May 2012
4 posts
thecaptainhatesthesea asked: Hello, sir. My name is Angelo Morán, I'm 16 years old. I'm from Palma de Mallorca. I admire you and I want to become an engineer but I feel the necessity to start right now. You're going to start the fire of my dream if you tell me the knowledge that you have: books, programs, etc. Please, I'm begging you. Thanks for all, I hope you can answer me. Take care, sir.
Avanza 2012
I was invited as a speaker at Avanza 2012, a free software conference in Montevideo, Uruguay.
It was sponsored by Antel, the biggest telecommunication company of Uruguay.
The event was well organized, the talks were amusing and the speakers amazing.
I met Jon “maddog” Hall for the second time. He’s one of the people I admire more and it’s always a pleasure to meet the...
April 2012
5 posts
“Everything will be okay in the end.
If it’s not okay, it’s not the...”
“The value of a piece of software is not a function of the length of its code, or...”
“When you have to make a hard decision, flip a coin.
Why?
Because when that...”
March 2012
5 posts
HackFwd Blog: HackNow winner launches HolaIO →
hackfwd:
Last summer HackFwd created HackNow, a coding contest for under 18-year olds in Europe. The contest’s inaugural winner was Luis Iván Cuende García. Then at the age of 15, Luis Iván entered the contest with Asturix On, a distributed web-tech based desktop that promises to be a challenger in…
“The miracle of your mind is that you can see the world as it isn’t.
We...”
– Kathryn Schulz
“Before I die I want to do more than just exist”
“Life is a game, and if you aren’t in it to win, what the heck are you...”
– Linus Torvalds
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work”
– Thomas Edison
February 2012
3 posts
“They laugh at me because I’m different; I laugh at them because they’re all the...”
– Kurt Cobain
“To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring...”
– Buddha
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough”
– Albert Einstein
January 2012
5 posts
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Meeting @carlosbarrabes and @kintxocortes at...
The 27th of January 2012 was an awesome day, as I said in My first startup
I discovered StepOne some time ago, but the first real contact I had with them was when they told me to write a post talking about my experience as a very young entrepreneur.
Since then Kintxo Cortés and I tried to organize a meeting, but as I live in Oviedo it was very difficult. So taking advantage of the travel to...
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My first startup
The 27th of January 2012 my friend Alberto Elías and I created our first startup.
We have been working on it since we met in 2011, when we had two awesome ideas that will change the way we interact with technology (I’ll let you know soon).
I have some experience creating projects and making them succeed (as Asturix), but it’s the first startup I create and I’m very excited...
“The mind is supreme, and the thoughts are made in the mind; what the mind...”
– Gauthama Buddha
“Ignorance is the worst evil in the world”
– Myself
“The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest...”
– Debbi Fields
December 2011
5 posts
“Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom...”
– Hal Borland
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2011, the best year in my life
2011 has been the best year in my life.
Asturix OS has become one of the best operating systems, Asturix Project was created and now we have a team that is fully compromised with free software and is working to make the world a better place.
I assisted to Forum Impulsa, one of the world’s best entrepeneurship forums, where I met Tariq Krim (Netvibes and Jolicloud founder), Pau García-Milà...
“You need to be a bit crazy for being an entrepreneur”
“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win”
– Mahatma Gandhi
Moving
I moved my old-fashioned email account to Google Apps and my self-hosted blog to a Tumblr-hosted one.
It is all about productivity.
October 2011
1 post
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My thoughts about Stallman and Jobs
Steve Jobs died a couple days ago. Everyone said good words about Jobs, his products and his life, and how he made the world a better place.
Jobs was the best salesman of the world, that’s true. He was the most brilliant and the most inspiring.
But the world isn’t a better place thanks to him. As Richard Stallman said:
Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to...
September 2011
1 post
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HackNow
Yap, I won HackNow
So I’m the best hacker under 18 in Europe. That’s awesome
The prize was the best smartphone (Samsung Galaxy S2), 5000€ and give a talk at HackFwd Build 0.7 event.
The SGS2 is awesome, its display is incredible, and it has even HDMI!
And the 5000€ will help me found my first startup that I’m going to create with my friend Alberto.
But I think the best prize was the...
July 2011
1 post
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Campus Party 2011
I remember when I was one of the 800 european young chosen to assist to Campus Party Europa 2010, and Asturix was chosen one of the 20 best Innovation projects. It was awesome.
This year Asturix was chosen a collaborator community for the Campus Party Valencia 2011, so I went to the event with my father and Ricardo, the delegate of Communication of Asturix.
First day (July 11) was horrible...
June 2011
2 posts
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It’s all about the desktop
I used Linux the first time 3 years ago, when I was 12. The first distribution I installed was Fedora 7, with Gnome. What a good times. All was new and excitement. But Fedora was too boring so my father installed Kubuntu 8.04 in my old laptop (that nowadays is dead). That version of Kubuntu shipped KDE 3.5, the funniest desktop I have ever seen. I remember the hours of customizing the desktop or...
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Forum Impulsa 2011
When two months ago I received an email inviting me to the Forum Impulsa and two weeks ago the scholarship to go, I thought it was good.
But it wasn’t good. It was incredible.
The first day all the young people of the Forum did a huge brainstorming and networking, a creation workshop.
The second day was the best, and one of the best days of my life. Very good speakers talked...