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      <pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 11:06:00 -0800</pubDate>
      <title>I didn't like OS X</title>
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<div>This list has been sitting on my computer for a long time. It's from a text file where I collected all the things that annoyed me about OS X. These are some of the reasons why I sold my "designed in California" computer. Some of them may no longer be valid, or may as well happen with other operating systems. If this Mac had been my first computer this list would probably not exist. But it wasn't, so here it is:</div>
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<li><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0ArygsYzr0nIWdDJDLWJ4TU1KTjNQaUdCWUdBOHFXSEE&amp;output=html">Inconsistent keyboard shortcuts</a>.</li>
<li>Firefox: Sometimes accents don't appear while typing Spanish text. If I click in the search box and then back in&nbsp;the text field it works fine.</li>
<li>When the computer is sleeping and I unplug a USB cable,&nbsp;it wakes up. The same thing happens sometimes when I turn on&nbsp;or off a light in the room. Any power fluctuation turns it on. Funny, except that it's not.</li>
<li>Flash CS3: Cmd+S does not save sometimes when the wrong window has focus&nbsp;(after compiling).</li>
<li>Flash CS3: When I switch momentarily to another application, all Flash tool windows disappear. When I come back to Flash they all appear. This is very annoying.&nbsp;I want windows to stay there. If&nbsp;I don't want them, I will minimize or hide.</li>
<li>Web browsers: While selecting a file to be uploaded I can not sort the files by age or type, so I have&nbsp;to click one by one 200 files in the folder to find the one I want looking at the preview.</li>
<li>Cmd+Tab shows only programs, not windows, so I can't use the keyboard to switch to a specific window.</li>
<li>I can't access program menus directly using the keyboard, which is possible in other OSes.&nbsp;It is possible to open the menus pressing a key, then use the arrow keys to get to the right menu and submenu. But this it's extremely slow.</li>
<li>OS X has become slower with time. I thought this did not happen on OS X.&nbsp;</li>
<li>Feels slower than Windows XP on a slower machine.</li>
<li>I have a script with a shortcut. When I press a key, the script tells iTunes to jump to next song. It used to be instant. After updating OS X it takes 5 seconds to react. Every single time.</li>
<li>Windows must be resized from the bottom right corner, which is always out of the screen. That means I have to move the window, then resize, then move the window again to the original position. Slow. In Ubuntu I can drag and resize windows from any point in the window.</li>
<li>Clicking on a button in a non active window has an unexpected effect: it activates the window. Then I have to click again to press that button. If the button was not clickable in the first place, it should have been somehow obvious.</li>
<li>Lately clicking in a window in the background doesn't bring it to front. This is very bad when I click in another window to delete a file and press delete. Since the window does not get selected, I delete the wrong file or folder!</li>
<li>Upgrade to OS X 10.6 breaks MySQL and requires reinstall. Very annoying. After that, the panel asks me to reopen the panel each time I want to turn on MySQL.</li>
<li>Folder gets created on wrong location when I right-click and choose "create folder".</li>
<li>For some reason, TextMate keeps converting my line endings to CR only, no matter how many times I change its settings. This is destroying my GIT workflow. I waste hours fixing it.</li>
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<div>But my main complain is that OS X is really not meant to be controlled with a keyboard which is a show stopper for me.</div>
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<div>I will explain why I switched to GNU/Linux and write about my last two years of freedom in another post.</div>
	
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      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:48:00 -0800</pubDate>
      <title>Learning to type with a Dvorak keyboard</title>
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<p>During the last year I didn't share much on my blog, even I have a list of posts that I would like to write. For instance: how was it to switch from Mac to a GNU/Linux system, why didn't I enjoy using OS X, what is <a href="http://funprogramming.org">Fun Programming</a>, why did I move to Finland, how is it to live here, why did I refuse to work for almost two years...&nbsp;</p>
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<div>Much to tell, but for some reason it didn't happen. I think writing in three different social networks takes time away from blogging. Another reason may be that I never received much feedback, and since I'm already subscribed to my own thoughts, I didn't feel the need to digitize them. A third reason might be that I didn't want to contribute to the info-pollution :)</div>
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<div>But enough excuses.&nbsp;</div>
