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juanpablo

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juanpablo (at) jpscaletti.com
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juanpablo··on Ruby Isn't Fun Anymore
He's not whining but saying "it's the start of a new era". Read the full article not just the first paragraph.
juanpablo··on Bill Gates' mysterious new company
Half of a Protocol Droid?

"Catalyst three"? It sound more like an acronym for "Command and Control Center".

juanpablo··on Obama is RESTful
Work perfectly for me. http://imagesocket.com/view/obama111.png
juanpablo··on Start a side project, says GitHub founder
You have to learn the JavaScript core and the native DOM first to really understand the motivations and appreciate the beauty behind a framework like JQuery or Mootools.
juanpablo··on Voting Machines
And then somebody could extort you to vote in certain way and remain at your side to make sure you comply... or steal your mail and vote for you.
juanpablo··on Study: The Pill Causes Women to Like Different Men
Who made the study? Where and when? On how many women? Why so many people believe anything the press says without questioning it?
juanpablo··on The brain can get a lot done, and leave you a little smarter, when it sleeps
The three B's of creativity: bus, bath, bed
juanpablo··on HTML or XHTML: Does It Really Matter?
"For an invalid XML document, browsers did not even make an attempt to parse the document as best they could, as they would with HTML—instead, they just displayed a validation error and stopped".

Yes that is the idea: Force developers to write valid code.

juanpablo··on Why I Still Use Windows 95
http://www.dosbox.com
juanpablo··on Richard Stallman on Bill Gates: "It's not the Gates, it's the bars"
How much you can do with an EULA covered software?
juanpablo··on 37signals to Drop IE6 Support
Semi-transparent *.png and ":hover" support and lots of Javascript and CSS bugs
juanpablo··on A company making $100 million a year disintegrated when Google took away their business model.
So... you haven't read the article.
juanpablo··on Ask PG: Your new book on Startups?
Humm "Hackers at work" (co-written with JL)?... just kidding.
juanpablo··on Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder
Only most of those who get caught.
juanpablo··on The Internet, a collection of computer networks that already has hundreds of thousands of users.
I'll have to try that Interweb thing.
juanpablo··on [dead]
"...for the sole purpose of enabling Google to provide you with the Service in accordance with its privacy policy".
juanpablo··on ISO approves OOXML
Worst April's fool ever. Wait a minute... this is for real!
juanpablo··on Designed for Microsoft Windows
Ubuntu should come with a couple of those.
juanpablo··on The Music Industry’s New Extortion Scheme
Yes. If you don't make money from it AND it is from personal use, it is technically legal.

In practice, however, restaurants, salons for private weedings and even individuals who throw parties in their houses are being sued (or charged with a fee) for using copyrighted music in a non-personal or profit-making way. It's totally insane.

The tax is collected not by the goverment but instead by an increasingly-powerful-lobby who "represent the artists" (called SGAE) so the situation it's only getting worse.

juanpablo··on The Music Industry’s New Extortion Scheme
Spain has already a music tax. They just assume that every DVD-R, CD-R, Hard Drive, iPod, etc. will be used to store "pirated" music so they charged them accordingly.
juanpablo··on Ask YC: Best cheap(/free) hosting
Webfaction: SSH, Python/Ruby o whatever language you want. No limitations for "long running process" (Django, web.py, RoR... ) and Unlimited PostgresSQL and MySQL databases. Arround $10 a month.

However, if all of you want is a standard Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP hosting you can find cheaper alternatives.

juanpablo··on Re-generative medicine: Man re-grows fingertip and fingernail
Is this for real? For some reason looks like spam to me or an April's fools bad joke.
juanpablo··on Ask: What would you do/make if you never had to monetize it?
Robots. Intelligent, self-sufficient, house-keeping robots. I know, that would be pretty easy to monetize... but it would take me decades to build. (and it'll be done by Trevor Blackwell long before).

so... 2nd option.

A better web.py web site.

juanpablo··on You weren't meant to have a boss
"I can imagine for larger groups to avoid tree structure would be to have no structure: to have each group actually be independent, and to work together the way components of a market economy do. (...) But I don't know any technology companies that have done it."

I was thinking about this part and I realize Y Combinator doesn't look too different from that.

juanpablo··on An Ingenious Video Game That Looks Like It Was Designed by a Third-Grader
I've played it on the iphone and it's unexpectedly addictive.
juanpablo··on Why Not To Do A Startup
"Startups tend to be fairly binary, with you making either a very large amount off of them or nothing at all."

Like a lot of thing in life: The most popular movie/book sells 10 times more than the #2. MS Word vs WordPerfect. Harrison Ford vs Mark Hamill... People like stars.

juanpablo··on Xkcd: Mythbusters and Zombie Feynman
I visit this site not only for the links but mainly for the comments of intelligent people about those links.
juanpablo··on OpenDNS is hijacking Google requests (For what they claim is a good reason)
I knew I wasn't the only one who hates those stickers.
juanpablo··on OpenDNS is hijacking Google requests (For what they claim is a good reason)
You can change the DNSs too. At least you can choose to use OpenDNS or not in the first place.
juanpablo··on Ask Hackers: How to become the best JavaScript programmer? (q by 12yr old)
Read a good book about Javascript, like "Head First Javascript".

After you've finished reading it, learn what can Javascript libraries like Mootolols or JQuery can offer.

And of course: practice, practice and practice. Working in your own challenging projects is the best way to do that.

Enjoy it.

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