Jazz. It’s the music that many men say they like, but don’t actually know anything about. Which is a shame for a whole host of reasons. For starters, jazz has had a major influence on most popular music genres in the 20 th century — rock, hip-hop, Latin…the list goes on and on. Having an…

I promise this is about Star Trek. Sort of. Bear with me a moment. I’ve been reading a lot about robots lately. When I read about robots, and the future, I can’t help but think about it in economic terms. And that inevitably turns my mind to the branch of economics called post scarcity economics.…

Why does it seem that American society is in decline, that fairness and decorum are receding, that socialism and tyranny are becoming malignant despite the majority of the public being averse to such philosophies, yet the true root cause seems elusive?  What if everything from unsustainable health…

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Update: thank you for voting my post to the main page of HackerNews . I was totally overwhelmed by the traffic volumes which led to my server crashing. I will be moving my blog to a better host to prevent further outages. Thank you for the support guys, you rock!  Missing the big idea to make some…

S Every week we highlight how some of our favorite life-hacking heroes work, but now it’s our turn to spill the productivity beans about our own habits and gear. I’m Andy, the newest on the Lifehacker roster, and I spend my days helping the team find stories, sweeping up mistakes, and following…

There’s that project you’ve left on the backburner – the one with the deadline that’s growing uncomfortably near. And there’s the client whose phone call you really should return – the one that does nothing but complain and eat up your valuable time. Wait, weren’t you going to try to go to the gym…

So here I am again, in a mild funk. My sleep patterns are looking like the plot from a random number generator; I don't want to talk to anybody, and I try to get through the day using as few words as possible; I don't really want to do anything, though I keep forcing myself to spit out just enough…

This article assumes a basic level of technical proficiency, and some degree of familiarity with the hardware used. I recently purchased a Raspberry Pi because it’s about the coolest thing I can think of for under $40.  It’s great for little projects because you can use it to solve very easy…

Todavía tenemos frescas las dos últimas guías para el pecero informado, el buen pecero, el pecero que se preocupa por su bienestar: la de y la de , en ese orden, ambas utilísimas e imprescindibles. Pero, ¡ah!, no sólo de componentes vive el pecero: una omisión voluntaria en esas guías eran los…

Kingsley amis Kingsley, el cigarro y la botella. / TERENCE DONOVAN   En estos tiempos de corrección política, en los que cualquier opinión, ironía o broma puede escandalizar a un montón de necios carentes de sentido del humor, leer a un personaje como Kingsley Amis es como beber un trago de agua…

Plots are funny things. In the real world, stuff is always happening, but it’s not a plot. People live. People die. People are made glorious or miserable. Things eagerly awaited are realized, or hopes are cruelly dashed. Love is gained; love is lost. But all these things are not a plot – they lack…

The need to resize and crop images in order to create thumbs, is a very common scenario for most websites. For example a blog like this one uses images in the content of the posts, images which at some point are used to create a thumb for the homepage. In most cases, the thumb’s dimensions are not…

Long Tail en los Medios Ejemplo de microrred en vecindario Camiseta "Vuestro fallido modelo de negocio no es mi problema" Mercado Eléctrico Tagged almacenamiento , baterias , electricas , larga cola , microgrids , microrredes , modelo negocio , solar , solarcitiy , tesla

todo list Note: I was introduced to this idea somewhere on Hacker News  a few weeks back, though I haven’t been able to find the exact discussion again [1] . I adapted the original concept to fit my own style, and it’s changed the way I approach my work. Uber Productivity – How To Knock Out More…

I feel like I’m practically the poster child for the “passionate programmer”. I code for fun, always have. I’m like the stereotype of the guy who’d be programming even if it didn’t pay. I play with new programming languages for the sheer hell of it. I write and speak about the joy of coding, and…

In 2006, I woke up in the ICU, blood pouring down one arm from a line the doctor was desperately trying to get in my arm. He was down on one knee, like he was going to propose, my arm flung out in front of him. "I'm sorry," he said, "I'm sorry. I'm sorry." He kept saying it. Over and over. My…

Say hi to Lucy. Lucy is part of Generation Y, the generation born between the late 1970s and the mid 1990s. She’s also part of a yuppie culture that makes up a large portion of Gen Y. I have a term for yuppies in the Gen Y age group—I call them Gen Y Protagonists & Special Yuppies, or GYPSYs. A…

The production pipeline at a major publisher runs on a 12 month production cycle (with quarterly or thrice-annual batches of new material being pushed out to the marketing/sales force), but finding a slot for a new author can take longer—my first sale to Ace was followed by book slots at 12 month…

Tags: Autónomos Freelance Hace unos meses publiqué en estas páginas No disparen al freelance . La cálida acogida de aquél artículo me sirvió para constatar que son muchos los lectores de Yorokobu que son autónomos, o freelances, que casi viene a ser lo mismo. Pero la cosa se ha puesto mucho peor…

Protesters march against healthcare reform in the US Why on Earth would a working-class person ever vote for a conservative candidate? This question has obsessed the American left since Ronald Reagan first captured the votes of so many union members, farmers, urban Catholics and other relatively…

Foto de Arturo Pérez-Reverte No deja de tener su guasa, oigan. Y les explico por qué. Desde hace unos meses, a retales, hago en esta página una especie de resumen gamberro de la historia de España, desde que la llamaban Ispahan o tierra de conejos. La idea no es otra que pasarlo bien recordando…

When I stopped smoking weed, my appetite shrivelled and my head throbbed — but it was the dreams that really shook me.

