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August 2011

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So you got a new HD TV from Samsung and when you’re about to watch that Bluray or stream that 1080p HD stream, movies and tv shows look like they were shot with an amateur camera… Here’s the fix.

1. Menu
2. Picture: Mode [Enter]
3. Picture Options [Enter]
4. Auto Motion Plus, set it to “Clear”

Voila.

Something as simple as the invention and adoption of bread was a key driver for the foundations of agriculture and the evolution of civilization.

I think the outlook of the future is not so good when we look at the eating habits of the average american person, which seems to be similar to other consumption habits in American society. We eat crap, we buy crap, we watch crap, we listen to crap, we waste time on stupid things, the top search trends on Google show that americans just care about gossip and vanal things.

If the future of this country depends on the majority of the people in it (and not in a brilliant few that drive innovation and cannibalize on the majority), I think american supremacy has its days numbered, not to mention that we’re going to keep spending a lot of money on healthcare thanks to our eating habits.

So you wanted to create a Custom Shape on photoshop but you started drawing a path because of the nature of what you were doing (or because you forgot to change the pen mode to Shape) and now when you want to right click > “Define Custom Path…” it’s disabled in the menu.

Here’s the solution:

1. Select the path with the path selection tool.
2. Go to Layer > New Fill Layer > Solid Color. (Or use the Create new fill or adjustment layer button in the layers palette)
3. You have turned a path into a new shape layer.

I suck at small talk, I like to think about other things, all my true friends aren’t here so I thought I might as well meet some other like minded people by recording a series of thought starters.

On this first episode I talk about realizing that the complexity of the world depends directly on the level of interactions that humans have with each other. The more of us that can do more specialized things, when working together bring technology forward. Therefore, think of all the things that will come out as the internet (and other technologies) empowers us to work together on all fields of human knowledge.

If I get enough traction the plan is to shoot outside, in HD, edit to minimize playback time and save you time, and basically produce a whole season (22 episodes each)

#iwasthinking

I realized last night that the possibility our minds have to create mental models outside the physical world (abstractions) the internet works so well.

I think my mental model of the internet reality is several orders of magnitude larger to that which I’ve experienced in the physical world, and in a way sometimes it seems more tangible because we can interact with these abstract models like if we had super powers.

Now imagine connecting for the first time to the internet today, and having lived all your life without using its benefits to your advantages. Without guiding hands and coming to the realization that you are a “new born” dealing with the likes of some of us who have been here for well over 15 years, and who have had the time to create a more accurate mental model of what the internet really is, it must be quite scary and fascinating joining this world today, probably way more exciting than it was for you or for me because there’s already all of these possibilities many of us dreamed of having at first, to the newbie, the internet culture crash course must be quite intimidating.

Going back to the mental models we make out of internet websites, services, protocols, brands, any internet entrepreneur should know that to all these newbies you have the same chance of looking as big as coca cola on the internet, to the many new users if you provide a great experience and something unique you will be as big as you can in their minds.

Reading the chapter on Criticisms against the singularity, the strongest one so far, the one to which Kurzweil makes a really weak argument using the example of the “Busy Beaver” problem is putting Godel’s incompleteness theorems and Turings and Church’s findings of the limitations of logic and math to solve problems.

Kurzweil basically has no counter argument against this, yet he tries to distract the reader with the Tibor Rado’s “Busy Beaver” problem. He says they managed to compute the Busy Beaver function for a number of N’s that would be impossible for any human to calculate, however, this is merely an example of how a computer can handle more numbers better than humans, yet, this is no example of how logic could be different in a turing machine than from the human brain.

Given enough time (probably till the end of it), human beings could in theory compute those results, given the computers that can do it were programmed with human logic. This also means, that if there are unsolvable problems (on which immortality could well be one of them), a turing machine (a computer) would not be able to solve given the limitations of logic and math.

