terça-feira, 26 de julho de 2016

Now that Freebase closed, what are the options?

Freebase is allowing a last full dump download (30GB), here.
Now that it closed, what are the options? Seems like:




quinta-feira, 21 de julho de 2016

The Pokemon Go Madness and some implementation details

Some highways are already displaying statements as "DON'T POKEMON AND DRIVE" (as if it was needed). People are joining in groups to hunt for Pokemons (even in remote locations on cities - which is not advisable), accidents have already happened (and people died because of it).
And the game came out only a few days ago.

Some details on how the locations were chosen is provided here in this interview:
http://mashable.com/2016/07/10/john-hanke-pokemon-go/#rd_te_ukomqN

terça-feira, 12 de julho de 2016

segunda-feira, 11 de julho de 2016

The code that took America to the moon was just published to GitHub, and it’s like a 1960s time capsule — Quartz

Just "forwarding" this article on this very interesting piece of human history. It includes:
Assembly code, scanned and retyped a few years later with some unreadable parts filled in, apparently correctly. And it shows some parts of the code with some humorous comments and even Shakespeare on it.
Great article, great stuff:
The code that took America to the moon was just published to GitHub, and it’s like a 1960s time capsule — Quartz

A video on some emulator can be seen here:
https://youtu.be/hyhI85Rd1kI

The source code is published here:
https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/

PS. Kudos to Álvaro for pointing this one out; updated: 2016-08-04 - Added VCS address.