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"The most dangerous phrase in the language is, We’ve always done it this way" - Grace Hopper
I am a very happy owner of a RaspberryPi Model B 2, a quad core ARMv7 computation unit for a price between 45 and 35 €.
If you plug only a network cable it can be powered by a USB port of your router (!avoid putting on it other USB stuff, because the energy drain can be too much).
RaspberryPI is a perfect all-time-running machine, just follow this smart guide…
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After my two children grow a little, I have some spare time to play with RaspberryPi. I have bought a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B, a very neat and compact machine with 1GB of RAM, and a quad-core ARM chip on it.
I was looking for an easy-to-carry unix box, and I was wrong: raspberry pi can be a lot more than that.
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Org Mode Parser 0.1.1 is OUT
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Finding the good one: mithril
Feb 21, 2016 · 2 min read ·I have just read this insightful statement on this blog article about congitive load in Javascript
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Negli ultimi 20 anni sono successe tante cose imprevedibili. Nel 1995 nasce Java. Nello stesso periodo nasce Erlang. Java inizialmente segue la strada culturale tracciata da Sun, e si configura come un linguaggio estremamente verboso, con API specifiche per la gestione della concorrenza (es keyword synchronized per gestire nativamente le zone critiche che necessitano di mutex). Inzialmente Java è per far girare applet, poi Sun presenta un chip ad hoc (picoJava) poi IBM ci mette del suo e il linguaggio si trasforma in una ottima piattaforma per lo sviluppo server side.
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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.
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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In ambito Open source vi sono innumerevoli licenze disponibili. Quali sono le loro differenze salienti? Come orientarsi? In questo breve articolo diamo una serie di indicazioni e spunti di riflessione.
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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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Oracle SQL Developer is full of nice feature, damned by a overwhelming options pane, like the one I will describe to you right now.
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Oracle SQL Developer is full of nice feature, damned by a overwhelming options pane, like the one I will describe to you right now.
Even if Oracle databases (<12) does not support auto increment, you can easily ask to your sql data modeler to generate for you a sequence and a trigger in a automatic way.
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