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Tech Web

Yahoo + Tumblr = Big fail

The title of this post is a direct response Yahoo + Tumblr = Big Win. Facebook + Tumblr = Bigger Win.

I respect @jason‘s experience and even share some views about tech. I am a fan of some of his work (not Mahalo) and I see him more of a media guy. From his most recent work I love TWIST and all around Launch.

I am saying all this because I do NOT fundamentally disagree with the financial side of the logic of the business. But as a Tumblr fan I don’t want Tumblr to be sold to a big corp. I am sure they are not running out of runway money and experiment services to reach profitability. The place is well run, every new feature is carefully and slowly implemented and it is my fav place to spend/waste/kill/have fun time. Tumblr is a place apart. It’s kind of underground. Is where the cool kids hang.

Tumblr superman Facebook clark kent

The above picture says it all. Facebook/Yahoo is my real professional/social side (Clark Kent). Tumblr is where I can be Superman.

I feel that any big corp. will kill that and what makes Tumblr what it is. You got Porn, next to Artists, next to Politicians, next to Trolls, next to the next door girl. Tumblr allows us to make it our home. To follow our hidden likes or display other sides of us.

But this post is not (just) a rant about this business. My point with this post is:
“What will be better for us, the world, the internet, the evolution of mankind: A great place that millions call home and spend days on and that can be improved on to become a unique online platform or a place that after tunned and tweaked will bring the masses and be worth billions more?”

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Personal

There’s no arc to my story

This tech journalist decided to go one year without internet. The post is really interesting to read.

But I get the feeling he got zero answers out of the experience, his personal problems were the same with or without the internet. But that is just my view.

I embed the video bellow and machine transcribed a passage from someone he is asking advices about life to, that made a lot of sense to me:

As far as your life, giving you advice I think I started having more success when I stopped feeling like there was a narrative to my life. I think once you let go of that idea first of you stop seeing yourself as the most important thing in your narrative you know you see yourself as more of a component I don’t have, there’s no arc to my story there’s no like climax or anticlimax or … so trying to find where things connected or what made sense in my arc didn’t really make a lot of sense but once I let go of that because that was a big thing for me in high school and college But once I let go of that I started having more success or became happier

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Android Dev Mac Tech Web

Dealing with hosts on Android SDK Emulator – MAC OS X 10.8

I was getting some odd bugs with responsive design on some Android phones and need to test it. After spending an afternoon at the Shopping Mall annoying the everyone to let me test every Android phone I could find I decided to install the Android SDK on my MB Air running OS X 10.8

After some tweaks I managed to set the emulador working, there is plenty of tutorial online on that I couldn’t test my dev sites because I always use hosts and your localhost on the emulator 10.0.2.2 (if using MAMP with port 80 or add the port after the ip eg 10.0.2.2:8080).

So my solution was:
As I use a define so I only change one file from dev to production I have a define for my WEB_URL the only question was to change that define:

if($_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"]=="10.0.2.2"){
	define("WEB_URL", "http://10.0.2.2/myfoldername/public_html/");	
}else{
	define("WEB_URL", "http://myhostname/");
}

BONUS TIP: Giving the Emulator localhost access

When you create a Avd you need to give it a name change myAvdNameHere to the name you gave Avd and this way you have access to localhost

emulator -avd myAvdNameHere -partition-size 128

More on this Emulator localhost acceess

Note to self:

cd ~/Development/android-sdk-mac_x86/sdk/tools/
./emulator -avd phone -partition-size 128

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Música

David Bowie – Thursdays child

Perfect match for where my interior is today!!!

All of my life I’ve tried so hard
Doing my best with what I had
Nothing much happened all the same.

Something about me stood apart
A whisper of hope that seemed to fail
Maybe I’m born right out of my time
Breaking my life in two.

(Throw me tomorrow…) Now that I’ve really got a chance
(Throw me tomorrow…) Everything’s falling into place
(Throw me tomorrow…) Seeing my past to let it go
(Throw me tomorrow…) Only for you I don’t regret
That I was Thursday’s Child.

(Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday born I was).

Sometimes I cried my heart to sleep
Nothing prepared me for your smile
Lighting the darkness of my soul
Innocence in your arms (Oh-neh don’ go).

(Throw me tomorrow..) Now that I’ve really got a chance
(Throw me tomorrow…) Everything’s falling into place
(Throw me tomorrow…) Seeing my past to let it go
(Throw me tomorrow…) Only for you I don’t regret
That I was Thursday’s Child.

(Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday born I was) Thursday’s Child
(Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday born I was) Thursday’s Child
(Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday born I was)
(Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday born I was)
(Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday born I was)

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Dev

Mysql Delete with null left join

If you do:

Select * from table left join other_table on id=ext_id where ext_id is null

it works great. But if you want to convert that select to a delete you need to include ‘table.*‘:

Delete table.* left join other_table on id=ext_id where ext_id is null

It kind of makes sense, but MySql could be smart and get that we only want to delete from where there actually exists content.