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Bravo!

Playing with the Google Buzz API I accidentally deleted all of my posts.

Bravo Paolo!

Smart programmers

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Do you remember the old article from Paul Graham about the comparison between Python and Java? It's entitled “Beating the averages” and despite the fact that it was written in 2003, it's still relevant.

Why? Try this, and you will be enlightened.

Thanks to Birdack for this link!

(Local copy here for posterity.)

(Bad) news from Last.fm

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Some days ago Last.fm announced huge changes in the availability of thematic radios, in particular the cancellation of the “favorites” radio and the personal tag radio. At the end of this post you can find a copy of the original announce.

Since I'm a Last.fm subscriber and therefore I pay for the service, my first reaction has been of extreme disappointment. When I read the reason why the service has been suspended, the disappointment turned into outrage:

Licensing music is a complex and labour intensive process. By discontinuing a few stations, we're able to focus our energy on improving our most popular features, developing new and innovative stations, and offering the best music discovery service to our global audience.

Is managing the licenses so complex? And what happened to the money I pay for the service and the licenses?

The overall result is that I can not listen to “Jazz” or “Pop” radios anymore and, obviously, I will not renew my subscription.

Click here to read the Last.fm original announcement

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Panoramic view of Italy from IIS

Image of Italy from the International Space Station

Today the BBC site published a spectacular nightly view of Italy from the ISS, the International Space Station. Here is the original page on the ESA site.

Click the image to enlarge, or download the original picture in high resolution (2.3 Mb, 12 Megapixel).

Source repository of this blog

Following my previous post, some people asked me to show the source code of this blog, so here it is:
https://github.com/pdonadeo/personal_blog.

A general warning: the project wasn't thought to be published and so the code is a pile of scripts kept together in some way. Many parameters are present in the SQLite DB, but if you want to use the blog, expect to find my name, surname or email in the HTML templates, or even in some .ml files.

Moreover, the source code is not homogeneous and the style changes from module to module, because I changed my way (and skill) of programming in OCaml in time.

In any case, I hope you will find it interesting.

My new blog… in Objective Caml

More than a year ago I decided to dismiss my Wordpress blog, and to write a new one from scratch in OCaml. Unfortunately my spare time for programming projects is getting less and less, so this simple work took a lot of time to reach an usable state.

Read more…

Google Android

First of all Google decided to bind its brand new and "revolutionary" operating system to an old pile of crap like Java.

Then the Big G decided to enlighten us with App inventor, nothing more than a toy for kids.

As a consequence of this policy, aimed to entice smart people, someone decided to write PFA, PHP for Android, doubtless an excellent idea.

My question now is: what's next? Maybe COBOL?

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