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german

716 karma · joined July 18, 2007

PreZentit Co-Founder. (http://prezentit.com) Red Bull addict.

Lima, Peru

german(at)prezentit.com

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german··on [dead]
Please help!
german··on Ask YC: Learning Web Development, were should I start?
I'm going for Python. :)
german··on Ask YC: Learning Web Development, were should I start?
Thanks, I'm aware that logic is an absolutely must. I do program but I'm not familiar with server side programming.

For me programming is all about Logic.

german··on Ask YC: Learning Web Development, were should I start?
Thanks a lot, not it's time to start learning. I'll let you know how is it going. :)
german··on Ask YC: Does Caffeine Work For You?
Works for me, in fact, I'm going for my daily Red Bull. (it's too early for an Espresso, maybe later).
german··on Ask YC: Learning Web Development, were should I start?
Because I've seen PHP code and it looks too messy for me. Just my opinion.
german··on Ask YC: Learning Web Development, were should I start?
Thanks a lot, you really understood my problem :) I don't want to learn PHP, now I have to decide if it's going to be Python or Ruby.

Can you please point me some of the information sources you used.

Thanks again.

german··on 10 reasons you should start a startup before turning 25
Happy birthday jraines!
german··on Design better Web pages with Firefox extensions
FireBug and Web Developer plugins are all I need.

edit: I'm going to try that GridFox, sound interesting.

german··on Forget PowerPoint: 13 Online Presentation Apps
Thanks for the feedback mixmax, I know our app is not perfect, and we're thinking what to do to improve it.

Thanks again.

Germán

german··on Forget PowerPoint: 13 Online Presentation Apps
Prezentit.com (our webapp) let you download your presentation as an HTML file so you just need a browser to present it.
german··on How to spot Arial.
Once you've read this, try this quiz: http://www.iliveonyourvisits.com/helvetica/

Arial or Helvetica?

german··on How do you learn?
I learned to dance salsa a couple of years ago with my ex-girlfriend, it just takes a lot of practice, and is much better if you have a good teacher. Some alcohol might help too :P.

Learning is not hard, unless you're studying something that you don't like, for example years in school when I started studying Logic it was a real pain. Later when I started learning statistics I figured out that logic is awesome, and is the basis of many many things.

german··on Learning Math
Wow, that's a great list, I'll just add studying statistics. It's a really interesting topic and it really opens your eyes to a whole new world.

Good luck.

german··on Ask YC: Is the lack of comments on most submissions a sign of declining quality?
I agree with you, for me the number of points a thread has is just a measure of how many people in our community think it's an interesting topic. About the quality of the thread, well, as you said, quality is in the eye of the beholder, for example, the thread that pg is showing as an example, (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=106893) is a funny and interesting one for me.

How we actually measure quality?... Hmmm, that would make a great startup right?

german··on Ask YC: Is the lack of comments on most submissions a sign of declining quality?
Quality is something hard to measure, we're in a community, so I think that the quality of a thread is given by the number of points it has, not by the number of comments.

The number of comments just mean that people have something to say about an specific thread.

german··on 8 Web Design Mistakes That Developers (Non-Designers) Make
Hahahaha, drop me a line if you ever come to Lima-Peru, I'll buy you a beer. :P
german··on 8 Web Design Mistakes That Developers (Non-Designers) Make
This Month tip: "If you really want to know if your Web site works, ask your next door neighbor to try using it, while you watch.

(You bring the beer.)"

Taken from Advanced Common Sense (http://www.sensible.com/) I really recommend the book.

german··on Helvetica (the film)
If you are interested, this is the film URL: http://www.helveticafilm.com/
german··on Creating Web 2.0 Graphics in GIMP
Nice tutorials, IMO Inkscape is much easier than Gimp for those graphics. what do you think?
german··on Usability and Interface Design Books
I've read Don't Make Me Think. A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug.

Awesome book.

german··on Gates vs. Jobs: Keynote text analysis, 2008 edition
Jobs is an excellent speaker, Gates... well, he's getting better.
german··on Color as a determined communication (Very Interesting)
Newton characterized light; Goethe contemplated its appearance.

Great phrase. :)

german··on Ask YC: Why is YC's layout table based?
NO it has not HTML errors, it has done that way to achieve the desired result, take a look at the source code if you like, don't rely just in the W3C validator.

If you find any error, let me know and I'll fix it. Thanks.

On the other hand I'm not criticizing any HTML errors, I'm just saying that for this case a list suits better than tables.

german··on Ask YC: Why is YC's layout table based?
I have to disagree with you Paul, A list suits much more this kind of data than a table.
german··on Ask YC: Why is YC's layout table based?
You're right, I realized that the page was table based by looking at the source.

Programmers love to read beautiful code, As a web designer, I love to read beautiful and meaningful HTML. ;)

german··on The first 100 registered .com domains.
This is a very ugly website with a very bad (and long) domain.

How did you found it?

german··on A visual thank-you to the top submitters
Great, I'm using 6ED757, actually when replying I realized that the top bar is still orange.
german··on Top 100 words in News.YC titles
nice contest, here is mine :P

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=96663

german··on Why Google New Web Startups, You Ask?
Ask YC: Why Microsoft Best Hacker Use Open Source Software?
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