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<div>A few seconds ago I broke my own typing speed record using a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_Simplified_Keyboard#Programmer_Dvorak">Dvorak keyboard</a> layout. It's probably a strange hobby which can be put in the same category as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedcubing">speedcubing</a>, or standing still on a bicycle.</div>
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<div>I started three months ago typing on a text editor&nbsp;for a few minutes every day. After some weeks, I started a more serious training using a program called <a href="http://klavaro.com/download-screenshots/">Klavaro</a>, still investing 5 or 10 minutes per day. In January I began to feel I was stuck and not really improving, so I decided to dump the Qwerty layout altogether. Since that day, all typing was on Dvorak. No more switching back to Qwerty. In the image you can see that this has helped me double the speed in less than two months.</div>
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<div>But what's the point? The answer is that I like experiments, and this is one of them. I wanted to know how long it takes to replace a habit which I trained for almost 30 years. I've heard it's good for the brain to do things in different ways, and I wanted to know if I could do it. I'm changing my profession, I changed the operating system I work with, why not my keyboard layout? :)</div>
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<div>I'm not yet as fast as I used to be, but I'm not far behind. In the past I used mostly 6 fingers for typing. Now I use all of them. Another reason for switching is that one should be able to type code faster with this layout, since $&amp;[{}(=*)+]!#@\ and - are all just one key press away, unlike with some&nbsp;European&nbsp;Qwerty layouts, which force you to do strange key combinations to get those same characters. I'll tell you in a few months.</div>
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<div>But for now, I can tell you that rewiring your brain is possible.</div>
	
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<p>While doing one of the circuit boards something really cool happened. The liquids we used were too concentrated, and the board was submerged for too long. This caused the whole wiring to detach from the board. It floated in the liquid like some kind of sea organism. It was very strange, because this is something that normally is completely rigid, that looks inflexible and mechanical. Ours moved like a living being made of black wires.</p>
	
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<p>I spent last Saturday building a Noiser 1.0 at Hacklab Helsinki. It was a long process:</p>
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<li>A software called Eagle was used to design a circuit board.&nbsp;All the components were laid out in this design program.&nbsp;</li>
<li>Later the components were moved around optimizing the board shape.&nbsp;</li>
<li>When the design was good enough we printed a black and white image on a transparency using a laser printer.&nbsp;</li>
<li>Shining ultraviolet light for 125 seconds through the transparency, the shape was transferred to a board.</li>
<li>The board was put into some liquid for 15 seconds. We wore protective glasses and gloves.</li>
<li>The board was rinsed with water, and submerged in another liquid for half hour.&nbsp;You can see the result in the bottom left photo.</li>
<li>We then drilled lots of holes through the board.</li>
<li>We placed all the components on the board, with the legs going through those little holes.</li>
<li>The components were soldered onto the board.</li>
<li>We finally connected the battery and you can <a href="http://youtu.be/weNnhEnJX5s">see what happened on this video</a>.</li>
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<div>It was really special to hold in my hand something that used to be a bunch of pixels on a computer. Something with a beautiful design and a shiny golden color.</div>
<div>I will definitely create more boards. And I'm really looking forward to using the 3D printer to create some interesting shapes.</div>
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<p>El viernes por fin jugué a ping pong. No se cuanto tiempo había pasado desde la última, pero tenía muchas ganas. El polideportivo me sorprendió por la cantidad de gente y ruido. Había muchas mesas de tenis de mesa, gente que jugaba a volley, baloncesto, chicas que entrenaban para cheerleaders, máquinas para hacer deporte, trampolines, camas elásticas, gente haciendo piruetas. Nunca había visto a tanta gente practicando deportes a la vez.</p>
	
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<p>Estación de autobuses, esperando a que nos movamos. Fuera veo a una niña pequeña llevando a una niña aún más pequeña. Quizás de 4 y 1 años. Hombres esperando para meter sus bicis en la bodega del autobús. Niña probablemente vestida con su mejor ropa. Desde que vi el <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_Fields">documental</a> cada vez que veo a una persona mayor que yo siento respeto y me pregunto qué habrá sufrido.</p><div> <br />Aquí primero se suben los pasajeros y a continuación se reposta en la gasolinera. El conductor se pone su cinturón, el único que puede hacerlo. Veo una chica con cara seria que mira desde fuera. Hace un momento estaba sentada aquí dentro. Me pregunto si hay pasajeros que solo van si no hay otros que paguen más. <p /><div>En Phnom Penh hay semáforos y se suelen respetar. <p /><div>El bus se detiene un segundo, se sube una chica. Como no quedan asientos libres el ayudante saca de la bodega un taburete de plástico para ella.</div> </div></div>
	
