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The big patch theory
It is well known that the free/open source software major asset is the sense of community surrounding each project. That idea is the constant in almost all the promotional videos which participate in the Linux Foundation contest We’re Linux.
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fosdem'09
Last weekend some igalians and I went to Brussels to attend the FOSDEM’09. We arrived the Friday just in time for the FOSDEM Beer Event (amazing coincidence!). In the Delirium Café I got my first epiphany about the True Spirit of FOSDEM: it is not the talks and the meetings, it is the beer. So, after that night, I could say “mission accomplished”.
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password management
Be on-line means have user accounts in a lot of services, such as email, social web sites, blogs, etc… And have multiple user accounts implies have to remember user names and passwords.
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no country for boy's compilers
During the first revision by the mythical committee of ALGOL, called ALGOL60, Donald Knuth proposed a mean for evaluating implementations of the language: the man or boy test.
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Coroutines, closures and continuations
I ought start with a disclaimer: I don’t have experience with functional programming. I never studied it. Nevertheless recently I have had some contact with some of its concepts, specially with the idea of continuations and closures. From these contacts came up a question, an hypothesis: by definition, continuations ⊆ closures ⊆ coroutines?.