I have a lot of respect for Big Bucket, the mobile game company that set the bar on how to develop a high quality retro-inspired game. I wasted invested a lot of hours in the Barcelona metro playing The Incident, and another few more with Space Age, a game I recommended to all my friends… Continue reading Stagehand, cool platformer for iOS
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You had one job
In July 2016, a bomb disposal robot was used for the first time to remotely kill a suspect. This sparked some debate about the use of machines to kill humans (amidst drone usage and all of that), and tapped into our Robocop-and-Terminator-induced dystopian fears. Inspired by all this, Scott Brown wrote “You had one job”,… Continue reading You had one job
How to tidy up and organize music on your PC o Mac
Do you have a lot of Untitled / Without Artist / Without Album songs? All music players allow you to sort and catalog the songs, as long as you know the titles and names of the artists. But what happens when many of your songs are unidentified? There are some tools out there like Tune… Continue reading How to tidy up and organize music on your PC o Mac
How to Connect Pentaho Data Integration to SAP HANA
Recently I had to connect Pentaho Data Integration to SAP HANA and I made some notes along the way: The first step is to get the SAP HANA JDBC driver, a file called ngdbc.jar. The quickest way is to download and install the SAP HANA client from the SAP Software Download Center, and then extract the… Continue reading How to Connect Pentaho Data Integration to SAP HANA
The incredible rarity of falsifying data about changing your mind
Episode 555 of This American Life has a very cool story about a study on how a group of canvassers were able to influence people who were against gay marriage to change their mind: Curious, but kinda logically, people appeared to change their mind once the canvasser, a member of the LGBT community, told their… Continue reading The incredible rarity of falsifying data about changing your mind