Thinking about the traces we leave behind in all the software we use, I was wondering: How will the biography of a data-intensive person – you know, blogs, twitter, delicious, tumblr, last.fm…- look like in the future? Will those “domestic privacies” be taken into account? How will the fact that we have a clear, unambiguous [...]
So I bit the bullet and have just opened a tumblr account. I’ve been somehow reluctant to try just another service (despite passionate, reliable recommendations). The way I use delicious (keeping an annotated track of interesting stuff) is pretty similar to what I could get using tumblr, so why should I add another tool? The [...]
Some time ago, I wondered how could I take some notes about the music I was listening to. After having a look at the last.fm player source code* I instantly saw what a stupid thing I had suggested. In no way I’d be able to figure out that bunch of c++ classes (not that it [...]
The books are to music what retrovisor is to design. And I love both
There are some words I’ve put under suspicion. They’re like magic. When they appear everything seems better, more pleasant, more adequate… I still don’t know what it is, but I’m somehow annoyed. Perphaps they appear too frequently in advertising, products, speeches… I think they hide some… swindle. 3 come to mind now: New Easy Original [...]
Friendship in C++: A friend of a class is an external function or class that has access to the private and protected members of this class. Isn’t it lovely? More favorites: In chuck, function declaration is fun. maybe() (also from chuck): a method for the non-decisive programmer. Returns 0 or 1 at random.