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	<p>I decided to Google my own name a few weeks ago. Most of what I found was expected, but one thing called my attention. I found my own profile at Runkeeper.com. It was a surprise because I had no intention of sharing that information with anyone except one friend. But there it was: my name, exercise times, distances, even the exact route in a map. I'm usually very aware of privacy issues and think before sharing, so I found this extremely annoying.</p>
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<div>I immediately went and changed my name. I tried to change my photo but it didn't work. There is no button to delete my photo either. After many attempts I tried using Firefox. It allowed me to replace the photo in my profile, but not in their forums.</div>
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<div>It came to my mind that if my profile was there, others' were too.&nbsp;I went to Google and restricted my search to their domain:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=site:runkeeper.com">google.com/search?q=site:runkeeper.com</a>.&nbsp;Have a look at it yourself: <strong>over a million profiles waiting to be downloaded</strong>. Most of them with name, last name, city, sometimes weight, and often a very detailed map of where exactly this person was running or cycling. I would say most users do not know this information is there for everybody to see.&nbsp;I think there is more than one way this information can be abused. Maybe by health insurance companies or by someone wanting to enter your home. Just as an experiment, I searched in Google+ some of the names on that list. I felt tempted to write them a message and ask if they knew their details are online, but decided to write this post first.</div>
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<div>There is a <a href="http://support.runkeeper.com/discussions/profile-account/289-how-do-i-make-my-page-private">discussion in their forums</a> about this issue.&nbsp;I made a copy <a href="http://www.freezepage.com/1328392743SHDWUCDGRE">here</a> in case it's taken down. In comment #22 someone from support claims they can not do anything about Google indexing their page, which is not true. He even says we should contact Google about this, which is ridiculous.</div>
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<p>I exit the building and start walking. <p /> The white stuff changes many things. For example, it redefines <br />something I normally give for granted: the fact that the ground is a <br />safe place to walk on. <p /> It also changes the way the world looks like. Sidewalks are gone. They <br />now blend with streets, roads, grass, sea and forests. It's all part <br />of the same thing, and I find it extremely beautiful. Things are now <br />black and white. Black for the trees, white for everything else. <p /> Soft shapes without edges. A complete transformation of the landscape <br />in matter of days. A transformation that does not distinguish between <br />man-made or natural, nor about borders of any kind. A transformation <br />done by tiny particles, weak and insignificant on their own, but <br />powerful when collaborating together. Men fight these symmetric <br />weightless particles with noisy weightfull machines, in an attempt to <br />keep the black of the roads unchanged. <p /> It's not the first time I realize all this. <p /> What surprises me this time is the silence. I see cars passing by and <br />my brain tells me there is something missing. I see those cars, but <br />they make no sound. <p /> I observe the red light turn green. Fifteen cars accelerate completely <br />silently and I must laugh. I can only hear the engines of those <br />passing right next to me. The sound immediately fades away. The tires, <br />which are usually the noisiest part of these vehicles, are now silent. <br />It feels like several layers of carpets had been laid on the asphalt, <br />and inside my ears. <p /> The experience is like a gift for someone like me. <p /> Then, suddenly, it comes to my mind. Many people live their lives this <br />way, not hearing what they see.</p>
	
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	<div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: small;"><em>Este art&iacute;culo me pareci&oacute; tan interesante que decid&iacute; traducirlo y compartirlo aqu&iacute; con permiso de su autor, Dyske Suematsu. Puedes leer el <span>original en </span><a href="http://dyske.com/paper/945)">http://dyske.com/paper/945</a>.</em></span><br /> <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span> La mayor parte de la riqueza se concentra ahora en la parte superior de la escala social. Esto ocurre en los EEUU y la brecha se ampl&iacute;a cada a&ntilde;o. Creo que se debe a la eficiencia y no a China. Hoy en d&iacute;a las mejores ideas pueden propagarse por el mundo de manera r&aacute;pida y eficiente, y todos pueden encontrarlas y comprarlas de manera eficiente, lo que convierte a los propietarios de esas ideas en personas asquerosamente ricas y hace que las ideas que no son las mejores apenas puedan sobrevivir. No solo es r&aacute;pida la transferencia de informaci&oacute;n, la riqueza tambi&eacute;n se transfiere r&aacute;pida y eficientemente.</div>
