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janogonzalezon SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices

Hi, my name is Jano González, I work for SoundCloud and I'm from Chile, so it hits me when I see latino americans been stereotyped. I don't know if we ever met, but blaming things on people with a specific nationality it's super fucked up dude, please don't do that.

janogonzalezon SICP in Clojure

The Heart wants what The Heart wants

janogonzalezon Public speaking is tough

Shameless plug, here it is my own advice regarding conference speaking: http://janogonzalez.com/2013/12/02/conference-speaking-how-t...

janogonzalezon The Other 'F Word': Brewer Responds To Starbucks Over Beer Name

I will shed one tear for Starbucks

janogonzalezon Node.js is Cancer (2011)

Hacker News jumped the shark xD

janogonzalezon Why having an MBA is a negative hiring signal for startups (2012)

Then it's time to switch to MacBook Pro?

janogonzalezon Lisphp: A Lisp Dialect Written in PHP

no link to the repo :(

janogonzalezon JavaScript Allongé is free

You paid for the opportunity to read it first than the rest :)

janogonzalezon Vim Koans

According to Wikipedia (I know, not the most reliable source) a Kōan is a story, dialogue, question, or statement, which is used in Zen-practice to provoke the "great doubt", and test a student's progress in Zen practice.

The main themes in this particular article are that Vi is not a silver bullet, that even using a great tool you can do a lousy lob and that tools are just tools.

So more than an "incoherent flamebait" this is a list of Kōans about Vi created by someone that uses it and other Unix tools on a daily basis (as you can see on his other posts: http://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/)

janogonzalezon Ask HN: What's the best way to learn Ruby/Rails?

First, get familiar with the language solving all the Ruby Koans http://rubykoans.com

Then go through the Rails Tutorial http://railstutorial.org

Finally, read Eloquent Ruby by Russ Olsen and The Rails 3 Way by Obie Fernández

janogonzalezon Coming Home to Vim

this keeps coming home once a year :P

janogonzalezon This site is best viewed with Internet Explorer 4.0 (Click Here)

LOL'd at http://www.bloomsnroses.com/site/product.cfm?id=0CAD1021-E6E...

janogonzalezon Rickroll Video Removed Due to Copyright Claim from AVG

rickrolledback

janogonzalezon Let's Start Something

We need to start "finishing" stuff

janogonzalezon TV piracy groups formally adopt h264

Much better than Xvid

janogonzalezon Ask HN: Do I need a Mac in order to be taken seriously as a web developer?

Short answer: No

Long answer: The computer you use is just a tool. To be taken seriously you need to have an impressive portfolio of projects, you will be judged by your results and not by the tools you used.

janogonzalezon Ask HN:What are best online sources to learn JavaScript?

* Learn JavaScript: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/learn/javascript

* JavaScript. The Core: http://dmitrysoshnikov.com/ecmascript/javascript-the-core/

* Learning Advanced JavaScript: http://ejohn.org/apps/learn/

* JavaScript Garden: http://bonsaiden.github.com/JavaScript-Garden/

janogonzalezon SlideShare ditches Flash for HTML5

Just after the launch of SpeakerDeck(http://speakerdeck.com/)...