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pdelgallegoon Father's homemade machine helps disabled son to walk (video)

This is the website of the "Estimulador de marcha" were you can find all the information about the project. You can also find the inventor email address, if you want to be in contact with him.

http://www.estimuladordemarcha.com.ar/

pdelgallegoon The Real Reason Italy Sucks at the Startup Game

Sorry, my bad. As Alberto pointed in his comment, I was asking about how to incorporate a company in the USA when you are not a USA citizen (neither a legal resident)?

pdelgallegoon The Real Reason Italy Sucks at the Startup Game

Iberian fellow here. How do you manage to funded your company in the US?

pdelgallegoon Ask HN: Which is your favorite online code teaching company?

clickable links

http://www.codeschool.com/

http://www.codecademy.com/

http://teamtreehouse.com/

pdelgallegoon 37signals has hired a full time filmmaker to document its every move

This will reinforce the 37signal brand, just like Getting real, or Rework did before.

They are going to release 25 videos, and they can count me in to see them. I had recently seen the peepcode double episode with Ryan Singer (UX at 37signals) and was worth the time.

pdelgallegoon Vi and Vim vs. Emacs Shootout and Deal

Besides the inline manual that emacs has in itself. I recommend you to start using the Emacs Starter Kit [1].

Try to read the source and understand what it's doing. You will learn how to configure emacs, and the basics of elisp.

[1] https://github.com/technomancy/emacs-starter-kit

pdelgallegoon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2011)

SEEKING WORK. I'm based in the Denmark, remote/travel is OK, will relocate for the right project.

Web Developer: Ruby on Rails, Rspec, Cucumber, CSS/SASS, HTML/HAML, MongoDB, Javascript, Coffeescript, Backbone, Jasmine, jQuery, Git, and a little bit of Unix.

Portfolio: http://pdelgallego.com (work in progress)

Email: $irb> "%s.%s@gmail.com" % %w(pedro delgallego)

rate: ~$45/hour

pdelgallegoon Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (November 2011)

You have some broken links on the job page, OTOH the crying raccoon is kind of cute.

http://www.wooga.com/jobs/offers/javascript-frontend-develop...

pdelgallegoon Work has started on Ruby 2.0

If you are interested about what directions ruby will take in the future you can read this thread in the ruby core mailing list.

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/...

pdelgallegoon Work has started on Ruby 2.0

For good or bad, the ruby community tends to embrace changes faster than the Python community. For example Rails is going to drop 1.8.7 support in the next release 3.2

pdelgallegoon Why Finland’s schools are great (by doing what we don’t).

>> So while it is fascinating to study the performance of teenagers in a small selection of topics, the test does not tell whether they will grow up as happy and/or fulfilled adults

According to some studies [1] the 20 happiest nations in the World are:

  1. Denmark 
  2. Switzerland 
  3. Austria 
  4. Iceland 
  5. The Bahamas 
  6. Finland 
  7. Sweden 
  8. Bhutan 
  9. Brunei 
  10. Canada 
  11. Ireland 
  12. Luxembourg 
  13. Costa Rica 
  14. Malta 
  15. The Netherlands 
  16. Antigua and Barbuda 
  17. Malaysia 
  18. New Zealand 
  19. Norway 
  20. The Seychelles

[1] http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/11/061113093726.ht...

pdelgallegoon Best first programming language for a teenager to learn

The most important part of the learning process is to have access to a good mentor. So I recommend you the HtDP book[1], and just use whatever language you are good at.

Happy hacking.

[1] http://www.htdp.org/

pdelgallegoon The Metamovement

> The Arab Spring is part of the Metamovement; the London Riots were part of the Metamovement;

The Arab Spring, or the Madrid rallies are not the same thing that the London riots. The last one was mainly looting and arson attacks, while the other were pacific demonstrations demanding more democracy.

pdelgallegoon Stripe: instant payment processing for developers

Another one here from Denmark, but Spain will make the deal as well.

pdelgallegoon Modern Ruby Development

Try emacs or vim. I am die hard emacs user

pdelgallegoon 3 Reasons not to choose Bluehost

I think you should post your company in your profile. I am looking for a webhost for a couple of wordpress blogs for some customers and I immediately checked your profile looking for the name of your company.

pdelgallegoon Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot Beta 1, Released

That was the deal breaker, Ubuntu is just a library that Emacs use to communicate with the hardware.

pdelgallegoon LHC results put supersymmetry theory on the spot

Any idea on the software stack that they are using to handle the huge amount of data?

pdelgallegoon Ask HN: How scared should a new grad be of the possible economic downturn?

I thing he refers to Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing

pdelgallegoon Weebly (YC 07) Launches Whitelabel Platform for Designers

Are you planning to have a market where designers can buy and sell themes/templates or even components?

pdelgallegoon CoffeeTable: A Browser Console for CoffeeScript

Great!

Is there anyway to make this work in the web inspector?

pdelgallegoon Hackers in Space

Phase 2 is already in progress.

Check out the Copenhagen Suborbitals guys, they launch succesfuly their first suborbital rocket a month ago.

http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com/

pdelgallegoon Twitter acquires BackType (YC S08)

Congrats to the guys of BackType.

I have been very tempted to apply to their internship during the winter.

pdelgallegoon Taskwarrior is a time and task management tool (terminal)

> It's the only todo tool that I actually use. It removes the friction of having to have a web-based one open, find the window/tab, click on the appropriate textbox, etc.

That is the same reason why I use org-mode in emacs. I dont even need to change the window. I just type in the minibuffer the todo item and voila, added to my plain text org file.

pdelgallegoon Working with git? These aliases will save you hours

just another one

alias grm="git status | grep deleted | awk '{print \$3}' | xargs git rm"

pdelgallegoon Looking for best practices on architecting Rails applications.

http://rails-bestpractices.com/

bad link.

pdelgallegoon Is it hard to build a web app that makes at least $1000 a month?

Hey Ben, I would like to read more on this topic. Have you written something about it?

What are the needs and the problems that they are facing. How to identify the possible customers. Common affilate scheme in the industry, etc ...

pdelgallegoon Ubuntu 11.10 To Switch From GDM To LightDM

I think this is the path that Ubuntu should follow, replace current pieces of software with lighter and smaller solutions.

You can always replace them with more advances packages through apt-get.

pdelgallegoon Why the US can beat China: The Facts about SpaceX Costs

The competitive advantage in India in the long term is that their population will be significantly younger than China.

> India has more than 50% of its population below the age of 25 and more than 65% hovers below the age of 35. It is expected that, in 2020, the average age of an Indian will be 29 years, compared to 37 for China and 48 for Japan; and, by 2030, India's dependency ratio should be just over 0.4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_India

In the other hand India is confronting other problems.

pdelgallegoon Why the US can beat China: The Facts about SpaceX Costs

Are you guys developing any kind of software?

I am a web developer, so I don't know much about C, but I am sure a lot of people here can help if you put a repository.