Lo posible de lo imposible: la física de un tsunami

Desde el punto de vista de la física, un tsunami es sencillamente una onda sostenida por la gravedad terrestre (y no por el viento, como las olas de la playa. Tampoco es correcta la denominación de ”ondas de marea”, ya que no son las mareas la razón de su origen) en aguas poco profundas. » Agatha | eltercerprecog.blogspot.com.es

December 1, 2014 · 1 min · 58 palabras · Nacho Cano

The programmer’s price

Finally, Bradley received an e-mail from 10x, a talent company. 10x was started by two music and entertainment managers, Michael Solomon and Rishon Blumberg, who for the past nineteen years have represented rock stars, including John Mayer and Vanessa Carlton. Recently, in the wake of the digital revolution and the music industry’s implosion, Solomon and Blumberg have begun serving as agents for technologists. 10x claims to represent digital ”rock stars”; the company’s name comes from the idea, well established in the tech world, that the very best programmers are superstars, capable of achieving ten times the productivity of their merely competent colleagues. In HBO’s ”Silicon Valley,” a self-effacing character named Big Head compliments his friend’s coding skills by saying, ”Richard’s a 10xer. I’m, like, barely an xer.” ...

November 23, 2014 · 1 min · 133 palabras · Nacho Cano

This is how we ZenPayroll: Our Development Workflow

A lot of engineers looking to join ZenPayroll are interested in hearing more about our development workflow. Put more simply, how do ZenPayrollers write software? The answer to that is constantly changing, as we’re always refining our workflows to fit our ever changing needs, but I’ll cover in some detail the way we do things today. » Edward Kim | engineering.zenpayroll.com

November 23, 2014 · 1 min · 61 palabras · Nacho Cano

The Man Who Made ’Tetris’

Tetris was formally released in June 1984 by the Academy of Sciences, after initially spreading among academics and the computer literate by way of copied floppy disks. As a tile-fitting puzzler, Tetris captivated these members of intelligentsia. After all, here was a game constructed of pristine shapes taken straight from Platonic idealism. » Jagger Gravning | motherboard.vice.com

November 23, 2014 · 1 min · 57 palabras · Nacho Cano

Celebra, Dragon Ball cumple 30 años

Ha pasado mucho tiempo luego de que apareciera por primera vez la historia de Dragon Ball. 30 años en que su creador, Akira Toriyama, publicara la historia de un pequeño niño que juntos a sus amigos buscaban unas esferas mágicas que al reunirlas podrían pedir un deseo. » Ivonne Lara | hipertextual.com

November 22, 2014 · 1 min · 52 palabras · Nacho Cano

Daft Punk, el dúo francés que revolucionó la música electrónica

Han pasado 20 años desde el nacimiento de Daft Punk, y apenas llevan llevan cuatro álbumes de estudio (además de una banda sonora para película que, para algunos, cuenta como un quinto álbum), pero es tanto lo que han cambiado y es tanto lo que nos han sorprendido, que su meta fue cumplida, revolucionaron la música electrónica. » Eduardo Marin | hipertextual.com

November 22, 2014 · 1 min · 62 palabras · Nacho Cano

Everything you need to know about the Shellshock Bash bug

Remember Heartbleed? If you believe the hype today, Shellshock is in that league and with an equally awesome name albeit bereft of a cool logo (someone in the marketing department of these vulns needs to get on that). But in all seriousness, it does have the potential to be a biggie and as I did with Heartbleed, I wanted to put together something definitive both for me to get to grips with the situation and for others to dissect the hype from the true underlying risk. ...

November 14, 2014 · 1 min · 91 palabras · Nacho Cano

Everything you need to know about the Heartbleed SSL bug

Every now and then in the world of security, something rather serious and broad-reaching happens and we all run around like headless chicken wondering what on earth it means. Did the NSA finally ”get us”? Is SSL dead? Is the sky falling? Well it’s bad, but not for everyone and quite possibly not as bad as many are saying it is. » Troy Hunt | troyhunt.com

November 14, 2014 · 1 min · 66 palabras · Nacho Cano

POODLE attacks on SSLv3

My colleague, Bodo M¶ller, in collaboration with Thai Duong and Krzysztof Kotowicz (also Googlers), just posted details about a padding oracle attack against CBC-mode ciphers in SSLv3. This attack, called POODLE, is similar to the BEAST attack and also allows a network attacker to extract the plaintext of targeted parts of an SSL connection, usually cookie data. Unlike the BEAST attack, it doesn’t require such extensive control of the format of the plaintext and thus is more practical. Fundamentally, the design flaw in SSL/TLS that allows this is the same as with Lucky13 and Vaudenay’s two attacks: SSL got encryption and authentication the wrong way around – it authenticates before encrypting. ...

November 14, 2014 · 1 min · 116 palabras · Nacho Cano

FrootVPN, servicio VPN anónimo y gratuito para Android y Ubuntu

FrootVPN es un servicio VPN que se anuncia enfocado a preservar la privacidad y el anonimato, a la par que gratuito. Mediante el uso de un servicio como éste, podremos conectarnos a Internet de forma segura y anónima desde sitios que pudieran no serlo, por ejemplo, redes abiertas que no usan cifrado, servicios que restringen el acceso por país, países que censuran la libertad de expresión o el acceso a la cultura, etc. ...

November 14, 2014 · 2 min · 420 palabras · Nacho Cano