it's not as hard as you think formerly coderoom.wordpress.com On September 19th, I said goodbye to my trusty MacBook Pro and started developing exclusively on an iPad + Linode 512. This is the surprising story of a month spent working in the cloud. It all started when I bought my first MacBook a…

If you are happy with your weight you can skip this post. Normal programming will be resumed soon. We all know how to lose weight: eat less and move more. So why do so few people succeed? You only have to spend a few minutes walking around any wealthy western country to see that obesity is a huge…

Líder mundial en español Lunes 24/ 10/ 2011 Actualizado 12:35h. CATEGORIA 24 OCT 2011 00:35 No tienen ninguna pinta de ser ciertas las acusaciones del jugador del Sevilla asegurando que Cesc Fàbregas le profirió insultos racistas durante el partido del sábado. Y resulta cada vez más frecuente que en…

Líder mundial en español Martes 25/ 10/ 2011 Actualizado 11:57h. CATEGORIA 25 OCT 2011 23:57 Los que tan contentos parecía con lo que ridículamente se llamó la primavera árabe se escandalizan ahora por el modo en que Gadafi ha sido asesinado. Vergonzosas metáforas y recreaciones con el palo anal.…

To use a metaphor, the development of interchangeable parts in manufacturing followed the development of the things being built. In other words, people didn't sit around trying to think of the right way to make screws and tools before they built guns and cotton gins. Likewise perhaps with software -…

I received a very thought-provoking email from Elizabeth recently: I think you’re spot on about hard work, and it’s too often overlooked. But I also think about the changing value of hard work, too. Is hard work worth less now than it used to be? The amount of work we ‘have’ to do to get by or do…

Pinboard Blog The Fans Are All Right I've had a couple of emails and tweets asking somewhat cautiously why the popular page has filled with slash fiction. That's because the fans are coming! I learned a lot about fandom couple of years ago in conversations with my friend Britta, who was working at…

Una de las cosas más cargantes de la crisis económica en España es que no hay ningún motivo por el que debamos estar así. Por mucho que la eurozona parezca estar dirigida por sociópatas incapaces de reconocer errores, por mucho que nuestra clase política a veces parezca tener las mismas virtudes que…

Martes, 8/11/2011, 23:16 h CÉSAR MOLINAS 23/10/2011 Propongo en este artículo un balance in itinere de la crisis española, más orientado a la discusión del futuro que al análisis de las causas. No voy a entrar en el terreno internacional salvo cuando sea estrictamente necesario, porque la crisis…

21 Oct When talking about this announcement with people, I get the impression that most people don’t really understand or use gReader’s social features, so I can see how this wouldn’t seem like a big deal. For me, this is the destruction of the only online space I truly give a shit about. (Sorry…

A nerd needs a project because a nerd builds stuff. All the time. Those lulls in the conversation over dinner? That’s the nerd working on his project in his head. It’s unlikely that this project is a nerd’s day job because his opinion regarding his job is, “Been there, done that”. We’ll explore the…

The Siri application released with the iPhone 4s has the potential to radically impact how we interact with technology. Ed Wrenbeck, former lead developer from Siri, talks through his history with the app… On March 24th, 2008 I first talked with my friend Darren about a new venture he was involved…

“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.” – Henry David Thoreau in Walden Please forgive the repetition, but this has been on my mind lately. Namely, what are my three chairs? Is three chairs a reasonable and good sensible default for ones own…

I sat down last night to write about Steve Jobs’ resignation as Apple CEO and something funny happened: I had nothing to say. This is not normal for me. I don’t get writer’s block. I often write thousands of words about what many would consider the minutia of tech. And yet, when it came to writing…

Excerpts from an Oral History Interview with Steve Jobs Founder, NeXT Computer. Interviewer: Daniel Morrow, Executive Director, The Computerworld Smithsonian Awards ProgramDate of Interview: 20 April 1995 Location: NeXT Computer Transcript Editor: Thomas J. Campanella, Computerworld Smithsonian…

One wouldn’t have to have read this website for very long to know that Steve Jobs, the former CEO of Apple and Pixar, is one of the people in this world I admire (in fact, I even mentioned him in the reader mailbag this morning). Earlier today, when I learned that he had passed away from cancer at…

by Luis Garicano on 06/10/2011 Muchos países industriales avanzados han implementado programas de reformas similares al que España tendrá que implementar a partir del comienzo del año que viene. Algunas pinceladas aquí sobre las dos formas de implementar grandes programas de reforma—con y sin…

Our days are filled with small, unused pockets of time during which most of us turn to smartphones for a short shot of Sudoku, bird-on-pig warfare, or some other brief distraction. Designer Stefan Pintaric fills those precious seconds with tiny but rewarding tasks that ultimately make him feel less…

(A PDF of this article can be purchased through SAGE for your tablet or mobile device.) By Neal Stephenson My lifespan encompasses the era when the United States of America was capable of launching human beings into space. Some of my earliest memories are of sitting on a braided rug before a hulking…

