I have been wondering about several things lately. Lets take for example a loan I get a paper from a bank normally that says they are going to give me several other little papers in exchange for me giving back even more papers in several years. Now the good thing about this is that those little papers turn into something useful for example a place to live so people actually care about .
Another example is when you know something that you know will benefit others but you are not allowed to say it, for example there is a way to gain an advantage in getting more papers than what you should get, now the thing is that part of the agreement for you to get more papers involves not telling anyone that you are actually getting more papers because that will generate a momentum that will end up in even more papers being push out. Now the dilema is after you got your papers how there is nothing stopping you from hanging out the information, but whoever gave you the papers trusts in that you won’t release said information.
Another good way of trust is when you are working, you actually give part of your live (according to the local papers it’s 44hours per week) and you are trusting that after 2 or 4 weeks depending on your trust agreement, you will get some papers which you will eventually take to someone else that trusts he can give those papers to someone else so we all get what we want, or don’t want but need or simple don’t want but someone is making us get them.
So in the end the economy is just a huge trust network in which everyone is just trusting the other part doing good, now the most interesting part of everything is that no one trusts on the other part, and yet the only way they can live in society is with trust, irony is beautiful….
I just wanted to point out this great book someone send me the other day. I’m not sure of it was because my situation is very simular, and in fact I have reach the last chapter (both in my life and reading it). And even though I had no rockefeller I knew it was time some time ago. Here is the ebook, and yes it’s in spanish.
I have seen a pattern lately and I want to be sure it’s not just a coincidence.
About a year ago a friend of mine announced she was leaving to study a masters in Spain. Something is business as that’s what she studied. After that a dear friend of mine moved over to USA to work, then another business friend went to Spain, and another friend moved over to Argentina. I know someone that is planning on leaving to Australia and another for Canada. I know at least 3 more people that already left to USA. Yesterday yet another friend told me she was going to Spain for yet another master in business, and she is probably going to get married to her boyfriend and he is going to go with her. she also told me she knows a lot of people from our university are doing that too; and no, she doesn’t knows the first two that are already in Spain. Another ex-coworker is going to Spain soon although the time is not business as she is on IT. And I just read the girlfriend of the guy in Argentina is going to Spain.
That makes it at least 15 people I know that are doing i. Now what I find interesting is that all of them share the following. They where great students, they are great people, they excel at their work, and they are not thinking of coming back. They all belong to either IT or business administration, and it seems that business is going to Spain and IT to USA. Now what puzzles me is why? And I think it’s because they have reach the top in here. Not the top as in they are the big boss of their company or CEO, the top as there is nothing better to do than the boring day to day go nowhere maintenance of systems. (note both people and software systems). I’m almost certain most of them are not leaving because of the money, they know they will expend much more money and they won’t win that much, and some of them know how hard moving to another country can be. But I think they are just looking to get out of the loop.
There are time when being ovidient bytes you in the ass.
For example the shell and rm, yes you know where I’m going. It turns out that the following command inside a makefile @rm -rf $(PREFIX)/bin/deluge does something really extrange. And yes it’s all my fault because I force it twice.
For some reason the r flag went to $(PREFIX)/bin and deleted everything, which I’m stil confused as to why.
ohh yes and $(PREFIX) was set to /usr, lovely isn’t it?
any ideas of how can I restore those files? I assume if I get the basic binaries for installing .deb it will show me the broken packages (read: all packages) then I could reinstall them all?
update: So I got a liveCD and reinstalled my / keeping intact the home, this is one of the things I love about unix, even my windows positions where intact all I had to do was use the same username.
The editing commands he shows are great. I guess what we need is more resources like this. Most vi/vim manuals out there focus on showing what each feature is and what it can do they are well … boring. With this article half way thru it I was writing the things in my vim and being impress for example I had no idea such thing as ]] existed and I knew about ‘c’ also about ‘%’ but “c%” is just amazing!
I need to write a document and I said I’ll give abiword a try, when I reach for the spell checker it just didn’t work… I fire up google and found nothing so I reach for IRC and ended up in #abiword on gnome servers.
While there “sum1″ help me (thanks man) and it turns out I didn’t had the spell check libraries also for some reason abiword is not showing a popup (on my machine) complaining it’s not there.
I know a LOT of people have said the same thing before, but jobs has a great way of talking. Ohh by the way it has spanish subtitles if you care about it…
lets start with a wikiquote “in computer science, a user interface that allows navigation of objects with a connecting structure”, from Browser, Now most people when saying “browser” they refer to a Web Browser, now the only real difference is that the Web browser is specialized in reading html and anything related to it; therefore a web browser is just a UI to look at data, which if you look at it is the same thing most desktop applications do.
webapps now
Today webapplications are basicallly a db, and a logic layer that translate the db into something the web browser undestands. The best combination of this right now is implemented as xhtml + CSS with javascript async calls that return formatted XML that gets inserted by DOM manipulation into the original xhtml file, of couse the last part is the “heat” webapps are currently getting because today they are finally not slow.
Here are the current problems they have
session management, the current implementation of this is very hackish
offline access, most browsers suck at this and they can’t catch most data that is transfer today.
of course 3D graphics is out of the question, since this is a whole new realm, although what could happen
webapps in the future
browsers are going to grow into more complex platforms the first steps are firefox extensions take something like flock which is a totally different app yet still firefox, or kupu that powers plone’s editor, look at it in action here (warning huge download) look at some of the most interesting extensions like allpeers
Now this is just the beggining lots of browsers are in the making like venice pro Joost, songbird and the democracy player to name a flew.
and many more will come…
So yes green IMO webapps are the future, it’s just that we don’t know what they are going to evolve into.