Author Archives: Dérico Filho
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra – Dérico and Gather at Cathedral.
Dérico at Pio XII, Dérico at New School. Dérico, with open heart. Marina, with closed heart. Hearts meet where people go. Marina and Dérico at Classroom. Marina and Dérico with joy. Sun rises and Moon shines. Religious people at Campos, … Continue reading
Eric Raymond’s How to Become a Hacker.
This is an open letter to Raymond about his essay named “How to Become a Hacker”. Hi Raymond, I have read your howto about becoming a hacker. First off, according to your definitions of hacker, I am not a hacker … Continue reading
William Kamkwamba
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Segway inventor creates a Artificial Arm.
I’ve seen this one in blog.TED.com. Dean Kamen’s received a visit of a very senior government officer requesting him to invent an artificial arm according to few very simple specifications: he wanted the returing troopers of war, which had losen … Continue reading
Performance difference on fetching data from eZ Publish object with MyISAM and InnoDB.
Hi, eZ Publish is a Content Management System and Content Management Framework translated into 26 languagues and their variations coded in PHP and it stores its information on a Relational Database Management System, such MySQL and PostgreSQL. I would like write a … Continue reading
Super Tech and Limit Tech Evolutionary Dispute.
Hi, Few days ago while talking to a friend of mine, Tammy, I remembered a discussion we had when we were in high school. It was an essay we had to write about human biological evolution, what Human would be … Continue reading
Human Tech – Caffeine may trigger Panic crisis.
Study carried on by the UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro Federal University, demonstrates that caffeine may trigger Panic crisis. They used 480mg of caffeine, as much as 5 cups of coffee, ingested in 15 minutes. The group was composed of 40 … Continue reading
My company and Brook’s Law – Why hiring a new programmer delays the whole company’s development schedule?
Hi! I work in a real state agency. This company has its own management system which deals with customer database, customer relationship management, product database and product export to other external system of advertising. It has been developed by 6 … Continue reading
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