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by alpeb 10y ago
Good old web hosting is not good at all. Please please never ever use shared web hosting for anything. As soon as your site gets a little bit popular you're almost guaranteed it's gonna get hacked.
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by alpeb 10y ago
"Eventually you’ll reach a point, where you can’t quite bring yourself to follow through on step five [Decline the offer]. The position isn’t exactly what you were looking for but it feels so right, you can’t let it go. Then you’re don
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Saving Colombia’s peace agreement(economist.com)
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I'm choosing euthanasia etd 1pm. I have no last words.(twitter.com)
1361 points by alpeb 10y ago|277 comments
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by alpeb 10y ago
In Colombia there really is no war. Farc and friends are armed groups fuelled by the drug trafficking business and population oppression, lurking in the most remote parts of Colombia where there is no presence of the state. So basically the
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by alpeb 10y ago
Very relevant given than this year's Nobel peace prize will most likely gonna be awarded to one of the biggest mass murderers in Colombia's history, alias Timochenko, or perhaps maybe awarded to the country as a whole for the curr
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by alpeb 10y ago
It seems to me Berlin's startup ecosystem is heavily optimized for very young people. It's awesome the immigration process is so easy, but the minimum wage requirement for IT jobs is just 38,688 EUR. Lots of companies sponsoring v
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by alpeb 10y ago
With Chrome OS now supporting Android apps, this obviously means Chrome Apps will get dropped there as well even if they deny it now. A real shame since since those had a chance to become an excellent modern platform for internet-first desk
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by alpeb 10y ago
I remember Larry Ellison saying once that the only industry more driven by fashion than fashion itself was IT. That was when the «cloud» thing was starting to take off. He was refusing to have Oracle use those new buzzwords, but at the end
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by alpeb 10y ago
Yeah, hopefully their desktop story will improve with time.
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by alpeb 10y ago
Looks awesome, but the OS... There really is a huge market gap for a third, non-tech-savvy friendly OS.
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by alpeb 10y ago
If pretty much the same things can be achieved with all these languages, then the difference is not in the language itself but on other things like community, learning curve, availability and price of devs. With that in mind I would prefer
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by alpeb 10y ago
I do. I think it's great for providing public support / community for consumer software, specially after their latest revamp, which undid the confusing multi-column layout.
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by alpeb 11y ago
PG's essay "The Submarine"[1] is a nice account to what degree the media is filled with bullshit. I actually get pretty much all my tech reads from HN (sometimes browsing the comments before even reading the article) and from
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by alpeb 11y ago
Nowadays I try to stay away from magazine articles and get my info instead from blogs. Traditional journalism calls for too much wording ceremony and useless anecdata with a very low signal-to-noise ratio.
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by alpeb 11y ago
Not as a universal trait as to be present in my family. One needs to talk louder and interrupt one another to be allowed for a turn.
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by alpeb 11y ago
I was gonna say that'd be devastating down the food chain, but then I found this claiming otherwise: "A world without mosquitoes" http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100721/full/466432a.html
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by alpeb 11y ago
No.
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by alpeb 11y ago
Anybody knows about an alternative for prismic.io? That's basically a CMS for devs, where you inject a site's content through API calls to prismic.io, while they provide a very nice UI for managing the content. It's a great s
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by alpeb 11y ago
What a pitty having to spend millions to ask a consultant how to run your own business.
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by alpeb 11y ago
"site temporarily unavailable"
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by alpeb 11y ago
> That's a lot of words to say not much besides... That's why I read less and less magazines articles. Lots of efforts put into the form rather than the content, that read like a school exercise (intro-thesis-conclusion). Wou
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by alpeb 12y ago
In the case of chrome extensions and apps, Google was working on an ad solution a couple of years ago but didn't end up releasing anything. In light of no viable monetization solution for this kind of software it's natural devs ha
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by alpeb 12y ago
JSONB is nice, but the inability to perform updates inside a JSON doc is major drawback.
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by alpeb 12y ago
Would it be possible to have it access only your personal profile data? The permissions screen shows an Organization Access section with all my orgs checked.
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by alpeb 12y ago
Think of Captcha as the first battle in humanity's fight against AI. Over the long term this problem has no solution.
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by alpeb 12y ago
Thanks for setting the record straight. The video looked interesting and coherent for layman like myself (gotta admit though I only watched at first the older version that didn't mention quantum mechanics), but I never cared to check w
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by alpeb 12y ago
If this topic interests you, you should definitely check "Imagining the Tenth Dimension" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqeqW3g8N2Q
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by alpeb 12y ago
Got any links to that advice? In my experience I prefer hourly billing, mostly because of the kind of clients I handle.
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by alpeb 12y ago
Off-topic: With today's changes to Github I can no longer see a commit diff by clicking on the corresponding SHA in the commits page. Any idea where has that gone?

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