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Não mate a sociabilização.

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:49:31 -0300

“Se 40 confirmaram a inscrição, conta só com 15.” — organizador de evento

“Metade nunca vem.” — agitador de comunidade

Essa alta sociabilização fomentada por inúmeras redes sociais e as crenças do mercado de trabalho de que quem é bom é ativo em eventos e comunidades, faz com que pessoas genuinamente interessadas em reuniões - leia “ajuntamento” - de pessoas encontrem a coragem a dar o melhor de si e ainda inspirar outros a fazer o mesmo para que essa sociabilização seja possível: organizando pessoas para se juntarem ou ainda conseguindo bancar um lugar bacana e até mesmo um delicioso coffee-break para aqueles que se mostrarem igualmente interessados.

Eu sou um desses, apaixonados pela ideia de ter boas cabeças pensando e jogando juntas para se conhecer, aprenderem alguma coisa ou apenas brincar com seus interesses em comum e suas ideias diveregentes. A #desconf é a prova dessa minha paixão.

Por isso me sinto entitulado a dar um grande puxão de orelha nessa geração Twitter, que movida pela boa intensão de pessoas como eu, mas deseducadas pela efemêridade de suas próprias vontades se acham no direito de faltar nos eventos gratuitos que acontecem por ai.

Quando você se inscreve em um evento gratuito o organizador do evento está contando com você para a dinâmica planejada dar certo, e a empresa patrocinadora, aquela que paga pelo coffee e pelo wi-fi, conta com você para o investimento na comida. Nada é de graça, e até o momento que o evento começa tem um organizador com a testa enrugada pensando se o pessoal vai se atrasar ou simplesmente não vai aparecer.

Vá aos eventos que você se inscreve, seja por email, google forms, sympla.com.br, ou qualquer outra coisa. Pois se você não vai, você machuca a comunidade e faz pouco caso das pessoas que se esforçam para fazer com que isso aconteça.

Eu queria poder ouvir de todos os outros apaixonados por comunidade, assim como eu, dizerem que tiveram que pedir mais comida na metade do evento e não que sobrou comida o suficiente para alimentar uma escola. Eu quero ver mais eventos acontecerem, e não mais grupos se fechando por falta de comparecimento.

"- I will spend the rest of my life here in Texas, trying to teach evolution to creationists. -..."

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 09:39:00 -0300

“

- I will spend the rest of my life here in Texas,
trying to teach evolution to creationists.

- You watch your mouth, Shelly!
Everyone’s entitled to their opinion.

- Evolution isn’t an opinion, it’s fact.

- And that is your opinion!

”

- Dialog between Sheldon Cooper and her mom, Mrs. Cooper — The Big Bang Theory S3E1 - The Electric Can Opener Fluctuation

"Imagine you’re tasked with building a computer controlled gun that can accurately hit a target about..."

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:03:12 -0300

“

Imagine you’re tasked with building a computer controlled gun that can accurately hit a target about 50 meters distant. That is the only requirement. One way to do this is to build a complex machine that measures every possible variable (wind, elevation, temperature, etc.) before the shot and then takes aim and shoots. Another approach is to build a simple machine that fires rapidly and can detect where each shot hits. It then uses this information to adjust the aim of the next shot, quickly homing in on the target a little at a time.

The difference between these two approaches is to realize that bullets are cheap. By the time the former group has perfected their wind detection instrument, you’ll have finished your simple weapon and already hit the target.

”

- Tom Preston-Werner on Ten Lessons from GitHub’s First Year

rickwebb: heyitsnoah: (via This is Why People Pirate...

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 09:51:14 -0300

rickwebb:

heyitsnoah:

(via This is Why People Pirate Movies)

To be fair, you also get the director’s commentary and often some pretty sweet extras. But god, yeah, nothing irks me more than being advertised to on a DVD I PAID for.

sabbatical: Our lives are spent trying to pixellate a fractal...

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 19:43:17 -0300

sabbatical:

Our lives are spent trying to pixellate a fractal planet.

"The path of the righteous programmer is beset on all sides by the inequities of the clueless and the..."

