An Agalmics Logo Thanks to all who have commented thus far. The comments from working economists and sociologists were of particular interest, and I can see that they are going to produce some changes in the essay. In particular, gentle reader, realize as you read that I do not consider agalmias to…

Students protest tuition fee in Montreal The Quebec government sought to stifle student protest with emergency legistlation that included measures banning demonstrations within 50 metres of a college, and changing the route of a protest at short notice. Photograph: Steeve Duguay/AFP/Getty Images The…

The Google car knows every turn. It never gets drowsy or distracted, or wonders who has the right-of-way. Illustration by Harry Campbell. Human beings make terrible drivers. They talk on the phone and run red lights, signal to the left and turn to the right. They drink too much beer and plow into…

Una de las conferencias que tuvimos la oportunidad de seguir en el Mangafest fue la de Estosehunde Studio sobre Ouya .  Estosehunde es un estudio independiente cuyo equipo principal se encuentra afincado en Cádiz pero cuyo equipo completo está distribuido por casi toda la geografía española. La…

In 1990, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi published his famous book about achieving exceptional productivity and concentration, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. The book’s basic idea is a familiar one to most developers: Situate yourself in a quiet room without distractions, work on a compelling…

SExpand How-to guides are our lifeblood here at Lifehacker. We love going through a project step-by-step so you can spend a weekend making something awesome. Here are the most popular how-tos from this year.P This year we discovered how to use Evernote amazingly, turned a Raspberry Pi into an XBMC…

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It's been a while since Google announced PHP support on Google App Engine . This article series will take you through all the necessary steps in getting your app up and running on GAE. For this tutorial, we'll be using PhpStorm which supports GAE projects out of the box, but you can use any IDE of…

Hola a todos, hoy vamos a charlar sobre la patata y casi todos sus tipos comerciales, esa eterna discusión sobre si un tipo de patata es buena para freír , mala para asar o excelente para cocer . Veremos que variedades elegir en el mercado e intentaremos hacer caso de lo que nos cuentan los…

When I do speaking gigs, I open with a few questions to get to know the audience. I’m looking for a couple of key demographic numbers to gauge how much to focus on and tune different themes in any given talk. I ask: Lastly, if the talk has anything to do with leadership, I ask, “How many of you are…

I saw this bouncing around Facebook, and I would like to endorse the underlying philosophy: For those of you still using text-based browsers (hey, remember Lynx?), here we have Buckminster Fuller making a point about work and responsibility in a high-tech society. Namely: maybe people don’t have to…

Un determinado mínimo de voluntad de obediencia es esencial en toda relación de autoridad. Max Weber I Docilidad_1 La noche del 2 de mayo de 2011, un comando de fuerzas especiales del ejército norteamericano daba caza y muerte a Osama Bin Laden. Con esta operación concluía de forma implícita la…

This is the fourth post in my "Beyond" series . The previous three posts focused on re-imagining OOP and questioning some of the core beliefs that we have come to take for granted. This one is going to be slightly different, in that I want to talk about another angle of writing code: the process…

free WordPress setup PSD to WordPress conversion Many designers don’t use it much because it is more intimidating in terms of code, but the functions.php file might just be the most powerful theme file in WordPress. Let’s take a look at some of the possibilities it offers. 1. Change the length of…

Introduction Making your website more performant can require a lot of layers. From setting up a reverse-proxy cache with Varnish to configuring a group of load balancers, there are many well-documented options. What if you're just starting out? What if you have a smaller application? Are there…

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 bowl of noodles at Minca isn’t quite as neatly put…

Ventajas de ser castellano Podríamos haber sido los que rigen los destinos del mundo , que por algo aquí estuvieron la Corona, el mercado paneuropeo de Medina del Campo y Aznar jugando al dominó. Pero preferimos quedarnos en nuestro terruño , en nuestra pequeña patria de la que nos sentimos…

Mrs. MM destroys a portion of our new house in a recent work session. Mrs. MM destroys a portion of our new house in a recent work session. A few weeks ago, the MMM family lost about $12,000. While this might sound like quite a bummer, the event wasn’t upsetting in the least. In fact, the days…

Best of H+: The Reluctant Transhumanist The Reluctant Transhumanist Singularity, 2012: God springs out of a computer to rapture the human race. An enchanted locket transforms a struggling business journalist into a medieval princess. The math-magicians of British Intelligence calculate demons back…

