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Monthly Archives December 2008

Drops of goals

In a previous post (Drops of toughts) I put a list of “what to change in my life”. After a few (4) months, I can say that: I almost stopped drinking coffee and started drinking lots of tea. While at Brown, I played soccer in the intramural tournament. I hope to play again in the [...]

Posted 31 December 2008 † Matteo § English § Misc § Personal § University ‡ Comments (4) °

Code tools

This is mostly a follow-up from yesterday post: ATM, to write code for my little project, I’m using Eclipse+PyDev+Subclipse+SVN on my MacBook Late 2008. These tools seem to help improving my productivity.

Posted 24 December 2008 † Matteo § FreeBSD § Nerd ‡ Comments (0) °

Writing code when you are a theorist

Despite my involvement in the FreeBSD and FreeSBIE projects, I do not think of myself as a coder, nor a “system” guy in general. I’ve always been more attracted by theory and I followed a mainly theoretic courses path during my M.Sc. . My thesis is about theory in data mining but involves some experiments [...]

Posted 23 December 2008 † Matteo § FreeBSD § Nerd ‡ Comments (2) °

Una modesta proposta di riflessione su tema statunitense

Ho scritto questo post in due, anzi tre, momenti differenti. L’ho iniziato sul treno per New York, modificato sul treno di ritorno e infine finalizzato qui a casa in Italia. È solo uno spunto, potete coglierlo o meno, potete rifletterci o meno, potete pure ignorare completamente il post (o almeno i paragrafi successivi a quello [...]

Posted 18 December 2008 † Matteo § Italiano § Personal ‡ Comments (5) °

Dijkstra e le riforme

Sulla porta del mio ufficio nel dipartimento di Computer Science di Brown University è attaccato un cartello. Dice Please adopt an Italian student. Our government does not let us study. La scritta è presa da una foto vista su flickr: una studentessa partecipava ad una manifestazione tenendo ben in alto un foglio A3 bianco con [...]

Posted 04 December 2008 † Matteo § Italiano § Nerd § University ‡ Comments (6) °

On the naming of computers and its evolution

Like many geeks, I have my own style in naming the machines I have access to. This may sound strange to people not used to live between a chair and a monitor but, according to many, you may really want to give a name to the non-animated thinking being (please note the double absurd of [...]

Posted 03 December 2008 † Matteo § English § FreeBSD § Nerd ‡ Comments (8) °