Luciano De Maria

Poucas coisas são melhores do que programar...

Marcadores: Trabalho

postado por Luciano às 22:17

Just finished playing Infected Mushroom's "Beauty and the Beat" in Audiosurf, it's A-W-E-S-O-M-E!!! Such a shame that their servers are down, I WISH (pun intended) that I could compare scores... I used the "Mono Medium" character.

If you didn't get AudioSurf yet, go get it.

This is one of those games you end up thinking "how didn't I think of this first?" The guys that did it deserve all the success they WILL get from it.

Btw, this game reminds me of the virtual reality games in the movie "The Lanmower Man"

And I'll be the first to say it: It's better than Guitar Hero!

postado por Luciano às 23:16

I love The Linux Action Show.

Mostly, because the hosts can be very passionate about linux, and yet impartial enough when acknowledging it's flaws; also, they come from being Apple fanboys to switching to linux and becoming linux fanboys. Openly.

That's something I've been relating to these last few months; I'm a Windows developer (C#, ASP... the lot) but lately it seems like Microsoft is trying to make our lives miserable by making it "simpler".

Many of the latest releases from Microsoft didn't quite seem all that great to me... it started last year with Vista - didn't like it, mostly because it just looks a lot worse than a nicely-tweaked Compiz desktop, and it's a LOT heavier - and continued with the following:

- Silverlight - a flash replacement? What for exactly? Flash fits perfectly for what it's supposed to do, and it's widespread already; this effort seems like pure Microsoft market-takeover-egotrip.

- Atlas / .NET Ajax - Just use prototype and polish your javascript, lazy coder.

- Some aspects of .NET 3.0, like LINQ; man.... I can see myself fixing some crazy LINQ code already... 10 bucks says in 2009, 30% of TheDailyWTF submissions will have to do with LINQ.

In the latest project I've been working, there's quite a bit of C++, and I have to deal with a device that runs linux; the thing runs smoothly it's a low-end machine and everything is fast, I can do all kinds of cool stuff with grep and all that jazz... I'm just touching the surface and I like it already...

I've installed Ubuntu and Debian in my home machine, but I have a very, very "generic" daewoo (yes, daewoo) 17" monitor and I couldn't get it to work properly yet; I think I just need a bit more teaking to get it working (a friend of mine tried to fix it, I bet him 10 pushups that he couldn't do it in under 30 minutes, and the video of his workout I shall post on youtube any day now).

The point is... when I hear those guys on the podcast talking about linux, I WANT to know better of what they're saying, I want to polish my C++ to get it as good as my C# and program in another environment, I want to run Compiz every day, I want.... to.... change. And one thing is for sure: I ain't changing to Vista.

Marcadores: "In English"

postado por Luciano às 01:04

Não assisti absolutamente nada que valha a pena nem mencionar. É, tá difícil...

Dia 17 eu cheguei a por o "Assassinato de Jesse James", o novo do Brad Pitt, mas não consegui nem assistir 10 minutos de filme; western é insuportável. Talvez outro dia, com companhia - ela com certeza vai querer ver...

postado por Luciano às 01:01

From now on, I'll be posting a lot more in english than my original intentions were; mostly just to broaden up the audience a little bit; english viewers, please be patient with the occasional portuguese post... otherwise, enjoy! (I'll tag english posts with 'In English')

Marcadores: "In English"

postado por Luciano às 00:58

Following the accusations of ThePirateBay admins, today's "wear yellow for piracy day". For me, it's not so much about piracy or filesharing as much as it is about people being wrongfullly accused, whatever the situation might be.

Also, this old model of making profit from music and movies is doomed for sure, the corporations can't hold the means of distribution any more; in my opinion, they must simply face the fact that you can't make a movie for hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars; just tone the expenses down; forget paying dozens of millions of dollars for a SINGLE actor, I say give some new dude a chance - take Kevin Smith for exemple: he said in his podcast that his movie "Jersey Girl" cost 40 million to make, out of wich 30 million was for Ben Affleck's payment alone, and the other 10 for the rest of the movie! If you can make an ENTIRE MOVIE with 10 million, you're telling me there's absolutely not a single new actor that can play that part, so you can save the extra 30 and make THREE WHOLE MOVIES ? This is crazy...

So I guess my point is to stop this "blockbuster" mentality and give more power to the small guys, get some new people, and for f...'s sake, just LET US DOWNLOAD THE DAMN THING FOR A DECENT PRICE, WITH HIGH QUALITY, HIGH SPEED, ON THE SAME DAY OF THE MAJOR RELEASE, AND ON ANY COUNTRY! - I'm living in Brazil and there's not even iTunes here.

Marcadores: "In English"

postado por Luciano às 06:46

Hoje ganhei o segundo jogo de GunGame da minha vida ! Foi bem difícil, todo mundo estava na cola até eu pegar o primeiro rifle e distanciar com 4 kills na frente. Quando vieram os snipers, passei 3 rifles em seguida sem morrer, e fiquei 10 na frente; na granada, peguei um cara que estava camperando num cantinho e a faca foi logo depois, sem muita dificuldade.

Jogo sempre que posso no ArenaTurbo, nick "101010".

Marcadores: CS, Jogos

postado por Luciano às 21:29

Durante o feriado que passei sozinho, apenas re-assisti Matrix Reloaded e Revolutions; não vou nem linkar de tão ruim que são, ambos os filmes. O Reloaded tem a cena da rave, que conseguiu sozinha estragar TODA a trilogia. Também tem a cena do beijo da Persephone, que não fica pra trás em matéria de "ruindade".

O Revolutions é menos pior, mas ainda muito ruim; eles usaram o Feng como um dos set designers, e aí ficou tudo parecendo Star Wars... e além disso, é "commander" pra cá e "counselor" pra lá.... uma porcaria.

Altamente NÃO recomendados, ambos.

Marcadores: Filmes

postado por Luciano às 21:20

20 horas de trabalho dentro do carnaval, absolutamente sozinho em casa. Está tudo muito quieto...

Pouco progresso, ainda escalando a curva da primeira tela, após o login; depois dessa, é downhill. Espero terminar até as 15h.

postado por Luciano às 12:27