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<div>Imagina que en el futuro existe algo similar al teletransportador de Star Trek que nos permite servir comida reci&eacute;n cocinada a cualquier persona del mundo. La eficiencia de un dispositivo as&iacute; probablemente acabar&iacute;a con los restaurantes locales que no son los mejores. La eficiencia de esta cocina del futuro permitir&iacute;a a un cocinero servir a millones de comensales cada d&iacute;a. Probablemente solo necesitar&iacute;amos unos pocos cocineros por cocina en todo el mundo. La raz&oacute;n por la que muchos cocineros a&uacute;n tienen trabajo es por que el mundo a&uacute;n no es tan eficiente. En otras industrias mucha gente ha perdido su trabajo debido a la invasi&oacute;n de la eficiencia en sus campos.</div>
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<div><span>Cuando alguien es propietario de un medio de producci&oacute;n m&aacute;s eficiente puede eliminar un gran n&uacute;mero de puestos de trabajo y obtener unos grandes beneficios con el dinero que ahorra. En otras palabras, no es tanto que los empleos estadounidenses est&eacute;n y&eacute;ndose al extranjero, sino que los propietarios de medios de producci&oacute;n eficientes se est&aacute;n embolsando el dinero que gastaban en la contrataci&oacute;n de empleados.</span></div>
<p>Piensa en los periodistas, muchos est&aacute;n perdiendo sus empleos. Los peri&oacute;dicos est&aacute;n sobreviviendo a duras penas. En los viejos tiempos, por cada noticia hab&iacute;a probablemente cientos de periodistas escribiendo sobre la misma historia para peri&oacute;dicos locales. Ahora, debido a la eficiencia de Internet y sus motores de b&uacute;squeda, ser&iacute;a suficiente que unos pocos periodistas escribieran el art&iacute;culo para toda la naci&oacute;n. La gente ser&iacute;a capaz de encontrarlos. No hay motivo para que cientos de peri&oacute;dicos tengan que escribir y publicar sus propias versiones de la misma noticia. Visita Google News y observa las noticias sobre un tema. Ver&aacute;s a&uacute;n cientos de versiones ligeramente diferentes de una misma noticia. Los periodistas que a&uacute;n escriben esas noticias estar&aacute;n en paro en breve.</p>
<div>Las empresas son cada vez m&aacute;s grandes (en t&eacute;rminos de capitalizaci&oacute;n burs&aacute;til), m&aacute;s globales y m&aacute;s poderosas. Sin embargo son cada vez m&aacute;s peque&ntilde;as en cuanto a n&uacute;mero de empleados porque han dominado el arte de la eficiencia. Es m&aacute;s barato y r&aacute;pido producir bienes a escala mundial cuando el mismo producto es consumido por millones de personas en todo el mundo. En los viejos tiempos, cada tipo de producto, una silla por ejemplo, la fabricaban muchas personas de diferentes maneras y en diferentes lugares. Era ineficiente pero proporcionaba empleo a mucha gente. Ahora la misma silla de Ikea se puede vender en todo el mundo. No necesitamos a tanta gente dise&ntilde;ando y fabricando sillas. Lo mismo es cierto para otras cosas, por ejemplo los programas de ordenador, los tel&eacute;fonos m&oacute;viles, las hamburgesas de McDonald&rsquo;s y los caf&eacute;s de Starbucks. Debido a la eficiencia el mercado elimina r&aacute;pidamente los productos inferiores y todos encuentran los productos superiores y acuden a ellos en masa. Por lo tanto, unos pocos ganan a lo grande, y el resto fracasa.</div>
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<div><span>Este patr&oacute;n, llamado &ldquo;</span><a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ley_de_potencias">ley de potencias</a>&rdquo; o &ldquo;regla 80-20&rdquo; se encuentra en todas partes. El 20% de la poblaci&oacute;n posee un 80% de la riqueza. El 20% de los sitios web generan el 80% del tr&aacute;fico de Internet. El 20% de los art&iacute;culos de tu sitio web se llevan las visitas del 80% de los lectores. Y as&iacute; sucesivamente. La raz&oacute;n por la cual los desarrolladores de software corren a cada nuevo mercado (por ejemplo las aplicaciones de Facebook, las de iPhone, las de Android, etc.) es que al principio esta curva- es m&aacute;s plana. El 20% no se lleva el 80% del mercado porque el mercado a&uacute;n no es tan eficiente. Todos tienen la oportunidad de lograr un &eacute;xito modesto. Pero incluso los mercados alcanzan la regla en menos tiempo.</div>
<div>Al ritmo al que estamos haciendo que todo sea m&aacute;s eficiente, en un futuro no muy lejano tendr&iacute;amos m&aacute;quinas que pueden producir todo lo que necesitamos. Supongamos que una de esas m&aacute;quinas funciona como un horno microondas: le dices lo que quieres y te lo prepara. Las m&aacute;quinas se encargan de todo, as&iacute; que nosotros no necesitar&iacute;amos trabajar en absoluto. Entonces, pregunto: &iquest;Qui&eacute;n ser&iacute;a el due&ntilde;o de esas m&aacute;quinas? La respuesta m&aacute;s obvia podr&iacute;a ser: el gobierno. En otras palabras, todos compartimos la propiedad de esas m&aacute;quinas. Pero eso ser&iacute;a puro comunismo, el sue&ntilde;o de Marx hecho realidad. El estado ser&iacute;a el propietario de todos los medios de producci&oacute;n, y estoy seguro de que no est&aacute;s dispuesto a admitir que crees en el comunismo. En ese caso debemos dejar que propietarios particulares posean esas m&aacute;quinas.&nbsp;</div>
