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Articles by Horia Varlan
From Code Lone Wolf to Team Player: Confessions of a Former Pair Programming Skeptic (with a Side of AI)
A few years ago, within a couple of months, I experienced the two extremes of pair programming. On one hand, I still had a fresh memory of a highly collaborative environment which encouraged engaging in mixed coding and ideation sessions that often led to making rapid headway. It had a healthy focus on results without an obsession for rigid processes and oversight.
Why your brain isn't broken (but documentation might be) - a tab hoarder's musings on learning
About a year ago, right after I quit my big tech role to manage my burnout, I had what seemed like a brilliant idea at a time. In the months prior to that moment, I had grown more interested in AI so it made sense to go through several online specializations. A couple of months and a few dozen courses later, I was receiving my last certificate. I don’t regret it but I’d be hard pressed to claim it has helped me all that much.
Top holiday toys from the year you were born
The holiday season is upon us, which means it’s the perfect time to dive into the history of iconic gifts—and for Americans to gear up accordingly. For savvy consumers, that means getting an early start on shopping and keeping an eye out for the best deals. For retailers, it means lining physical and virtual shelves with the hottest toys and newest gadgets. Toy shopping has transformed over the past 100 years, whether because of advancements in the products themselves or the marketplace.
19 Terms for Relationships that Dehumanize Women
Photo by Horia Varlan/flickr used under Creative Commons 2.0 license By Andrew Smiler Like most American boys, I grew up knowing dozens of terms that objectify women’s bodies and diminish women by reducing them to just a single part. It wasn’t until my 20s that someone taught me, and I started to understand, just how dehumanizing and common all this was. Jean Kilbourne’s Killing Us Softly videos have been particularly eye-opening.
Special Pharmaceuticals
Looking to buy or sell Special Pharmaceuticals? List your company on Macro Market. Special Pharmaceuticals are the 246th most traded product and the 166th most complex product according to the Product Complexity Index (PCI). The top exporters of Special Pharmaceuticals are Germany ($2.76B), the United States ($1.61B), Switzerland ($749M), Belgium-Luxembourg ($726M) and Ireland ($722M).
Cut a Tree, Prevent Intense Wildfires
For decades environmentalists have equated saving trees with saving the planet. Now Jamie Workman of the Environmental Defense Fund says it’s not that simple. Writing for Mother Nature Network (May 23, 2013), Workman argues that overcrowded forests are in fact a cause of pollution. If Mother Nature had her way, Workman explains, there would only be a few dozen trees per acre, even in forests. The rest would burn in occasional wildfires started by lightning (or Native Americans, before colonization).
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The average American uses more than 38,000 straws over a lifetime without thinking about the implications of all this plastic going to waste and pulluting our oceans. (Horia Varlan/FlickrCC)
How to Improve Your Sexual Health?
For almost 20 years I have been publishing medical articles and lecturing on what works and what is worthless from A to Z for multiple health conditions including male sexual health; and, let me tell you that this topic never seems to get old. It is completely practical to enhance your sex life through diet, lifestyle changes or supplements, as long as the supplements are verified as safe. But tread carefully as there is a lot of junk treatment out there too -- enough to get lost in.
3 tools for licensing and copyrighting photographs
Credit: By Horia Varlan on Flickr. Some rights reserved. For photographers who post their pictures online, protecting copyright is always an important consideration. While post-processing tools such as Adobe Lightroom can bake copyright information into a photograph's metadata, there are a few other tools around to reduce the risk of people using your photos without your permission.
世界の映画の中心地であるハリウッドで働く人たちの給料は一体どれくらいなのか？
2015年10月07日 09時00分 映画 By Eva Luedin ソニー・ピクチャーズがハッキングを受けた際に漏洩した情報や映画スタジオに関する報道などを基に、ハリウッド関連のニュースを取り扱うメディア「Hollywood Reporter」が、「ハリウッド(アメリカの映画業界)で働く人たちの給料は一体どれくらいなのか？」を明らかにしています。 Hollywood Salaries Revealed: Who Makes What on the Lot and on Location - Hollywood Reporter http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/hollywood-salaries-revealed-who-makes-829103/item/television-writer-who-makes-what-829118 ◆スタジオツアーガイド...
