XKCD's "Nerd Sniping" is the epitome of rabbit holing I recently decided practice my algorithms skills everyday by working through Skiena's Algorithm Design Manual and doing some Interview Street problems. To make it somewhat more interesting I decided to do all the exercises and problems in…

TODA persona que pretenda trabajar en España debe saber qué es lo que tiene que hacer en la típica situación de "encerrona". Sobre todo debe saber lo que NO tiene que hacer. Debéis estar preparados y ahora más que nunca. Aunque vuestro jefe no sea un empresaurio hispánico y la empresa donde…

Madrid capital. Todo comienza una mañana con la llamada telefónica de una consultora. Días atrás, habíamos estado mirando ofertas en Infojobs y una nos llamó la atención: buscaban programadores en PHP y MySQL, con conocimientos medios de Javascript y CSS; valoraban usabilidad, accesibilidad y el uso…

ScummVM was born on September 17, 2001, at 5:57pm GMT+1. The program was meant as an interpreter that could play classic LucasArts point-and-click adventure games such as Monkey Island, Sam & Max Hit the Road, and Day of the Tentacle in a virtual machine (VM). As for the name, "SCUMM" was the…

alización funciona en los dos sentidos. Aquí podemos estar meses debatiendo sobre la reforma laboral y anunciando mil y un planes de apoyo a emprendedores, que mientras las condiciones para que un tipo con una idea pueda ponerla en marcha sean tan radicalmente diferentes,

Got crap? Want money instead? Amazon has a neat program that essentially lets you dump old books, movies, gadgets, and more in a box, send it to them, and then wait for the money to roll in. Here's how you can start using it and sell your stuff in no time. The name of the program is Fulfillment by…

Brace yourselves, what follows is an amazingly long blog post about Star Wars. I’ve already discussed how I’m not a huge fan of the various modifications made to the original Star Wars trilogy, so it’s reasonable to assume I’m not a big fan of the prequel trilogy either. There are many people who…

I hadn’t intended on writ­ing today, but I received noti­fi­ca­tion of a post by Stephen P. Smith that com­ments on a recent post of mine, The Web Worker’s Dilemma. After read­ing his post, Of Tan­gi­ble Cre­ations and the Trans­fer of Exper­tise (which I highly encour­age you to read), I felt…

One person always seems to be pining after the other, resulting in imagined threats and pangs of jealousy. But maybe that makes things better. On one very ironic Valentine's Day in 1971, my father married my mother, knowing she was in love with another. Growing up, I watched him long for her, while…

When I was growing up, cholesterol used to be bad for you. It was easy to remember. Fat, bad. Cholesterol bad. Salt, bad. Everything, bad. Nowadays, though, they differentiate between "good" cholesterol and "bad" cholesterol, as if we're supposed to be able to distinguish them somehow. And it was…

Amy Kennedy says having her own place means living without “social checks and balances.â€Â She runs in place during TV commercials and talks to herself in French. IF there is any doubt that we’re living in the age of the individual, a look at the housing data confirms it. For millenniums, people…

Spain no longer has a ministry of science. In the last days of 2011, its new government transferred national science policy to the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, a duty for which this ministry seems most unsuited. Science was an unwelcome addition that absorbed more than half of the…

Como era de esperar, ya está todo el mundo hablando de la reforma del despido, cuando lo más importante con mucha diferencia es el nuevo "contrato Rajoy" como el tiempo se encargará de demostrar. De hecho es la piedra angular de esta reforma. Es tan importante que por algo se le ha puesto el nombre…

I am not intentionally a business person. Over the course of my career to date I’ve worked at companies of various sizes, and have been situated at commensurately varying distances from the concerns of running a business: funding, sales, forecasting and planning, marketing, payroll, legal matters,…

Hará unos días unos famosos blogueros empezaron una campaña titulada, de forma bastante original, “No les votes”. El argumento de ésta simpática muchachada es... Read more » Cuándo terminó el partido, transido de emoción como casi todo el mundo en el café Comercial, no hacía sino repetir una frase:…

Zurijeta /Shutterstock Every January, millions of Americans, brimming with optimism and a little extra belly from the holidays, commemorate the new year by making an unfamiliar urban trek. They go to the gym. One in eight new members join their fitness club in January, and many gyms see a traffic…

The reason for going to the gym is clear, it always seemed to me. You head there to lose weight, to gain muscle, stay healthy or else. Over time I realised one thing though. There are triggers far more powerful than gaining a bigger biceps to motivate you to go to the gym. In fact, developing a…

by Luis Garicano on 29/01/2012 (Floren Felgueroso estudiaba hace poco el uso del tiempo de los parados y nos contaba que solo un 4-5% de los demandantes de empleo con ESO o menos estaban recibiendo “formación no reglada“ (la que no lleva a un título académico). Este blog de fin de semana, un poco…

January 19, 2012 by MMM in The MMM Blog Exposed! The MMM Family’s 2011 Spending! Leave a Reply

Dear Lifehacker, I went to the gym the other day and did a very difficult (brutal) workout and now my whole body is sore. It's hard to walk and my knees buckle when I go down the stairs. Is there any way to quickly recover from a tough workout? Things I should be eating, stretches to do, or anything…

