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hk_kh··on Ubuntu's Plans To Implement UEFI SecureBoot: No GRUB2
And, that experience is exactly? (I am asking)

In my opinion secure boot just means that my computer is owned by the company that has certified it.

hk_kh··on Ubuntu's Plans To Implement UEFI SecureBoot: No GRUB2
It seems it is extremely hard to grasp the simple true: only minority of the population is interested in being hackers, programmers and IT guys. They just want to use computers — much the same way like they drive their cars without any wish and ambition to be a car mechanic. It is not "dumbing down" — it is freeing them from caring "how do I make this fucking thing work" to just doing what they want to do: be it browsing Facebook, writing a research paper or calculating orbit to Mars.

Being that the case, what does DRM and the secure boot feature in UEFI add to that experience?

hk_kh··on Ubuntu's Plans To Implement UEFI SecureBoot: No GRUB2
To perceive the computer as an appliance instead of a piece of hardware.

Alienate the users on their machine, not something that can be hacked, studied and understood as a computer, instead a piece of magical wisdom.

Dumb down the mainstream user, and tie them up on their products.

"Protect" their software, being the computer just a black box projecting their knowledge / entertainment.

I hope DRM backfires really hard on the companies advocating for it.

hk_kh··on Show HN: The Bastards Book of Photography
If you know of better books it would be a nice idea to put them on your comment (bashing is good, but giving alternatives is better).

For instance, I dived in the technical basics of my old SLR with this book I found at my parent's house: Photography - the guide to technique by Andrew Hawkins, Dennis Avon [1].

This is probably an outdated and now useless guide, but answered me many questions I had when I started.

[1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Photography-Guide-Technique-Andrew-H...

hk_kh··on Show HN: Project Maya
Really nice initiative,

When you have some free time, do you mind organizing some milestones and tasks on github so random people can help without being active on the project?

I would not mind adding/fixing planned things from time to time.

hk_kh··on Rare 1930s Audio: W.B. Yeats Reads Four of His Poems
Good. If you are into these things, this is also a good audio

Pour en finir avec le jugement de Dieu - Antonin Artaud - 1948 [1]

[1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiTiz2fxJcM

hk_kh··on Ask HN: Service that sends 0-day security bulletins only for software we use?
It would be interesting if that solution included a program that analyzes your machines installed software, and notified you on 0 days about the exact software-version you have.

Later, on the site, you would have your machines listed, with the software on these machines, and receive alerts per machine.

hk_kh··on Hidden Data in The Spanish Economic Crisis
If you think Spain's problem is normal people evading taxes, you are wrong.

Every middle-class worker is paying taxes, and social security. The only ones not paying anything are low-class (who cares?), high-class, and extra-high-class.

I am not that much into this EEUU movement of "tax the riches" but the sector of people evading taxes are right there.

It's sad to read things like this, saying Spanish, Portuguese , Greek and Italian people enjoy evading taxes.

Now, tell me more about MY country.

hk_kh··on My experiences at a woman's programming workshop
Completely agreed.

People often forget that some gender differences are what make each gender powerful.

Gender equality should not be about expecting the same features in both genders, but about having the same rights.

hk_kh··on My experiences at a woman's programming workshop
I am saying that women are willing to deal with drama, ego and dicks when there's a motivation to cope with it.

As I see the current status of gender equality in tech, women working on a tech job are protected by their social status.

A female "junior" programmer could easily be harmed by "women do not know how to code", but with time and patience, they can go forward into the company hierarchy, and end in a position where their status protects such opinions.

In the free software world, it's more difficult to move forward in the hierarchy of a project, hence, time and patience gets consumed.

Now, take this with a grain of salt, because there's a big possibility I am wrong and just resorting to topics here.

hk_kh··on My experiences at a woman's programming workshop
That's why we do not see more women involved with software, and I am not talking about Dave.

I am talking about both, the writer and Dave.

Why do you think most women stick to managing projects instead of being involved in Free Software?

Too much drama. Too much shit to cope with, that involves dicks and egos.

In the article we assume that Dave was a jerk (and it probably was). But, see, the author was in a comfortable position, when suddenly another man entered the room, and started to go alpha and everything turned into an ego battle.

hk_kh··on Twitter kills bubble letter logotype, replaces it with new ‘Twitter bird’ logo
Almost completely OT:

It's been a while since I did not enter twitter's landing page.

Why is there an ugly brown background, or the too-much-intense-that-hurts blue?

The pictures, I understand, they tell a story. But the background color has no excuse. There should exist a more pleasant tone.

