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sebastian

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sebastian··on Ask HN: Where do you find freelance developers
what is the name of your shop?
sebastian··on The Tragic Cost of Google Pac-Man – 4.82 million hours
I don't really see what's tragic about it. People had a little fun for a day for 1/2 hour or so. Not the end of the world, not tragic at all.
sebastian··on Ask HN: Help picking a name for my app
Thanks for all the feedback. I think I'm going to go with pips and chips. It definitely sounds a lot more catchy and perhaps easier to remember.
sebastian··on Tumblr Stole My [Subdomain] At The Behest of A Corporation
Email techcrunch: tips@techcrunch.com

They might be able to help you out.

See:

http://techcrunch.com/2010/01/23/facebook-vanity-url-harman/

sebastian··on Automate any GUI using screenshots
Perfect!

Tnx

sebastian··on Automate any GUI using screenshots
Does anyone know if a sikuli script can be run from the command line without having to use the sikuli IDE?
sebastian··on Facebook for iPhone 3.1 Is Good, But Not Good Enough For iPhone Battery
Do you realize yo posted a link to http://localhost:8888...?

http://localhost:8888/woorkmash/facebook-for-iphone-3-1-is-g...

sebastian··on Ask HN: Should I trust online password management services like passpack.com?
I been using 1password for a couple months and I love it.
sebastian··on Apple Tablet Shipping in March
$1000 is a little too much for a tablet/net book/web surfing device.

I would be willing to pay up to $500 for an Apple tablet and up to $300 for a tablet developed by any other company.

sebastian··on Torrent Search Engines Unlawful, U.S. Judge Says
All this is doing is just giving the bright minds behind the services that we love so much reasons to move and incorporate offshore and stop worrying about the evil power organizations such as MPAA and RIAA have to sue them, shut them down, send them to prison, you name it.

File sharing is not stealing. File sharing is caring.

http://www.vincentchow.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/piracy...

sebastian··on If You’re Nervous About Quitting Your Boring Job, Don’t Do It
The problem is that if we tell ourselves to wait until timing is right, we will make sure timing is never right.

It all comes down to the fact we are just scared of giving up the illusion of security or what is "convenient" even if that convenience is what is keeping us from achieving our goals, from what is truly important to us.

We will make sure we do anything possible to postpone the moment when we can say are I'm "ready".

Even if being ready just comes down to having enough money saved so we don't have to eat spaghetti or tuna while we work on our dreams, the story always goes something like this:

You want to have enough $ saved so you don't have to worry for 6 months and be able to just focus on yourself, on whatever you really want to do.

Once you have that $ saved you might tell to yourself, well, but things never work out the way we plan them so I think it would be better if I have enough saved for a year. I just need to keep doing what I would love to quit for a couple more months, and that's it, I will be ready then. Since that reasoning actually makes sense to you you end up postponing it for a bit longer.

A few months later you find yourself either worried about things like the economy, or maybe you think you need more money, or anything else you can come up with to justify postponing your dream and you keep doing it over and over.

The time is never right. You just have figure out what the worse case scenario would be, what could happen if everything you though you knew was absolutely wrong and what options you have to go back where you started in the event you fail. The chances are once you are aware of it, it won't be that bad as you though and hopefully you won''t longer be scared and will quit what you need to quit to invest your time on yourself.

sebastian··on If You’re Nervous About Quitting Your Boring Job, Don’t Do It
I other words what the article is suggesting is forget about your dreams, your personal goals and the ideas that along with percisentence could have a chance to make you feel good about yourself, your life and maybe even help you actually enjoy the limited amount of seconds that you have to live and instead be thankful for the opportunities you have been "given" and shut up because things could actually be worse. Look at that 90% of the world that wish they had half of what life have given you.

It's incredibly sad how what the article suggest is exactly what the majority of the world does when what we really are supposed to do with our life is so simple.

