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Love it. This seems to be the answer to a question that Facebook forgot completely. To help you improve your social life with the people you really care about. Not just distract you with irrelevant information. Keep it up!

How is this related to programming?

While I really thought that Venus Project ideas was interesting but a little bit naive, there is something going on with cryptocurrencies. They can save us from eternal deflation of our money as the Zeitgeist documental expose. That means that our central banking system (in every country) would have troubles trying to produce more money over thin air (causing inflation). An inversion of control could happen here. Who knows.

The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond. It's inspiring for embrace Open Source collaboration and also very useful for manage projects. In Guy Kawasaki's quote "The most important book about technology today, with implications that go far beyond programming"

Interesting. I use AdBlock on this page and the ads keep popping. Have they a way to bypass AdBlock? (maybe with websockets I dunno). I can't really read the article.

NodeJS works great as a simple web or network container, if you're trying to create a complex enterprise app in Node, basically you're doing it wrong. Simply it's difficult to design complex nested logic or algorithms in a clean manner. It's possible but it's harder than other languages.

I just removed the tilde and caret of all my dependencies (in my package.json) and maybe that's the way to go. Seal a local version of your packages and don't update unless is completely needed. But I'm still worried about the fragility of the package environment.

I've done something similar with programming languages, and that comic got me thinking a lot :) By the way if anyone want to check it and have some feedback would be cool. http://nkittsteiner.github.io

Totally agree. The motivation for learning a tool starts trying to solve a related problem. In me case I want to explore which programing languages are more relevant today so I made a little experiment at nkittsteiner.github.io for measure more popular languages but without the context of the problem we are trying to solve it's irrelevant

That's right. Also watch Chef's Table at Netflix for a pinch of inspiration.

I think one of the biggest problems is to find good local developers. I think that the local market is very small and also not many locals are fluent in english. Getonboard is a good place to start but maybe the startup program should look at this training local students / devs for make them useful for startup ecosystem.

Yes, for example this startup is doing something interesting in latam. http://algramo.com/en/

Packaging is the problem. We should only use goods that can be recharged or refilled. Otherwise, the problem goes on and on.

In some IoT scenarios you could afford losing a little bit of data. For instance this component does it with MongoDB https://github.com/telefonicaid/fiware-orion

This type of move can't work now, because Apple is losing its mojo in a very fast pace.

I was working the last year on a Django app. First I hated it, but slowly I started enjoying programming with it. This year I worked mantaining an app with all of this http://teropa.info/blog/2015/09/10/full-stack-redux-tutorial... This supposed to be a simple Web app but, it's a complete mess. I miss Django so much right now.

A stupid question, how this is related to zen?

I'm wondering if using Apache Kafka and Hadoop Stack, would be a better approach for IoT.

Why is that bad? Mongodb is great for data ingestion.