Nuestra percepción habitual es que la violencia solo significa cambio, significa que ocurre algo […] La violencia está aquí constantemente para que las cosas sigan pacíficamente de la manera en que están
Slavoj Zizek – Pedir lo imposible
Category: Cultura
Creating, not finding
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Or finding anything. Life is about creating yourself, and create things.
Bob Dylan – Rolling Thunder Revue
Goodbye Uncanny Valley
An exploration into what happens when you are able to create visual stories that are indistinguishable from reality: post-truth, post-cinema, theoretical photorrealism.
Cómo funcionan realmente las cosas
Tú quieres creer en algún propósito oculto. Estás intentando convencerte de que hay una razón para todo lo que sucede en el mundo. Me da lo mismo cómo lo llames, Dios, suerte, armonía, todo viene a ser la misma gilipollez. Es una forma de rehuir los hechos, de negarse a mirar cómo funcionan realmente las cosas.
Paul Auster – La música del azar
The Cultural Defeat of Microsoft
Many people (by which I mean “many Windows users”) don’t realize the huge difference between “the Windows way of doing things” and, basically, everyone elses’ way, i.e: the POSIX world which comprises all of the Unices, Linux, BSD and even OS X.
Hugo Landau writes:
From the perspective of POSIX, Windows is “alien technology” […] Windows and POSIX are fundamentally different in many ways, and lead to further “cultural” differences in how software is developed on these platforms. Windows and POSIX, then, are two “cultures”, the technical differences of the core technology itself being only a small part of that.
Read the entire piece at: The Cultural Defeat of Microsoft
El placer de la erudición
Los perdedores, como los autodidactas, tienen siempre conocimientos más vastos que los ganadores. Si quieres ganar tienes que saber una cosa sola y no perder tiempo en sabértelas todas; el placer de la erudición está reservado a los perdedores.
Umberto Eco — Número Cero
Vivir en la sospecha
Vivimos en la mentira y, si sabes que te mienten, debes vivir instalado en la sospecha
Umberto Eco — Número Cero
David Bowie
There are many artists with career spanning several decades and many of them trying to fit into the current trends as well. But David Bowie was the only one who could actually be called a chameleon. He didn’t have to try to fit into new musical styles; he anticipated them, shaped them, and influenced their most relevant artists. And then, he could humbly create fantastic covers of one of their songs.
Using Bootstrap the right way
There are many ways to misuse Bootstrap, but it’s entirely possible to use it on a better way with a few tweaks on your process.
Use it as an external package
The greatest thing about Bower it’s not the ability to download whatever library or script but to use it as the package manager it’s intended to be, which primarily means to never modify packages installed with Bower.
There’s a simple reason for this: one of the key advantages of using a package manager is being able to keep your packages up-to-date, and since a package manager it’s not a version control system, whatever changes you make to an installed package will be lost with an update.
In the case of Bootstrap, here’s what I do:
What Open-Access Publishing Actually Costs
The Chronicle of Higher Education hace una revisión sobre los costos reales de las publicaciones de acceso abierto y algunas de las alternativas para lograr una publicación gratis para los usuarios pero que sin embargo se debe hacer cargo de costos en recursos humanos y técnicos.