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  • Dan Garcia’s C puzzle answers

    At least, my answers, that is… A few days ago, I’ve published a quiz I’ve found on Dan Garcia ’s class. The question was: which snippets prints always 5? 1) main() {    int *a-ptr; *a-ptr = 5; printf(“%d”, *a-ptr); } 2) main() {   int *p, a = 5;   p = &a; ...   /* code; a...
    Posted to LA.NET [EN] (Weblog) by luisabreu on Wed, Jun 3 2009
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  • Fair play is a b*tch

    [Not technical, so you probably want to skip it unless you’re Portuguese or want to see how bad things are around here] In Portugal, there was a football (soccer, if you’re in US) coach which said something like “fair play is a ***”. I guess he was right…in fact, I tend to go a little further and say...
    Posted to LA.NET [EN] (Weblog) by luisabreu on Mon, Jun 1 2009
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  • Downloading .NET reflector

    Not sure on how I should classify this, but I’d say that getting this error in 2009 from a page served by a company like redgate is incredible! Today I needed to download reflector , so I went to redgate ’s site and chose the download option. When you do that, you’ll be redirected to a page that asks...
    Posted to LA.NET [EN] (Weblog) by luisabreu on Thu, May 28 2009
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  • C question from Dan Garcia

    Currently, I’m following Dan Garcia ’s CS61C course (which is freely available online ). On lesson 6, there’s an interesting puzzle (which, btw, I got it wrong – I’ll tell you why on the next post). The question is: which snippets prints always 5? 1) main() {    int *a-ptr; *a-ptr = 5; printf...
    Posted to LA.NET [EN] (Weblog) by luisabreu on Wed, May 27 2009
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  • Sheer mind power!

    This is not a technical post, so if you’re not interested, just skip it! Here’s the deal: a few days back, my good friend Filipe (aka, “super-loide” – long story, ok? but he knows why he’s called that:)) started laughing when I said that I would reach the 10km mark on my treadmill. His words: “You won...
    Posted to LA.NET [EN] (Weblog) by luisabreu on Tue, May 26 2009
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  • Wonderful news!

    Currently, I’ve got three wonderful cats . Luna , a cat that I’ve found in the street when she was two months old, got really sick in the last months…in fact, the vet had told us to get ready because her liver problems wouldn’t let her live much longer. All her blood tests returned some pretty bad figures...
    Posted to LA.NET [EN] (Weblog) by luisabreu on Tue, May 19 2009
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  • Incompetent people really have no clue

    I guess that we’ve all heard this in the past, but it seems like now there are studies that show that this is really true (thanks go to my friend JPC for sending me the link). Most of us will react to this news like Dr. David Dunning and we’ll be be really worried and fear being one of them. If after...
    Posted to LA.NET [EN] (Weblog) by luisabreu on Wed, May 6 2009
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  • Bullfighting: the good, the bad and the ugly

    Ok, so today I was watching a TV Portuguese program on animals and, as you might guess, bullfighting was one of the discussed topics. For starters, you should know that I’m against it. I’m not sure why some think that we have the right to create animals and them make them suffer for our pleasure (I guess...
    Posted to LA.NET [EN] (Weblog) by luisabreu on Thu, Apr 23 2009
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  • Browsing through Stackoverflow

    Today I took 10 minutes of my time and I’ve decided to use them in browsing through Stackoverflow . It completely blew me away…They have done a fantastic job in building a great software developer community which is open to anyone. This is going to be a great place to visit regularly. From now on I’ll...
    Posted to LA.NET [EN] (Weblog) by luisabreu on Tue, Apr 21 2009
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  • Fog Creek guided tour

    I guess that by now everyone has heard about Joel Spolsky and his company ( Fog Creek ), right? Ok, if you’ve got a minute, then watch this guided tour around their offices…the only thing I can say is that they do have excellent work conditions and that I’d love to work in a place like that one day!
    Posted to LA.NET [EN] (Weblog) by luisabreu on Mon, Apr 20 2009
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