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Reuters article: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-facebook-whatsapp-i...

Malaga? I visit every year, and last time I checked there was only Ericsson, Siemens and a group at the university doing human centred robotics... A quick online search leads me to the MalagaMakers meetup (which unfortunately has been quiet since January) and a few small tech companies. Do you know of any hubs or interesting companies there?

I certainly noticed the city becoming a bit more modern in recent years, with the whole SoHo thing and the Pompidou, but it generally always seems to be aimed towards boosting tourism. I'm really happy to hear that there's something else going on [:

This is a phenomenal initiative for libraries using browser-accessible catalogues, but I wonder if it can be used with non-browser catalogue programs like absysNET...

My mom works in a library which uses an Oracle-based catalog, not in a web browser, called absysNET (OPAC). Would it be possible to run this on the RPi?

Repetitive manual labour seems as good a proxy as any for productivity. It would be nigh on impossible to find such a robust index for software development work, but other modern professions, particularly repetitive ones, e.g. administrative positions, may be an interesting population to study today.

Software specifically is too variable to accurately measure productivity. It's too subjective. Not only from a personal point of view, but also dependent on the task. Given the tendency towards automating the boring tasks, it seems that conducting such a study in the software development world becomes less and less likely.