While reading this article at GigaOm about the latest adventures of Skype, I came across this quote by Yee Lee, a former employee of Skype: You can agree or disagree with the practice of re-organization, but I personally had never been part of a restructuring that ran so deep in a company. Â During the year … Continue reading Unstable company of Skype
Slashdot links to this article, that goes inline with this recent forecast. In what is supposed to be a land of unlimited cheap labor — a nation of 1.3 billion people, whose extraordinary 20-year economic rise has been built first and foremost on the backs of low-priced workers — the game has changed. In the … Continue reading The End of Cheap Labor in China
Big Picture has a few images of a stunning progress achieved by Japanese people just 3 month after the disaster.
GitHub: mamchenkov commented on pull request 120 on cakephp/cakephp http://bit.ly/lU3myx # GitHub: mamchenkov commented on pull request 120 on cakephp/cakephp http://bit.ly/j9XYfi # GitHub: mamchenkov pushed to 2.0 at mamchenkov/cakephp http://bit.ly/jocWgp # I'm at Logos School of English Education (33-35 Yialousa St, Limassol) http://4sq.com/jM3O0k # GitHub: mamchenkov commented on pull request 120 on cakephp/cakephp http://bit.ly/jN9qNe # … Continue reading Day in brief – 2011-06-15
Via this tweet I came across this insightful comment over at Slashdot.  Quoting in its entirety: A bit off topic, but you triggered something I’ve been thinking about for a couple of years. That “spark” is fluency. I swtiched jobs from being a computer programmer to being an ESL teacher in Japan. Japan is somewhat famous … Continue reading On teaching programming languages