<div><span> <br />&iquest;Pero qu&eacute; significa en realidad? En &uacute;ltima instancia habr&iacute;a una persona propietaria de todos los medios de producci&oacute;n. Eso es lo que suceder&iacute;a si entendemos la eficiencia de forma l&oacute;gica. Cualquier otro competidor menos eficiente ser&iacute;a eliminado por la eficiencia de las fuerzas del mercado. Pero aqu&iacute; est&aacute; el enigma: &iquest;Qui&eacute;n podr&aacute; comprar sus productos o servicios y con qu&eacute;? Si la Warren Buffett del futuro es propietaria de todos los medios de producci&oacute;n, y si no necesita la ayuda de nadie, &iquest;c&oacute;mo podr&aacute;n ganar dinero los dem&aacute;s? Si no pueden ganar dinero, &iquest;c&oacute;mo van a comprar sus productos o servicios? &Eacute;l solo podr&iacute;a producir comida para billones de personas en todo el mundo, pero no tendr&iacute;a ning&uacute;n incentivo para producir cosas ya que nadie se puede permitir comprar.<p /> En realidad no estamos tan lejos de esta absurda situaci&oacute;n. Incluso las grandes empresas sufren en la actualidad porque los consumidores americanos est&aacute;n arruinados. Y eso se debe a que las mismas empresas despidieron a esos consumidores. A trav&eacute;s de la eficiencia eliminaron puestos de trabajo para aumentar los beneficios. Es ir&oacute;nico que al reducir la plantilla redujeran tambi&eacute;n el n&uacute;mero de clientes. En realidad, la conclusi&oacute;n te&oacute;rica descrita no podr&iacute;a suceder debido a que habr&iacute;a disturbios, motines y guerras mucho antes de llegar a ese punto. Por lo tanto, desde el punto de vista de la gente rica que posee los medios de producci&oacute;n, es una cuesti&oacute;n de cu&aacute;nta gente (es decir, empleados / consumidores) pueden eliminar mediante la eficiencia antes de llegar a un punto de rendimientos decrecientes. <p /> Cada vez est&aacute; m&aacute;s claro que ya hemos llegado a ese punto. Sin embargo, el problema es que ninguna empresa se detendr&aacute; en su b&uacute;squeda de la eficiencia ya que todas quieren que sea otra la que empiece a devolver puestos de trabajo a los consumidores. No quieren ser la primera en hacer el sacrificio y empezar a hacer las cosas de forma ineficiente. La b&uacute;squeda de la eficiencia es una carrera de locos. Todos tenemos que participar en esta carrera de locos, de lo contrario ser&iacute;amos incapaces de sobrevivir. Si los dem&aacute;s participan en la carrera, todos tenemos que hacerlo, o de lo contrario la eficiencia de las fuerzas del mercado nos elimina r&aacute;pidamente. La &uacute;nica manera de pararlo es que el estado intervenga. Esa intervenci&oacute;n debe estar coordinada globalmente. Un pa&iacute;s que intente parar por su cuenta la carrera loca de la eficiencia perecer&aacute; r&aacute;pidamente. Necesitamos que los gobiernos de todo el mundo intervengan en la econom&iacute;a global y hagan las cosas m&aacute;s ineficientes.<p /> Hay muchas maneras de hacer las cosas m&aacute;s ineficientes. Una de mis fantas&iacute;as consiste en la abolici&oacute;n de las empresas que cotizan en bolsa. Esto nunca va a suceder, pero d&eacute;jadme jugar con la idea. Las empresas que cotizan en bolsa son m&aacute;quinas de generar beneficios altamente eficientes. Sus directores y empleados siempre deben poner los beneficios por encima de todo. Si pusieran sus propios valores personales por encima de los beneficios ser&iacute;an r&aacute;pidamente despedidos por los accionistas. Debido a que sus acciones se negocian de una manera tan eficiente, los propietarios de la empresa cambian cada milisegundo. Esto promueve los beneficios a corto plazo y la evasi&oacute;n de responsabilidades. Este tipo de empresas reciben presiones para seguir creciendo m&aacute;s y se hagan m&aacute;s grandes. Siempre son m&aacute;s dominantes porque tienen f&aacute;cil acceso a financiaci&oacute;n. A medida que crecen arrasan con las peque&ntilde;as empresas locales que no pueden competir con la eficiencia de la gran corporaci&oacute;n. Aun as&iacute;, a medida que pasan los a&ntilde;os, contratan cada vez a menos gente porque su propia eficiencia interna aumenta.<p /> Si se pudieran prohibir las empresas que cotizan en bolsa de todo el planeta, imagino que la curva de la ley de potencias ser&iacute;a m&aacute;s plana y dar&iacute;a m&aacute;s oportunidades a la gente de clases bajas, aunque el PIB disminuyera (el problema que se debe abordar primero es la gran desigualdad de salarios; podemos preocuparnos por el PIB m&aacute;s adelante.). En lugar de impuestos para los ricos, mi idea es hacer que sea m&aacute;s dif&iacute;cil (ineficiente) que alguien pueda dominar cualquier mercado. No proporcionar las herramientas de la eficiencia, por ejemplo la compra-venta de acciones en bolsa, que promueve la b&uacute;squeda del beneficio y la eficiencia a costa del bienestar social. Podr&iacute;ais decir que soy anti-empresa, pero las empresas no son personas. Si te tomas esto como algo personal tienes la idea equivocada de lo que es una &ldquo;empresa&rdquo;. Esto trata sobre un pacto social, sobre hacer concesiones para que nuestra sociedad en su conjunto sea mayoritariamente feliz.</span></div>
