Hacker News: juanpablo

To Sprite Or Not To Sprite (CSS)

juanpablo — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:19:24 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.vlad1.com/2009/06/22/to-sprite-or-not-to-sprite/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=670991

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by juanpablo in "The TED Augmented Reality Hoax"

juanpablo — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:56:10 +0000

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/magazine/12letters-t-CORRE...

Partitioning with Python

juanpablo — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:33:44 +0000

Article URL: http://wordaligned.org/articles/partitioning-with-python

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=662665

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by juanpablo in "[dead]"

juanpablo — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:14:21 +0000

So, at 27 you're still a kid? Guess the 30's are really the new 20's.

Java Has Type Inference and Refinement Types (But With Strange Restrictions)

juanpablo — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:03:27 +0000

Article URL: http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/04/java-has-type-inference-and-refinement.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=637283

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Two-Three Trees: a different approach to balance

juanpablo — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:01:48 +0000

Article URL: http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2009/03/two-three_trees_a_different_ap.php

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=637281

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by juanpablo in "Déformation professionnelle"

juanpablo — Fri, 22 May 2009 16:43:29 +0000

In Spanish is also a common expression (at least among some professionals)

New comment by juanpablo in "Old Japanese maps on Google Earth unveil prejudices "

juanpablo — Mon, 04 May 2009 02:44:24 +0000

I agree. I was referring to the prejudices of some Japanese people, not Google's. Now this issues are being discussed publicly. I think that's a good thing.

Old Japanese maps on Google Earth unveil prejudices

juanpablo — Sun, 03 May 2009 18:09:26 +0000

Article URL: http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090502/ap_on_hi_te/as_japan_google_dark_secrets

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=591068

Points: 41

# Comments: 29

New comment by juanpablo in "Alpha male programmers aren't keeping women out"

juanpablo — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 02:38:46 +0000

Not directly, but through role models in movies, TV, etc.

New comment by juanpablo in "Ask HN: Open Source Text Editor"

juanpablo — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:26:00 +0000

KDE/Linux: Kate

GNOME: Geany

Windows: Notepad++

Mac: Buy Coda

New comment by juanpablo in "Apollo Astronauts Didn't Need Heavy Boots"

juanpablo — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:58:13 +0000

You are right. I also think the Apollo astronauts probably did use heavy boots for that reason. But you're missing the point of the article.

New comment by juanpablo in "Physics and Entrepreneurism (2007)"

juanpablo — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 06:19:18 +0000

The article might be interesting but his "grand goal" not so much.

See the customer reviews on Amazon about the aforementioned book: http://www.amazon.com/New-Kind-Science-Stephen-Wolfram/dp/15...

How to teach to code (a different approach)

juanpablo — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:42:56 +0000

Article URL: http://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2008/reading-code-curriculum/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=575810

Points: 9

# Comments: 2

New comment by juanpablo in "What is the best CSS book?"

juanpablo — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:29:17 +0000

Trascending CSS

New comment by juanpablo in "Why Programmers Suck at CSS Design"

juanpablo — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 07:05:04 +0000

What works for me is to think that white space isn't "empty space" but instead "space filled with white".

New comment by juanpablo in "Pirate Bay officially loses case"

juanpablo — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:37:46 +0000

Peter Sunde said:

“We can’t pay and we wouldn’t pay if we could. If I would have money I would rather burn everything I owned.”

In defense of IE6

juanpablo — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:30:39 +0000

Article URL: http://forabeautifulweb.com/blog/about/in_defense_of_ie6/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=565098

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by juanpablo in "Beautiful Horizontally Centered Menus/Tabs/List. No CSS hacks. Full cross-browser."

juanpablo — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:16:29 +0000

It works for me (same Chrome version)

New comment by juanpablo in "Python’s lambda is broken"

juanpablo — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:02:31 +0000

Same thing happens with closures in JavaScript