Archive for April, 2009

I dont usually do this, but i had to… I found this is the supermarket today in Mexico City, im sure its the cause of swine flu.

In programming (and many other things) there’s a word to describe incredible concentration, better work and amazing productivity. A lot of people have told me that they take from 10 to 20 minutes to get in the zone; but its not always easy.
So if you’re having problems right now or just want to have a [...]

One of my favorite rock-star programmers is Paul Graham, not only because of what he did to the LISP Community and he’s support on the start-up Community everywhere but also because he really thought me something with he’s essay Startups in 13 sentences. The second point of that list is to “Launch fast”!
“The reason to [...]

Word frecuency

In: code

13 Apr 2009

In my last blog-post I proposed a fast Perl script to crawl a wordpress blog and get the titles of all the post in any site. So with that information in hand I went and started crawling the web!
I want to analyze the relationship between number of post’s, time, frequency of words, incoming and outgoing [...]

I found a very handy Perl script in devtrench and decided to capture the titles of all the post of some of my favorite blogs and do some statistics with them. Get the most repeated words, how many of their titles includes numbers ( the 5 best way, 45 tutorials) etc. So right now I’m crawling [...]

We all know the problems that are impacting the world-wide economy and how everything is going to be harder, expensive and worse every day. Thankfully this is a crisis created by the old school of economics. The giant business corporations and the mindless loan decisions created a very weird economy where very dumb decisions appear [...]

Turing created a lot of what lead to the modern computer while trying to crack the Enigma code in the second world war.  The reason we have powerful helicopters helping to build communication antennas in Africa is because of the Vietnam war. The list of technologies created to aid countries win wars is incredible large(and powerful) [...]

Today at the web 2.0 expo, Ryan Sarver talked about the W3C location API that is currently on draft but its closer than ever. Of course the API will change a little bit in the next couple of months but i do believe it will keep the essence of how it is today. 
Basically its a [...]


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