If you’re a software engineer, you’re expected to write good code. There are different criteria for what is good code but basically you don’t code whatever comes first to your mind. You try to think on the best solution, make it clean, somewhat scalable and even prepared for future extensions. Read more…
Open source software is great. It allows all the stakeholders to check the code. And in many cases, to reuse the code. The problem is that users can’t very that the server is executing the published code. It could contain some modifications that may not be acceptable by the user. Read more…
Jeff Bezos felt weird when he left his well paid corporate job to sell books online. “What the hell is he doing?” They said. And now, I feel like we’re in the same moment. When the internet was being created. Like in late 90s and early 00s. There’s a this Read more…
One key difference between the real world and the digital world is that the real world is real. By real we mean that it has a supporting layer that we all know and that it obeys some global understood laws. This layer is physics. Reality is made of atoms and Read more…
In the globalization, competition for physical labor grew, turning business into offshoring physical intensive tasks and factories to lower wage countries. Thousands of families -and the economy in general- have been affected in the west with the closing of many factories due to the offshoring. With coronavirus accelerating the transition Read more…
In the quest of improving the information diet, one of the biggest challenges is who to follow or who to subscribe to. Before, as media was very centralized (newspapers, TV) this problem didn’t exist. They were arbiters of which people had more credibility by allowing them to express their opinions Read more…