Top 10 jugadores de DiccionarioChimbo.com [Noviembre 2011]

Ranking actualizado Wed Nov 30 20:50:26 EST 2011

1. @ninja_gayden Total Score: 2230 – Content: 610 – Social: 75 – Bonus: 1545

2. @gubatron Total Score: 1350 – Content: 150 – Social: 1155 – Bonus: 45
3. @HelyPuerto Total Score: 1015 – Content: 670 – Social: 15 – Bonus: 330
4. @Davidilusionist Total Score: 520 – Content: 100 – Social: 0 – Bonus: 420
5. @Arrastra0 Total Score: 475 – Content: 10 – Social: 0 – Bonus: 465
6. @KevinAlej Total Score: 470 – Content: 110 – Social: 0 – Bonus: 360
7. @pachecogeorge Total Score: 355 – Content: 220 – Social: 0 – Bonus: 135
8. @Erika_Pellman Total Score: 275 – Content: 140 – Social: 0 – Bonus: 135
9. @Jhuvens Total Score: 210 – Content: 180 – Social: 0 – Bonus: 30
10. @kthy93 Total Score: 195 – Content: 60 – Social: 0 – Bonus: 135

Lanzamiento Tentativo, 2da. semana de Diciembre

Ya tenemos una API, con la cual hemos estado capturando y estabilizando durante los ultimos meses para calcular todos estos rankings, y organizar las palabras y definiciones que han enviado.

Tenemos Logo, y diseño web listo. Tambien tenemos el home page listo.

Que falta?

- La pagina de Palabra, donde mostramos una palabra y todas las definiciones.
- La pagina de Usuario, donde se muestran todas las palabras y definiciones que ha creado un usuario. A futuro aqui tambien tendremos “achievements”
- Búsqueda.

- Otras paginas como Politica de privacidad, Terminos de Uso, Acerca de, etc, pero podemos lanzar sin estas.

No quiero mostrar nada aun para poder sorprenderles. Apenas respire mato todo eso.

Mientras tanto sigan jugando!, @ninja_gayden felicitaciones por ser la ganadora de este mes, aunque no prometimos ningun premio igual te vas a ganar algo :)

Trabajo

Una vez que lanzemos el sitio vamos a estar contratando personas en diferentes areas dependiendo de como se desarrolle todo. Estaremos buscando programadores, diseñadores gráficos, online-socialites, community managers, business developers y vendedores.

Interesados deben tener cuenta PayPal (para recibir sus pagos), pueden estar en cualquier parte del mundo, y pueden enviarme una carta a gubatron@gmail.com diciendome pq quieren y deben ser parte de diccionariochimbo.com. Si aplicas para la posición de business developer esperamos creatividad y algo de tu visión de negocios sobre que se puede hacer con diccionariochimbo.com (ten en cuenta que tenemos pensando en decenas de modelos de negocio desde hace mas de 10 meses)

Stay tuned, it is happening.

Maybe there’s someone out there who needs to read the output of lighttpd’s status for monitoring purpose like me tonight, and also, like me, you want to do this using JavaScript, but your browser gives you this nasty error:

XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://otherSubdomain.server.com/lighttpd-status-url-you-have-configured. Origin http://requestingSubdomain.server.com is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin.

lighttpd allows you to add a custom header for all requests by adding this in a given context:

setenv.add-response-header = ( "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" => "*" )

For this to work, you must enable the mod_setenv.

But if you don’t enable this module, before you enable your mod_status module, you will never see the custom headers come out of your lighttpd HTTP response header output.

So make sure you enable mod_setenv like this:

server.modules              = (
            "mod_fastcgi",
            "mod_auth",
            "mod_access",
            "mod_alias",
            "mod_accesslog",
#           "mod_simple_vhost",
            "mod_rewrite",
            "mod_redirect",
            "mod_setenv", #before mod_status, very important!
            "mod_status",
#           "mod_evhost",
           "mod_compress",
...

The header output of your lighttpd status page should look like this now:

Access-Control-Allow-Origin:*
Content-Length:5952
Content-Type:text/html
Date:Wed, 30 Nov 2011 01:27:04 GMT
Server:lighttpd/1.4.28

Hope this helps you.