January 2011
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My First Programing Experience
(A versão em Português está aqui)
Last week, the math teacher gave us some homework. A couple of exercises about probabilities, one subjects in Math I actually like.
We’d learned in the class this thing called Law of Large Numbers. In a nutshell, it says that if you toss a coin a lot of times (a lot of times) the number of times that the tails side came up will be very close to the number of...
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A minha primeira experiência de programação
Na semana passada, a professora de matemática mandou-nos uns trabalhos de casa. Uns exercícios sobre probabilidades, um dos temas da Matemática que eu até gosto.
Na aula estivemos a estudar uma coisa chamada Lei dos Grandes Números. Basicamente, diz que se lançares uma moeda ao muitas vezes (mesmo muitas vezes) o número de vezes que a face que tem cara fica para cima vai ser muito próximo do...
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What Makes for a Good Blog? →
“A good blog is written by a blogger who thinks longer, works harder, and obsesses more. Ultimately, a good blogger tries. That’s why “good” is getting rare.”
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Blast from the past Link Day
Started by Shawn Blanc
The Grandparents Camera - Marco Arment
The Nerd Handbook - Randsinrepose
Me, but you, but me - Mark Pilgrim
The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - William Deresiewicz
Another View of Videogame Piracy - David Rosen
Why We don’t need more Women in Tech…Yet - Jolie O’Dell
Rules for Computing Happiness - Alex Payne
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Google Bookmarks
I needed a new bookmarking service.
For two reasons. One, Delicious is kinda shutting down. The company’s blog says:
No, we are not shutting down Delicious. While we have determined that there is not a strategic fit at Yahoo!, we believe there is a ideal home for Delicious outside of the company where it can be resourced to the level where it can be competitive.
And two, I needed a...
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Wallpaper Ethics
I’ll get right to the point.
The things that are online do not belong to everybody.
Consequently, you shouldn’t distribute content that you found on some other place on the web, because it’s not yours.
This has to do with copyright.
When you save something on your computer it becomes copyrighted. It means that you have the right to decide what is done with that piece of content. Unless you...
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10 Things/Backup
So I was watching a Youtube video about the 10 things you would save if your house was on fire.
I thought hey, that’s pretty cool, so I started writing my own list of things.
And I realised two things:
I don’t have many will-not-survive-whitout possesions. (Which I guess is a good thing?)
I need to backup my computer!
Because besides my camera, my iPod, my Star Wars t-shirt and my...
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How to open, edit and run Python programs on an...
note: these instructions were tested in an iPod Touch 2G running 4.2.1-the process should be the same for other models (or at least similar)
You’ll need:
a Jailbroken iPod Touch (or iPhone)
OpenSSH
PyObjC
MobileTerminal (cydia app)
iEdit (cydia app)
(optional) FTP Application (like Cyberduck) for transferring files
Preparations
Change the Cydia Settings to “Developer”...
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how to convert ebooks from pdf to epub →
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Marco.org: There really isn't much of a "tablet"... →
marco:
There’s an iPad market, and the iPad could be classified as a tablet, from a hardware-centric viewpoint. But the market for non-iPad tablets is about as big today as it was before the iPad, which isn’t nothing, but it’s close enough to nothing that Apple doesn’t need to worry about it.
How many…
