I can claim: Ubuntu is the OS with the quickest and painless installation that I’ve ever installed in a PC · I need only some hours to install Ubuntu (with some extra programs). · I used to need a weekend to install Windows (with the pain of looking for drivers). · I used to need… Read More »
Nowadays almost all the companies use standard methods for interviewing candidates. They still use some common techniques like tiers of technical tests to find the perfect person… who can have an incredible CV and outstanding skills. But later he could be a complete fool, or he doesn’t fit in the company atmosphere. During my University… Read More »
If you can read this, your browser cannot render “Scalable Vector Graphics”… get FIREFOX or OPERASome people love using Google Images for finding images to use in their blogs. And they use the absolute URL, which means: they show the image in their sites, but they use YOUR bandwidth. In the last few weeks I’ve… Read More »
Sometimes a melody starts to sing inside your head, and you have no idea where it is from. Maybe from a TV series, maybe from a stupid summer song… How can you find out the name of that tune? Ta-ra-ta-ti-taaa-taaa, ta-ra-ta-ti-taaaaa… This week at the office everybody’ve been whistling a melody without knowing where it… Read More »
Here comes the summer! And the best way to survive it is by drinking fresh anisette with lemon. The recipe: – The juice of 1 lemon (if it’s home cultivated, the better) – 2 spoons of sugar – 1 drop of anisette – 2 ice cubes – and water Mr. Summer, please come in!
Somebody at the office played a joke on me. This morning I found my keyboard with 2 exchanged keys: the “Y” and the “I”. It was interesting however. I tried to work without putting them back to their original positions, and the result was quite surprising: if I typed without looking at the keyboard, I… Read More »
“Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.” A couple of years ago I was working on an (NLP aided) Information Retrieval system, for my PhD. It was somehow a prototype, with lots of wild modules merged. Now if I try to look back, I can see lots of mistakes in that system.… Read More »
Today is the Internet day in Spain (but I’m not sure if it’s also in other countries). The Government has organized some events in Madrid (yes, in the Real World™), showing no idea of what Internet is. A Spanish newspaper was asking “Can you live without internet (in Spanish)?”… interesting question. Internet for me is… Read More »
Recently at the office we have had some new incorporations, and we had to buy new equipments. It was a surprise to see that our hardware’s manager brought one 16:9 screen… and I suggested that a 4:3 could be better for programming issues. Then we started to argue the differences, and basically I commented that… Read More »
Today I was having lunch with a coworker in a Japanese restaurant and he was becoming impatient because the waiter forgot to bring us some napkins. He really needed having a napkin near his hands. The funny detail is that the cutlery (and also the chopsticks) were invented to keep the hands clean, avoiding the… Read More »