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Eventually everyone wants to be AOL

rengolin — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:29:59 +0000

After a good week battling against SOPA, it’s time to go back to real life, to battling our own close enemies. As was reported over, and over, and over again (at least in this blog), Google is...

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Post-SOPA-protest, what’s on?

rengolin — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:46:26 +0000

So, the day has ended and we’ve seen many protests around the world. Did it help? Well, a bit, but don’t hold your breath right now. European citizens are still being sued by the American...

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Wikipedia Blackout (a.k.a. SOPA strike)

rengolin — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:13:42 +0000

To protest against absurd piracy counter-measures in US, the Wikimedia foundation (and others) will be shutting down this Wednesday. We’ll be supporting the act by shutting down our blog, too....

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Dad, what is war?

rengolin — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:53:19 +0000

There’s this little girl on the hotel’s lobby. She seems very smart, but at odds with one of the popular magazines she’s reading. It looks like one of those low-quality magazines...

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Privacy on Modern Societies

rengolin — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:13:56 +0000

The concept of privacy is born from the antagonism between individuality and the desire to belong to a group. The instinctive drive to form groups – for protection, mating and warmth – is...

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The doctor and the programmer

rengolin — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 23:51:45 +0000

About 15 years ago, when I was working on a dodgy Brazilian firm, I had a conversation with an older programmer that I never forgot. He said something along the lines of: Medicine is way easier than...

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And he’s dead…

rengolin — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 08:49:28 +0000

No, not the one everyone is talking about. The one that actually made it all work. Not the one that was worried about uniforms and style, the one that actually designed and develop the foundations of...

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The OFF button

rengolin — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 22:09:34 +0000

Geeks like to hack stuff, especially if they’re not meant to be hacked. But hacking computers or mobile phones is piece of cake, so some, more adventurous geeks hack cars. The Toyota Prius is a...

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FreeCell puzzles solver API

rengolin — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 19:09:23 +0000

This is a little pet project I did a while ago. It’s a FreeCell puzzle‘s solver API. The idea is to provide a basic validation engine and board management (pretty much like my old chess...

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Science vs. Business

rengolin — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 18:24:14 +0000

Since the end of the dark ages, and the emergence of modern capitalism, science has been connected to business, in one way or another. During my academic life and later (when I moved to business), I...

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