albertoavila

I want to address one of your points, I work here in the US under a work visa for a FAANG company. I disagree with your idea that it's somehow unfair/evil that I was "stolen" from my home country.

I decided to come work to the US, no one "stole me" from nowhere, and I don't think it's somewhat unfair to my home country that I decided to do so, just as the many immigrants I met and worked with back in my home country in the tech sector.

I feel that hard to believe, if anything, I would say foreign workers are more expensive than local talent, in big tech firms they are paid just the same as Americans, but they come with added expenses due to international relocation, visa feeds, etc.

* I might be biased thou, since I work on the US under a work Visa.

Most of them can, but few would, I for one feel it's outrageous to expect candidates to work 3 full days as a recruitment process, I'm sure I can find something better without having to take half a week off.

GDL has a thriving technical community and getting bigger every day, the founder of the startup for which i work for has an special interest on making Guadalajara Mexico's technological hub and wants to create success stories to bring more inversion and companies to the city.

I think a big advantage of Guadalajara over Mexico City is that it's a big enough city without the downsides of a huge metropolis, and is very affordable for engineers to live on pretty good areas, i bike about 10 minutes to work every day and love it.

Please do!

Drop me a line at my username @gmail.com if he would consider working for a startup based on SF but with its engineering team based on Guadalajara, México. We mostly do django, flask and angularjs and are not worried on getting someone with his experience on our team.

My vote goes for native, i've built a series of wrapped html applications and the experience always is awful, as soon as you try to target something other than an iOS device you get tons of hard to fix bugs, awful performance and a bunch of weird glitches.

Going native takes only some more time at the beginning, but as every technology you can only get better at it with time, I would totally recommend avoiding wasting your time with hybrid solutions (Cordova) and go straight native (I know i wish i had).

Nice, that will help me to forget the guilt of asking the guard a "proven" truth ;)

Actually you can use a while loop, i couldn't figure out the syntax for a "for" loop but while works fine.

I loved that question, it helps you to get into the mood of the game.

Going after your own venture while you also need to support your family is frightening and yet inspiring.

I wish the best of luck to you and your team.

Kirai[1] is also huge on the spanish speaking otaku communities, could be helpful if you get him to write a blog entry about your service.

He also lives on japan, and last time i read his blog he worked on twitter.

http://www.kirainet.com/

That's weird, I'm on Mexico and we've had those features for several weeks now. While you are watching a film you can choose to not share a specific title. I've seen the feature both on the PC and on the PS3.

Maybe they did their test drive with the non-us version?

EDIT: Nevermind, i read further down on the comments how that feature was removed previously from the us version due to legal reasons.

It's a very evil standpoint for Microsoft, and should bring a couple of red flags to great efforts like wine and mono.

Hopefully Oracle will lose the appeal and we will keep a little more of sanity on the software world.

I was involved on a project which were actually two very similar applications.

What we did was create one gem for each specific special behavior of the app, were we declared some methods as extension points which the base app should call, in that scenario prepending methods would be useful, we could declare dummy empty methods to be overwritten later on by a module.

What we needed to do because of the lack of prepending modules was that each module implementation should implement all of the extensions points even when it was not needed, so, some times we had some dummy empty methods on one of the specific modules, i would have preferred to have those dummy methods on the main project itself.

It's weird that this question keeps coming out in several cool but not that useful HN posts.

Some times it's cool to do things just because you can, maybe he was bored or he always wanted to implement a lisp dialect.

It might not be that useful, but i'm sure that the autor had a blast doing it, otherwise he wouldn't have done it.

Sencha Touch + Phonegap, as it turns out it's not very pleasant to try to make a good looking responsive multiplatform app, specially with android browser weirdness and bugs.

Lesson learn, if you care about the user experience there is no other way than native.

That's great, gracias!

It looks awesome but sadly i cannot use it with my childs due to the language, i would love to see a translation to spanish.

It would be cool to have that kind of resource so they can use it while i'm not at home, even tough the most fun is when we all are into it.

If anyone know of a cool book or resource on spanish for them to read on their own i would love if you could drop a line.

I loved to read Joel, I was surprised when he announced he would not be writing again, same thing with Yegge. Obviously they get to choose what to do on they spare time, but damn, i miss those long blog posts.

I'm not surprised, but yet, i'm somewhat disapointed that it doesn't take into account your country to filter netflix releases, it looks like a cool site but it's not as useful to people on other countries.

Same here with latam keyboard layout, the problem seems to be on every symbol on the keyboard number row, ej. =, /, &, etc.

Some color blind people are more affected than others on their same color blind group.

In my experience doing an Ishihara test (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_perception_test) whith someone else while telling them what are you seeing on each pod does wonders to make them understand specifically what shades of color cause you troubles, that's how my wife got to understand my color blindess.

The website just has a couple of articles but looks promising.

I'm color blind and know the frustration to not be able to play some videogames or read charts which use very similar colors (at least to me).

A lot of people don't even understand what color blind really is, it's a funny thing to explain what it is and joke about it with new friends / coworkers when the subject comes along.

At least my coworkers now ask me first when choosing color coded post-it for the current project ;).

Hey!, it's seems pretty similar indeed, obviously your lib seems to have a lot more of work put into it than my quick hack, seems pretty cool.

The code looks for the post container element, so, if the layout is changed you would need to change at most just the parent css selector, and old links would still be working, but would stop working if the post is edited, i.e. a new paragraph was added.

It wouldn't be a problem to encode the selected text and look for it, actually that's how the selecting works, i get the selected text and look for it on the document,striping html tags and finding all the elements which contains part of the selected string, only then i enconde the relative position on the dom tree of the node to be able to look for it later (The 9-1 stuff).

The problem with encoding the text is that the url could get pretty long pretty easily, but that could be solved if the server stored it and you got only a hash to look it up, that would have the benefit of the highligting links to keep working if the post is edited partially.

The 9-1 is the node hierarchy needed to find out where to start the highlighting, it's something like look for the 10nth child and then find the second child of that element (zero based index).

If you have a more complex markup it becomes apparent, for example, if you selected something inside <p><span></span><strong><em>Text</em></strong></p> it would look like 0-1-0-0

The last part is exactly what you suggested, it's just the dom content substring.

Another thing that it's not evident is that the selected text can transverse trough html elements, for example, start inside a span and end outside that span.

Sadly that blog is not under my control, maybe i should try to blow the dust off that code and make a sample page.

I actually did something like that a few months ago: https://gist.github.com/3050333

Only the problem was a bit different, I wanted to be able to select a section of a blog post to generate a url fragment representing that selection, so, if you shared it, that section would be highlighted when entering the page, but the underlying problem is the same, example:

http://gnozin.com/sobremesa/2012/07/02/buena_venta/#highligh...

This is great!,

There has ben more than a few times that I've wished to be able to do this while browsing trough random github repos, kudos to the developer, this looks very handy!