Last week, I launched The Toolbox, a directory of useful one-page sites and apps. It got upvoted a lot on Hacker News, then went viral on Twitter, and got about 11k visitors on the day of the launch. Since then, I’ve had a couple people ask me why I launched that site, and what kind of tools I used…

Posted by javier ramirez on July 3, 2012 disclaimer for my international readers: this post is part of an ongoing conversation between different Spanish actors, so excuse my French ;) Hay que ver la de trabajo que me dáis. Os da por escribir un par de posts, llega el otro y os reta a que lo…

Yo nací cuando existía un montón de gente que odiaba el fútbol. Crecí en el tardofranquismo y la Transición —que transitaba hacia esto, aunque entonces no podíamos saberlo—, y todavía una gran parte de la intelligentsia consideraba y decía abiertamente que el fútbol —y los toros, claro— eran el…

Una hipótesis provocadora, tal vez equivocada: los actuales años de crisis –los que llevamos y los que están por venir– van a transformar la estructura social, cultural, económica, mediática y política de España del mismo modo en que lo hizo la Transición. Al igual que el lustro entre 1975 y 1980…

Way back in 1997, when dinosaurs roamed the earth and I was working part-time at the local Babbage's for $4.25 an hour, I scraped together enough spare change to purchase a 3Dfx Voodoo-based Diamond Monster 3D video card. The era of 3D acceleration was in its infancy and the Voodoo chipset was the…

When was the last time you really zenned out on a pinball machine? You know what I'm talking about: that transcendent state of consciousness in which you're no longer carefully calculating what to do and when to do it. You're completely oblivious to everything except the ricocheting silver ball.…

You know Spaniards are depressed when Coca-Cola broadcasts a television commercial encouraging citizens to “go get ’em.” The spot cuts away from foreign commentators predicting Spain’s imminent collapse to showcase the country’s strengths: engineers, high-speed trains, and, of course, soccer. In the…

A Speech from the Trampoline Hall Lecture Series 1 I wonder why I am up here on this stage when I’d rather be at home, when being at home would be so much more comforting. And I wonder why all of you are sitting there in the audience, when so many of you would also be happier at home. At home, you…

is a writer, designer, and entrepreneur in Brooklyn. One of the better spots to enjoy a bowl of ramen noodles here in New York is Minca, in the East Village. Minca is the kind of place just out of the way enough that as you’re about to get there, you start wondering if you’ve already passed it. A…

O man, take care! What does the deep midnight declare? “I was asleep— From a deep dream I woke and swear:— The world is deep, Deeper than day had been aware. Deep is its woe— Joy—deeper yet than agony: Woe implores: Go! But all joy wants eternity— Wants deep, wants deep eternity.” –Nietzsche,…

In the history of computer games some games have created and carried whole companies on their shoulders. One of those games is certainly Mario Bros. The Mario character first appeared in the game Donkey Kong and became very famous within its own game series starting with the original Mario Bros. in…

Arrastra la flechaa la barra de Windows y accede directamente a 20minutos.esCerrar Dos años después de que Grecia se convirtiese en el primer país de la zona euro en ser rescatado para evitar su bancarrota, los tres países intervenidos hasta ahora (la propia Grecia, Irlanda y Portugal) siguen…

We do this software development thing. I don’t have to tell you at times, it’s a very trying process. You shouldn’t have to deal with tools that get in your way or make your experience any less pleasurable. Okay. So you got the fancy chair. How about that little black box you type in everyday? Is it…

Sábado 9 de junio de 2012 El presidente George W. Bush quería más opciones. En 2006 Irán había retomado el enriquecimiento de uranio en la planta de Natanz (en la foto). Estados Unidos solo tenía dos opciones: permitir la hipotética bomba nuclear iraní o impedirla con un ataque militar. Bush quería…

The Flame espionage malware that infected computers in Iran achieved mathematics breakthroughs that could only have been accomplished by world-class cryptographers, two of the world's foremost cryptography experts said. "We have confirmed that Flame uses a yet unknown MD5 chosen-prefix collision…

Photo: stock photo By Scott Young How to complete a full workday by noon? Sounds impossible, right? But on many days, by 12 o’clock, I have completed work that should normally take eight hours. And I don’t wake up at 4 a.m. to achieve this. Actually, finishing everything by noon isn’t too difficult.…

A couple of years ago, I decided to wear the same outfit all of the time. I realized that shopping, and then deciding what to wear every day, was taking up too much time and energy. It’s not that I dislike fashion: I love high couture, but I’m no Daphne Guinness; I enjoy fashion as an art form, but…

Testing is an essential aspect of developing in any programming language. If you don’t test your source code then how can you verify it works as expected? Manual testing can only be performed irregularly and usually only in limited ways. The answer to testing source code regularly, and in depth, is…

Últimamente me han llegado muchas preguntas sobre la creación de empresas en UK, así que mientras terminamos de cerrar los últimos flecos al servicio que estamos preparando para ayudar a quien esté interesado a crear la empresa y a cumplir con las obligaciones legales inglesas, os explico de manera…

The electric light was a failure. Invented by the British chemist Humphry Davy in the early 1800s, it spent nearly 80 years being passed from one initially hopeful researcher to another, like some not-quite-housebroken puppy. In 1879, Thomas Edison finally figured out how to make an incandescent…