5 formats BBC uses in the 'hunt for new audiences'
Credit: By Horia Varlan on Flickr. Some rights reserved. Shareable, native stories and video are undoubtedly the stars of mobile content right now. And as more readers find news through social platforms, media outlets find they have to equip themselves to "hunt for news audiences" on various platforms .
To Find Your Ideal Client Begin With a Study of Yourself
How many times have you said, “My business could get really big if I could just find the right clients”? If you have, you’re not alone: There’s not an entrepreneur that I know who hasn’t had that thought, at least once. The good news is that there are many ways to find the right clients. Here are five strategies that can be universally adopted to help you find them. Amazon, eBay and Alibaba seem to have something for everyone, but that’s just not practical for a small business.
The Key Elements of Killer Content Marketing
In his book Success Secrets of the Online Marketing Superstars, Mitch Meyerson introduces you to 22 innovators who have redefined the developing landscape of online marketing.
Advice on innovating in journalism from new media outlets
Credit: By Horia Varlan on Flickr. Some rights reserved. When the context of digital journalism is constantly changing, newsrooms need to innovate in how they approach their work. In one of a series of lectures on innovation in journalism at City University London, journalists from leading new media organisations shared their advice on how to bring something new to an organisation, and push the profession forward.
Create Momentum When You're Stuck in the Middle
There is no shortage of advice for visionaries, entrepreneurs and managers who want to start something.
3 Marketing Tactics to Avoid Next Year
While a new year presents an exciting opportunity for a fresh look at your marketing techniques, it’s also the time to think about what to nix from your strategy.For 2015, think about integrated and holistic marketing solutions as you plan. Plus here are three resolutions you should not make this New Year. Related: Beware the Promise to 'Fix' Email1. Don’t double down on email.I get it. Email is easy, inexpensive and prevalent.
Taggly app launches to watermark images and video
Credit: By Horia Varlan on Flickr. Some rights reserved. Vice Media's Tim Pool, a specialist in mobile technology who reported from 2013's Istanbul protests using Google Glass, has launched an app for the proper accreditation and verification of digital news footage. Taggly, available for iOS, automatically stamps the author's name onto an image or video, alongside the date, time and location they were taken and a company logo. "I needed this," Pool told Journalism.co.uk.
BBC 'NewsLabs team' to drive innovation
The new team will be expected to experiment and 'develop new formats' Credit: By Horia Varlan on Flickr. Some rights reserved. The BBC is to build a NewsLabs team in order to pursue a "more innovative and more experimental" approach to journalism. In an announcement to staff today, newly appointed managing editor James Harding explained that the project would amalgamate BBC News's existing work in this area, with a particular focus on data and visual journalism.
記憶力・学習能力の上昇など昼寝が脳に与える影響や最適な仮眠の方法
2013年09月25日 20時00分 メモ By Josh 昼寝をすると頭がすっきりして集中力が増すと感じる人がいたり、昼寝をしすぎると夜に眠れなくなる人もいるようで、実際のところ仮眠が体にどのような影響を与えているのか広く知られていません。そんな昼寝の体や脳に対する効果をBufferが公開しています。 How naps affect your brain and why you should have one every day - The Buffer Blog http://blog.bufferapp.com/how-naps-affect-your-brain-and-why-you-should-have-one-every-day 睡眠は多くの健康的なメリットをもたらすとされており、例えば、心機能の上昇、ホルモンのメンテナンスや細胞修復、記憶力・認知力の増加などの健康効果があります。基本的に夜にとる睡眠は、1日動いた体を回復する時間で翌日に向けての修理期間みたいなもの。 では昼にとる睡眠「昼寝」には一体どのような効果があるのでしょうか？ ◆1：記憶力の向上 By...
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