Like all currency systems, Bitcoin comes with an implicit political agenda attached. Decisions we take about how to manage money, taxation, and the economy have consequences: by its consequences you may judge a finance system. Our current global system is pretty crap, but I submit that Bitcoin is…

Ayer en Twitter se forjó un debate interesante  inciado por Christian Soronellas, sobre este tema, concretamente sobre el cobrar por desarrollar productos y componentes de software para otros desarrolladores. twit_chr Esto me hizo recordar que, en el sitio web de Symfony en Español, Javier…

As the 1980s came to a close, a curious thing happened to American consumers: they began to really understand what the word “upgrade” meant. This realization occurred thanks to a magical fusion of technological advancement and capitalistic opportunity: the video game console. In the future-world of…

When I am in a foul mood, I have a surefire way to improve my outlook – I build something. A foul mood is a stubborn beast and it does not give ground easily. It is an effort to simply get past the foulness in order to start building, but once the building has begun, the foul beast loses ground. I…

I’ve had my Caps Lock key remapped to an escape key for some time now. I’ve become quite used to it — to the point where using other people’s keyboards is inconvenient. Given that I’ve already ruined my muscle memory, I figured I’d take it a step further. The end result is that hitting my Caps Lock…

This is Jack: Jack and Today are dating. The relationship is going all right and Jack's reasonably happy, but for a while now, Jack has known that the Today he's with is not the one . Sure, he and Today have fun sometimes, but all too often, Jack feels like he's dating a mundane Wednesday, and…

Samsung Galaxy S, Rom Android 4.4 Kit Kat by Mokee Ya tenemos aquí un nuevo trabajo basado en la última versión de Android para el legendario e incombustible Samsung Galaxy S modelo GT-I9000 , un terminal de rabiosa actualidad, ¡por mucho que le pese a Samsung !, gracias a la grandiosa comunidad…

Courtesy of Archie’s Press Archie Archambault was a philosophy major who moved to Portland, Ore., in 2009 after college and found himself getting lost. For all their practical uses, Google maps didn’t seem to really give him a local’s sense of neighborhoods, or how to navigate the city as a whole,…

8th October 2011 from Twitlonger For the people who ask me if I ever get emails from psychopaths: message: Dear Jon, I just saw your interview on Australia's ABC 7:30 report on 'The Psychopath Test' and wanted to share my experience. I hope that it can remain confidential for the time being, seeing…

The Wire creator David Simon in Baltimore David Simon, creator of The Wire, near his office in Baltimore. Photograph: Stephen Voss/Redux / eyevine America is a country that is now utterly divided when it comes to its society, its economy, its politics. There are definitely two Americas. I live in…

the action of delaying or postponing something: your first tip is to avoid procrastination . Who would have thought that after decades of struggle with procrastination, the dictionary, of all places, would hold the solution. Avoid procrastination. So elegant in its simplicity. While we're here,…

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Anoche me acosté siguiendo las noticias de las reacciones y movilizaciones contra la nueva Ley del Aborto (aún no votada en el Parlamento) y hoy me he levantado viendo El Chico de Chaplin; aparentemente son dos hechos aislados que, en una sociedad educada para estar poco educada, poco o nada…

Ahorrando que es gerundio. / DANI JIMÉNEZ   Llevamos ya un par de semanas en las que –si no lees las noticias– parece que ya no estamos en crisis. Las tiendas están llenas otra vez; se habla de foie , de jamón, de langostas, de vinos y licores caros, y el ¡ Hola! vuelve a sacar sus reportajes de lo…

Posted on December 17, 2013 by Juliusz Kopczewski Today, we are happy to announce FastCGI support for HHVM. FastCGI is a popular protocol for communication between an application server (e.g. running your PHP code) and a webserver. With support for FastCGI, you will be able to run HHVM behind any…

¿Están las grandes ciudades españolas en el lugar geográfico adecuado? ¿Es la situación central de Madrid un problema? ¿Estuvo Castilla condenada al atraso por vivir lejos del agua? Estas son viejas preguntas en la historia de España, y que a menudo acaban siendo respondidas o bien con teorías de…