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bio website paulo.scardine.com.br
location Brazil
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visits member for 2 years, 5 months
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I consider myself a computer geek.


May
11
comment How should I behave as a developer in a project that's headed for failure?
+1: A doomed project is like quicksand: the more you move, the more you sink.
May
11
comment How should I behave as a developer in a project that's headed for failure?
+1: number 2 is so true... No good deed goes unpunished.
Apr
16
comment Readable regular expressions without losing their power?
+1: EBNF grammar is much easier to maintain than very long/complex regular expressions.
Feb
26
awarded  Constituent
Feb
22
awarded  Caucus
Jan
23
comment Why exactly can't PHP have full unicode support?
@ZJE: Nice to know, thanks. Would you be kind enough to point me some reference material about this change?
Jan
23
revised Why exactly can't PHP have full unicode support?
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Jan
23
revised Why exactly can't PHP have full unicode support?
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Jan
23
answered When creating an api should I stick with small functions and many calls, or a few calls and large functions?
Dec
14
awarded  Yearling
Dec
29
awarded  Commentator
Dec
29
comment Why does Microsoft have such a bad reputation with the people involved in open source?
@Mystere: I guess you know that the free in free software is 'free' as in 'free speech', not as in 'free beer', and are just trolling.
Dec
29
comment Why does Microsoft have such a bad reputation with the people involved in open source?
@Mystere: you are taking GPL for the open source definition.
Dec
29
comment Why does Microsoft have such a bad reputation with the people involved in open source?
@Mystere: you got it soooo wrong... GPL was designed to prevent, not to allow that.
Dec
29
revised Why does Microsoft have such a bad reputation with the people involved in open source?
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Dec
29
comment Why does Microsoft have such a bad reputation with the people involved in open source?
@Mystere: why did you came to the conclusion that FOSS movement has anything to do with 'take that source, modify it, then resell the new product'?
Dec
29
comment Why does Microsoft have such a bad reputation with the people involved in open source?
@George Edison: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_%28software%29
Dec
29
comment Why does Microsoft have such a bad reputation with the people involved in open source?
@Mystere: indeed, but with a crucial difference: they where usually sold with sources. FOSS is not against selling software, it's against software distributed without source code.
Dec
29
comment Why does Microsoft have such a bad reputation with the people involved in open source?
:-) Kids don't know history anymore... It remounts to 1976 and the infamous 'AN OPEN LETTER TO HOBBYISTS - By William Henry Gates III'.
Dec
29
awarded  Critic