Author: Artur Ventura

I was reading hacker news when I’ve seen this post and I’ve seen this: In Lisp, should lists be replaced with trees? I’ve read that and all I can say is: Who comes up with this things!? The idea of using lists as data structures on lisp wasn’t because of we didn’t knew trees. We…

Apparently current MFPS have classes. Why would someone want to be a Medic in a First Person Shooter?

Lisbon Photowalk 2010, a set on Flickr. em Alcântara.

I could give lots of reasons but one of the most important: size of the app store library. I really hope WebOS can survive, but the v3 sdk must be amazing compared with what it is today. Without apps, no platform can survive.

I have some ideias about developing a bio memetic robot, I was needing an anatomy compendium to see how the arm works. This was a message bellow the medical classic Gray’s Anatomy on iTunes Store: * Note: this application was not written by McDreamy and the illustrations in no way resemble any characters from the…

I’m starting to get this weird feeling. Everything these days is going down the crapper. Earthquakes in Japan, world wide economic problems, governments falling, civil unrest from Europe down to northern Africa. Back in the nineties everyone could see brighter future ahead with the web, the economic development from the dot com boom, and the…

How do I know this? Well I don’t but I’ve found something particularly weird on the recent build of Lion. The video that once was in this page you could see some of 10.7 new features. Particularly what caught my eye was the “view as…” buttons. Check this image from my Snow Leopard Finder: See…

According with the movie below, no one who works there really knows: I’ve been curious about this subject for some time, mostly because no one knows what happens. Every physician working there knows that micro black holes are highly improbable, but if the beam touches live matter, the results are unexpected (I got my fingers…

The title sounds like a B movie, but they did some movies using stereoscopic recording. were made … for Goebbels’ propaganda ministry and referred to as raum film — or space film — which may be why no one ever realized since that they were 3-D Nazis made a 3D musical. λ

Right around christmas, I was seem an episode of House on my bed when I moved and listen a sudden snap. As it turned out, my headset jack just had snapped inside the hole. Half of it was inside. I thought, no problem, the next day at work I get some tweezers and remove it.…