Category Archives: English

Patent Evil

Posted on October 8, 2011 by cesarbs

Created by: MBA Online

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propertypp: Objective-C-like properties for C++ classes

Posted on August 20, 2011 by cesarbs

The short version: propertypp on GitHub The long version: A co-worker recently told me he had made some member variables in a C++ class public, because a getter and setter for them would just do exactly the same thing as … Continue reading →

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Two Conclusions

Posted on July 22, 2011 by cesarbs

People often harshly criticize me for complaining about Brazil. That criticism is frequently accompanied by the following words (or similar): “You’re a whiner and you’ll keep complaining anywhere you go.” Since this has been going for quite some time and … Continue reading →

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Drawing scalable pixels in the Qt Graphics View framework

Posted on July 15, 2011 by cesarbs

Say you have a custom QGraphicsItem that you would like to draw pixel by pixel, and want it to appear pixelated when that item is scaled (or the QGraphicsView it is being displayed on, or whatever). At first, you might … Continue reading →

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Fond Memories

Posted on July 11, 2011 by cesarbs

When I was 9 years old, I used to go to my mom’s workplace to talk to some IT guys who were working there. Eventually, one of them started teaching me BASIC, getting me started into programming and fulfilling my … Continue reading →

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My trip to Seattle for the Amazon.com SDE interview

Posted on June 23, 2011 by cesarbs

I was in Seattle from June 16 to 18. Amazon flew me there for a set of on-site interviews for a Software Design Engineer (SDE) position. The trip was amazing, despite the incident while returning to Brazil (read Day 5 … Continue reading →

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Aligning text in QGraphicsTextItem

Posted on May 30, 2011 by cesarbs

The Qt Graphics View Framework provides a rich set of resources to create applications with interactive graphics scenes that display arbitrary shapes, text and even Qt widgets. While the framework provides almost everything you need regarding interactivity, scene hierarchy management … Continue reading →

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Run time machine code generation and execution

Posted on July 19, 2010 by cesarbs

Some Common Lisp implementations (and I believe other languages’ also, but I don’t know of any) are incremental compilers, which means they are able to read Lisp code during program execution, compile it and make it immediately available for execution, … Continue reading →

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Nerd Girls

Posted on July 7, 2010 by cesarbs

Disclaimer: this post contains my personal view on a given matter. Don’t ask me for statistical data that supports what’s written here, because I don’t have it. These are simply my own perceptions and conclusions, which might be completely mistaken. There’s … Continue reading →

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Propositional logic symbols in LaTeX

Posted on July 1, 2010 by cesarbs

Found this while doing some backups. Might be useful to someone.

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