January 2012
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Badass JavaScript: Font.js: A Powerful Font... →
badassjs: Mike Kamermans has been working on a little font toolkit for your JavaScript that is kind of akin to the built-in Image object but for Fonts. It gives you font loading events using a technique perfected in Mozilla’s pdf.js project, metrics information, and a better version of the canvas…
Jan 24th
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November 2011
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“As the iTunes Store sold videos, apps, and subscriptions, it built up a database...”
Nov 14th
Recortes de Santiago
Acabo de regresar del primer StarTechConf, en Santiago de Chile y estas son algunas de las cosas que quedaron en mi mente luego del fin de semana: - ”The Lean Startup” era fuente de inspiración para varios charlistas. Valdría la pena leerlo. También “Drive”. - Metodologías ágiles: Aunque tienen partes sobrevaloradas, en esencia son muy útiles (y encajan naturalmente con...
Nov 7th
October 2011
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“As an artifact of that time, Stross’ book reads very differently than you...”
– Scripting News: The Jobs book
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“Great design can and does change the world. Poor design can and does ruin lives.”
– Scott McLoud
Oct 10th
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Oct 6th
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September 2011
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Sep 12th
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Sep 12th
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August 2011
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Aug 10th
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@font-face Smoothing in Windows Chrome →
taitems: You may have noticed the issue in which @font-face embeds rendered in Windows Chrome look mighty jagged. Fixes such as -webkit-font-smoothing barely do anything, so this hack relies on a fairly well known fact about Windows Chrome: putting text-shadow on anything makes it blurry as shit. …
Aug 10th
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Aug 10th
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July 2011
5 posts
“The enjoyment of one’s tools is an essential ingredient of successful...”
– Donald E. Knuth (que maestro)
Jul 30th
“The text editor is a humble tool […] I think they can be better. Furthermore,...”
– El programador principal del editor del editor de textos “Sublime” (http://www.sublimetext.com/).
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http://www.fastcodesign.com/1664508/apple-designer-... →
“Have you ever tried multiplying roman numerals? It’s incredibly, ridiculously difficult. That’s why, before the 14th century, everyone thought that multiplication was an incredibly difficult concept, and only for the mathematical elite. Then arabic numerals came along, with their nice place values, and we discovered that even seven-year-olds can handle multiplication just fine. There...
Jul 19th
June 2011
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virtualenv automático al entrar a una carpeta
Virtualenv es lo que tienes usar si trabajas con Python. Pero el problema es que al final terminas con una carpeta “env” (o como suelas llamarla) dentro de cada proyecto, a la que tienes que acordarte de hacerle: source env/bin/activate cada vez que quieres correr el programa. Después de un rato se vuelve pesado. ¿No sería genial que eso se ejecutara automáticamente cuando abres cada...
Jun 28th
“The legality of any given act and how I want my kids to consider it are two...”
– http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2702445
Jun 27th
“There is absolutely no evidence in the literature that shows that cubicle...”
– “A Communal Workshop or Doors That Close?” Jorge Aranda - Making Software
Jun 26th
“La productividad al programar no es escribir más lineas de código. Es eliminar...”
Jun 22nd
“Focusing is about saying NO”
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LEXae1j6EY
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Jun 16th
“Nothing is impossible for those who don’t actually have to build it.”
– Anonymous boss
Jun 11th
“When you stay on the fourth floor of a hotel, all the room numbers just look...”
– Jeremy Keith (@adactio) I live in “HTTP Error 502 Bad gateway”. Much better than “HTTP Error 501 Not implemented”
Jun 7th
Jun 5th
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A fresh look at JavaScript Mixins →
Aqui se discuten varios métodos para hacerlo, empezando con el más “clásico” (pun intended). Lo sorprendente es el netamente javascriptesco método 4: Usando un closure, es 20 veces más rápido que los demás! 
Jun 4th
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May 2011
3 posts
May 31st
“La política no es el arte de de lo posible; es el arte de escoger entre lo...”
– John Kenneth Galbraith
May 24th
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Assuming a fresh OS X installation, how should I... →
May 19th
April 2011
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: El viaje de un email →
xenda: Pero a veces no piensas en herramientas pequeñas que, por ejemplo, te digan cuando alguien te menciona en Twitter. O que cuando sean las 6pm, tu teléfono disminuya automáticamente su brillo y así ahorrar batería. O que cuando identifique que tienes una reunión (anotada en Google Calendar) automáticamente se ponga en silencio hasta que ésta termine (y no exagero, tengo estás dos últimas...
Apr 27th
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Inequality and Risk →
Suppose you wanted to get rid of economic inequality … (…) It sounds benevolent to say we ought to reduce economic inequality. When you phrase it that way, who can argue with you? Inequality has to be bad, right? It sounds a good deal less benevolent to say we ought to reduce the rate at which new companies are founded. And yet the one implies the other.
Apr 23rd
Apr 22nd
Convierte tu Windows en Mac OS X de manera *super*...
Paso 1: Regala esa computadora con Windows y cómprate una Mac Paso 2: Enjoy!
Apr 20th
Facebook's Open Compute Project →
“It’s usually in a business’ best interests to commoditize its complements. Microsoft commoditized PC hardware because its software needed a home. Companies that contribute heavily to open-source, such as modern-day IBM, commoditize software because they sell consulting and support services. Google commoditizes applications, platforms, and web technologies because it needs places to put its...
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A great tool for generating CSS3 →
Apr 5th
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March 2011
3 posts
“Every once in a while we need to reinvent the wheel. Not because we need more...”
Mar 14th
Why is the 'straight line' path across continent... →
Proyecciones =  Que fregado es trabajar con mapas y no tener monitores holográficos. Esta es una de las cosas que aprendí(mos) al hacer el gestor de mapas para SIRAD, o “Sistema de información sobre recursos para atención de desastres” (sip, un acrónimo casi como SHIELD!) Nota: La línea en el mapa de abajo se ve recta porque está en un proyección hecha para eso. Y además la estás...
Mar 7th
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Mercurial vs Git
As someone who hasn’t used Hg before, I’m curious — what are some examples of Git commands that are better executed in Hg? No specific commands really, but I think the whole hg UI is just more consistent. I use both, yet with git I have to revert to `man` almost every day :/ Compare: `git branch xxx / git branch -a`, `git tag xxx / git tag -l`, `git show-ref —heads` To:...
Mar 5th
January 2011
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Jan 30th
Focus on your product, your purpose, and a... →
Jan 12th
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Efectos interesantes con CSS3: Desenfoque... →
Jan 7th
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“Over time you will realize why things are often more complex than you thought...”
– http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2011/1/1/things-are-not-as-easy-as-they-seem/
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December 2010
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