A few days ago, I wrote “24 Hours of Training Per Day” – my goal is to gradually build it so that all of my life is spent devoted to the things that are most important and valuable to me. That doesn’t mean having no fun, because fun is important. That doesn’t mean no relaxing, because relaxing is…

August 11th, 2011. Chiba, Japan. A mix of confusion and awe as I step off the platform. I must have made a mistake. But maybe a good mistake. Birds caw and cicadas click gently, filling the warm afternoon air with sounds of nature. The train platform is open to the air and on the other side of the…

I sense a theme. I've been reading a lot of blog posts, and comments to same, that highlight the seemingly intractable quality of current world problems. This recent post by Steelweaver is a great example. So are a lot of the comments to my previous "Beyond Prediction" post. Steelweaver in…

What is horror? I can't give you an absolute definition of the term because, like all abstractions, the term 'horror' is experienced differently by different people. What I can say is that in general it is a strong emotion, usually accompanied by disgust, distress, and aversion: that it frequently…

Personal finance blogger J.D. Roth explains how his love of games has translated into an effective motivator for better money management: I am a gamer. All my life, I've been a fan of games of all sorts. I've played Dungeons and Dragons since I was in the third grade. When we were younger, my wife…

El problema de la supervivencia. Ahora que la izquierda en España, con la abstención, IU y el 15M a la cabeza va hacia el desastre electoral inevitable, algo que sería legítimo preguntarse es si la socialdemocracia, como cuerpo ideológico, puede sobrevivir. La pregunta no es absurda y la respuesta…

by Silverhydra on September 2, 2011 in Nutrition, Supplementation A fat burning stack that is already in your home: A while ago I ran my Supplements already in your Kitchen article in which I described how to use food-stuffs to achieve supplement like effects. It was incredibly well-recieved…

Probably every musical piece out there is a matter of experimenting, but the Swedish band Meshuggah has been really pushing the boundaries of experiments and has offered a very genuine extreme metal since their 1991 release called Contradictions collapse. 5 more studio releases and 20 years later I…

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:…

Llevo cerca de una semana leyendo, en relación con la reforma de la Constitución, declaraciones que ponen de manifiesto que hay una cantidad de gente bastante importante, en muchos casos bastante bien formada, que no entiende la crisis española en lo más elemental. En este post voy a intentar dar…

Líder mundial en español Lunes 05/ 09/ 2011 Actualizado 12:53h. » CATEGORIA 05 SEP 2011 00:53 Las sociedades avanzadas tienen siempre una cuota de chiflados que se creen más auténticos por oponerse a las evidencias del progreso. Cuando esta cuota crece y se expande, y participa en el debate público…

He tardado dos años en formarme una opinión sobre la crisis. No sé si es nueva, no sé si es buena. Pero sé que aquí no se suele hablar de ella. En este problema y en todos señalamos culpables con demasiada facilidad. He probado a autoimponerme algo de sentido común. No sé si lo he conseguido.…

How to Disappear Joseph Michael Lopez for The New York Times Published: July 17, 2011 IT'S starting to look likely - given news reports about her interest in fake names and disguises - that if Casey Anthony gets out of jail as scheduled this weekend, she will do her best to avoid the public eye and…

The Deep Procrastination Crisis Above is a snapshot of my blog e-mail inbox, filtered to only show e-mails from students struggling with deep procrastination. Notice that there are close to 60 such messages. If I include blog comments in the search, the number jumps into the hundreds. Deep…

The idea that excessive food reward/palatability contributes to fat gain, besides being well supported by scientific evidence, is also very intuitive. It's not the kind of idea that will draw strange looks from the person sitting next to you on the bus. If you take a careful look at the diets of…

(Este artículo fue originalmente escrito el 10 de julio de 2011, basándome en mis experiencias hasta la fecha. Las condiciones de las cuentas eran las que describo hasta esa fecha, pero no puedo asegurar que se mantengan. De momento, todos los bancos por Internet se han mantenido sin comisiones,…

Got a long email from a reader with some great questions – he’s a very impressive dude, but he has a hard time sticking with something for more than 1.5 to 3 years. If you have this trait as well, you might want to pay close attention to this post And I have a real problem “falling in line” with the…

Of all the dangerous ideas that health officials could have embraced while trying to understand why we get fat, they would have been hard-pressed to find one ultimately more damaging than calories-in/calories-out. That it reinforces what appears to be so obvious—obesity as the penalty for gluttony…

It occured to me a couple of days ago that I've been a full-time self-employed writer for over eight years now; and with a couple of exceptions, every company I ever worked for before then has gone bust (and as far as those exceptions go, I believe a statute of limitations probably applies by now).…

Links: A new steampunk manifesto. Wow, steampunk is a LOT older than Viridian, and look how lively steampunk is now. This implies a Viridian revival someday – "Neo-Viridian," "retroviridian"... "greenpunk" even. Lo, it was ever thus.http://gogbot.nl.vedor.com/thema/ Recent events have clearly…

Posted on September 20, 2010. I’m a programmer. I work with text files for 6-12 hours every weekday so I care about the text editor I use. If switching to a different editor can increase my efficiency by even 10% it would save a good chunk of my time and let me get back to making cool things. I…