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La lenta fine del web gratis (flash news)

June 2, 2021 June 4, 2021 / Italian Content / ideas, web / Leave a Comment

Due notizie degne di nota degli ultimi giorni: Twitter tenta di avviare una versione a pagamento del suo software, chiamato Twitter Blue. Al momento questa funzionalità sembra abbastanza inutile, a meno che cambiare colore ai tasti non ritenete che valga il costo dell’abbonamento. Ma è probabile che nuove funzionalità verranno aggiunte in seguito. Google rende …

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Simple Html debug via CSS

October 21, 2020 October 20, 2020 / English Content, Knowledgebase / css, easy, ideas, web, wordpress

Add the following css lines to your CSS theme, possibly at the end div::before { content:” C:” attr(class) “” } *::before,*::after { color:red; font-weight:100; font-size:1.0em } and div classes will showup easily. Very handly while customizing WoooordPress :) This page show a demo.

On Constants

October 4, 2019 October 4, 2019 / English Content, Humor, Programming languages, Software / evil, ideas, java

I think constants are evil (just joking but….I will explain why). I am tired of seeing a lot of Java classes filled with the same constants repeated over and over again, instead of collecting them in a common file, which in C Language was called include files (ooooah!). Sometimes it is impossible to understand if …

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Comments are evil?

April 15, 2019 November 28, 2019 / English Content, Programming languages, Software / evil, ideas, java

In the 1980 comments were used to reduce the “gap” between unstructured code and “rationale” behind the code. C/64 Peek and poke where oscure. Gosub on function pointed by numbers was bad 8-bit systems was tight on command names and so on (think to write a python interpreter in Arduino/bbc:Micro, or look at the memory …

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OOP is the your new legacy

December 20, 2016 February 21, 2019 / English Content, Programming languages, Software / analytics, Charles Scafani, cloud, erlang, functional programming, ideas, java, javascript, lisp, ramblings, San Francisco

Today I took a light rail with my son, to bring him to school. That tram is 90 years old. It has been maintained for 90 years. Milan city sold some of them to San Francisco too.

Usare la memoria non inizializzata per divertimento e profitto

October 18, 2013 October 26, 2014 / Italian Content, Knowledgebase, Software / algoritmi, good, ideas, set

Ciao a tutti, è venerdì! Se avete due minuti di tempo, volevo indicarvi un articolo su un algoritmo non banale, molto ben descritto qui: http://research.swtch.com/sparse This is the story of a clever trick that’s been around for at least 35 years, in which array values can be left uninitialized and then read during normal operations, …

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Learning Emacs Lisp: the fast track!

May 6, 2013 May 12, 2014 / English Content / cool, elisp, elnode, emacs, ideas, lisp, nice, programming

Ops I did it again. Although I repeatedly said I didn’t love emacs Lisp, I finally managed to learn it. So I want to share with you my tips, to help entering in the Emacs Lisp world in a fast, fun and easy way. First of all Lisp is a very elegant language, as you …

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Arduino Esplora

December 13, 2012 January 28, 2019 / Arduino, English Content / arduino, cool, esplora, ideas, nice

Arduino Esplora is here! The Arduino Esplora is a microcontroller board derived from the Arduino Leonardo. The Esplora differs from all preceding boards in that it provides a number of built-in, ready-to-use setof onboard sensors for interaction. News said the price will be around 45 euros http://www.tgdaily.com/hardware-features/67998-arduino-esplora-is-ready-out-of-the-box-sans-soldering http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2012/12/the-arduino-esplora/ Take a look at the board here …

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Your Emacs Virtual Box Recipe

October 15, 2012 May 7, 2018 / English Content, Knowledgebase, Software / emacs, great ideas, ideas, nerd, recipe, vi, virtual box / 1 Comment

!UPDATED! Okey I love emacs, you are allowed to say I am a nerd. But I use emacs. So I could solve your problems with a Ctrl-Alt-x kung fu combination, involving yoga-like finger movements. So do not mess with me… :D (I am like the Zohan, only with glasses :)

Code Zauker v0.0.3 is OUT

February 3, 2012 August 10, 2012 / English Content / case insentive, code zauker, engine, ideas, project, redis, search / 1 Comment

Are you ready for the news? Code Zauker v0.0.3 is OUT! The new version spots Case insensive indexing and searching, at a blazing fast speed. UTF-8 compliant indexing. Best if your code is on another encoding, code zauker try to “guess” the right one and fix it. Richer czsearch options, like the following $ruby -Ilib …

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Linkedin privacy simpatia

January 31, 2012 January 31, 2012 / Humor, Italian Content / bad, ideas, linkedin, privacy, rischi

Dovete stare molto attenti alla vostra Privacy. Mi hanno fato notare che LinkedIn ha silenziosamente attivato un checkbox che consente di usare la vostra foto per…farsi pubblicità! Per disattivarlo, andate sulle impostazioni, cliccate su Account poi su “Gestisci Social Advertising” e poi deselezionate il box più sotto!

When less is less: google code dead

January 20, 2012 January 20, 2012 / English Content / google, google code search, ideas, opinion, redis, web / 2 Comments

When Steve Jobs given some suggestions to Google, I fear he was still upset for the Android-carbon-copy of the iPhone. Because Jobs suggested Google to focus on a small subset of product (no more then five) and Google did it. And google started killing a lot of lab projects. Google Code Search was one of this …

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Da Python a Ruby o vicerversa

January 12, 2012 February 21, 2019 / Italian Content, Knowledgebase, Python / ideas, programming, python, ruby

Preludio L’ultima volta che ho provato Ruby è stato nell’aprile del 2005. Avevo sviluppato un paio di progetti di test in RubyOnRails, che allora era già produttivo. Ruby era affascinante, ma la libreria base mi sembrava ancora in stato embrionale e lo abbandonai. RubyOnRails non mi è mai sembrato avesse un vantaggio competitivo rispetto a …

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Ci sarà un altro C/64?

October 16, 2011 December 8, 2020 / IT Featured / c64, CBM, cc65, ideas, storia / 2 Comments

Ho posseduto sia un Vic20 ed un C/64, come molti della mia generazione, credo. Il Commore 64 è stato un micro computer commercializzato tra il 1982 e il 1994, dalla Commodore Business Machine (CBM). Il vero salto di qualità con il C/64 me lo fece fare un rivista scovata in un Autogril, chiamata Commodore Computer Club, che …

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JavaScript Wars hits nodejs

October 7, 2011 December 12, 2011 / English Content, Humor, IT Featured, Knowledgebase / cluster, ideas, javascript war, nodejs, relax

This week, the nodejs community had a big flame. All was started by this blog post, which tried to slap down node.js server because of its mono-thread nature. And node.js fight back knocking down the attacker. Let’see how.