October 2009
31 posts
iPhone, Moblin y la importancia de la UI
Un compañero decía, a días del lanzamiento del iPhone, que “iba a revolucionar el concepto del celular”. Yo le contestaba que “en general, un iPhone no hacía nada que mi Treo no hiciera desde hacía tiempo”. Y al final, los dos teníamos razón. El iPhone en realidad sigue sin hacer nada realmente innovador: es un smartphone. Es un smartphone hermoso, un gadget muy bien...
The Zen of Python
Beautiful is better than ugly. Explicit is better than implicit. Simple is better than complex. Complex is better than complicated. Flat is better than nested. Sparse is better than dense. Readability counts. Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules. Although practicality beats purity. Errors should never pass silently. Unless explicitly silenced. In the face of ambiguity, refuse the...
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Digno de verse. No digo más.
Sen. McCain And Net Neutrality →
hunsonisgroovy:
Senator John McCain has apparently decided to take up the issue of “net neutrality,” and, in a piece of legislation that’s been bought and paid for by the telecom industry, the former presidential candidate has fashioned the “Internet Freedom Act.” This legislation keeps alive the recent tradition of ironically named laws.
What the “Internet Freedom Act” would do is to allow...
REASONS WHY I DISLIKE FACEBOOK...
supermars:
vaporeon:
Farmville requests, join my mob requests, join my gangsta crew requests etc. We get it, you have nothing more productive to do than to have imaginary gangs and farms.
‘how well do you know twilight?’/’how much like bella swan are you?’ requests. We get it, you love twilight just like another gajillion people.
The constant feed of spam on my dash made up of...
¿Qué diseño le pondrías a tu pan tostado?
Éste es el segundo “tostador impresora” que veo. Como el primero, éste también es puro concepto, no hay planes de producirlo. Lástima.
Vamos facilitádole el trabajo a Electrolux (o al primero que diga “yo”). Si cuesta MXN$999 máximo, lo compro. No necesita tener conexión a internet, simplemente un slot para memoria USB o SD, y para facilitarnos la vida a todos, que...
Object Oriented Jedi
Luke: You used to program.
Ben: I was once a software engineer the same as your father.
Luke: My father wasn't a software engineer. He was a custodian at Lockheed-Martin.
Ben: That's what your Uncle told you. He didn't hold with your father's ideals. He thought he should go to work. Not gotten a degree.
Luke: I wish I had known him.
Ben: He was a cunning object-oriented analyst, and the best systems programmer in the galaxy. I understand you've become quite a good hacker yourself. And he was a good friend. For over ten years the systems programmers created user interfaces. Before the dark times. Before Microsoft.
Luke: How did my father die?
Ben: A young systems programmer named Bill Gates, who was a student until his mommy kicked him out of her basement, founded Microsoft and helped destroy the intuitive user interface. He betrayed and murdered the Macintosh. Gates was seduced by the Dark Side of Money.
Luke: Money?
Ben: Yes, Money is what gives a programmer his resources. It's an exchange system created by human beings. It surrounds us. Works for us. Binds the economy together. Which reminds me. Your father wanted you to have this when you were old enough, but your Uncle wouldn't allow it. He thought you'd follow old Obi-Wan on some damn idealistic crusade.
Luke: What is it?
Ben: It's an object modeling tool. The weapon of a systems programmer. Not as random or clumsy as a lexical parser. An elegant compiler for a more civilized age.
Star Wars... en ASCII →
you are our only hope.
¡Eso es amor al arte (ASCII)!
Is Tumblr the Twitter Killer? →
jaytoddmartin:
My newest blog post. I appreciate all comments and feedback. Go Tumblr!!
Sometimes I wish, sometimes I believe they complement each other. Anyway, to me
I prefer Tumblr.
Anyway, we can’t Twitter @ the office.
¿Se acuerdan? →
Así se veía Windows 3.0. Sigan el link para un vertiginoso viaje por 18 años de interfases de usuario.
Lo que Hollywood nos enseña sobre los Hackers.
1rving:
turistaentupelo:
1. Los hackers siempre se visten raro. Además, siempre tienen cara de hacker, excepto cuando son mujeres. En ese caso, parecen ex-modelos. Hollywood es tan riguroso en este sentido que puede uno fácilmente establecer algunos silogismos. Por ejemplo, en The Matrix , Neo –Keanu Reeves– no tiene cara de hacker, pero se viste raro. Por lo tanto, es un hacker. Trinity se...
¿Quién mató a IE6 (me lo dijo un bichito)?
Durante años lo hemos sabido: IE sucks! En algún momento circa IE4 tuvimos una leve esperanza de que Microsoft se comprometiera con respetar los estándares, y nos diera una plataforma decente para aplicaciones web. Pero cuando Firefox tiene alrededor del 25% de participación del mercado, algo serio está pasando.
Hasta hace poco, para un proyecto de aplicación web, ante el intento de cambiar de...
