Posts in February dAmerica/Chicago 2008

Small things are the key
Monday, 25-February-2008

Last weekend I took part in the Barcelona’s Go Tournament. As every year many people from Europe came to enjoy the nice weather of Barcelona, while playing some tough games. Three Koreans took the top positions, and among them, my Go (or Baduk) teacher, Lluis Oh 6 dan.
My score was 2 wins from 5 rounds… […]

“Hello World!” is too hard to program
Tuesday, 5-February-2008

10 years ago, when I saw for the first time a Java program, the classical “Hello World!”, I thought for a moment “booo, it’s counterintuitive… you need to create a class just to say Hello”. Later I used to do all the nasty work with classes.
But I never imagined something like the following:
Malbolge, invented by […]