October 27th, 2009 § 0
Today I assisted a fun but emotional last class from my Professor JRA on his 70th anniversary. Room was full and there was live streamming to all of us who work abroad and could not assist.
Topic was the Laplace’s Convolution and, as usual in him, he pushed further to immortality two of his quotes:
Lord Calvin said, God gave the man the one (number one) and said: now, multiply it.
and
Euler had two big heads: that’s why he had 13 children.
The man:FEUP - José Rodrigues de Almeida.
October 20th, 2009 § 0
If you ever got annoyed with Ecplise .tmp_ files in your code repository… just do in your terminal.
find . -name ".tmp_*" -exec rm -rf {} ;
…but be careful not to delete your repository revision files 
October 3rd, 2009 § 0
Everybody has a dream… I would would like to write for living. Writing is a powerful medium. It is the best way of narrowing the gap between two people’s brains. The writer can carefully choose its words before deploy them in paper, still allowing the readers imagination to make his words fly around his own imagination. Oral speech is difficult, you’re often misunderstood and your thoughts challenged back and forth by the listener. Writing is deploying deep thoughts in paper.
I also would like to have a Porshe… but that’s not really a achievement.