, dealing with uncertainty around predictions of the future was rated the least crucial of the five areas, though still important." (survey risk )
- How To Train Your Robot « Dr. Techniko’s Children’s Stories
Sweet and clever: "Last Sunday, I taught six kids of ages 5 to 7 how to program. [...] The game works as follows: every kid is turned into a “robot master” and their mom or dad becomes their “robot”. I give each kid a “Robot Language Dictionary” and explain to them that this is the language their robot understands. The dictionary has symbols for “move left leg forward”, “turn left”, “grab”, “drop” etc." (dopost children teaching programming )
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