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mparramonon Uber Suspends Its Ride-Sharing Service in Spain Following a Court Ruling

For Barcelona salaries, taxis are expensive, and can't compete with public transport. Uber, on the other hand, hits the sweet spot, with fares that are it competitive with metro or bus if you're sharing the ride with friends.

One trip from Gràcia to Barceloneta, 5km:

* Metro: 22 minutes, 1,03€ (with a T-10 card, which is the most expensive integrated transport option)

* Taxi: 15 minutes, 8-9€

* Uber: 15 minutes, 4-5€

Also, Barcelona cab drivers are known for driving you around if you look like a tourist. Uber drivers will never do that, since you rate them after the trip.

mparramonon On the curl | sh pattern

Is there a better platform-independent option?

mparramonon N reasons why the spooks love Tribler

The question is, is it less secure than current offerings (Transmission, uTorrent, qbittorrent…)?

mparramonon Why switching jobs is almost always a good idea

He's a man: http://alexpotato.com/career/about.pl

mparramonon Uber banned in Spain

This is already happening in Spain, I guess you'll be happy about it: http://www.elmundo.es/cataluna/2014/10/21/544633e8268e3ed87e...

mparramonon Show HN: Cobalt2 theme and colour scheme for Sublime Text

Is it available for Atom?

mparramonon If you're not checking your customers' expired cards, you're losing money

Thanks a lot for your thorough answer! Do you work with customers outside of the US?

mparramonon If you're not checking your customers' expired cards, you're losing money

Thanks! We're not using Stripe though, do you know of any solutions that do not depend on it?

mparramonon The Scientific 7-Minute Workout

I tried this about a year ago and blogged my results:

http://www.developingandstuff.com/2013/09/50-days-of-scienti...

mparramonon Was your Gmail compromised in yesterday's attack?

Mine was, but the password there is more than 4 years old, I have changed it several times since then. Makes me think that this leak is just a collection of old leaks out together.

mparramonon Why Atom Can’t Replace Vim – Learning the lesson of vi

By the way, if you want to disable the popup for special characters in Mac OS X, here's how: http://www.developingandstuff.com/2014/06/disable-long-press...

mparramonon George Orwell: Politics and the English Language (1946)

it looks really nice! is there a way to see the source code on github or similar?

mparramonon Former SpaceX director signs on to crowdfunded hyperloop project

you're right! resubmited: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6451599

mparramonon 50 days of "The Scientific 7-Minute Workout"

Update: It's been 3 days since I started doing 2 sets, so 14 minutes total. I think I'm seeing some improvements. I'll put up some pictures about a week from now.

mparramonon 50 days of "The Scientific 7-Minute Workout"

Bear in mind the first pic is of day 5.

Now I'm doing 2 sets a day, so 14 minutes. I'll update you on the status soon.

mparramonon 50 days of "The Scientific 7-Minute Workout"

I have been doing martial arts for about 6 years with different teachers. I think they have taught me how to work out properly. What I've seen is that exercising gets you diminished benefits as training tome increases. For now, 7 minutes a day is just fine.

mparramonon 50 days of "The Scientific 7-Minute Workout"

No dietary changes. I weight myself every day at the same hour after the workout, so fluctuations should be minimized.

My muscles have got used to the workout by now, but the first week was hard.

I am going to try 2 sets every day from tomorrow on, back to back. Due to the way the exercises are ordered, by the time I'm done with the first set, whatever is needed to start the second is ready to go.

I'll check my blog updated with the results, wish me luck :)

mparramonon 50 days of "The Scientific 7-Minute Workout"

Try it out yourself and let us know ;)

mparramonon 50 days of "The Scientific 7-Minute Workout"

It really feels in my body like running + weightlifting for about an hour and a half. That is what I was doing about a year ago to get the same results I am getting today.

mparramonon 50 days of "The Scientific 7-Minute Workout"

It is amazing. I am getting better results with 7 minutes a day than when I was training for 3 hours a week. It's like a caffeine boost in the morning, and lasts for at least 12 hours.

mparramonon 50 days of "The Scientific 7-Minute Workout"

I'll see if I can find some pictures of last winter, when I weighted 73kg, and felt like a sloth.

mparramonon NProgress: slim, site-wide progress bars

Follow this repo for more info: https://github.com/mparramont/nprogress

Also, I'll be documenting the process here: http://developingandstuff.blogspot.fr/2013/08/nprogress-no-j...

As preparation for a talk: https://twitter.com/mparramon/status/369945214494191616

mparramonon NProgress: slim, site-wide progress bars

I'm thinking on forking this to remove the jQuery dependency. Would somebody be interested in this?

mparramonon GNU MediaGoblin – A decentralized alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud

The name is the best part of it. People like globins.

mparramonon Making my Ruby test suite faster without touching a single line of code

Update: I switched to ruby-2.0.0-head, and got a 131% improvement from the base case.

mparramonon Google's Sergey Brin explains why he paid $330,000 for lab burger

Because that economy-burger you talk about will not taste like meat. Artificial-meat will, sooner or later.

mparramonon Do something new everyday

tell the creator: https://twitter.com/ajimix

mparramonon Show HN: New Android app, paid and open source from the start

Update for however is still reading: today I got the first two paying users :D Thanks a lot for your support! (PRs, suggestions and comments).

mparramonon Show HN: New Android app, paid and open source from the start

Actually, someone just added refresh button functionality and some padding through a Pull Request :D It'll be up on the Play Store ASAP.

mparramonon Show HN: New Android app, paid and open source from the start

Both good ideas, added to my todo list, thanks.