Joana Pascoal, Author at Angry Ventures

Software Development

Hackers. How do you feel about them?

by Joana Pascoal / November 23, 2017

Reading Time: 3 minutes I felt that I had to write about the word “hackers” because this term is commonly misunderstood. First, let’s understand the difference between programmer, hacker, and developer: “A Programmer is someone who can solve problems by manipulating computer code. A Hacker is someone who makes things. In this context, it’s someone who makes things by programming computers. (…) i.e., that you have an idea and you “hack” something…

Digital Marketing Innovation

How is Apple worth twice as more as the competition?

by Joana Pascoal / November 9, 2017

Reading Time: 3 minutes Apple is an amazing and controversial phenomenon. As an Android and Windows user myself, I have several difficulties trying to understand how people can buy such expensive products. And I’m not only referring to rich people, but to everyone, even the people that are counting the pennies to get to the end of the month. …

Psychology

Can we slow down or speed up time whenever we want?

by Joana Pascoal / August 31, 2017

Reading Time: 2 minutes What is time perception? This topic is a social problem, everyone has their own perception of time. If I ask a few random people about the perception of their week, some of them will answer that the week was too long, a few guys will tell me that it was normal and others will say that it went by too fast. But everyone knows that a week…

Software Development

The first software developer is as old as the first thinking person

by Joana Pascoal / July 6, 2017

Reading Time: 3 minutes When I talk with some people about software development, I have the feeling that they look at it as some sort of dark magic. The kind of thing that somehow puts the world in motion, without anyone completely understanding how it works. Like all magic, usually, only the magician knows the tricks behind what ordinary people see. In this case, the trick is nothing else than a…

Software Development

Developing software as if you are shaping ideas on clay

by Joana Pascoal / June 1, 2017

Reading Time: 3 minutes There’s a pattern when we’re speaking about new projects. First, they always mean new challenges. And, second, they usually come from someone who has this great idea, but who can’t fully define what the product is or how it will work. More importantly, this person believes that you’re the right person to materialize what she envisioned and that’s how things start getting a shape. At the beginning,…