[FRIAM] Please Don't Learn to Code

2012-05-15 Thread Robert Holmes
Jeff Atwood's blog posts are always good value. This one is no exception. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/05/please-dont-learn-to-code.html —R FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's

Re: [FRIAM] Please Don't Learn to Code

2012-05-15 Thread Carl Tollander
If you are going to lead people, you need to come to some understanding of the depth of your own ignorance about what they do everyday. Many administrative crashes come from some manager thinking about what the managed do in terms of how hard could it be? So yeah, Bloomberg should learn

Re: [FRIAM] Unsolved Problems in Psychology

2012-05-15 Thread ERIC P. CHARLES
Jochen, As an indirect answer to your question: One reason why physics, chemistry, and biology seem to be largely complete and self-contained fields is through the progressive banishment of the magical explanations for their phenomenon. There are many traditions in psychology which have, to a

[FRIAM] Google Changes Tack on Android - WSJ.com

2012-05-15 Thread Owen Densmore
Finally Google seems to be taking charge of Android: http://goo.gl/bKiQU This could mean Android inches closer to a more integrated platform, with unlock and standard UI. WSJ seems to get the point, that there is a triangle between handset makers, carriers, and OS providers. I hope this helps