21 ago Posted 21 agosto, 2010 by 2meperezg in Cultivo de Hortalizas, Lechugas, Recolectar, Semillas. Etiquetado:crecimiento sostenible, lechuga, produccion ecologica, recoleccion, semillas. 6 comentarios Lechuga en el punto central de su ciclo Iniciar un huerto supone normalmente la necesidad de…

This morning, my alarm sounded at precisely 5:50am. Within a few minutes, I was up and had my running shoes, shorts and a t-shirt on. Minutes later at 6am, I opened my MacBook Air, switched to the desktop with TextMate open and got coding. I worked for just under one hour on some important new…

Neal Stephenson talking at the Boulder Book Store at his signing of Anathem. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Noted writer Neal Stephenson has argued that contemporary science fiction is too focused on nihilism and apocalyptic scenarios. The current crop of such works, such as the Walking Dead, are…

Every so often, I hit what I call a “valley” on my road to financial freedom. It’s usually during a period where I’m between two goals. I achieved something a while ago and the glow from that has worn off, but the next milestone is still pretty far off. It’s also usually when I’m going through a…

ahmetalpbalkan a computer engineering student. Theme © by RSS. Fork it. Apr 15th, 2012 / All About Software. I see many people around me who can’t do anything productive in most days. That’s a common problem that we all sometimes feel drowned by having lots of things to but actually doing nothing.…

Image credit: Jake Stangel Like many wealthy people, Jonathan Blow vividly remembers the moment he became rich. At the time, in late 2008, he was $40,000 in debt and living in a modest San Francisco apartment, having just spent more than three years meticulously refining his video game, Braid—an…

Posted by John Goulah | Filed under engineering, infrastructure At Etsy we have one hard and fast rule for new Engineers on their first day: deploy to production. We’ve talked a lot in the past about our deployment, metrics, and testing processes. But how does the development environment facilitate…

Para la gente aventurera, los chic@s de AndroidForos ha publicado un excelente tutorial para instalar Android ICS en nuestros Galaxy S. Es un manual bien estructurado y detallado, así que merece la pena y su lectura. Y si os sentís intrépidos, por qué no, podéis probarlo Pulsa aquí para leer el…

Lifehacker reader Gabriel Wyner was tasked with learning four languages in the past few years for his career as an opera singer, and in the process landed on "a pretty damn good method for language learning that you can do in limited amounts of spare time." Here's the four-step method that you can…

Emulators for playing older games are immensely popular online, with regular arguments breaking out over which emulator is best for which game. Today we present another point of view from a gentleman who has created the Super Nintendo emulator bsnes. He wants to share his thoughts on the most…

There’s been lots of buzz on the topic of whether or not you should learn to code. As an engineer, I don’t have unbiased thoughts on the matter. I tweeted Jeff Atwood’s piece because, well, I agree that it’s pretty silly to think that the world is going to be a better place if the Mayor of New York…

Difundir la creatividad y la innovación para la gestión de organizaciones sociales, emprendimientos y Pymes. Manuel Gross Osses (Quilpué, Chile). Top One en Buzzear.net Chile Feed RSS: http://manuelgross.bligoo.com/rss/node "No permitas que te roben las ideas. Regálalas!" Sir Ken Robinson Había que…

April 25th, 2012 | guest informant Dr Debbie Chachra is a materials scientist: an engineering professor at the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering (Deb’s bio at Olin), and a prolific writer. She also produces one of my favourite tumblrs, Daily Idioms. Basically, I learn something every time Deb…

I spent my entire high school, college and post-college years being slightly ashamed of my body. I finally decided enough was enough and I was going to do something about it. In this post I’ll walk you through how I lost 10% body fat and gained lean mass. All while raising kids (1 year and 3 year…

Last night at PandoMonthly (Brilliant! Inspiring! etc), Peter Thiel discussed the challenge of innovating as opposed to competing. He has talked before about Silicon Valley focusing too much on 140 characters and not enough on flying cars, which is an awesome thought. But I think we can go one…

Ese nombramiento curioso en Renfe que mencioné hace unas semanas parece que no era un farol: hay cosas que están cambiando en Renfe. Dos grandes cambios esta misma semana: 1. Nueva política de precios: Llevo siglos quejándome de la política comercial de Renfe. La estructura de precios de la…

View Photo Gallery: Meet the Route 29 Batman. Police pulled a man over on Route 29 in Silver Spring last week because of a problem with his plates. This would not ordinarily make international news, but the car was a black Lamborghini, the license plate was the Batman symbol, and the driver was…

Here's my talk from Webstock last month (a conference I loved): I will say humbly that it's a good talk on important subjects I've been thinking about for the past several years, but I should explain my sheepish, low-energy delivery. My slot was mid-afternoon, and all morning was spent watching one…

For as much as I am fascinated by the societal and political implications of bitcoin, I must admit that I am equally fascinated by the implications of Brainwallet. Quite simply, a brainwallet, or thoughtcoin, refers to the concept of storing bitcoin in one’s own mind by memorization of a special and…

At the end of it all, Borderlands is well presented, but get under the {incomprehensible mumble} polish, it's just a dull, spare, nuts-and-bolts shooter with some unnecessarily good writing bridging the slow process of watching numbers steadily increase. A game for the kind of person who takes…