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Re:Spain's 'Google tax' on Saturday July 26, 2014 @07:45PM (#8091305)
I agree with you until last paragraph. As I said in another reply, I think that this law is based on economical protection of the two main political parties.

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.

Re:Spain's 'Google tax' on Saturday July 26, 2014 @07:34PM (#8091267)
Spanish user here.

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.

Re:Girls and Software on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @03:08AM (#7216458)
Oh, I think I also went through something similar.

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.

Feedback: It is a little bit frustrating being able to see only 10 per page. It makes me think about scrapping the site for the keywords that I am interested.

Good job. Some cool domains there, added to tools bookmark.

Re:Show HN: Floobits – Remote pair programming done right on Thursday July 18, 2013 @03:08PM (#6065745)
Awesome tool.

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? :)

My girlfriend brother is Asperger too: Bad grades, excellent knowledges about grammar and strange words, obsessed with League of Legends (a videogame), reading and sometimes astrology.

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.

Re:Court orders UK ISPs to block more piracy sites on Thursday February 28, 2013 @08:32AM (#5298547)
Agree with you, except on the use of "steal".

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

Re:Writing efficient CSS selectors on Thursday February 28, 2013 @08:01AM (#5298454)
Do really selectors work that way?

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.

Re:The one million tweet map on Thursday October 25, 2012 @06:02AM (#4697002)
Maybe other people does not appreciate your work, but my girlfriend (who study marketing) and me have gained some insight about Twitter users and countries with Internet access [1].

Great work and thank you!

[1] I know this last is arguable: In some countries, Twitter is not the main microblogging service.

Re:Web crawling and downloading ebooks with phantomJS on Sunday June 17, 2012 @04:50PM (#4123804)
No problem, smoyer. I take it to first person because I thought that my personal experience could be a interesting answer.

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.

Re:Web crawling and downloading ebooks with phantomJS on Sunday June 17, 2012 @01:35PM (#4123357)
"I guess that means that each e-book only has to be sold once in your country?"

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.

Re:Web crawling and downloading ebooks with phantomJS on Sunday June 17, 2012 @08:00AM (#4122760)
In my country there is no problem in sharing copyrighted content as long as do not receive economical profit. Also, I have found the example very practical as introduction.
Re:Data.gov is open source on Thursday June 14, 2012 @04:16AM (#4110326)
I found two catalogs with a lot of links

- Wiki of Open Data Day: http://www.opendataday.org/wiki/Data

- Comunity section of data.gov: http://www.data.gov/community

Re:Data.gov is open source on Thursday June 14, 2012 @03:13AM (#4110203)
I think that having a list of open data country sources could be interesting.

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?

Just for your knowledge, "follo" in spanish means "I fuck". So your brand sounds a bit like "I fuck words".
Re:Why I will always love RSS on Sunday May 06, 2012 @12:14PM (#3935464)
Lockpicking is one of my hobbies from one year. Is incredible fun and challenging.

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.

Re: on Friday March 23, 2012 @11:40AM (#3745607)
I am unable to see the point in showing the premium content with a div on top. We are completely able to select and copy&paste it or save the page deleting .well container.

Anyway, in spite of critics about the idea, is nice to see GWT + Bootstrap together.

Re:Apple's domains on Wednesday March 21, 2012 @08:16PM (#3737561)
It have been replied on top by @michaelpinto : "it seems like it was part of an old project: http://www.quora.com/Why-did-Apple-purchase-Mammals-org-and-...
Re:Your identity ≠ Your code on Wednesday March 21, 2012 @09:08AM (#3734160)
The good part: You get more compelled to improve your programming skills and style. The bad part: Lot of procrastination and fear of rejection.

I think that just loving the process of developing and solving problems is a better approach.

Re:Employers ask job seekers for Facebook passwords on Tuesday March 20, 2012 @06:59PM (#3732128)
This is not this reportable?
Re:World’s First Flying File-Sharing Drones in Action on Tuesday March 20, 2012 @06:52PM (#3732101)
A great idea, but in my country would be targeted by stones and vandalism.
Re:Thank you, HN on Tuesday March 20, 2012 @02:14PM (#3730670)
Enough to motivate me to register an account after being one year reading.