Paolo Redaelli personal blog

Category: Mood

How would you compare these editors? What are the pros and cons of each? [note] This is not meant to be answered by those who “hate one and love another” or those who haven’t used both.

Sorgente: What are the pros and cons of Vim and Emacs?

That’s so funny!

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 the mountain
That though I climb and climb
She always hides her flowers from me…

In long ago’s lost garden
The apple trees will bear
A thousand fruits of red and green
But not one will I share…
For constant must I travel
And in some far off land
Lie down once more remembering

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p class=”text6″>Every time I meet this wonderful song by Angelo Branduardi I cannot help but stopping everything I’m doing and stand still listening to it.

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 half of main memory having to deal with a simple question like npm find foobar more speficically GNU time told me that it took 48…

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 there’s no sources to inspect I cannot trust it. No source, no trust. It’s that simple. Sorgente: Microsoft brings Office to Android smartphones for free

Look, dad!

I’ve read from time.com “The War on Pink: GoldieBlox Toys Ignite Debate Over What’s Good For Girls“,  as Slashdot gained my attention with “Are Girl-Focused Engineering Toys Reinforcing Gender Stereotypes?“. Being an engineer and father of two wonderful girls I am quite interested in the matter. Quite obviously my wife and me wish the best…

Paolo Redaelli

Se ci pensate è maledettamente vero: la maggior parte di aziende che spendono molto in pubblicità sono aziende che andrebbero evitate.

Think about it, it seems quite true: companies spending a lot in advertizing are those that should be avoided.

Source/Sorgente: Alla Rovescia!: sito fesso 5