| #Do you really wanna go to a resort for your vacation? | |
| ##Intro | |
| What's behind the paradise vacation experience and alternatives | |
| ##Parts of the lighting talk | |
| - ###What's a resort and why people go there? | |
| Brief description of the concept resort. Most common reasons why tourists decide to go to a resort for their vacation. |
| Opinion essay about the article "Some Garbage I Used to Believe About Equality" by Johnathan Nightingale | |
| I used to believe that gender inequalities wasn’t a generalized problem in the XXI century, that with globalization we all | |
| were mingled and cool with each other, all feeling part of the Humankind. However, a friend of mine who identifies as Latina | |
| was telling me recently how going to an interview for a tech position, she was stopped by the security guard of the building. | |
| When she asked where she was going and she told the reason why she was there, the guard start laughing at her in a grotesque | |
| manner. That made me realize how naive I was, I had been living in a mental utopia all this time. | |
| I strongly believe that inequality is a conversation where we all should participate. Often times we make it look that this | |
| is a situation that white men are causing with their attitude but in fact, it is a problem that we all are causing with our |
| Cheating in computer science can be a little tricky in terms of moral perception. On the one hand there are so many open | |
| sources and shared code in places like GitHub that can create a feeling that it's ok to borrow solutions for problems that | |
| other people previously encountered. However, I see a clear distinction between googling seeking for inspiration/advice about | |
| how to solve a specific small challenge in your project and copying an entire project code and make it looks you produced it. | |
| I can understand how stressful can be the tought that you will be graded for a project and that you passing or failing the | |
| course might depend on it. However, if you are studying a subject, the final goal is not to get an A+ but to learn a skill and | |
| be good doing that job so more serious than cheating your teachers is cheating yourself and jeopardizing your future for | |
| stealing that learning. For me taking somebody's code plus not understanding what it does is like taking somebody's pills | |
| without having been prescribed no |
| # Amara Lovato - M1 Portfolio | |
| ## Areas of Emphasis | |
| (What did you set out to accomplish this module?) | |
| ## Rubric Scores | |
| Fill in how you would grade yourself from 1-4 in the following categories this module: |
| ##Comment of the article "My Year in Startup Hell" by Dan Lyons | |
| Tech companies are always surrounded by a special halo that everybody admire. However, as the article states working there | |
| is not made for everybody. Most of them have defined what they call "company culture" that is basically a series of rituals, | |
| behavior and even mindset that feels more like joining a cult than starting in a new workplace. These companies provide all | |
| sorts of free services and internal social activities to create a playground atmosphere and make your workmates become your | |
| best friends. Who wouldn't like to work in a place like that? If you are a person who likes to express your honest opinion | |
| and have a life outside work these type of companies might not be the right ones for you to work for. Free thinkers can be a | |
| threat to this Truman Show paradise so they will be quickly invited to graduate, as HubSpot call it, from that artificially | |
| ideal experience. |
| The tech industry, especially in Silicon Valley is very competitive and alienated of the rest of the world. Fortunately this | |
| cult for figures/business and hostile environment doesn't happen everywhere in the sector. For example, in the local scenes | |
| tech communities are extremely supportive, welcoming, inclusive and considerate. On the other hand, technology definitely has | |
| big effects in society and is modeling it such as people trusting what's published on social media, businesses like Uber, | |
| Airbnb or Amazon threatening the existance of local businesses or self-driven trucks taking jobs from people. Because as the | |
| article mentions, when people become numbers and reality data, you can't expect humain behaviors plus in general companies'goals | |
| (especially big ones) are always profit and growth. For this reason, it's important that staff working at them, developers in | |
| general and users demand that people should always go first and denounce any different behavior/strategy that can harm them. | |
| Everybody should |
| ##Review about article "At Harvey Mudd College, the Ratio of Women in Computer Science Increased from 10% to 40% in 5 Years" | |
| I think that it's a great idea to do things to bring more members of minorities to the tech industry. The only effective way | |
| to do it is to make it more attractive and provide a welcoming atmosphere for whoever we want to open it to. In the case of | |
| women, promoving more team work as they are more gregarious in general, creating a female friendly community and showing the | |
| social value of the project can definitely work. Another factor that is a great tool offering mentor opportunities with other | |
| females as a role model and a person to reach that can better describe and understand how it feels being a woman in a | |
| predominant male sector. Supporting groups such as "Women Who Code" or "Girl Develop It" are also crucial to build the sense | |
| that women in tech is not an exception anymore but the norm. |
#A Dream Trip to Spain
##Intro
A little taste of my homeland Spain and tourism being my professional field.
##General facts
3rd most visited country in the world (68.2 milion visitors/year) Its territory is double the size of Colorado's but population is 47milion vs
| #A Dream Trip to Spain | |
| ##Intro | |
| A little taste of my homeland Spain and tourism being my professional field. | |
| ##General facts | |
| 3rd most visited country in the world (68.2 milion visitors/year) | |
| Its territory is double the size of Colorado's but population is 47milion vs |