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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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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…

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…

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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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),…

Who follows me on Twitter know that every once in a while I post a few phrases from Filipe.
Here’s a compilation of them for your enjoyment…
Mum, why does the water from the waterfalls fall?…

Almost a decade ago I joined Yahoo to work on the search team. At that time, Google was giving Yahoo a hard time with their amazing search, while Yahoo was mostly based on directory search and…

Today is the annual Day Against DRM, please remember to check your shopping list for possible DRM-ed products, and consider doing some of the ideas on the site… I can give you a few examples…

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I’ve been using virtual keyboards for a while (iPad, Android phone) and, while it’s good enough, it made me wonder… QWERTY The QWERTY keyboard was invented in the 19th century and…

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In my previous post about class sizes, we visited the empty classes and how their derived classes change in size. Now, we’re going to look what the ABI have to say about tail padding in…

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