lince | 11 years ago | on: Spain's 'Google tax'
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lince | 11 years ago | on: Spain's 'Google tax'
The main political parties have economic interest in mass media companies (like PRISA group). They are covering the hand who feds them.
Talking with other citiziens, they have no idea about this law being passed or does not support it.
lince | 12 years ago | on: Girls and Software
At 15, my parents denied me every kind of interaction with computers except for talking with my girlfriend.
I created a MSN Messenger fake with various recorded videos for different days that replayed some of our text conversations. That gave me a lot of time to code my backdoors and others silly projects at age.
At one point my father became suspicious because I spent more time on others windows that on chat one, but the fake was reasonably credible.
A few years ago my father and me shared some laughs when I told him about two things: The one that I have just told and that the worm that made us reinstall the OS was me collecting the beautiful icons in "system32" folder.
lince | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: MightyName.com – Search over 4.7M available English .com domains
Good job. Some cool domains there, added to tools bookmark.
lince | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: Floobits – Remote pair programming done right
I don't know why, but I was expecting a place to get in touch to other programmers to do Pair Programming (i.e. for small katas or side projects). Does it exists?
If it doesn't, does anyone wants to have a bit of fun doing Pair Programming to create it together? :)
lince | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: Best way to teach programming to a person with Asperger+ADD?
I am sorry, watson, because I have no magic pills.
I understand your worry in making him able to live without depending on someone else resources. We are too trying to achieve the same that you, but we are doing it slowly because we are sure that if he knows what we are planning he will never perceive it as interesting.
At the moment, we have been able to make him somewhat interested about the technical part of computers doing him a demo of "security pentesting": We (I, with him at my side making jokes and enjoing the process and asking) did some arp and dns spoofing, also played with sslstrip and he loved to know about the mechanics.
Advancing from there it's not being easy. Web development seems a good path for us too because you can easily see the results. The problem is making him interested enough to do it by himself.
I'm adding this thread to bookmarks. Please, tell about any progress that you did and ask if you think that there is something we can share with you.
lince | 13 years ago | on: Court orders UK ISPs to block more piracy sites
You steal when the owner lose the original. What happens in BitTorrent/FTP is copy.
More about in copy is not theft video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTybKL1pM4
lince | 13 years ago | on: Writing efficient CSS selectors
I always though that if I had:
#social a
The browser first get the social, then the "a" tag and analyze and store it in some DOM tree style information.
lince | 13 years ago | on: The one million tweet map
Great work and thank you!
[1] I know this last is arguable: In some countries, Twitter is not the main microblogging service.
lince | 13 years ago | on: Web crawling and downloading ebooks with phantomJS
Recommendations are great once you both have some favorites books in common. Because of that, I always check the Amazon's "Other people also bough" section.
lince | 13 years ago | on: Web crawling and downloading ebooks with phantomJS
No.
It means that you can read a book and, if you really like it, you can buy it. It means that you can discover new authors, topics and so without a huge investment.
This can sound demagogic: I have never had enough money to buy the books I wanted, nor to waste it trying to discover new books and topics. But with downloaded books I learned about tech and other fields. Eventually, I bough more books (a lot from U.S) than if I had not discovered these topics.
Allowing private sharing (as long as there are not profit) and supporting authors are not in direct confrontation. In my humble opinion and personal experience, they are correlated.
lince | 13 years ago | on: Web crawling and downloading ebooks with phantomJS
lince | 13 years ago | on: Data.gov is open source
- Wiki of Open Data Day: http://www.opendataday.org/wiki/Data
- Comunity section of data.gov: http://www.data.gov/community
lince | 13 years ago | on: Data.gov is open source
At the moment we have:
- USA
data.gov [linked by ahi]
- City of Philadelphia
http://opendataphilly.org/ [linked by luigi]
- Spain
https://datospublicos.jottit.com/ [spanish link, sources not very parsing friendly]
Which else do you know?
lince | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: I'm releasing. 6months, 1dev. Looking for beta users
lince | 13 years ago | on: Why I Hate Test Driven Development
lince | 14 years ago | on: Why I will always love RSS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_%28standard%29#Atom_compa...
lince | 14 years ago | on: Learn to Pick Locks for Fun and an Increased Understanding of Security
If you want to start, I recommend you reading the MIT Lockpicking guide. It have the basics: http://www.lysator.liu.se/mit-guide/MITLockGuide.pdf
You can found a cheap lockpicking set here: https://www.dealextreme.com/p/advanced-9-piece-set-lock-pick...
Also start opening cheap padlocks so you can get your first success fast and get motivated.
lince | 14 years ago
Anyway, in spite of critics about the idea, is nice to see GWT + Bootstrap together.
lince | 14 years ago | on: Apple's domains
The lack of knowledge of foreign languages is clearly a issue. I think that our country is solving this making B1 mandatory to get you graduated and enforcing bilingual basic education on the capital. Not so much, but it seems to start giving some results.
We have to watch doubbed films when we're in groups because this problem. I know people that prefer original versions, but you can not exclude your friends when social watching.