Even if you assume, for the purpose of argument, that Zoe Kazan is right in her claim that standardized tests give “a systemic leg up” to “upper middle class” applicants who can afford commercial prep services, what is the alternative?

Visually atractive and yet informative article at NYT.

Interesting license that promises to update the old academic licenses (BSD, MIT) to deal with the current legislation and patent threats.

Cómo sacar partido a una de las features más interesantes incorporadas por React recientemente.

This is a really good news to anyone working with Python: VS Code is one of the best editors right now.

It’s certainly not the only mesh Wi-Fi provider out there, not even the only startup providing mesh Wi-Fi. But Amazon has an advantage when it comes to making acquisitions in consumer products, namely that it can see what consumers buy. This information is invaluable to Amazon as it chooses which companies to buy and even which to invest in.

Lo mismo va para AWS, el uso que se hace de él, y qué funcionalidades merece la pena añadir.

Many companies talk theoretically about the future where access to information becomes a competitive differentiator providing transparency into other businesses by virtue of data analysis. Amazon is already living in this future and acting on it. It will also add to that storehouse of data.

Web para estimar el coste comparado de vivir en diferentes ciudades

¿Cuán grande debe ser la mochila? En nuestra economía, el bienestar social se maximiza con una mucho mayor que la austriaca. Según nuestros cálculos actuales, la tasa sobre el salario bruto debería ser de alrededor de un 10% si consideramos la economía española como abierta al 100% y más del doble si la consideramos cerrada (¡con el 29% se cubren pensiones y seguro de paro!). Es decir, la mochila puede tener mucho recorrido.

Además, hay una tercera ventaja que no valoramos: como toda mochila, favorece la movilidad y, como ya han sugerido Tito Boeri y Juan Francisco Jimeno, ¡sería una gran idea establecerla en toda la Unión Europea!

Esto huele a que podrían subir los impuestos una barbaridad y, si lo hacen todo igual que siempre, se las apañarán para que no tengamos retorno con esa subida...

"The code is the law" y "You're not a gadget" en el mismo post.

SMS is still the only service by which every mobile phone can be reached by default, irrespective of which of the different over-the-top messaging apps are preferred by the users

Sobre criptodivisas y sus mitos.

La cremallera clásica que mucha gente no entiende por España :/

Most people don't have careers, instead they have jobs. And the definition of job is "something you're paid to do because you wouldn't do it otherwise".