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 23:56:41 -0300

“The path of the righteous programmer is beset on all sides by the inequities of the clueless and the tyranny of evil project managers. Blessed is he, who in the name of achievement and solid technology, shepherds the users through the valley of ineptitude, for he is truly his customer’s keeper and the finder of lost solutions. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to deploy without testing. And you will know my name is zedshaw when I lay my software upon thee.”

- edw519 at the Programming Motherfucker thread in Hacker News. *epic*

"I think that any time reality doesn’t match your expectations, it means that marketing was..."

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:04:25 -0300

“I think that any time reality doesn’t match your expectations, it means that marketing was involved.”

- Seth Godin on The triumph of coal marketing

Dell.com está contratando, why you should apply

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:59:00 -0300

Você desenvolvedor front-end ou aficionado por web standards e javascript: Welcome. Me and my colleagues are building a pretty cool web app that needs a little help to become truly awesome, and here’s where you come in. Actually, you and someone else, for we are hiring 2 developers to join the fun. Yes, fun, and here’s why:

Who we are

From computer science to journalism, we have people from most varied backgrounds. Remarkable people these guys and gals here, I have to tell it. Among others, you’ll find:

A real web sub-celebrity running an infamous humor site in the interwebs
A data junkie that will find just about any link between 2 subjects and tell you how peanut butter is related to beans and Greek mythology
A movie lover Canuck with love songs’ radio voice
Dev so awesome she couldn’t be hired at first cuz she wasn’t 18 yet
Yoga master with nefarious JS powers
Great average guy with a mustache. Me.

What we build

It’s one of the world’s largest e-commerce platforms with millions of daily visits, served with one of the leading performance in the retailer industry. You can see it up and running on http://dell.us. For that you and me will work with:

Distributed team spread across Canada, US, Brazil and India
Awesome UX and Graphic design team
Bad-ass Enterprise back-end infrastructure
Air conditioning, two big monitors, cream of the crop notebook configuration
Great flexibility and honest to god inspiring manager
Comfy clothes, no suits required

Where you stay and what you eat

We stay in Porto Alegre at Tecnopuc, the technology park inside the PUC University. The campus is open for us and we have plenty of restaurants and coffee shops here, as well as free pass to the parking lot and the super complete and useful library. Trees, great green and sunbathing spots for chill out are everywhere.

If you are an early riser and happen to be at the office by 8AM, we take some time at a coffee shop where we get good caffeinated beverages and cheese rolls, while watching to Saint Seya, or maybe discussing morning news.

Whether you like it low profile or Viking-like lunch, you are served. There’s just about every type of restaurants there to accommodate your taste and desire. Most also have free coffee, but hey, don’t sweat here, besides the free coffee available in the coffee machine in the office, we have the 3PM coffee (+ delicious cheesecakes) to level out our code quality in the afternoon. By the way, we generally discuss games at that time. Or advertising. Or movies.

What we need from you

Nope, we don’t need no ninjas nor rockstars. Agile rugby players to complete our Scrum is more of our type. Skills and experience, we assume you have, but to train you we also can, if a Padawan you are, so bring:

English. No fear though, it gets better with time, we know that
Hardcore bare bones Javascript. Extra candy bars for jQuery
Taste for perfectly placed pixels in semantic markup with scalable styles
Expressive communication, desire to learn and to teach
Enjoyment with scalability, performance and maintenance challenges
The internet in your heart. You gotta love it: google, bing, twitter, blogs, tumblrs, you gotta live it all up and keep up with what is hot and what is not

What you get

Should the whole fun and all not suffice, you get paid to do that. Yes, actual money and more:

Life insurance and healthcare. Ah, ten acupuncture sessions per year allowed too
Up to 4 bus tickets by day or free pass to the University parking lot
Ticket Restaurant loaded with $16/day. You foodie, your coffee breaks are all set!
Paid vacations, 13rd salary, extra hours, high compensation
Earnings based yearly bonus, which makes up to a 14th salary. No joke

Questions? Doubts? Curiosity?

This formspring is open for any questions about the position of the work here at Dell. Feel free to ask anonymously!

Interested?

