Tag: tech

21 posts tagged with #tech

Besides being an amazing program, Dan's take on JavaScript is also a masterpiece from an educational standpoint. It ultimately represents what education should be all about: generating new ideas, challenging the mind, and helping you acquire novel points of view.

Published on February 03, 2020

Road To Dystopia

VR is already here. Not in the way we thought it would. It has not suddenly taken over the world at once, creating a fully-featured Ready Player One reality. However, its rollout shares the playbook with other technologies such as AI — and there is a ton we can learn from them.

Published on November 30, 2019

Leapfrogging The Phone

We all have a hard time learning from history. Just a few years ago, a phone was considered not capable enough to ever replace a PC. Time has proven all of us wrong. Smartwatches are already walking down the exact same path. Yet we seem to have forgotten.

Published on July 24, 2019

Magis 1.0

Introducing Magis 1.0, with a new name, continuous deployment, user authentication, real-time database... and an inconsequential, but exhausting data model refactor.

Published on December 12, 2018

The Would You Rather Refactor

The product story behind the major refactor to the Magis app (formerly Would You Rather), Udacity's React Nanodegree second project, based on React & Redux.

Published on November 01, 2018

Udacity React Developer Nanodegree

A review of the Udacity React Developer Nanodegree, from a product manager (and developer aficionado) perspective.

Published on August 09, 2018

Months And Terms

Why I stuck with the DAND's monthly structure rather than switching to the updated term-based model.

Published on May 16, 2018

Ready Player One

I went to the movies and left wondering whether it will become cheaper to recreate an entirely new world rather than fixing the one we live in.

Published on May 09, 2018

Udacity Data Analyst Nanodegree

A review of the Udacity Data Analyst Nanodegree, from a Product Manager's perspective.

Published on February 04, 2018

Watching Google's AI Play Go

It is not a human move — Fan Hui said. We are teaching computers how to think.

Published on March 12, 2016

Ad-Blockers And Market Niches

The Internet has flipped the advertisement industry in its head. Which in turn, has surfaced a plethora of market niches that were simply not available before, yet they remain to be addressed.

Published on October 10, 2015

The Electric Car

How come new car manufacturers can outsmart decades of supply chain refinement? The answer is that they don't need to. Different rules apply to them, because they're just playing a completely different game.

Published on September 01, 2015

The Smartwatch

Technology is getting closer. Yet we still haven't found the edge that will make it thrive and take off. Instead, we seem to be walking down the same path as we did during the transition from PCs to smartphones.

Published on August 28, 2014

Continuity

We are moving into a world with more devices, not less. A world swamped by a wide range of always-connected devices and sensors. However, we still have not figured out how to manage state across all of them.

Published on July 31, 2014

The Ultimate Device

Imagine a multi-purpose device that delivers the best experience at any given situation. This article examines the current market trends hunting for the ultimate device, the one that will rule them all.

Published on July 20, 2014

Iteration vs. Innovation

Despite iterative models feel more static than bursts of innovation, they can potentially unlock greater opportunities in the long run. Hence, to achieve something truly remarkable, is it better to go with a portfolio approach or just focus on a handful of bets?

Published on June 28, 2014