Nostalgia
Paolo Redaelli
http://m.slashdot.org/story/303799 Yahoo To Spin Off Everything That Makes It Yahoo Yahoo is perhaps the last giant of the beginning of the net. Such news triggers the nostalgia effect
Mood
Upgrades
Upgrading oldish releases are a pain. I tried “official” ways to upgrade my Saucy Salamander Eeepc. No way. I got to do it the hard way, treating that Ubuntu like…
The Barbie commercial you have to see – The Washington Post
Some days ago I saw this link on Slashdot : The Barbie commercial you have to see – The Washington Post that caught my attention: A new ad campaign is…
Kano – The Computer anyone can make
This is Kano. Let your kids build, learn and create using a computer they make themselves. Kano – The Computer anyone can make the best gift you can make to…
Classical learing curves
How would you compare these editors? What are the pros and cons of each? This is not meant to be answered by those who “hate one and love another” or…
A Song Of Regret – YouTube
Song of regret (Peter Sinfield – Angelo Branduardi) Winter’s frozen moments Will melt once more to spring, Birds with peppered feathers Return once more to sing… But so high soars…
Fat, obese npm
I do understand that today designs tend to put less emphasis on conservative memory usage but that’s pretty outrageous. A simple search into node’s package manager ate one gigabyte and…
xkcd: Matrix Transform
Sometimes a little joke on coordinate transformation made using a matrix is needed. Sorgente: xkcd: Matrix Transform Yet it’s only a simple rotation. There’s no translation neither skew…
No source, no trust
Microsoft brings Office to Android smartphones for free No, thanks, I rather prefer not to use software that I cannot trust. You may offer it for zero money but as…
AMD Radeon R9 Fury X Review: Fiji And HBM Put To The Test
The Fiji GPU is comprised of roughly 8.9B transistors Almost nine billion transistors…. sounds like science fiction for the child in me that once played with Commodore 64, powered by…