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		<title>Verizon charge extra for Android tethering, think users are fools</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 15:08:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salvatore Iovene</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is really silly. And by silly, I mean even sillier than unlimited data plans capped at 5GB. Mr and Mrs Verizon have apparently decided that tethering your Android phone should cost you money. Let me remind you what tethering means: your phone will create an ad-hoc WiFi network, and will share its 3G connection with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop whining about Facebook privacy issues</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 18:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salvatore Iovene</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Internet is now completely saturated by people whining about privacy on Facebook, or lack thereof. I honestly fail to see, for instance, how its privacy settings should be a bewildering tangle of options. Facebook has hundreds of millions of users, so yes, it is going to be complicated to handle the privacy settings. Besides [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Win32 odyssey: who needs documentation?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salvatore Iovene</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During my coding adventures, I have just found myself having to port an existing Win32 application to CMake. After writing a mere 283 lines CMakeLists.txt file, and getting the application successfully compile, I fired it up to see if it worked, of course. I found it failing when doing a WSAAsyncSelect, and failing there didn’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leaving closed protocols behind</title>
		<link>http://www.iovene.com/80</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salvatore Iovene</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In order to fulfill what has been a proposition of mine for quite a long time, as of December the 1st 2007, I will no longer use any Instant Messaging services based on a closed protocol, e.g. MSN, ICQ, AIM or Yahoo. The only way you will be able to contact me (besides conventional methods [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fujitsu-Siemens shame on you</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salvatore Iovene</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found myself in the process of realizing a dual-boot system on a laptop, with Windows XP and Ubuntu 7.10. After wiping out the content of the disk and partitioning it appropriately, I proceed to the installation of Windows XP (knowing that I needed to install it first, since it would overwrite the MBR and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who wants to talk about patent infringement?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2007 13:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salvatore Iovene</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After all the dust raised again by Microsoft about Linux and the Open Source community allegedly committing patent infringements (235 this time, they were 228 in 2004), I really feel the need to spend a few words about the matter, or then, a few images. It looks like the jealous Redmond’s zealots, avidly fighting to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to improve the quality of programmers</title>
		<link>http://www.iovene.com/57</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 20:25:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salvatore Iovene</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After claiming that most programmers just can’t program, and actually addressing most of the problems to the lack of passion of people who decide to start a career as a programmer, I would also like to express my point of view on a tightly related subject: what can be done to improve the situation? The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why most programmers are lousy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salvatore Iovene</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been in the IT field long enough to get to know many programmers, both experienced and just wannabies. During this time, I’ve realized that most of them are just bad programmers, simply said. I find myself agreeing with a brilliant post by Jeff Atwood, which alleges that programmers can’t program. What are the reasons [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Please stop talking about iPhone clones</title>
		<link>http://www.iovene.com/41</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:38:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salvatore Iovene</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can read, basically every other day, some website going nuts about some iPhone clone. Just few minutes ago I read about the nVidia GoForce 6100, and googling for “iPhone clone” really confirms the fuss. Well, the truth is that the iPhone actually is the one coming late, possibly the cloner, rather than the cloned. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Please drop SVN</title>
		<link>http://www.iovene.com/39</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salvatore Iovene</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SVN might be stable, it might be mature, it might be successful, and it might be the winning source control system of the moment. There’s always a big risk of resulting unpopular, when criticizing something that actually did find its way to success, but I have to say that SVN sounds terribly antique sometimes. I [...]]]></description>
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