: ¿Por qué no quisiera trabajar en el Banco de la Nación? -
Unas de las cosas que he tenido que escuchar a lo largo de mi
ya extensavida universitaria han sido las “recomendaciones” y “hechos” que mis profesores pregonan a lo largo de las clases:
- Debes aprender C++, C#, Java y PHP si quieres conseguir un buen trabajo, ser exitoso, millonario,…
How key-based cache expiration works - (37signals) -
The caching is cascaded, so yes a full depth regeneration incurs a DB hit. BUT the next cache hit will incur just one DB query for the top-level object—all the descendant objects are not queried because the cache for the parent object includes cached versions for the children (thus, no query necessary).
Badass JavaScript: Font.js: A Powerful Font Toolkit for JavaScript -
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…
“As the iTunes Store sold videos, apps, and subscriptions, it built up a database of 225 million active users by June 2011, which positioned Apple for the next age of digital commerce.”
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 nuestra filosofía).
- Escribir no tiene por que ser lineal.
- Vagrant se ve muy interesante. Supervisord y Monit también
- Ser un early adopter te pone en posición de contruir herramientas para los que vienen después. Herramientas como GitHub.
- Less, Sass, CoffeeScript, Backbone, etc. existen para que hagas más con menos esfuerzo
- HTML5 APIs FTW
- Y finalmente, cuando la guía turística te recomienda que te pongas protector solar… tu tienes que hacerle caso. De veras.
“As an artifact of that time, Stross’ book reads very differently than you might expect if all you knew about Jobs was stuff written after his return to Apple. All the Jobsian traits are there — the obsessive attention to minute details, the overbearing (some might say bullying) management style, the love for daring but risky moon-shot style projects; but while modern coverage tended to portray these as the endearing quirks of a great man, in the light of failure they come across more like the flaws of a tinpot tyrant. In Stross’ telling, the NeXT story sounds a bit like The Soul of a New Machine meets Fitzcarraldo — a long, exhausting journey to a destination nobody but the Leader really understands, or really even believes exists. But then Jobs came back to Apple, and then came the iMac, the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad, and Jobs went from the “Where Are They Now” file to the success story of the decade. And slowly the perception of him began to change into the Patron Saint of Innovation image we know today. But it was the perception that changed, not the man. It’s just that when you’re sitting on top of a pile of historic successes, things that used to look damning start to look damn impressive.” — 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
The now iconic Apple-Jobs Silhouette logo is designed by Jonathan Mak Long, a 19 year old designer from Hong Kong. The simplicity, minimalism and pure geniusness of the pairing is something that Steve would have approved of.
RIP Steve Jobs
jmak:
Thanks, Steve.
Posting designs like this one makes me paranoid, because I can’t shake the feeling that it’s not original. I enjoyed the process regardless, but please let me know if somebody else beat me to the idea!
Thoughts?
“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?
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@font-face Smoothing in Windows Chrome -
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. …