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<div><span>Obviamente mi fantas&iacute;a nunca se har&aacute; realidad. Es m&aacute;s probable que la econom&iacute;a se estanque durante mucho tiempo. Los ricos exprimir&aacute;n a los pobres todo lo posible evitando llegar a los disturbios. Los EEUU ya est&aacute;n en ese punto. Todav&iacute;a es posible hacer las cosas m&aacute;s eficientes, pero la econom&iacute;a no podr&iacute;a dar cabida a una mayor eficiencia, ya que las personas que est&aacute;n m&aacute;s abajo en la escala social llegar&iacute;an a un sufrimiento intolerable, y la sociedad en su conjunto ser&iacute;a disfuncional. En este sentido, la econom&iacute;a es un juego de suma cero. Los ricos no pueden ser m&aacute;s ricos sin que los pobres padezcan m&aacute;s sufrimientos.<p /> </span><strong>Suplemento</strong></div>
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<div>En <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3145330">Y Combinator</a> hay un interesante debate sobre mi art&iacute;culo. Quiero abordar algunos de los comentarios.<p /> Varias personas han hecho comentarios sobre la destrucci&oacute;n creativa. A su juicio, los que han perdido su empleo ahora pueden aprender algo nuevo y aplicar su productividad en otros sectores. Estoy de acuerdo en que la destrucci&oacute;n creativa juega un papel importante en nuestras econom&iacute;as, pero mi argumento es que hemos llegado a un punto de la eficiencia en el que las personas puede causar una destrucci&oacute;n creativa demasiado grande. La destrucci&oacute;n es demasiado eficiente para que los humanos podamos ponernos al d&iacute;a. Tenemos una carrera loca de destrucci&oacute;n creativa en la que encontrar maneras creativas de destruir los empleos de los dem&aacute;s se ha convertido en el principal modo de supervivencia.<p /> No hay suficiente espacio en el mercado para que quepan los mejores en todo, es imposible por definici&oacute;n. Si todos son los mejores en algo, obviamente no es una situaci&oacute;n eficiente, ya que ser&iacute;a imposible estar informado sobre miles de millones de &ldquo;los mejores&rdquo; productos y servicios. <p /> Piensa en el iPhone App market. Solo un peque&ntilde;o porcentaje de los desarrolladores en la cima ganan dinero. En cierto sentido, los dem&aacute;s desarrolladores no tienen trabajo. Si tuvieran que usar su productividad en otros sectores se ver&iacute;an obligados a buscar encontrar un mercado diferente. Podr&iacute;an probar con el Android market, pero all&iacute; solo un peque&ntilde;o porcentaje gana dinero con sus aplicaciones. Nunca podr&iacute;a haber suficientes &ldquo;markets&rdquo; para que todos los desarrolladores pudieran estar en el porcentaje m&aacute;s alto.<p /> Por otra parte, la eficiencia es el resultado de un mercado que en conjunto identifica los mejores productos e ideas y los recompensa de manera desproporcionada. Los seres humanos tenemos limitaciones f&iacute;sicas y biol&oacute;gicas, no podemos seguir aumentando la eficiencia como hacen los robots. No hay manera humana de ponerse al d&iacute;a al ritmo que aumenta la eficiencia del mercado. Para cuando hayamos aprendido una nueva habilidad ya habr&aacute; sido destruida creativamente por alguien. Es deshumanizador esperar que la gente pueda seguir aprendiendo nuevas habilidades con el fin de ponerse al d&iacute;a al ritmo del mercado. Creo que no es justo culpar a aquellos que no consiguieron adaptarse con suficiente rapidez.<p /> Personalmente se me conoce como un hombre eficiente. Continuamente me adapto a las &uacute;ltimas tecnolog&iacute;as para hacer mi vida y negocios m&aacute;s eficientes. Pero cuando miro a mi alrededor veo a mucha gente decente que no est&aacute; particularmente interesada en jugar a este juego de la eficiencia. Lucha por sobrevivir. Creo que son la mayor&iacute;a. Se sienten involuntariamente obligados a participar en este juego de la eficiencia. Es como cenar en un restaurante donde los dem&aacute;s est&aacute;n devorando la comida tan r&aacute;pido como pueden. Te sientes presionado para alcanzarlos. No puedes disfrutar de la comida y despu&eacute;s sufres de una indigesti&oacute;n. No creo que aquellos de nosotros que somos buenos jugando a este juego de la eficiencia debamos culpar a otras personas decentes por no conseguir adaptarse y sobrevivir este juego.<br /> Este es un art&iacute;culo relacionado que escrib&iacute; hace 5 a&ntilde;os: <a href="http://dyske.com/paper/901">La cinta sin fin econ&oacute;mica: por qu&eacute; estamos destinados a quemarnos</a>.<p /> [24/10/2011] Alguien me env&iacute;o por correo su teor&iacute;a sobre por qu&eacute; tenemos tal disparidad en ingresos y riqueza. Esta persona piensa que algunas pol&iacute;ticas p&uacute;blicas tales como la tasa de inflaci&oacute;n son las principales culpables. Estoy de acuerdo en que las pol&iacute;ticas p&uacute;blicas tienen mucho que ver con ello. Su argumento hizo que me diera cuenta de que la disparidad de ingresos y la falta de oportunidades de trabajo est&aacute;n relacionadas, pero son cuestiones diferentes. Podr&iacute;amos tener una situaci&oacute;n en la que la tasa de desempleo fuera baja, pero la disparidad de salarios alta, o viceversa.<p /> Mi principal preocupaci&oacute;n es la falta de oportunidades de trabajo. Creo que tenemos un problema estructural que no se resolver&aacute; por el desgaste de la actual recesi&oacute;n.</div>
	
