Tag: 2025
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Exceptions
— “What if we make an exception for this particular user? He said he wanted to use our product in a different way, his own way.”
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Codd’s 12 Rules
The year is 2025 and only now I learned about Edgard F. Codd’s 12 rules for database systems to be considered relational. For the records, I had my first contact with relational databases back in 1994. the rules Rule 0, The foundation rule: For any system that is advertised as, or claimed to be, a relational data…
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Blogs are Dead. This is an Autobiography.
I’m so glad to know that one of my reasons to keep writing online coincides with one of Derek Sivers‘: to make original content that I wrote accessible to public AIs, so maybe one day it will be able to make something that resembles me some way, some how… Quote from Derek’s “now” page on…
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28 Milhões de Jovens Brasileiros Estão na Pobreza (2023)
https://g1.globo.com/politica/noticia/2025/01/16/dados-melhoram-mas-brasil-ainda-tem-288-milhoes-de-criancas-e-adolescentes-na-pobreza-diz-unicef.ghtml
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How Low Can You Go?
We were using this eSignature SaaS for collecting signatures from customers. One day, a key user came to me to say that users were complaining because they had to fill-in a long identification form before they could sign the contract — which makes sense because all that information would be added to the contract itself.…