Category Archives: Rants

Twitter making it hard to use OSS apps with their API

Posted on 2010.08.06 by Julio Biason

Twitter, the biggest microblogging tool around, decided to change their policy to applications and it’s making it hard to OSS developers create applications that can be as good as the other applications. First, let me explain what is the problem … Continue reading →

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Medos que se tornam verdade

Posted on 2010.07.08 by Julio Biason

Quando coloquei que o Tadeu Schmidt deveria calar a boca eternamente, acabei concluindo com uma preocupação (que poderia mais ser um reductio ad absurdum) de que se nos esportes aceitam-se os trocadilhos engraçadinhos e deixa-se a notícia, o fato, de … Continue reading →

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Porque o Tadeu Schmidt tem que calar a boca

Posted on 2010.07.02 by Julio Biason

Tudo começou como uma brincadeira no Twitter: O já “batido” cala-boca Galvão, que se murmurava por aí a tempos, conseguiu ser um “trending topic” mundial na rede social. Por uma coincidência, isso aconteceu um pouco antes do técnico da seleção … Continue reading →

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O Caso Dunga

Posted on 2010.06.24 by Julio Biason

O maior “escândalo” da Copa do Mundo com a esquadra brasileira foram as declarações do técnico Dunga chamando um jornalista de “merda, cagão”. Dunga é conhecido por sua raiva com o jornalismo brasileiro, mas todos falaram que foi descabido os … Continue reading →

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First you don’t read; then you don’t know how to do math

Posted on 2009.08.11 by Julio Biason

Note: This is a WoW related post. If you don’t like MMOs, games, think Blizzard jumped the shark with the “Wrath of the Lich King” expansion, rage quit the game after a paladin killed you in one cooldown or simply … Continue reading →

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Why the new Star Trek bothers me

Posted on 2008.11.23 by Julio Biason

For a while, I’ve been ranting about the new “Star Trek” movie by J.J.Abrams and written by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman. This morning I finally realized why it bothers me and why the line “OMG, boobies in Star Trek?” … Continue reading →

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Mac OS applications are not very friendly

Posted on 2008.03.30 by Julio Biason

Long before having a Mac, I learnt about it interface and the Application/Window relationship on Mac OS. You see, there is a fundamental difference between Linux/Windows application and Mac OS application. While in the first two the window is the … Continue reading →

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Hypocrites

Posted on 2008.02.20 by Julio Biason

It seems that Steven Spielberg decided to start a “boycott the Chinese Olympics” campaign. And a lot of people are following him. The whole thing is just to raise the public attention to China not following most of the human … Continue reading →

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Write once, run in just one place

Posted on 2008.02.07 by Julio Biason

Oh, Mono running natively on Mac OS X, thanks to Gtk+ Native widgets. But “MonoDevelop has pretty much the same feature parity than Linux does. There are a few missing features that we hope to resolve in the future, and … Continue reading →

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I’m out of sync with the movie critics

Posted on 2008.02.06 by Julio Biason

I hate George Clooney. Really. Every single movie he does make me like him less and less. His acting is not convincing and he doesn’t have facial expressions. Yet, every single critic says he is an awesome actor and that … Continue reading →

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