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<div>I remember discussing with my math and physics teacher. I was about sixteen years old. She argued that the attraction the Earth exerts on any bodies around it increases as we get closer to the center. My intuition was telling me that if gravity acceleration is caused by mass, the point of maximum gravity should be the surface of the planet, not the center. At&nbsp;the center of the earth we would be surrounded by mass, so nothing would be pulling us towards the center of the Earth anymore. I believe she probably had this formula in her head: F = G*m1*m2/r*r. That's Newton's law of universal gravitation. In that formula, as the distance between the two masses decreases, the force gets stronger. If the distance (r) would approach 0, the force (F) would increase towards infinite. This formula is useful if we consider the two masses (m1 and m2) to be points. But the Earth is not a point. Points have no inside and outside, but this planet does.</div>
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<div>Somehow a few days ago, twenty years after that discussion, these ideas came back to me. So I went and asked Mr. Internet. It turns out we were both partially right. The gravity acceleration does not immediately decrease as we move towards the center of the Earth, as my intuition had told me. In fact, it first increases a little as we go down. There are at least two reasons. One, the effect of the planet rotation, which tries to throw us up into space, is stronger on the surface than down below. And two, density of the matter inside the planet is not always the same: it changes depending on the depth.</div>
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<div>That means that as we start digging towards the center of the planet, the gravity acceleration initially increases, reaching the maximum at about half way through our trip to the center of the Earth. But after that it decreases down to zero, as I had suspected.&nbsp;</div>
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<div>My teacher did not appreciate so much my ability to get the right answers without knowing or remembering all the theorems and rules. At least publicly she didn't, I don't know what she thought about it. In any case I believe it was an ability to be promoted, not something to get rid of. My feeling is that teachers wanted students who were able to memorize things, not understand them. That's why I find this video important: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U">Changing Education Paradigms</a>, why I enjoyed the book <a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hackers+and+painters+paul+graham">Hackers and Painters</a>. And maybe one reason why I'm interested in the <a href="http://www.khanacademy.org">Khan Academy</a>&nbsp;and recorded almost 100 episodes of <a href="http://funprogramming.org">Fun Programming</a>.</div>
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<p>The news rarely mention the positive aspects of the Internet, but there are hundreds! Yesterday I attended a BarCamp for the first time and I really enjoyed it. Even it is not strictly an Internet thing, it is often organized and announced through the Internet.<br /> </p><p /><div>Since it was my first time I&#39;m really not an expert on this, but for what I&#39;ve seen, a BarCamp is a one or two day event where people meet, present and discuss ideas. BarCamps are a kind of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference">unconference</a>. According to Wikipedia, they are participant-driven meetings. In normal conferences there is a speaker and many listeners. But unconferences have many speakers who are also the listeners.</div> <p /><div>A few years ago there was an Android related BarCamp in Berlin. That was the first time I heard about this idea, but I did not attend.  I must admit that one of the reasons was that I believed that a self organized meeting would have a low quality. But I was wrong.</div> <p /><div>Yesterday we were about 20 or 30 people. The program was decided in the morning, as people wrote on a whiteboard the time and title of their presentation. The event took place at the Futurice offices, which is a beautiful space. There were free drinks, including Club Mate :) There were a few technical presentations about mobile phone development and others about photography, music writing and the Internet. I also gave an improvised presentation about my Fun Programming videos. </div> <p /><div>I&#39;m glad I participated.</div><p /><div>I&#39;m now going to tell my friends in Mallorca they should organize a BarCamp there =)</div>
	
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	<iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/SNMxPU6BWuQ?wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="417" width="500"></iframe> <p /><div>It&#39;s been a long time. More than 100 days since the last time I posted something to this blog. But my lack of writing was not the only change. I also got rid of my camera after 8 years, my sound recorder, my office in Berlin, my bank account and my cell phone contract. I sent four big boxes by post to Finland, where I live since three months ago. I wonder why I didn&#39;t post here... I&#39;ve had a list of posts I wanted to write for quite a long time, but somehow I was lazy and usually micro-blogging. Writing takes time and gives back an increasing visit counter on a web site, but what else? :)</div> <div>For two months now I have focused in <a href="http://bit.ly/funprogramming">creating videos</a>. I started on August 1st. I had heard that if you do something every day for 21 days in a row it becomes a habit. So I decided to create one video each day of August. It&#39;s now October and I&#39;m still motivated to continue. I feel good sharing what I&#39;ve learnt with others. If my videos are useful for at least for one person, then it was already worth my effort. And it is an effort. I work on it several hours per day, and often think about the next episode when doing something else.