October 2011
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August 2011
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Stay hungry, stay foolish...
Inutile negarlo, al mondo ci sono alcune persone che, nel bene o nel male, anche loro malgrado, cambiano le cose. Hegel li chiamava “personaggi cosmico-storici”. Alcuni fondano dittature, altri salvano vite umane, altri ancora, semplicemente, scoprendo o ideando portano avanti la fiaccola dell’umanità.
Steve Jobs è uno dei tanti che hanno fatto avanzare quella fiamma con...
May 2011
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December 2010
4 posts
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Bind a key to a command in Bash
You can bind, for example, the command ls -l to CTRL+l using:
bind -x '"\C-l":"ls -l\n"'
It may be useful to append this line in your .bashrc.
Now, every time you press CTRL+l, even in the middle of another command, a directory listing will appear! :)
The sound of pictures... →
refreq is a really customable music player. I mean really. You can load music files into refreq, but also images (bitmaps, imgs, pngs). When you load a song, first the program analyzes the track, then it draws its frequency spectrum. After tracking, you can generate the spectral image / bitmap back into music.
At this point, it’s getting really interesting. After you have the image of...
November 2010
2 posts
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Sorting Algorithm Animations, Code, Analysis, and... →
These pages show 8 different sorting algorithms on 4 different initial conditions. These visualizations are intended to:
Show how each algorithm operates.
Show that there is no best sorting algorithm.
Show the advantages and disadvantages of each algorithm.
Show that worse-case asymptotic behavior is not always the deciding factor in choosing an algorithm.
Show that the...
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