A couple of years ago I have started playing around with Eagle PCB, after haven’t built something for many years (I will write more about the other projects I have developed in other posts). After working on a few overdrive, I decided to work on a modulation: I had a spare 14mm clear shaft alpha …
Spark and HyperLogLog: distributed cardinality estimation
It’s been a few weeks since I have started playing with Apache Spark, and as I am getting more serious with it, I will probably use it more in my daily job routine too. However, I have decided to write down a few examples while I learn the basics (as well as learning the Scala …
A new life for this blog
It’s been a long time since my last post on this blog and many things have changed in my life in the meanwhile (I’ll make sure I update my “about” page as soon as possible). I would like to write a lot and talk about all the interesting things that I have done in the …
Indignazione. Disperazione. Rabbia.
Update (27 Luglio 2012) Non credo che serva aggiungere molto a quello che sta succedendo a Taranto in questi giorni. Dopo il sequestro e la misura di custodia cautelare in carcere per 8 dirigenti ed ex dirigenti, si sta tristemente avverando la solita guerra tra poveri: da una parte i lavoratori, che giustamente combattono per …
Luminance HDR
Not many of you know that I’m a developer of Luminance HDR since this summer. Luminance HDR is a cross-platform software for HDR imaging, with a large number of users and an active flickr group. Why am I working on it? There are several reasons: I’m an user of Luminance HDR (and the previous version, also …