Yesterday we posted a chart from Hugh Howey's new report on author earnings, showing indie and self-published…
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On July 20th, 2013, two technicians from the UK's intelligence agency GCHQ looked on as Guardian editors destroyed…
Would be awesome. Because frankly, Windows 8 looks like Windows 1.
Visualizing the internet is almost as difficult as ignoring trolls, but that didn't stop Jay Jason Simons from…
StackOverflow is an awesome tool - I'm yet to come across a problem they haven't already solved.
This is so important. As someone who does pedagogical research, I am constantly frustrated how the media takes any proposed technology and acts as if it will solve all of our educational problems. I've often said that I could make a living just by betting that the outcome of studies about new ed technologies will be…
Every generation has its shiny new technology that’s supposed to change education forever. In the 1920s it was radio…
While a very informative article on the methods used, it fails in one key aspect (in my opinion).
I've been interviewing Oracle contractors the last couple of weeks and it has been fascinating.
That's not the Google tests you're talking about. They were internally sourced, often by the interviewing manager, not consultants or 'self appointed specialists'.
PS: The classical Fermi Problem approach to estimating the number of piano tuners in the city of Chicago has a few flawed assumptions, but is nevertheless accurate to an order of magnitude. I know piano tuners really well (for my Bosendorfer), and there is no way the average piano tuner tunes 1,000 pianos per year. …