So, send your resumé or questions to the manager marcos_nahr@dell.com. Also, find him on twitter, @marcos_nahr. No mystery, seriously.

Choose up to 3 things: You can't do it all. But you can do more than just that. #career

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:14:11 -0400

You might be rocking hard where you are, and want to try something new. Or you may not feel that same love about your current job anymore and want to move on. Or you might just have a long term dream and not know how to go about it. It doesn’t matter, these 4 useful things I learned about career are just so helpful that they’ll give some good insights on how to go about shaping up the path ahead of you and plan for the future as well as just do it right now.

Choose up to 3 things: You can’t do it all. But you can do more than just that.

Programming is very cool, you can build whole programs on your own and create awesome web apps. But hey, UX Design is nice too, you got to serve the user just what it would need, making it feel comfy with your app, and willing to sign up. Now, advertising is also awesome, you can do fun stuff that catch people attention and draw them in to your product. Wait! People are nice too, and managing a team to inspire that much more productive for great results would be fantastic! … wow, it’s all nice and cool, but the day only has 24 hours!

We need to develop knowledge about things we like and also work them deep enough to have some expertise on them. For that you can’t do everything, but you can do more than one thing. So choose up to 3.

Why 3? Because it’s more than 1 and is enough to keep you really busy. Also, if turns out 3 is too much for you to undertake, eventually one will become less exercised and you’ll naturally drop it in favor of things you will then know you like best.

After you know what 3 things you’d like to do in your career, you can define what you already know about it, and also what are the steps to get in a useful level on that, then you write it all down, and wind up with something like below:

It’s pretty flexible and as I’m discovering new things and learning what else I need, I just go there and update it, the idea is to make sure I can look at it and make choices based on it: what book to read next? Or, what graduation to seek for… The format and level of detail is your choice, what matters is coming up with that 3 things you’d like the most, and go for it.

That’s all for now, wait for the next one! There are more 3…

notaninfographic: Does it means that Leading Actors are more...

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 07:05:56 -0400

notaninfographic:

Does it means that Leading Actors are more important than Leading Actress, why are them on top? Machism!

Lesson #1: Bunch o’ info inside Clip-Arts = not an infographic.

A totally different vocal and now with backing vocals for the...

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:20:28 -0400

A totally different vocal and now with backing vocals for the first time ever: definitely The Strokes.

"Satisfaction is not a measure of success — it’s just enough to get by. We want our customers to be..."

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 13:37:41 -0400

“Satisfaction is not a measure of success — it’s just enough to get by. We want our customers to be happy. Happiness is success. Happiness is our goal.”

- from 37signals Customer Support Happiness Report

"Lesson of the story: Do random creative shits and good things happen… you never know, if you..."

Mon, 07 Feb 2011 15:32:38 -0400

“Lesson of the story: Do random creative shits and good things happen… you never know, if you get your stuff in front of the right people, you never know what could happen!”

- Ryan Carson on the feedback on Brickify and the contact with The Black Eyed Peas manager

"Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in..."

Thu, 03 Feb 2011 19:31:24 -0400

“Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir!”

- in Hard Times by Charles Dickens

I Love UX Design - ILUVUXDESIGN

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:44:24 -0400

I Love UX Design - ILUVUXDESIGN

"That’s the best thing about engineers and entrepreneurs… It’s great for engineers..."

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:34:34 -0400

“

That’s the best thing about engineers and entrepreneurs… It’s great for engineers to build what they want to see in the world. What else could you hope for, than that? That’s exciting. You don’t want to build something that just fits in to something else.

We’ve taken the opportunity to build what we want. To build how we want the world to work.

”

- Jack Dorsey, twitter inventor and Square co-founder, at Kevin Rose’s Foundation

Education portals to watch for

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:23:15 -0400

http://ecorner.stanford.edu/ - The entrepreneur channel of Stanford
http://academicearth.org/ - All things university, real good material on several different courses
http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/ - It’s actually not a portal, and is only accessible by iTunes or iStuff, but seems quite promising

http://rafb3.posterous.com/

Mon, 24 May 2010 18:48:40 -0300

http://rafb3.posterous.com/