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I put here the cool stuff I find on the Internet and want to keep as souvenir, post great songs and sometimes I write. You can ask me anything.
If you’ve built a system that’s supposed to be reliable, you shouldn’t be up fixing it at four in the morning. You shouldn’t be getting paged at all hours. Sure, you might need to do some occasional planned after-hours maintenance, or some very occasional unplanned-but-process-driven disaster recovery, but you shouldn’t need a hero.
In the Computer Science school I’m currently studying at, everybody wants to be a hero: weekly sleepless nights, 20-hour days, late-night classes… I’ve found out the hardest is to learn to go to bed.
My girlfriend studies Architecture and last week she had to work three days without sleeping (I didn’t know it was even possible). While it proved her implication, it didn’t show anything else but a really bad project planning.
Back To The Future Trivia: at the Battle Of The Bands audition, when Marty McFly plays this song with The Pinheads, the judge who stops them and says “You’re just too darn loud!” is actually Huey Lewis.
Bost & Bim featuring Brisa Roché & Lone Ranger - Jamaican Boy (2008)
This excellent reggae cover of Estelle & Kanye West’s hit American Boy has been played in the honor of Usain Bolt at the Berlin Stadium just after his 100m victory at the world championship.