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How to solve our textbook problems and give every Filipino a better education
Update:This post has been moved to the Bayanihan Books Project website. If you want to leave a comment, please follow this link.
Every start of the school year, our adviser hands out textbooks for the entire class. She would call our names one by one and instruct us to pick a number of books from a […]
The FedEx arrow
Can you see the arrow between ‘E’ and ‘x’? Now that you see it, I bet you would always notice it every time you see a FedEx truck. The arrow makes sense as a symbol for a delivery company that is always on the go. However, it is pointing away from its destination […]
Larry Lessig on how creativity is being strangled by the law
As always, a very rich and convincing presentation from Larry Lessig.
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Perils of Ajax
Ajax has provided developers the ability to transform the way mortals use the Web from simply reading contents to interacting with websites. There is an explosion of applications on the web that, before, were available only for desktop environments. While many factors contributed to it like increasing bandwidth, faster chips, mature tools, and better understanding […]
Modern financial markets, explained
Funny and true.
via Marc Andreessen’s blog.
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Why marketing is good for geeks
One great frustration I have with myself is that I can’t think of an original product to build.
—Migs Paraz
If there is one thing I could advice to Migs, it is to learn the principles of marketing.
If you’re a geek and you said “no f****** way” after hearing this advice, it’s alright. That’s the normal […]
Ajax will die
Now that I have your attention, it’s not Ajax that will die, it’s the term that will.
When Jesse James Garret coined the term Ajax, it was meant to describe a set of technologies that have already existed for several years: XHTML and CSS for standards-based presentation, DOM for dynamic display in the browser, data exchange […]
Movie time
Every month we would schedule a “movie time”. We either go to the nearest movie house or just borrow a DVD and watch it our recreation room at the office. Sometimes, I would see the same movie twice in a week because my wife also wants to watch it. I hope my previous teammates […]
Free ebook: Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism
From YalePressWiki:
Imagine this: a mere century ago, the purchasing power of an average American was one-tenth of what it is today. But what will it take to sustain that growth through the next century? And what can be said about economic growth to aspiring nations seeking higher standards of living for their citizens?
The ebook is […]
We lack heroes
This my contribution during a discussion why there aren’t many entrepreneurial successes in the Philippines. Yes, there are many successful businesses in the Philippines but we don’t have stories that took over the world. Or, we don’t know about them. When I told friends about Winston Damarillo, Dado Banatao, and Peter Valdez, they all […]
