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mparramon··on The insulin racket: why a drug made free 100 years ago is recently expensive
Capitalism.
mparramon··on G20 nations triple coal power subsidies despite climate crisis
And then people complain when these things happen: https://www.dw.com/en/coal-protests-in-germany-climate-activ...
mparramon··on A Message from the Billionaire’s Club: Tax Us
All that is good, but are the doing it regardless of how hard it is? Seems that almost none of them are.
mparramon··on Ireland to ban new petrol and diesel vehicles from 2030
Do you have data to support that statement?
mparramon··on As Protesters Fill Hong Kong’s Streets, Businesses Are Alarmed, Too
In a Vox doc I just saw about HK they mention it is only 3% of China's economy.
mparramon··on Tokyo proves that housing shortages are a political choice
Amazing, down to the point explanation. Thanks a lot!
mparramon··on Tokyo proves that housing shortages are a political choice
Exactly. We should treat animals much better than we do now.
mparramon··on France's Basque Region Creates Its Own Currency
In Barcelona, capital of Catalunya, most of what you'll hear is Spanish, not Catalan. That does happen in some smaller cities or towns, though.
mparramon··on How “One-Plus-Five” Is Shaping American Cities
https://www.forbes.com/sites/fionamcmillan/2018/08/11/how-bl...
mparramon··on Choose Firefox Now, or Later You Won't Get a Choice (2014)
can you elaborate?
mparramon··on Show HN: Adios.ai – Stop email interruptions, receive emails 3 times a day
s/sh*t/stuff
mparramon··on The Blu-Ray Reauthoring Project
He said that the cart page of the software website was blank, the last version of the software was from 2012 and the web page was last updated in 2014, so he had no other option.
mparramon··on Show HN: Culture Queries – The best questions to ask during your job interview
Looks like an amazing project! I've been a serial interviewee lots of times during my career, and having had this some time ago would have helped tons. I wrote an article exactly about this, hope it helps you!: http://www.developingandstuff.com/2016/01/10-questions-to-ma...
mparramon··on Yahoo Finance has added over 100 cryptocurrency quote pages
1. Renewable energy

2. https://twitter.com/ponli137/status/939523905039097856

mparramon··on To Save Net Neutrality, We Must Build Our Own Internet
guifi.net is already doing it in Catalonia and other parts of Europe:

https://guifi.net/en/node/2413/view/map

mparramon··on The Booming Japanese Rent-A-Friend Business
The adoptive parents genuinely love the child, they are not getting paid to pretend they do.
mparramon··on Passing the torch
mparramont@gmail.com
mparramon··on Muscle strain from using the mouse
I stopped using the mouse for this reason. Here's how I did it: http://www.developingandstuff.com/2015/01/no-mouse.html
mparramon··on Pharo 5.0 Released
Why is there no mention of Smalltalk on the page?
mparramon··on Two Years Open Source
I wrote a post about setting up Atom for web development around a year ago:

http://www.developingandstuff.com/2015/04/setting-up-atom-fo...

after using it for around a year.

I think what's more important about Atom's speed is not the speed itself, but the rate at which it increases. Atom was slow 2 years ago, became faster 1 year ago, and today is faster than that. On the other hand, Sublime Text, on a similarly specced computer (of a colleague), today, seems much slower, for example, when doing a project-wide search.

mparramon··on Intel to Cut 12,000 Jobs, Forecast Misses Amid PC Blight
"Robots will soon begin taking human jobs in places like retail stores, fast food restaurants, construction sites and transportation. The key technology that will fuel the transition is inexpensive computer vision systems, and the number of human jobs at risk numbers in the tens of millions. More than half of the jobs in the United States could be eliminated."

http://www.amazon.es/Manna-Visions-Humanitys-Future-English-...

mparramon··on Why I won't do coding tests
Feedback from Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4daew9/why_i_w...

mparramon··on Why I won't do coding tests
Yeah, that app is decommissioned. I'll update that working app soon, thanks for reminding me about it! :)
mparramon··on Why I won't do coding tests
Exactly.
mparramon··on Atom text editor 1.4 released
Looks like they added just that on this release:

>Untitled documents in a project are now serialized and restored.

mparramon··on Atom text editor 1.4 released
I've been using it as my main editor for a couple years now, and yes, it's getting better with every release.
mparramon··on Atom text editor 1.4 released
If you're thinking on taking the plunge from Sublime Text, here are some setup notes aimed at web developers: http://www.developingandstuff.com/2015/04/setting-up-atom-fo...
mparramon··on Lessons from Freelancing
For some more down-to earth lessons from freelancing, check my post on the topic:

http://www.developingandrails.com/2015/06/freelancing-with-f...

mparramon··on Atom 1.0
I wrote a small guide to set up Atom for web development:

www.developingandstuff.com/2015/04/setting-up-atom-for-rails-development.html

mparramon··on Show HN: A DOM text-selection highlight renderer
This is a case of Something.js if I've ever seen one:

http://www.developingandstuff.com/2015/03/somethingjs.html

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