Una realtà e Borges
Leggendo i referer di questo sito, ho scoperto che qualcuno l’ha raggiunto interrogando un motore di ricerca per Frasi sulla libertà di Borges Secondo me, per cercare una frase sulla libertà in Borges, si deve trovare una frase sulla realtà. Di Borges ho letto sicuramente più di quanto ne possa ricordare: nonostante questo, il tema [...]
Progettazione sostenibile
Lo scorso 3 dicembre, presso l’Unione Industriale di Torino, all’interno di un ciclo di incontri organizzato dal CIDAS, il Professor Cesare Boffa (Ordinario di Fisica Tecnica al Politecnico di Torino) ha presentato la conferenza “Energia: la verità e la menzogna”. Ignoravo che tra gli organizzatori ci fossero i miei amici Alessandro, Elias ed Enrico: prima [...]
Growing old
In “Black Eyed Dog”, Nick Drake sang I’m growing old and I wanna go home I suppose that you might think you are growing old when you have no more déjà vu but a well known daily routine the man in the mirror looks more rather frazzled than you you wear an unknown number of [...]
To my Atheist readers
Again I’m (…) living through that time of the year when many people around me are going to celebrate the birth of the son of a god in whom they “believe” but this year I don’t want to write to them… I want to direct my attention to the atheists. You know that observational evidence [...]
aggr 1.1 is out
This release adds $item_count and $title_length with code closer to what suggested by Scott.
Salutoni
Chi segue “temporaneità” sa che, una volta al mese, leggo le stringhe di ricerca con le quali i visitatori provenienti dai motori raggiungono questo blog: i falsi positivi divertenti o interessanti mi servono da spunto per nuovi post. Fabio, consapevole di questa mia pratica, ha deciso di farmi uno scherzo: avendo entrambi trovato divertente la [...]
Do we need nouns?
Reading the referers of this website, I found that someone reached it querying a search engine for Why do we need nouns? I think I’ve spent many years abstracting ideas so I could say that we need nouns to better understand the world… but when I’m really tired, I rock myself with anarcho primitivism ideas. [...]
I feel like a scuba debugger
I’ve just spent the last two days trying to smash a treacherous bug in a bunch of quite old PHP scripts: each file was very “simple”… no classes or functions, just a black forest of nested if/else statements with a few redirects here and there. It was so messy that I was forced to diff [...]
Notes about TPCI 2007-12
The TPCI December Headline is Python surpasses Perl for the first time in history Let me do one of my well known predictions: Perl might go out from the top ten before 2013.
aggrw 0.3 is out
A new simple plugin is out. :)
