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 contact me at any time.
I enjoy seeing the world through the unique sight of a camera.
Please, check out my photos here.
This is my official home on the web, but quite often you'll find me in a lot of other places as well.
“Say you’re in the kitchen in front of the refrigerator, thinking about a sandwich. You take a ‘continuation’ right there and stick it in your pocket. Then you get some turkey and bread out of the refrigerator and make yourself a sandwich, which is now sitting on the counter. You invoke the ‘continuation’ in your pocket, and you find yourself standing in front of the refrigerator again, thinking about a sandwich. But fortunately, there’s a sandwich on the counter, and all the materials used to make it are gone.
So you eat it. :-)
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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.
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“ C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.
“ 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.
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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.
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