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nDray — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 22:22:37 +0000

só porque não tenho nada que fazer, e me lembrei de rever esta tendência, e como se acentuou… =)

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nDray — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:17:09 +0000

beat and tweet

nDray — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:57:34 +0000

i have recently become an avid listener to trance and progressive radio shows like a state of trance, trance around the world, global dj broadcast, etc. every week i hear new tracks through these and since the programs are two hours long its really easy to find lovable and ignorable tracks.
i was keeping my mind busy on how to keep track of my favourite tunes, and after some thinking and ignoring the issue i realised that i could finally put some use to my twiiter page, that i created before just to keep my username safe. i actually do that now in websites that might be of use in the future because when i came up with my nickname i was a 12 year old signing yahoo games. at the time my nickname resulted in 0 google results, but now it is all over forums and places i have never visited in my life. so if you want to listen to some really good tunes (or figure out what i define as good tunes) just follow my twitter.

why i still need the mouse

nDray — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 10:15:44 +0000

i was checking the old release pages from mozilla firefox, to check out when i began using firefox, but it looks like the guys at mozilla aren’t too much worried about history and having the old builds in the ftp. anyways, it’s not that important. i remember that i have used firefox before i even switched to linux, and it was around version 0.9, somewhere in 2004. i remember at that time it was a fast browser, far from bloated, and i already had that feeling that microsoft didn’t suit me that well. i used it as my primary option until 2-point-something, but then version 3 disappointed me somehow, or opera just attracted me better. i’m writing this post from opera 10 rc2, but i have been using firefox again since 3.5. and will be.

i don’t think the unix philosophy is a great friend of the web. the internet is now much more than a collection of hypertext pages, it is the future operating system, and there are many needs that have to be fulfilled together for that specific purpose. bloated browsers seem to be the best prepared for that task.

good thing i remembered to write about this, because the opera’s spell checker seems to work great. also it seems to have a nice ball that appears on tabs when they are refreshed, and turbo should be a nice feature for slow networks and people with limited traffic, but that’s it… google reader isn’t rendered well, google docs is actually what seems to be the css layout for the iphone, it isn’t all that better performance wise. opera mail is a joke. i have used it in the opera days, but now i lack gpg integration and other functionality. opera chat is also a joke, i don’t even have to say why, so opera contacts don’t even make sense.

when it comes to missing features, firefox is much more easily extended. widgets in opera is one of the worst thing they’ve come up with. they replace desktop widgets, and that’s not browsers’ business! and talking about business, the biggest waste of code of all: opera unite. web server on a browser? sorry, but i don’t think so…

i surely hope i’m wrong, and i believe i may be, but i think opera is just about to lose a great deal of share in the desktop browser market. the mini could be losing as well, with the proliferation of the iphone and android platforms, which ship with pretty decent browsers. their only hope could be the popularity of the nokia devices and mobile internet users, due to providers’ ridicule download limits…

secret maryo chronicles

nDray — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:18:03 +0000

secretas demais, até. é preciso divulgar um jogo deste calibre. também para windows.

afinal existe!

nDray — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:20:21 +0000

o melhor browser web do mundo chegou ao meu computador e chama-se vimpression! é só editar/acrescentar um par de linhas e faz (praticamente) tudo o que eu quero. grande leon winter!

já estavamos bem a tempo…

nDray — Sat, 30 May 2009 10:15:51 +0000

… de quebrar a compatibilidade com os decadentes métodos de comunicação online. google wave promete.

é impressionante como banalidades…

nDray — Fri, 08 May 2009 16:26:17 +0000

… do dia a dia podem ser tão complexas. ao escrever uma pequena página para me recolher as previsões meteorológicas parei um pouco (pela n-ésima vez) para pensar na quantidade de informação que viaja milhares de kilómetros em meia dúzia de fios numa fracção de tempo pouco longe da imperceptibilidade humana. o mesmo quanto aos browsers, pois hoje foi a primeira vez que li como trabalhar com cookies (a página guarda a última cidade visitada para acessos posteriores) e aprendi que tenho de procurar o meu par “nome=valor” no meio de tantos quantos o browser guarda para o endereço, todos amontoados em strings. um browser realmente destacado da concorrência devia ser mais do que suficiente para fundar e lucrar uma empresa…

the world’s bug inventory…

nDray — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 10:35:22 +0000

… grows every day. yesterday i was trying to import a formula anywhere from (la)tex to inkscape, so i could render it to any size i wanted. in the (failed) process i encountered several applications that didn’t work correctly or simply just didn’t do the trick as i expected. also when browsing some of the application’s websites i had a “page not found” answer. yesterday seemed like everything in the world that wouldn’t work correctly dropped at my browser step.

in an attempt to make science out of it it came to me that the unix philosphy may be not the best there is. as software complexity grows and more and more (autodidact unpaid) programmers come to the world, one can’t apply the “do one thing well”, because you do one thing well that uses another thing that does it wrong. therefore rounding these together to make a more complex one results in failure.
even the smallest hello world uses code from elsewhere. everyone uses others’ code now (whether its stdio or not). and it’s everywhere! take this website for an example! the problem with using others’ code is that others don’t usually prove it’s correct, just show it works!
i can’t find reason to explain how popular applications like mozilla firefox and opera might segfault (see that? it’s a verb, now!). it seems to me that today people are too much worried about design and features, leaving the first three rules of programming behind (1. correction, 2. correction, 3. correction, thank you mos).
i don’t believe code should ever become more design than science, more art than mathmatics, but i believe it came down to that because there are many options on “the market” today that i will easily trade a solution that works for one that might work but looks good. it’s like social life: if you’re handsome, you get extra points!

certo partido político…

nDray — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:16:34 +0000

… inova criando um sítio acessível a todos (ou quase todos, obrigado pt) para discutir política e partilhar ideias. certo partido, menos dado à participação no sentido estrito, decide também criar um sítio que serve de ferramenta não para discutir, mas para disfarçar política em redes sociais virtuais.

esses partidos não precisam de apoio em matéria política. o que fazer com o poder nas mãos eles sabem bem, mas não discutem com os eleitores. o site devia chamar-se “loiras & trolhas social networking”.