I was stumbling through my living room the other day, catching my feet on various building blocks, puzzle pieces, and a tangle of fishing line that had previously been used to suspend our homemade space station from the second floor balcony, when the thought occurred to me, “Damn, I sure wish this…

Despite all the stories you’ve heard, the hardest part of working from home isn’t putting on pants every day. I’ve been working from home, a few different homes, since late 2007. And the biggest thing I've learned during those four years is that working from home doesn’t have to change how you get…

Publicado el 16 de December de 2011 12 comentarios Mis expectativas eran realmente bajas: no acabar en una silla de ruedas. Tenía todavía el carné provisional y ya estaba dispuesto a comprarme un coche. Y cuando digo dispuesto quiero decir que venía con las tareas hechas de casa. El mismo mes que me…

If you made New Year resolutions, chances are that if you're not already failing, you will be soon. In the end, most people do. I know I fail. What's worse, you're probably undermining your resolutions and don't even know it. Here's how I put an end to my resolution sabotage. Ladies and gentleman,…

Recently an editor asked me for an essay about arrested adolescence, joking: “Of course, I thought of you.” It is worth mentioning that this editor is an old college friend; we’ve driven across the country, been pantsless in several nonsexual contexts, and accidentally hospitalized each other in…

Nevertheless, the more I read, the more I'm convinced that excessive food reward and/or palatability is the elephant in the room when it comes to obesity and metabolic dysfunction. We live our lives surrounded by foods that are professionally crafted to satisfy our basest gustatory desires-- to…

You've got meetings to attend. Deadlines to meet. Errands to run. It's hard to grow your career and expand your abilities in the midst of your daily grind, but if you don't take the initiative, no one's going to do it for you. Whether you feel like your career development is lagging or you're…

I read an asininely large number of books. I probably open or start 300 to 500 books a year, finish 50, read substantial parts of 50 more, and listen to another 30 to 70 on audio. I tend to “fast read” books – which is where I skim until I hit a particularly good part, and then slow down for…

In an age of open source, custom-fabricated, DIY product design, all you need to conquer the world is a brilliant idea. Photo: Dan Winters The door of a dry-cleaner-size storefront in an industrial park in Wareham, Massachusetts, an hour south of Boston, might not look like a portal to the future of…

EVER since I moved three years ago to Portland, Ore., that hotbed of all things hipster, I’ve been trying to get a handle on today’s youth culture. The style is easy enough to describe — the skinny pants, the retro hats, the wall-to-wall tattoos. But style is superficial. The question is, what’s…

So you've decided to work from home. As a rookie veteran of working without a traditional office for one year I'm here to tell you that it is the greatest and worst thing that can happen to your work life other—much like being transferred to a glitter-packing facility. What follows is a quick two…

Time is a precious, limited resource, so we're always looking for ways to make the most of it. Just as you should spend your money where you spend the most time, you can manage your time more efficiently by looking at the real impact of your activities. Jason called his money prioritizing strategy…

This article is divided into two parts: a manual and a scenario. The first part, the manual, is an exposition of the game Dungeons & Dragons: what it is, how it’s played, how it came to be, and how it came to be popular, at least, in certain circles. If you once played D&D yourself (no need to admit…

Interviewed by David Wallace-Wells Get more interviews like this—plus fiction, poetry, art, and more—and subscribe to The Paris Review today! Vancouver, British Columbia, sits just on the far side of the American border, a green-glass model city set in the dish of the North Shore Mountains, which…

Not long after Steve Jobs got married, in 1991, he moved with his wife to a nineteen-thirties, Cotswolds-style house in old Palo Alto. Jobs always found it difficult to furnish the places where he lived. His previous house had only a mattress, a table, and chairs. He needed things to be perfect, and…

Here's the money quote from the article: "My passion has been to build an enduring company where people were motivated to make great products," Jobs told Isaacson. "[T]he products, not the profits, were the motivation. Sculley flipped these priorities to where the goal was to make money. It's a…

By Adam Satariano and Peter Burrows About five years ago, Apple design guru Jony Ive decided he wanted a new feature for the next MacBook: a small dot of green light above the screen, shining through the computer’s aluminum casing to indicate when its camera was on. The problem? It’s physically…

by Silverhydra on November 4, 2011 in Physiology, Random Its like a Marketing Gimmick; except no payment needed Imagine if you could eat until you are full and not gain any weight at large meals like Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner, and at no cost to you at all! How could you do this? How does the…

Martes, 8/11/2011 Estás en: PAUL KENNEDY 03/11/2011 Un parteaguas es una línea divisoria de aguas, un límite entre dos zonas en las que las aguas caen en direcciones opuestas. La palabra puede emplearse también para describir un fenómeno histórico y político: un hito, un momento trascendental, el…

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Patrick in Uncategorized If there was one course I could add to every engineering education, it wouldn’t involve compilers or gates or time complexity. It would be Realities Of Your Industry 101, because we don’t teach them and this results in lots of unnecessary pain…