February 2012
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“Hackathons are how marketing guys wish software were made.
However, to make...”
– Dave Winner
Instead of doing a hackathon, do a regularly scheduled Code Jam. Get a bunch of developers together to show each other what new idea they have and for that day do something on that new idea in 24 hour. For a hackathon, this stop when the event stop. With a Code Jam, get together again...
Handling Permission
Dailysocial brought this up, whether Android user should be concerned about contact list abuse. The problem with asking permission first when installing the apps, like Android did, is that most people will just plainly ignore the written text and install the apps anyway. Just like nobody ever read a text put into Setup Wizard on Windows.
The correct way, I think, to handle permission is to asked...
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“Apapun persepsi kita atas cinta, tak ada salahnya bersiap untuk senantiasa...”
– Dee Idea: Cinta Tak Bertuan
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On Management
What Joel Spolsky wrote on http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/02/the-management-team-guest-post-from-joel-spolsky.html I think is applicable to all company. The point that needed to be paid attention is
Hire Smart People.
Give the smart people that you hire real authority.
Management is there to help smart people do their job, not preventing them from doing it.
You’re not Steve Jobs, so stop...
“We mistake dumb luck for a machine that produces success. We rely on induction...”
– Alex Payne — On Business Madness
I’m not a business person too, but all in all, working harder and smarter from everyone else always brings the best result.
January 2012
11 posts
Foxconn's workers in context →
aulia-m:
The working conditions at Foxconn has been the subject of much discussion and outrage over the last few days following the New York Times exposé. Apple has since bore the majority, if not the full, brunt of the criticisms for allowing what looks to be a sweatshop full of suicides with workers earning very little while making iProducts despite other consumer electronics companies also...