A programmer’s paranoia

I do not know how to write in a good english and I admit it (well it’s not my first language). As well as I admit that I have not all that fluent spoken-english. Usually I frequent only very technical bbs related to game/system programming and hacking. The very few times I surf outside my [...]

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Everytime I choose to learn something I never think about how much the process will last as well as I never surrender even if I discover, on the middle of the learning curve, that what I’m studying isn’t so useful.
We, computer games programmers, lives in a world in which the base ideas are always the [...]

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There are storm clouds over the horizon for all unix hackers out there. I mean that all unix-related stuffs that I’m proud to know begins to be, well, useless. This is such an hard sentence to say but I need to share this thought that grows bigger and bigger in my mind.
How much do BSD-world [...]

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I always loved Escher (Martin Cornelis Escher [1891, 1971]). I never look at one of his paintings with that state-of-mind of the museum guest. I’ve always lost myself on one of his paintings. Not one of that stupid feelings like “oh my God what a beautiful painting, I think my hearth will explode”.
No. I literally [...]

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It’s a lot of time I do not touch a windows box. I never have gone beyond the sp1. This does not mean that I’ve stopped years ago, it does mean that I never installed system core components from the day the sp1 was published. Well in the last 9 months I’ve touched my windows [...]

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I’m very pissed of having been born in the last part of XX-century. This does not mean that I would have passed my childhood during fascism and the first 2 world wars. It’s just a matter of worldwide knowledge level gained. I was born in 1980. I started to study and cultivate my current interests [...]

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I’m italian. I’m not proud of this. It’s pretty strange for an italian isn’t it? I’ve ever passed on those stupid things that I see every day. Passed over all those occasions, all that weird behaviors found in corporate and government. All those things seen in net BBS and on the programming scene of the [...]

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I am an italian freelance programmer and I am proud only of two of precedent words.
I don’t consider myself one of that old-school hacker that uses only jargon-file words in every-day speeches. But also I don’t consider myself one of that slaves of the “new and modern” garbage-collected-jit languages. I just sits over the edge [...]

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