Marcelo Toledo

startups, empreendedorismo e tecnologia

janeiro 2008

Phone Spam

It’s growing the number of unsolicited calls I received lately, once I went to a night club and they asked for my phone number, biggest mistake of my life, seems like they are going to call me every weekend. I’ve just created a contact called Spam in my iPhone, now I just want a replica of that website that stores spammers phones and a tools to sync with iPhone. Save us Phoneman!

Classical Computer Science Texts

A compilation of classical computer science texts, from people including: Brian W. Kernighan Donald E. Knuth Ken Thompson Dennis Ritchie Sergey Brin William Henry Gates III Paul Graham Peter Norvig … Source: http://e7l3.org/classics.html Idea: http://www.tellesfera.com/?p=27

Where are the hackers?

I grew up in the middle of hackers, people that learned assembly before even speak, intelligent gentleman seeking the understandings of computers and systems, real computer lovers. Being in front of a computer 20 hours a day couldn’t be considered work, we grew, the first one of us started working, then another one, until one day everyone was well employed and starting a business life. I always though that we were the beginning of many similar generations, that in ten years we would see ten times more hackers doing brilliant things for the world, but I was wrong, months ago…

Red candles

Around fifteen days in the new year and all I can see is red candles in my graphics, reading my rss today was horrible, all markets around the world falling crazy, JPMorgan revenue, 34% less then predicted, Citi US$ 9.8 bilion loss, Goldman recommends selling Citi papers, Merrill Lynch reported a second straight quarterly loss after writing down US$ 11.5 billion of subprime mortgages and bond. Like we say around here, in a nasty fall, you’ll not pass the ground, buckle up.

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