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There may not be a giant space baby, but these 2001 LEGO models by Jason Allemann are impressive nonetheless. That's a six-foot-long, 3,873-piece, 1:60 scale model of the Discovery One spaceship and he's published the build guide so you can make your own. That's a very nice model, Dave. I think you've improved a great deal.
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Over the years, I’ve started thinking that participating in the open source community is like traveling on a path, toward becoming not only better programmers, but also becoming better people by working together. The most important part of every open source project is the people.
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Pass the sick bag; I am going to vomit.
Terrence Dorsey wrote: The most important part of every open source project is the people.
Really? Try running any project without people: see how far you get: sometimes articles are just a loose collection of words that, when added up, say nothing at all.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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My Dad (yep, the same guy who composed the music for the original Karateka and Prince of Persia) called from New York to tell me he was doing some spring cleaning and had shipped me a carton of old games and other stuff of mine he’d found in the back of a closet. The carton arrived yesterday. My jaw dropped when I saw what was inside. And now the code is on GitHub for you to enjoy.
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If you advocate omitting sensible syntax as parsers will fix that for us, you are not a visionary developer. You waste your and our time. And you come across as a semi-colon. Write code for devs, not parsers.
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Most web developers, myself included, do the bulk of their development and debugging in a single web browser, whether Chrome, Firefox, Safari or IE. Using web standards is the best way to get more mileage for your site. Locking yourself into any vendor, will eventually code your site into a corner that will maroon you into incompatibility. Make the web for everyone.
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An esoteric language made up of only semicolons. You can't escape the semicolon monster! ;;;;;;;;;;;
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So, it has come to this
Attempting to load signature...
A NullSignatureException was unhandled.
Message: "No signature exists"
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
Carl Sagan
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But it has got spaces.
Some people hate white space!
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Attempting to load signature...
A NullSignatureException was unhandled.
Message: "No signature exists"
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
Carl Sagan
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That's what I thought!
Attempting to load signature...
A NullSignatureException was unhandled.
Message: "No signature exists"
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
Carl Sagan
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It seems like they created a new punctuation mark especially for this language - the "reversed semicolon". Innovation
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We have talked about Windows 8 as Windows reimagined, from the chipset to the user experience. This also applies to the editions available – we have worked to make it easier for customers to know what edition will work best for them when they purchase a new Windows 8 PC or upgrade their existing PC. It's just Windows 8, Windows 8 Pro and Windows RT.
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Equations have held remarkable power in facilitating humanity’s progress and, as such, call for rudimentary understanding as a form of our most basic literacy. E = mc what?
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Ethically sourced coffee is easy to find nowadays, but it is hard to feel good about where your smartphone comes from. The industry is beset by allegations of factory-worker abuse, of raw materials being sourced from conflict zones, and of generating mountains of electronic waste. Is there a smartphone you can feel good about buying? People are willing to pay more if they know a product is ethically sourced.
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Recently, we recommended Internet Explorer 9 and Chrome as the best business browsers. But for many companies, they both have a major problem: they're not Internet Explorer 6. Intranet applications that choke on newer browsers, but which work in Internet Explorer 6 or sometimes 7, are an unfortunate feature of many working environments, and regularly force companies to stick with software that's long past its prime but nonetheless mission critical. Which of these products is the best option for you?
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For most of my life, I’ve struggled to quantify what constitutes an enticing interface. There are certain basic aims from which you can take your pick - intuitiveness, attractiveness, clarity, simplicity, consistency, and more - but those are general guidelines. With the arrival of the iPad, however, I’ve noticed an increasingly-prevalent UX aesthetic that I think gets close to the natural role of these devices in our lives. Touch-based devices are empowering extensions to our real, actual lives - and that’s a profound thing.
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Programmers in demand get approached by people about new projects. Demanding an NDA upfront starts the relationship off on the wrong foot. [ITworld]
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What's your best career advice for new IT professionals? [ITworld]
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Do what you love. If you do, you will always be successful. I hate to see people go into a field just because of industry predictions that it will be a good field. Do what you love. Don't chase money.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Sheryl Sandberg says in a video interview that she thinks it would be great if tech workers didn't put in stupidly long hours at the office. But don't count on her triggering a Silicon Valley revolution. [ITworld]
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