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My name is Sérgio Bernardino (a.k.a. smpb), and I am a software engineer, hobbyist photographer, and all-around geek. I hail from Lisbon, Portugal. Feel free to save this information and at any time.

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This is my official home on the web, but quite often you'll find me in a lot of other places as well.

12th January 2012

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As I learned more about how these early role-playing games worked, I realized that a D&D module was the primitive equivalent of a quest in the OASIS. And D&D characters were just like avatars. In a way, these old role-playing games had been the first virtual-reality simulations, created long before computers were powerful enough to do the job. In those days,if you wanted to escape to another world, you had to create it yourself, using your brain, some paper, pencils, dice, and a few rule books. This realization kind of blew my mind. It changed my whole perspective on the Hunt for Halliday’s Easter egg. From then on, I began to think of the Hunt as an elaborate D&D module. And Halliday was obviously the dungeon master, even if he was now controlling the game from beyond the grave.
— Ernest Cline, READY PLAYER ONE (2011)

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14th October 2011

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C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.
— Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011), a giant in whose shoulders most our technology stands on

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18th September 2011

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Your nerd lives in a monospaced typeface world. Whereas everyone else is traipsing around picking dazzling fonts to describe their world, your nerd has carefully selected a monospace typeface, which he avidly uses to manipulate the world deftly via a command line interface while the rest fumble around with a mouse.
— Michael Lopp, Being Geek, “The Nerd Handbook”

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7th September 2011

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A higher probability exists that every member of your programming team will be attacked and killed by wolves in unrelated incidents on the same night.
— Scott Chacon, Pro Git, on the probability of a SHA1 hash collision

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2nd September 2011

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Java is a high level programming language. It’s unproductive to have an opinion about it.
Nick Farina, while giving his take on the Android SDK

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