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¡Qué noticia tan emocionante! RubyMotion te permite crear aplicaciones para iOS (iPhone, iPad) usando Ruby. Tienes acceso a todas las APIs, es compilado (el ejecutable es veloz, veloz), hay una REPL alucinante y todo sobre la línea de comandos. Esto es del mismo desarrollador de MacRuby, garantía de un producto sólido.
Por el momento miro de lejos la posibilidad de hacer desarrollos para iOS, pero si algún día me animo, de hecho incluyo en el presupuesto una licencia.
Para el mes de Abril que pasó me propuse escribir en mi diario todos los días. Cada mañana, en lugar de revisar mi correo y feeds RSS, lanzaba Momento app. A veces mi intención era escribir algo breve, mas por inercia terminaba escribiendo entradas largas.
Cada puntito naranja es una o más entradas en mi diario, uno azul es uno o más feeds propios (este blog, Twitter, Facebook, etc).
He disfrutado un montón leyendo este artículo de 1982 sobre un escritor (James Fallows), su primera computadora y la fascinación con muchas cosas que a nosotros nos son naturales.
For six months, I found it awkward to compose first drafts on the computer. Now I can hardly do it any other way. It is faster to type this way than with a normal typewriter, because you don’t need to stop at the end of the line for a carriage return (the computer automatically «wraps» the words onto the next line when you reach the right-hand margin), and you never come to the end of the page, because the material on the screen keeps sliding up to make room for each new line. It is also more satisfying to the soul, because each maimed and misconceived passage can be made to vanish instantly, by the word or by the paragraph, leaving a pristine green field on which to make the next attempt.
Lo que me parece más interesante del artículo son las acertadas observaciones del escritor sobre cómo la computadora ha cambiado su vida. Por ejemplo, acerca del tiempo:
Computers cause another, more insidious problem, by forever distorting your sense of time. When I first saw the system in the back room at Optek, I was so dazzled by the instantaneous deletion of sentences and movement of paragraphs that I thought I could never want anything more. When the scientists at Optek warned me about certain bottlenecks, I had to stifle my laughter. In particular, they warned me that I might grow impatient with tape recorders as a way to store data. You have to understand, they told me, it can take five or ten minutes to load a long draft into the computer from tapes, whereas a disk drive (which would add a thousand dollars to the cost) could do the job in seconds. Typical vulgarians of the machine age, I told myself.
The good news, at least if you use GMail, is that you can make your email virtually hacker-proof today, provided you own a cell phone. The fancy geek technical term for this is two factor authentication, but that doesn’t matter right now. What matters is that until you turn this on, your email is vulnerable. So let’s get started. Not tomorrow. Not next week. Right. Freaking. Now.
Lo he activado. Será un poco incómodo pero ese es el precio por la seguridad extra. Quisiera tener lo mismo para mi correo con Joyent.
Demoscene – The Art of the Algorithms:
Wired called them, digital graffiti and John Carmack spoke of them at QuakeCon 2011 but they remain little known. A recently released full-length documentary gives a portrait of the creative digital subculture from 80s to the present day.
Hay un montón de enlaces a videos e historia.
¿Sabían que Oliver y yo teníamos un grupo? Se llamaba «Negative Edge,» pero nunca llegamos a terminar ninguna demo. Aah, tiempos aquellos.
Manga Artist Yusuke Murata Creates the Most Innovative Comic You’ll See This Week:
Over the past few years there’s been a lot of dicussion about what you can do with the «infinite canvas» of digital comics that you just cannot do with traditional paper and ink. It’s worth remembering, however, that there are things you can do with those traditional tools that you can’t do with anything else — and in an amazing comic posted to his Twitter account, Eyeshield 21 artist Yusuke Murata has done ‘em all.
Tim Tebow ignores Brady Quinn’s slights while serving as dream date for 9-year-old:
In recent days, comments putting Tim Tebow under friendly fire were released, with Broncos backup quarterback Brady Quinn, questioning Tebow’s public displays of faith in an interview with Yahoo! Sports’ own Michael Silver (and then swiftly apologizing for those very comments). So many have wondered why Tebow didn’t speak up about the scathing commentary from a teammate. It turns out there’s a good reason for that: He was preoccupied fulfilling the dream of a 9-year-old with a severe tumor disorder.
Hacker Monthly: It’s the best of the Internet, printed out, and it’s turning a profit:
Lim Cheng Soon’s story defies convention. It’s a story about the value of curation, the value of community, and, for some, the lasting value of print.
Lim is addicted to Hacker News, the popular social news site, and he wanted to solve his own problem of information overload — “to be able to go offline [entirely] and not to miss out,” he says. So he decided to start gathering up some of the most popular posts from the site and printing them in a magazine he called Hacker Monthly.
