Mostly about computer programming.
[Alternative title: “Copying Ideas Has Always be Fine”] From an email by Steve Jobs in 2011: [...] Strategy: catch up to Android where we are behind (notifications, tethering, speech, …) And now (2014) from Apple internal slides: (Translation: Smartphone sa…
Bob Martin defends the coupling between culture and practices in his latest blog post. According to him: “You know the culture you are in by observing the practices of the people around you. If you see a woman in a burka, you can guess her culture. If you se…
TL;DR: In my opinion, Bitcoin success depends mainly on beating credit cards, paypal and alike as a way to buy stuff online. It's unclear whether it will beat them. Read more to see why. Where Bitcoin has no future I'll start pointing out that Bitcoin is a bad…
Damien Nozay ported to Chrome the old fixed-width font trick I posted back in 2009/2010. Take a look at his gmail-fixed-width-chrome-extension. I forked the repo and added fixed font for the compose inputs too, which will hopefully be merged back in Damien's r…
It's been almost 2 years and a half since we presented this slides of a crazy idea in a Startup Chile meetup: Those ugly slides are the oldest public record of our intention to create an unprecedented community conference around programming languages, web te…
People who practiced waterfall methodologies were, at the time, looking for very local goals. For example: Rigorous, long, detailed, unambiguous specs were a desired result for braindead big-design-up-front people. A thorough manual test plan wa…
This guide is a gem for anyone interested in the technology startup world. Hopefully, I'll contribute back in the future by pointing out what might be different in the Chilean/Latin-American context. An Introduction to Stock & Options for the Tech Entrepre…
