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How to Bag a Hacker | Inc.com
On July 21, Filip Mares sparked a small uproar in the blogosphere with the following posting: "In order to query the post from memory, we bind a click event function to retrieve the contents for the < l i > id in question," he asserted.
Clearly, Mares is no ordinary blogger. Instead, he's a Web developer at Pulse, a Palo Alto, California–based start-up that makes the popular Pulse newsreader app. Pulse, like a growing number of companies, has asked its engineers, developers, and programmers—the most technical minds in the office—to put on their writer hats and start churning out blog posts as well. The goal: to showcase the business as an engineering powerhouse in order to attract top-tier programming talent
via inc.com
Videogames Shouldn’t Be a Statistics Class - Lower Moreland, PA Patch
game statistics and performance affect player strategy, and influence the way players experience the story of the game.
Playing Video Games and Your Creative Mind | The Creative Mind
Creative thinking and expression involves many skills and cognitive abilities, which can be enhanced by all sorts of experiences, even video games.
As reported in a news release, a Michigan State University study concluded that “both boys and girls who play video games tend to be more creative, regardless of whether the games are violent or nonviolent.”
“A study of nearly 500 12-year-olds found that the more kids played video games, the more creative they were in tasks such as drawing pictures and writing stories. In contrast, use of cell phones, the Internet and computers (other than for video games) was unrelated to creativity.”
Professor of psychology Linda Jackson, the lead researcher, said the study “may be the first evidence-based demonstration of a relationship between technology use and creativity.”
via blogs.psychcentral.comHow Harvard Spends Student Tuition | Online Universities
this graphic does a very good job pointing out that the rising cost of healthcare (over the past decade, nothing to do with obamacare) is outpacing the budget and is unsustainable. please pay attention to this. no matter how many times i point it out, i just don't feel like i am getting through. health care costs are killing employers and the job market, and gouging people.
America Is Angry, Very Angry. Why That's Not All Bad : NPR
There are, then, ways for a nation to soldier through angry eras. We have seen in recent times how a crisis — say Sept. 11 or the Tucson shootings — can refocus our attention and repurpose our emotions.
But in this day and age, forgetting may not be as simple — or as acceptable — as it once was. With our deep databases, powerful search engines and countless websites, blogs and bulletin boards and interminably talkative media, it is arguably easier to remember — and easier to remind others — about the inaction or injustice that originally made us mad. Really, really mad.
via npr.org