Life is short, try to enjoy it no matter what, never give up on you. If you have to spend all of your life trying to make work whatever it's you want to do and that you think it will make you happy, do it. Because if you don't, if you give up and do what you are "supposed" to do, what is safe, what society, your education, your family and your religious "beliefs" have tried to imposed on you will never be happy. That is guaranteed. But, hey! worse nothing than what you already have! right..

sebastian··on Apple is terrified of iphone web-apps being as good as native apps
Sure, np. Thanks for the jsbeautifier tip.
sebastian··on Apple is terrified of iphone web-apps being as good as native apps
Too bad I was only able to find the minified version.
sebastian··on Apple is terrified of iphone web-apps being as good as native apps
I already grabbed a copy:

http://nxfx.com/demo/pastryKit.zip

Now looking for some documentation...

sebastian··on Apple is terrified of iphone web-apps being as good as native apps
Is there any place where pastryKit can still be downloaded?
sebastian··on Ask HN: What are some use cases for my web service?
Pretty similar to mailinator.com witch I have been using for a while.
sebastian··on Verizon confirms Droid tethering option ($30 for 5G, $.05/MB overage)
$51 per additional GB forget about it. Why do Telcos measure bandwidth in MBs? That's ridiculous!
sebastian··on Hacker news, but for ideas
open source? Where can I download the code from?
sebastian··on Cigarettes Without Smoke, or Regulation
I don't they they are meant to help you quit. I bought the starter kit from blucigs.com last week. I'm waiting for it to arrive. E-cigs are for people like me who like nicotine a lot, and not for people that want to quit using nicotine.
sebastian··on Pirate Bay officially loses case
“We can’t pay and we wouldn’t pay if we could. If I would have money I would rather burn everything I owned.”

"As for the fate of the site, Peter has already promised that The Pirate Bay will continue. The site itself was never on trial, only the four individuals listed above."

I LOVE Peter's attitude. I will always be a big supporter of the Pirate Bay.

File sharing is NOT stealing.

sebastian··on Poll: What matters most when considering a job?
Personal Time (BIG time) & environment/atmosphere
sebastian··on LightCloud: Distributed key-value database built on Tokyo Tyrant
Isn't memcachedb faster?

Comparing the posted benchmark results with http://memcachedb.org/benchmark.html

You get around 2800 r/s using LightCloud vs. around 64000 r/s using Memcachedb

and around 1080 w/s using LightCloud vs. around 23500 w/s using Memcachedb.

I would be interested in seeing some benchmarks that compare both.

I really like LightCloud's idea of automatic scaling, failover and load balancing.

sebastian··on Delete 10 Facebook friends, get a free Whopper
Brilliant!
sebastian··on One day challenge: Building a fun consumer app in 24 hours.
Dev time is looking good. Won't be posting updates here anymore. To check for updates visit my twitter http://twitter.com/sebastianmacias
sebastian··on One day challenge: Building a fun consumer app in 24 hours.
Completed Twitter user model and first manager methods 4 hours and 35 minutes so far
sebastian··on One day challenge: Building a fun consumer app in 24 hours.
Twittmarks.com Update Completed app authentication, now working on django models. 3 hours and 23 minutes so far.
sebastian··on One day challenge: Building a fun consumer app in 24 hours.
01:02 pm: Was able to authenticate against twitter API
sebastian··on One day challenge: Building a fun consumer app in 24 hours.
11:06 am: Completed setting up local media server and proxy apache server, creating textmate project, development starts 11:24 am: Completed mysql database setup and django settings tweaking, working on URL conf and first view 11:44 am: Going to chiplote (previous lunch engagement, should be back in 30 minutes) 12:21 pm: back from chiplote, researching twitter API
sebastian··on One day challenge: Building a fun consumer app in 24 hours.
Twittmarks.com Concept: A Webapp that allows you to view & manage bookmarks shared in twitter (by you and your friends) in a del.icio.us fashion
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