</div> <div>At the same time, I enjoy learning. I learn about speaking, recording and editing videos. I use my imagination thinking of ways to explain concepts and making exercises up. I learn about Processing and I practice having ideas in my head and converting them into programs. It brings back the fun that programming used to be when I was a kid.</div> <div>It&#39;s nice to receive messages from people around the world once in a while saying that it&#39;s helping them. I got some e-mails from Aaron, an 8 year old kid from the States who is interested in programming :)</div> <div>So now that creating videos has become quite automatic, it&#39;s time for a new challenge that starts tomorrow. I will do some adjustments in my life and stick with them during October. And they will bring positive changes :) </div>
	
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	As far as I know, there isn&#39;t much interaction between smart phones and computers today. They are mostly used as two independent devices. I can access the files in my phone from my PC, sync contacts and music, but not much more.<div> When I&#39;m in front of my computer I usually have my phone plugged into it. This phone can detect acceleration and has a hi-res touch screen. Why not use the phone to augment the computer?</div><div><div>It would be great if my laptop could read all phone sensors in real time. Then it could be used as a game controller. A mouse in one hand, and my phone in the other. I could tilt it, touch the screen and even see information about the game in my phone&#39;s display. Maybe it would be even possible to use the phone for aiming, using the phone camera to track objects in my computer&#39;s screen (registration points).</div> <div>But as I don&#39;t play much, I&#39;m more interested in productivity than in games. I&#39;d like to use the phone&#39;s display as an external display for my laptop. For instance the Gimp&#39;s toolbar or a color selector could be shown in my phone, leaving more free pixels in my laptops display. As I&#39;m working with my Wacom tablet on my right hand, I&#39;d like to use my left hand tilting the phone to control color, opacity or brush width. If I&#39;m creating music, I&#39;d like to tilt the phone to control the filter frequency or the amount of effect in a certain audio track. If latency is low enough it would be a much better interface than a mouse and a keyboard, something that could complement other MIDI controllers.</div> </div><div>I think there are some experiments in this direction, but if Google (or someone else) added the required APIs and libraries to Android it would become much easier to experiment in this field. Hopefully some developers and artists find this concept interesting enough to work on it.</div>
	
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	<iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/SQlBgOg0-W0?wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="417" width="500"></iframe> <p /><div>Acabo de leer <a href="http://www.enriquedans.com/2011/06/mascaradas-desinformacion-y-realidades-paralelas.html">este artículo</a> de Enrique Dans sobre la detención de la &quot;supuesta&quot; cúpula de Anonymous en España. En general estoy de acuerdo, pero el ejemplo de que un &quot;ataque&quot; DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) es &quot;equivalente a la sentada en las escaleras de un local&quot; no me convence del todo. Quizás el ejemplo del vídeo se acerca más a lo que es un ataque distribuido de denegación de servicio. Lo hacen en la conferencia del Chaos Communication Congress en Berlín y consiste en simplemente irse a comprar donuts. Todos. Al Dunkin Donuts. Y claro, se quedan sin donuts. Es distribuido por que lo realiza mucha gente. Cada uno va y compra uno o más donuts. Y es de denegación de servicio, por que la empresa ya no puede prestar el servicio que normalmente da, que consiste en vender donuts. Si te sientas en las escaleras estás impidiendo el paso a otros consumidores. Pero aquí no bloqueas, sino que coordinas a muchos para que hagan algo normal, consumir.</div> <p /><div>Siendo quisquilloso, no me gusta la palabra &quot;ataque&quot;. Suena violenta. Aquí no hay armas. Lo único que se hace es poner de acuerdo a muchas personas para que hagan lo mismo, y hacer así que deje de funcionar. Puede ser una página web, o cualquier empresa o servicio en tu ciudad. </div> <p /><div><a href="http://www.rtve.es/noticias/20110610/anonymous-va-seguir-pero-hemos-desmantelado-principal-servidor-espana/438788.shtml">Llamarlo terrorismo</a> y hablar de Al Qaeda me parece muy fuerte, ridículo, absurdo, manipulación. Una vez más, como sacado de <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_(novela)">1984</a>. Me parece que es miedo a que Internet democratice, repartiendo entre muchos el poder de unos pocos.</div>
	
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