25 October 2013 End Hypocrisy with Leaks Foreign Affairs, November-December 2013 The End of Hypocrisy American Foreign Policy in the Age of Leaks By Henry Farrell and Martha Finnemore From our November/December 2013 Issue The U.S. government seems outraged that people are leaking classified…

Many people teach design patterns as a fundamental step to Object Oriented Programming. They are so universally seen as important that almost every single conference that I have been to has had at least one talk about them. They are quite often used as interview questions to test a candidate's OOP…

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I travelled with Bedouin in the Western Desert of Egypt. When we got a puncture, they used tape and an old inner tube to suck air from three tyres to inflate a fourth. It was the cook who suggested the idea; maybe he was used to making food designed for a few go further. Far from expressing shame at…

Si hay algo que deberíamos haber aprendido de la Gran Recesión es que el tamaño del estado importa. Comparando las reacciones a la crisis y sus efectos en Estados Unidos, Unión Europea y sus estados miembros podemos ver como situaciones iniciales parecidas han dado resultados completamente…

Do you sometimes lie awake worrying that you aren't succeeding fast enough? Are you tortured by younger peers who have global businesses, penned acclaimed books and a string of iron-man medals? Do you count down the years until you can no longer make the 30 under 30 list? Take a deep breath. My 92…

RIGA, Latvia — In a country that was among the hardest hit by the global recession, some young people say that a shattered economy has a bright side: the freedom to invent a living that would never have been worth the risk during flush times. Start-up culture isn’t just for Silicon Valley and New…

Wikileaks llegó y se diluyó. Julian Assange está encerrado en la embajada de Ecuador en Londres. Chelsea Manning -el soldado antes llamado Bradley que pasó los documentos a Wikileaks- estará 35 años en la cárcel. Pero el método de Wikileaks sigue vivo. Edward Snowden hizo lo mismo en 2013 que…

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Video games have always had their own language. They follow certain implied rules and structures that can make deciphering even the most basic mechanics (movement, objectives, camera control) seem absolutely alien to anyone who didn’t grow up with games around the house. This is a shame, because…

Your Google search history probably reveals more about you (for better or worse) than anything else online. Dan Russell studies how exactly we interact with Google search: What makes us click on a result? Why do some people use search far more than others? What qualifies as a successful query? Dan…

What can app developers learn from Candy Crush? Screen Shot 2013-09-29 at 12.28.09 PM  I spent a Saturday afternoon “studying” Candy Crush and taking heaps of screenshots and found the monetization and social features to be fascinating. The game Candy Crush is a lot of fun and really addictive. It’s…

Alt. Please. Stop. Si eres un guitarrista – bajista – batería – cantante. Si tocas en un grupo y eres el clásico tio super rock’n’roll, quiero hablar de ti ... asi que por favor ... Sal. Gracias. Aquí se habla entre chicas. Los hombres, SOBRE TODO MÚSICOS , no están admitidos. Entonces chicas...…

Hijo mío, Mientras escribo esto, todavía no has venido al mundo, no debes nacer hasta mediados de diciembre. En el momento de leer esto serás lo suficientemente mayor como para navegar por Internet y tendrás la edad suficiente para que te gusten las niñas y también para saber el nombre de Aurora…

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Con motivo de la campaña de desobediencia solar iniciada por varias cooperativas energéticas , como podéis ver en esta noticia y en esta rueda de prensa, animamos a informarse , a informar y a pasarse a las cooperativas energéticas habidas y por haber. Actualmente, con sólo cambiar de compañía…

This is a written version of a talk I gave on September 21, 2013 , at the XOXO conference in Portland. This is a picture of me in 2009, right around when I started Pinboard . I'm standing on a balcony in Botosani county, Romania, in the poorest county in the European Union. I'm smiling in this…

Noam Chomsky, the distinguished American philosopher, political activist and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has compiled a list of the ten most powerful and efficacious strategies used by “masters of the world” to establish a manipulation of…

Creative Commons License Posted on Sep 8, 2013 in English Essays , English Posts | 26 comments The world is becoming ever-more addictive and distracting, showering us with short-term rewards. But we can still take control of those mechanisms in order to do good in the world, and make ourselves into…

I’m editing a book right now. It is its own happy brand of hell — but, for all its hellishness, it’s also a process I dearly  love because it’s like purification through flames. It’s a powerful step in storytelling — often, I find that editing is the part where the story is truly constructed. So,…

One silver lining of getting your feelings stomped all over, is that post-heartbreak, people tend to be forgiving if you must cope by acting like a shithead for awhile. And while there are plenty of ways to act like a self-destructive mess in the wake of a traumatic life event — drinking…