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Quando estou no kung-fu, ás vezes, em vez de fazer as flexões com a palma das maõs faço logo com os punhos cerrados. É claro que custa-me muito mais. Porque é que não faço primeiro com as palmas e quando já fizer sem esforço logo passo para punhos? É preciso fluir, é preciso não saltar etapas.. e não ir contra. FLUIR. Logo nas aulas também se deve fluir, o professor não deve falar daquilo que quer falar mas sim do que os alunos querem ouvir. Fluir é a palavra de ordem.

While writing my thesis, at some point, I did a whole section about the programming language used in the work. I thought it was a good thing to do at the moment and I wanted to present the benefits and the differences of the language used vs other programming languages. This is so naive.

My thesis is not about programming languages. - so why even bring that up?

Unsupported claims will harm more than help your thesis. In a scientific paper every statement should be supported by a citation to another paper that defends such statement or an explanation from you. How will you give an explanation for something you haven’t researched properly?

Proving such statement would require alone another thesis. - which you probably don’t have the time.

Because no one cares? Finally, the most important reason, if people are reading your work, most likely they aren’t looking for a particular case on a specific programming language but rather what you did, how you did it and what results you’ve obtained.

Back to the cave..cya

In November 1992 there were 23 web servers on-line.

mickey and pedro, from OpenBSD, arrived last week from Germany to spend a couple of days in Portugal and they are staying over. Together with Rodolfo (from Madeira), we headed over to Coimbra on the weekend to meet up with other developers, like Marc Balmer from Switzerland and the recently promoted-to-developer Rui Reis and other not-less-important friends and enthusiasts. It was nice but I got a feeling next time we could/should skip the talks and just hack and chill. I liked the talk about asynchronous I/O although it became too technical for me sometime there in the middle.

Now the hard part is coming back to reality. These events really get me excited and full of energy to do stuff and then on Monday its like “get to work”, “you have these totally different shits to do”.. and it sucks.