Intro Have you ever had the perception that you are not as productive as others or how a colleague manages to get everything done despite all the interests he/she has? if you have, then Smarter Faster Better by Charles Duhigg is the book you should read. Duhigg connects productivity to 6 areas: Motivation, Focus, Goal … Read More
Abstract In this post (provocative title :-)) I want to talk a little bit about the habit of (ab)using the (get and set) accessors in Object Oriented languages. I’ll try, step by step, from the OO definition through the end define why it is bad and what we can do to avoid this. OO Definition … Read More
Why fast charging makes your batteries age more quickly! Fast charging cycles make batteries age more quickly
Merita di essere condivisa, mi ci ritrovo in pieno .. uno dei motivi per cui sono emigrato! <Che le cose siano così, non vuol dire che debbano andare così. Solo che, quando si tratta di rimboccarsi le maniche e incominciare a cambiare, vi è un prezzo da pagare, ed è allora che la stragrande … Read More
One of the greatest post I ever read! One of the main issue of some team and individuals is looking at the problem (“how did we get here”, “who is responsible for that”, etc …). There is just one way to succeed and is looking at the solution(s) instead and keep the lesson learned for the retrospective. Retrospective … Read More
“Mars One will establish a permanent human settlement on Mars. Crews of four will depart every two years, starting in 2024. Our first unmanned mission will be launched in 2018“, this and much more info on the mars-one web site. What’s Mars-One? Mars One is a not-for-profit foundation that will establish a permanent human settlement … Read More
In this post I’m talking about the bug recently discovered on OpenSSL and why is so important. WHAT IS SSL (and TLS): SSL (Secure Sockets Layerv2/3) and its replacement, TLS (Transport Layer Security), are cryptography protocol which provide communication security over the Internet. In a Client-Server communication they provide a “secure” communication through 1) authentication … Read More
Stack unwinding is strictly related to exceptions. Let’s consider the following example: in this example, in the div method, we see that when the divisor is zero an exception is raised. Different things happen here: In the div’s caller once the exception is cached the destructor of every (automatic) object (i.e.: allocated on the stack) is … Read More
How many times happened to you to watch a movie on the net (YouTube or other streaming channels) but without subtitles? well, I’d like to present a simple solution that will allow you to overcame this problem. First, what’s a subtitle? a subtitle is a text file (.srt) containing basically two info: 1) a … Read More
Great GIT tutorial! http://pcottle.github.io/learnGitBranching/ enjoy!