From Cecily Carver in Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Was Learning How to Code:
I’ve found that a big difference between new coders and experienced coders is faith: faith that things are going wrong for a logical and discoverable reason, faith that problems are fixable ...
A summary of scanning applications, with focus on iOS because that's what I use and know best.
As 2014 winds down (with a marked lack of posts here), I'd like to thank all for a good year. May you and yours have a happy holiday season.
People love to say there is a fine line between an excuse and a reason. The truth is that it doesn't matter. The world doesn't care which category your excuse1 falls into. If you didn't do the job you promised, you didn't do it.
Excuse ...
Running a university research lab is very much like running a small company. I am responsible for not only portions of my own annual salary,1 but also my graduate students' stipends and tuition and, of course, all the funding necessary to actually do the work. With this, particularly at ...
… lacking the feedback that people in the private sector get from product sales (or not), us academics are particularly susceptible to falling in love with pretty ideas that don’t improve anything.
http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1134
What it means to be interested in the problem and how that mindset dramatically influences the quality of work. This idea is tied to some discussion of how to be a successful researcher.
Or publications. Or tenure. ↩
But there is another form of ignorance which seems to be universal: the inability to understand the concept and role of innovation. The way this is exhibited is in the misuse of the term and the inability to discern the difference between novelty, creation, invention and innovation.
I had a conversation with some students recently about the changing face of the engineering faculty here at UL Lafayette. As we shift to doing more (and better) research, we will have fewer professors dedicated solely to teaching. I'll leave the discussion of the necessity of this shift for ...
Tim Cook and some other Apple executives gave an interview to ABC News recently. They walked by a huge Steve Jobs quote on the wall at Apple headquarters. They didn't even show it, but it's this one:
If you do something and it turns out pretty good, then ...