Is it just me?

hk_kh··on 3D Printing Survey Hints To The Third Industrial Revolution
You can print molds for some parts, though.
hk_kh··on HackerNews API: What if HN does not have API? Make API on the fly with APIfy
Proxy your traffic through tor, and you are set.

This is not saying you should do it.

hk_kh··on Show HN: movies.io — torrent search like it should be
My only tip: for the rating of the movie, while giving a decimal grade is good and acceptable, using 10 stars is distracting and breaks with the overall good UX.

Would go better with just 5 stars, or just ditch them and think on something else.

For instance, if the grade you are showing is a derivative of multiple sources, why not try to derive something on the line of: "5 of 10 reviewers found this movie good".

By the way, always cite your information sources, where does the rating come from? Users? Review sites?

hk_kh··on The futures of Facebook and Google are embedded in these two images
Why stick to ads if you can sell / license software for cars?

It could both work from a manufacturer or a personal POV.

    Buy my car, it comes with Google.
hk_kh··on Show HN: My Resume 2.0
Yes, but not just that.

If the company I am applying to bases their solutions on Microsoft products, odds are I am not the right fit for their open position, and somewhere on HR or in my task to find a job there has been an error.

hk_kh··on Show HN: My Resume 2.0
The fear on the English level of an spaniard to foreign companies is such a big deal that I decided to play that card.

I would prefer not to put that there, as FCE is not that much of an achievement.

hk_kh··on Show HN: My Resume 2.0
That plus, even though it is valid work experience, I have had enough of setting IIS, Exchange, Microsoft CRM, bad .NET accounting apps that use mdb as a DBMS, that I would prefer not to be on the position where I have to deal with that again.
hk_kh··on Show HN: My Resume 2.0
It's possible at the time of doing it I was platform religious and did a bad pun.

It's also possible I am still.

But you both make a valid point on it being perceived as immature, and so I will note it for the next time I use this.

Thanks for the suggestion.

hk_kh··on Show HN: My Resume 2.0
One of the things in mind (as I am not a designer) is that this would make more sense in html, css and svg (it's already on svg), making the graphic talk about your own skills.

I think the same about your site. It's good, but you would take more of it by applying some css and javascript magic to all the images that include text (and then, exclude the text from the image).

hk_kh··on Show HN: My Resume 2.0
A company that bases his techs on Microsoft products or is sensitive about this would be put off by reading it.

It keeps 'serious' companies from contacting me, improving my accuracy on finding a position I can handle without headaches.

hk_kh··on Show HN: My Resume 2.0
My take: http://i.imgur.com/zFuNa.jpg
hk_kh··on Rick Santorum's Fake Donation Meter
In this [your] case, it should be just a matter of personal taste.

We choose to go to the moon!

hk_kh··on Yahoo Axis
Hi, I am Scott, and I am here to kill your family while I seamlessly trend around a scroll list of nothing on my iThing and the camera pans to a first plane of my face.
hk_kh··on Google Green - The Story of Send
Also, move the vertical scrollbar up and down...
hk_kh··on Easel.ly - A nice HTML 5 infographics editor
What are the benefits of using [this] vs, let's say, a free svg editor like Inkscape?

You could argue that Inkscape is just a svg program, while this site is "easy" to use.

And yet, it seems to me a couple of svgs with palettes and objects, maybe some reference fonts and a bunch of tutorials on what are the key points of an infographic would suit a better purpose.

hk_kh··on Richard Stallman Collapses At Barcelona Conference
For those not getting in which context could be a confusion between the words president and prime minister, here's a wikipedia entry[1]

[1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Spain#Officia...

hk_kh··on Show HN: iDoneThis+AwesomenessReminders, Get Work Done, Get Awesomeness
Thank you.

I think this whole "give constant reward" is nothing new, and it's something that has been done in large corporations for ages, aka "Treat your employers as 8 year olds".

In my opinion, it just alienates the "self" with the "work". Thus, constant reward just gives the false assumption that your work is meaningful and part of your life.

There will be a time when you don't have no one giving rewards to you, and you will need to just keep ahead, doing something because YOU believe in it, not because someone gives you free candy.

At the same time, that's also why social networks and community sites have "karma", to engage people in interesting discussion, with the promise of karma (or, acceptance of the group).

hk_kh··on Cubism.js: time series visualization
http://api.citybik.es (me) has real time data about bike sharing networks. Data is pretty changing (as you can see in http://citybik.es/realtime)

I don't know if it would fall under peak load, though.

Sorry for the self-promotion. I can't seem to stop talking about this.

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