November 2010
2 posts
Recuente USTED los votos →
En la primera vuelta de las elecciones presidenciales de Colombia de 2010 hubo rumores de fraude. A los pocos días se conocerse los resultados, varias personas publicaron casos en donde los…
October 2010
8 posts
Recuente USTED los votos
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En la primera vuelta de las elecciones presidenciales de Colombia de 2010 hubo rumores de fraude. A los pocos días se conocerse los resultados, varias personas publicaron casos en donde los…
A predictable web of data - the why of YQL →
A predictable web of data—the why of YQL. Christian Heilmann is moving from Yahoo! to Mozilla to head up their evangelism team, and has marked the occasion by releasing the first chapter of a…
El Mar Interior →
No sé cómo explicar lo que me pasó en estos días. Hoy desperté no sé a qué hora y hacía frío. No hacía frío cuando me fui. Cuando me fui a dormir. Cuando tropecé y caí en el abismo—el negro café…
Wolfram Blog : Do Computers Dumb Down Math... →
Shared by Greg Linden
Thought-provoking article on how computers should be used for math education. I love the example, increasingly sophisticated models of the trajectory of artillery shells…
A quote from Brendan Eich →
JS had to “look like Java” only less so, be Java’s dumb kid brother or boy-hostage sidekick. Plus, I had to be done in ten days or something worse than JS would have happened.
- Brendan Eich
Veni, Vidi, Verba Verti →
Posted by Jakob Uszkoreit, Ingeniarius Programmandi Ut munimenta linguarum convellamus et scientiam mundi patentem utilemque faciamus, instrumenta convertendi multarum nationum linguas creavimus….
September 2010
7 posts
A quote from Alex Payne →
While I don’t expect Twitter to master its own destiny as far as the decentralization of the medium goes, I do support the idea, and I hope that Twitter as a business can coexist with the need for…
August 2010
3 posts
Human computation and lemons →
NYU Professor Panos Ipeirotis has an insightful post, “Mechanical Turk, Low Wages, and the Market for Lemons”, that looks at why wages are so low, usually well below minimum wage, on Amazon’s…
sin tiempo →
Escuché la voz de mi mamá diciendo que a mi papá le estaba dando un ataque. En un momento como cualquier otro. Ver así a mi papá y minutos después estar corriendo sin zapatos por el callejón donde…
July 2010
6 posts
“And afterward? What happened afterward? (…) Our community falls suddenly...”
– Shah of Shahs, Ryszard Kapuściński.
June 2010
6 posts
Xtext: An IDE on the cheap →
The introduction of Helios (Eclipse 3.6) included the release of version 1.0 of Xtext - Language Development Framework.
With Xtext you can easily create your own programming languages and…
Trains, Tracks and Times →
After Transport For London released their new live departures API, and after Matthew Somerville made a Thing with it, I felt I had to have a go.Thus, I present Live Line, a visualisation of the…
“Aujourd’hui, il me semble que toute mon existence n’aura été qu’un enchainement...”
– Jean-Dominique Bauby
El parque →
Olavia Kite modela para una propaganda de seguros de vida. O de gaseosa. O de universidades.
Qué bueno que no nos suicidamos cuando hubo oportunidad porque no habríamos visto el…
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Los domingos de elecciones mi papá escuchaba por radio los boletines de la Registraduría y hacía
anotaciones en un cuaderno. Yo me quedaba parado en la puerta y me angustiaba
porque sabía que en…
y llovia y llovia →
Hoy era día de locos en el café Remor. Igual que el viernes es día de parejas y el sábado de familias con niños, el martes es el día en que abundan los locos en el café Remor.
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May 2010
12 posts
Friday Spoing: Mukthar’s Birthday →
A group of Copenhageners surprise their bus driver on his birthday:
Think that made him happy at work?
I wish you a very happy weekend.
Recent Accomplishments by Research Award... →
Posted by Maggie Johnson, Director of Education and University Relations Through Google’s University Relations program, we maintain strong ties with academic institutions globally, pursuing…
Patterns of Dynamic Typechecking →
Dynamic type tests are ubiquitous in programming. Regardless of whether the programming language is statically or dynamically typed, object-oriented or functional, the need to establish what sort of…
Color Survey Results →
Color Survey Results. XKCD asked anonymous netizens to provide names for random colours. The results (collated from 222,500 user sessions that named over 5 million colours) are fascinating.
April 2010
7 posts
Sobre el creciente escándalo por las "chuzadas"... →
URL Audio: http://media.rcn.com.co/audios/rcnradio/Editorial-abril13.mp3
Spreadsheets per Capita →
For each country, guess the gov domain, search on Google for “site:<domain> filetype:xls”, then divide the results by the population. A sample of the results ordered by this ratio:
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