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Days ago I realized I’ve been building web thingies since before 2000, back then I did not own a computer so I had to use shared computers/terminals at university to learn how to create cool things. At that time my only…

Couple days ago I read in the news feed one of the local star entrepreneurs sold his company, a video/news/education? platform. That was a big thing in the news, today, however, it seems that instead of a successful…

I have several services, apps and experiments around AWS, Azure, Google so I decided to consolidate few things in one server The main issue to me is Azure/cloud platforms performance, Azure and Microsoft are great,…

Just got back after attending U2 Joshua tree tour concert, it was amazing! Noel Gallagher from Oasis opened the concert, half part of his show was garbage, the last part were old songs from Oasis, still the guy is a…

Acabo de leer un par de artículos y noticias relacionadas con el cargo de CTO de Nueva Zelanda y acá hago un resumen para tener una idea de como funcionan las cosas a nivel de gobierno local En Abril de este año el…

Hace algúnos días cambie un par de sitios a un servidor privado, larga historia: comencé a trabajar como consultor, lo que inicialmente era ingreso extra se transformo en mi actividad principal y entonces inverti un…

I have been reading "Outliers the Story of Success" from Malcom Gladwell and wanted to share couple segments from a chapter that I really liked: the 10.000 hour rule Normally we may think innate talent and luck is everything, but that chapter starts sharing a research done in Berlin Academy of Music by K Anders Ericsson: Amateur pianists never practiced more that about 2 hours a week and by the age of 20 they had totaled 2.000 hours of practice. The professionals, on the other hand, steadily increased their practice time every year, until by the age of 20 they had reached 10.000 hours.