startups, empreendedorismo e tecnologia
Suddenly my Time Capsule started screaming, Time Machine was only able to mount the backup drive in read-only mode, apparently it got corrupted. I tried Disk Utility, but it didn’t work, formatting was the way to go, the only bad thing is that I’ll have to wait another day or so to copy everything again.
Yesterday in TickTack we chatted with founders and employees of Conectiva, that was acquired by Mandrake and is now Mandriva, along with me, participated in this episode, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, Rodrigo Stulzer, Aurélio Marinho Jargas and Elvis Pfützenreuter. Extremely interesting content, must listen! Just remember it’s in Portuguese…
Denio raised this question: “What is faster, this while or this for?” He wrote this in the blackboard: for (;;) { } while (1) { } The answer in assembly is: For: .text .globl _main _main: pushl %ebp movl %esp, %ebp subl $8, %esp L2: jmp L2 .subsections_via_symbols While: .text .globl _main _main: pushl %ebp movl %esp, %ebp subl $8, %esp L2: jmp L2 .subsections_via_symbols
Difficult to believe but it’s true, Linus Torvalds is blogging, first post in the beginning of october and reaching an incredible mark of 5 posts and a sum of 350 comments. Sign the feed and let’s see where it goes…
Most part of my life is invested in front of the same screen you are seeing now, perhaps this is the same way I make green paper, for this reason I am not a big fan of things that make me lose time, a.k.a. social networks. But when things got too hot on Twitter, I registered to see what it really was, left my account there with nothing but my name and zero posts. Few weeks ago I started using Jaiku, which is now owned by Google and of course it’s beta, like baby gmail, you needed an invite, so…