Counterpoint: Just Being Alive Is Not Good Enough

Counterpoint: just being alive is not good enough.

Being Agile is not Enough

Agile Approaches arose in the world of software development. Frequent releases provide early feedback with respect to requirements, technology and business value. Focused and empowered teams deliver huge amounts of software with very high quality. Transferring these concepts to the world of embedded development, the greatest challenge are frequent releases due to the interdependency of requirem...

MINDFULNESS IN PRACTICE Some Reflections on Being Good, on not Being Good and on Just Being

Some Reflections on Being Good, on not Being Good and on Just Being

Over the last 12 years, through my work at the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice (CMRP) at Bangor University, I have been engaged with colleagues (both within CMRP and from other training centres in the UK) in an exploration of how to support the development of a robust professional practice context for our own teaching team and for the growing community of mindfulness-based teachers...

Being Fat and Friendly is Not Enough

We show that there is no (1 + ε)-approximation algorithm for the problem of covering points in the plane by minimum number of fat triangles of similar size (with the minimum angle of the triangles being close to 45 degrees). Here, the available triangles are prespecified in advance. Since a constant factor approximation algorithm is known for this problem [CV07], this settles the approximabilit...