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startups, empreendedorismo e tecnologia

abril 2008

Emacs is sleeping

Steve Yegge posted yesterday a book in his blog, XEmacs is Dead. Long Live XEmacs! Ok, it’s not a book – but looks like -, it’s a very interesting article and we share many ideas. I don’t know how to define it right now, but long time ago, Emacs was my favorite software, I used it for almost everything besides editing files, mail, news, shell, scripting, web browser, irc, calendar, contacts, etc. I even started writing a book about it five years ago, I wanted to finish it a while back, but I got an access denied from my editor,…

iPhone security

Most of my friends already know that I lost my iPhone, I got out of my car, it felt and I only noticed few minutes later when I was already far away. I tried to call from my other phone dozen times, someone took it, I tried to negotiate, but it was clearly a robber, he wanted $2K for it, I don’t need to tell you where I told him to stick the phone, right? One feature I missed that day was a security trigger, where remotely I could erase it completely. Imagine that my entire life was there, photos,…

Interview with Donald Knuth

Andrew Binstock and Donald Knuth converse on the success of open source, the problem with multicore architecture, the disappointing lack of interest in literate programming, the menace of reusable code, and that urban legend about winning a programming contest with a single compilation. Andrew Binstock: You are one of the fathers of the open-source revolution, even if you aren’t widely heralded as such. You previously have stated that you released TeX as open source because of the problem of proprietary implementations at the time, and to invite corrections to the code—both of which are key drivers for open-source projects today.…

Inside pictures of Google

The pictures you see were taken in Google Zurich, the employees have full access to all places with no exceptions: Reception of Google Zurich. A slider connects two zones, second floor is a cafeteria and first a gymnasium. Why wait the elevator?

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