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by rodrigo 17y ago
Yes they do. I constantly find blocked sites (latest google translator). I think in a knowledge economy, blockin your knowledge workers access to the greatest repository of knowledge mankind has created, its at best, dumb. I've found that b
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by rodrigo 17y ago
2 or 3, mostly history, non fiction and technichal. Back in the day, with no internet available and more spare time, 10 to 15 books monthly. Also I used to read mostly fiction. I dont miss reading more paper books, the internet provides on
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by rodrigo 17y ago
Great things here, thank you for your replies.
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by rodrigo 17y ago
That same analogy is what caugth my attention in the first place. I still cannot visualize wich is going to be the killer app.
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Ask HN: Whats the coolest thing you've seen/done with Arduino?
24 points by rodrigo 17y ago|26 comments
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by rodrigo 17y ago
Well, it mostly is; But the humor that gets upvoted its VERY funny, so, im ok with that high threshold. I keep coming here because of the signal/noise ratio wich has not changed that much in my more than 562 days here, wich in internet time
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by rodrigo 17y ago
Offtopic, im an Hacker/lawyer myself, im interested to get your hindsigth on being that. for starters, do you use your coding skills in law related matters?
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by rodrigo 17y ago
http://blog.gobansaor.com/projects/xlite/ I've used sqlite from MS Access, using sqlite ODBC driver; just for fun though, havent done anything useful with it yet.
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by rodrigo 17y ago
It also feels like patterns, little building blocks to build bigger things. Thats whats compelling me to buy it, its not just technique or recipes, its knowledge you can use to expand on. Also, his blog is great.
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by rodrigo 18y ago
You're rigth, I guess if you apply what PG have said about hackers to business people you have it.
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by rodrigo 18y ago
I was using regular red eye drops on a daily basis, but they seemed to increase the damage. Now i use this natural eye drops made from Hamamelis ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamamelis ) and they help a lot, seemingly without side effects.
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by rodrigo 18y ago
Agree. It seems to me that if you dont want to give things a thougth, just adhere to someone elses and call yourself a (insert religion/belief system/school of thougth here) and get on with it. What does that pattern says about our program?
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by rodrigo 18y ago
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History , The History of Rome, Econ Talk, and TED talks. As I have a very long conmute im always on the looking.
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by rodrigo 18y ago
I find irritating at least the signal/noise ratio of tv and radio shows, im spoiled by being able to proactively choose what im going to hear or watch (via podcasts, reading on the web,etc) instead of pasively watching tv. So, afaik, tv and
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by rodrigo 18y ago
Thanks pg, cheers to us! This place has grown to be such a great one. Thank you all.
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by rodrigo 18y ago
Second http://www.microsiervos.com/ , add Alt1040.com, and thats about it, AFAIK. I wonder if theres a hacker scene somewhere, but i guess it isnt.
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by rodrigo 18y ago
Theres a downloadable Stanford lecture on Hannibal, wich is great; the archeologist guy who gives the talk was involved in a student expedition across the Alps, with a real elephant!
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by rodrigo 18y ago
I found Boyd via Greene, check him on the wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Boyd_(military_strategist)
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by rodrigo 18y ago
You can google the field manuals (FM) of the US Army and Marine, they range from operation of guns and marksmanship to strategy, to leadership. All great reads.
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by rodrigo 18y ago
"I mailed the slip of paper to the White House, mentioning that the Chinese restaurant was located within a mile of Nixon's original house, and I said, "I think a mistake has been made; by accident I got Mr. Nixon's fortune. Does he have mi
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by rodrigo 18y ago
Great reading. This notion of different "times" is very interesting, a friend said you can find this in JS Bachs music, as it doesnt follow the mostly human notion of time, e.g. it doesnt have a beginning, a peak and an end.
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by rodrigo 18y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=127711 I asked some time ago, got great responses.
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by rodrigo 18y ago
JSPs, Servlets and POJOs. Im a complete beginner so im trying to learn the basics first. Im very aware of some Java shortcomings but I like the fact that I can get responses from thousands of books, tutorials, and the web. A bunch of Python
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by rodrigo 18y ago
Also, I do almost all of my surfing in english, I buy online a lot, lots of people here in Mexico have credit cards (at least in Mexico City) so theres definitively a big opportunity here. The web here feels like The Web in the US circa 199
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by rodrigo 18y ago
Im mexican living in Mexico City; Theres a lot of noise in the web in spanish, you find a lot of wannabes and a lot of people discovering the internet and thinking theyre going to magically get rich. I've read blogs about dev/hacker gettoge
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by rodrigo 18y ago
I have 47 and cannot downvote.I can flag since around my twenties thought.
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by rodrigo 18y ago
You're very rigth, I was trying to share what I do to get myself out of those outbursts. Also I was under the impression that you were talking about a general condition.
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by rodrigo 18y ago
One of my best friends is a painter, so I made a good mental exercise of trying to frame my interests in something more broad so I can discuss them with him. e.g. I talk about people creating things from my programming experience and my fri
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by rodrigo 18y ago
You're being narrow. Of course we all want people like us to talk with, but thats not the rigth attitude. Just talk with someone, try to find whats interesting about them, place yourself in his/her shoes and try to see what makes them tickl
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by rodrigo 18y ago
When I find myself thinking about things the way you do (according to what you've said here), I said to myself: "DO something and stop whinning!" Dont be satisfied with the things that come out of some intellectuall exercise only, try to ch

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