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  • Pandoc: your secret best friend in document translation

    calendar Nov 13, 2016 · 1 min read
     en knowledgebase  · lisp tools
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    Pandoc: your secret best friend in document translation

    Pandoc is an universal document converter to convert Markdown, Org-Mode, Html, Word documents from one markup format into another  After using different tools, (including GNU info and SGML). I find out pandoc vert handy.


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  • BBC Micro bit: first look

    calendar Sep 8, 2016 · 3 min read
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    BBC Micro bit: first look
    The BBC Micro bit an ARM-based embedded system designed by the BBC for use in computer education in the UK. The device has been given away free [...] [to every 11 years old pupil] in the UK, and is also available for purchase by anyone.

    This is the wikipedia definition.


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  • RaspberryPI life extender: tmpfs

    calendar Jul 15, 2016 · 1 min read
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    RaspberryPI life extender: tmpfs

    To increase performance and SD life of your raspberry PI 2/3, you can follow my first article on this subject.


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  • The End of the Apple Magic?

    calendar Jun 14, 2016 · 3 min read
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    The End of the Apple Magic?

    I have just read what Apple shown at the WWDC 2016.

    In the 1985 Windows 1.0 was born. In a snap, the IBM compatible system evolved, and the competitive advantage of the Macintosh dried up and disappeared.

    IBM PC was cheaper and way more open.

    Like in the 1985, now in the 2016 the iPhone revolution has come to an end. After the Retina Display introduction, no real new feature was introduced. The apple Watch was beaten by competition.

    Two years passed with no true innovation (i.e. Apple Watch is not a revolution).

    The last MusicApp removed the beautiful cover navigation, and try to sell you the apple music rent service all the time, instead of let me play the music I have already bought.

    If the WWDC2016 breaking news is a new file system, it is a very poor gift. I am writing this note on a Windows 10 PC. It is not a shining operating system it freeze a bit and has still a very ugly backup engine, but MacOSX is not the “most advanced operating system” anymore, like it used be in 2000.

    MacOSX is the oldest one nowadays.

    Historically Apple system are very closed. The reason is simple: when you go to your shareholders and ask for money, you can show you have a competitive advantage, a strong set of feature no one can take apart from you. But Apple lost this war in 1985, when the high pricey Macs cannot compete with open IBMs clones.

    To be fair, IBM could open to clone market because its business was on high-end server, and Microsoft alliance will help to sell more IBM PCs.


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  • Every url you post on facebook chat can be found…

    calendar Jun 10, 2016 · 1 min read
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    Every url you post on facebook chat can be found...so be careful!

    This article on Medium deeply explain this behavior.


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  • The Lego impossibile Revenge /2 brick prices

    calendar Apr 9, 2016 · 1 min read
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    Traditionally Lego bricks cost a lot. This guide will try to give you some guidelines on “brick best price”. First of all basic creative box seems the cheapest one. For instance the LEGO 10702 - Classic Set Creativo has 583 pieces for less then 25 € on Amazon. The cost per brick is about 4.25 € every 100 bricks.


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  • The Lego Technic Impossible Revenge Part 1

    calendar Apr 2, 2016 · 1 min read
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    The Lego Technic Impossible Revenge Part 1

    super-pricey-setAfter my first child reached 5 years old, I decided it was time to start my Lego Technic Revenge, together with KyloRen Star Wars lego-puppy (eh eh).


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  • Lego quicklinks

    calendar Mar 1, 2016 · 1 min read
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    1. A dump of the Lego set database. It is from 2014, but it could be a good starting point for your own database needs
    2. A stocking and stackable lego strategy
    3. A web site to know what else you can build with your pieces.
    4. A replacement part site with manual download too.
      1. By the way search 10188 for death stars replacement (red/blue swords!)
      2. 10179 for millenium falcon
  • Finding the good one: mithril

    calendar Feb 21, 2016 · 2 min read
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    Finding the good one: mithril

    I have just read this insightful statement on this blog article about congitive load in Javascript


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  • Property Based Testing Tool

    calendar Nov 30, 2015 · 1 min read
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    Tonight I stubled upon PropEr, a Property based testing tool for Erlang. It seems a very smart idea: instead of writing a single unit test, you write a set of properties your code must satisfy.


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