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The concept of a ‘web page’ is quickly becoming meaningless. I believe there’s a new way to look at the Web and the browser, and synthesizing it with old technologies could result in a novel technique for Web development and content editing. The browser as a VM + live-editing and persistence.
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The Data Science Toolkit is a collection of the best open data sets and open-source tools for data science, wrapped in an easy-to-use REST/JSON API with command line, Python and Javascript interfaces. Available as a self-contained Vagrant VM or EC2 AMI that you can deploy yourself. The Data Science Toolkit is essentially a specialized Linux distribution, with a lot of useful data software pre-installed and exposing a simple interface. Big data? There's an app (bundle) for that.
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Video games appeal to our desire to explore and interact with our environment, and adding real-world phenomena-such as fluid motion-allows game developers to create immersive and fun virtual worlds. Recently, physical simulations have become more realistic, but the simulations have largely been limited to rigid bodies. Pervasive simulations of continuous media like cloth and fluids remain uncommon, largely because fluid dynamics entail conceptual and computational challenges that make simulating fluids difficult. This article begins a series that explains fluid dynamics and its simulation techniques. The series culminates in an example of a fluid simulation algorithm suitable for use in a video game. Grab a drink and start reading this 15-part series on simulated fluid dynamics.
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I expect by now you’ve heard that Opera (my employer for the last four and half years) has announced that its browsers will, in future, use the WebKit rendering engine. I wrote the announcement, and what follows here is my personal take on it. It’s on my personal blog precisely because it does not reflect the opinion of my employer, wife, kids or hamster. Opera’s Presto engine was a means to an end; a means for a small, European browser company to challenge the dominance of companies who, at that time, hoped to “win” the web through embracing, extending and extinguishing web standards. Presto showed that it was possible to make a better browser while supporting standards. Other vendors have followed this path; the world has changed... Opera drops Presto and embraces WebKit. Bruce explains why.
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xBox’s primary critical problem is the lack of a functional and growing platform ecosystem for small developers to sell digitally-/network-distributed (non-disc) content through to the installed base of xBox customers, period. Why can’t I write a game for xBox tomorrow using $100 worth of tools and my existing Windows laptop and test it on my home xBox or at my friends’ houses? Why can’t I then distribute it digitally in a decent online store, give up a 30% cut and strike it rich if it’s a great game, like I can for Android, for iPhone, or for iPad? Oh, wait, I can… sort of. Must-read insights from a founder of the original xBox project.
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That rant is so full of win! Please find one for the PS3; it is an order of magnitude more crappy than the XBox 360. Like the time I bought a few games, then started downloading one, then clicked "download all", which repeated the download of the game I had previously already started downloading. I had to fiddle with it for like half an hour before I got the game working.
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In a breakthrough experiment, the Interactive Robotics Group at MIT discovered that cross-training, which is swapping jobs with someone else on your team to help everyone understand the work better, works even when your coworker doesn't have a mind. In short, when humans and robots model doing each others' job they end up working together more smoothly. It's in your nature to train the machines that will replace yourselves.
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Smartphones are still (relatively) expensive and primarily interesting to the developed world. But over the next 10 years, this too will change. As Moore’s Law rolls on, the cost of a low-end smartphone will decline. At some point, the incremental cost will be quite minimal and many feature phones of today will be supplanted by smartphones.... In this grand progression, 2013 will certainly be a significant milestone for mobile devices, smartphones and beyond. It's likely to be the first year in which tablets out-ship notebooks in the US. And in the coming years, this will lead to a confluence of high-end tablets and ultra-mobile notebooks as the world figures out how these devices co-exist, blend, hybridize, and/or merge. Tablets versus Smartphones, Intel versus ARM.
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It's a laptop! It's a tablet! It's a lablet! It's…it's…Microsoft's Surface Windows 8 Pro, and it's about to go down on the teardown table. Intel inside... but what else?
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Microsoft SharePoint 2013 builds upon previous releases in 2007 and 2010 to better support big data, mobile users and public-facing websites. However, choosing between server- or cloud-based versions of SharePoint 2013 may frustrate IT executives. Here are five highlights and two concerns of the Microsoft's latest SharePoint iteration.
7 Things About SharePoint 2013 All IT Pros Should Know[^]
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream. Discover.
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Whether you're starting out and want to get a first taste of programming, looking to connect with other women in science and technology, or want to be inspired by the amazing work being done by women, check out these resources. Know of something we've overlooked? Post a message in the comments and let us know.
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If you like choices, you've come at the right time. You might think the decision making process starts by choosing between ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC, but if you widen your perspective a bit you'll find there are even more options outside the confines of the File –> New Project dialog in Visual Studio. And, these choices have steadily increased and matured over the last few years. Here are just a few of the other options for writing a web app today... What's your favorite web app framework today?
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: What's your favorite web app framework today?
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Spider-Man. A web slinger who can see sharp.
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Beyond a doubt, ServiceStack
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Xcode 4.6 was released on January 28th, the same day that iOS 6.1 was released. It adds support for iOS 6.1 and Mac OS X 10.8, and two new devices, the iPad mini and the 4th-gen iPad with Retina display. There are also a number of improvements to the LLVM compiler and Objective-C language, including some new warnings to help find subtle bugs when using ARC and weak references. An NSString by any other name would... well, just not work.
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The big news for MySQL 5.6 was the inclusion of “NoSQL” features in the form of a memcached api for get and put operations. In cases like this, it’s tough to tell whether Oracle got this so wrong deliberately to sow confusion in the market, or because they really think that’s what NoSQL is about. The query language is thus the least important aspect of NoSQL, but that’s what Oracle focuses on.
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These kinds of situations result from stupidity instead of malice in nearly every case.
Now that everyone is laughing at the new MySQL features, whoever made that decision knows they did the wrong thing.
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The Python community in my mind has the dangerous opinion that classes are unnecessary fluff that should be replaced with functions wherever possible. The fact that there is a talk of the title “Stop Writing Classes” with 50.000 views on YouTube is not helping. I want to give a counter argument to this idea that classes are evil by sharing some examples of why I think we can't have enough classes. "C is good for you" and other pithy aphorisms most Python coders would rather not hear.
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This is the second post in a series on cross site scripting(XSS). In this entry I examine cross site scripting and the way that it can creep into our programs and what different cross site scripting input strings look like. Once we develop a deep understanding of XSS, I’ll show you how to exploit XSS vulnerabilities in my next post before wrapping up with how to defeat input filters & remediation to cross site scripting vulnerabilities. Constant vigilance!
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There are three certainties in life: death, taxes, and the fact your Windows 8 application will fail certification if it’s network-capable and you don’t have a privacy policy. I can’t fix the first two, but I can help with the last one. If you read the full text of the requirement, you’ll note that the policy needs to be accessible from the description of the app as it appears in the Windows Store (as well as from the Settings Charm when the application is running), and that means you’ll be hosting it on the web at a minimum. Enter Windows Azure Web Sites – create a free site and publish your policy in less than five minutes (yes, I timed it!). IANAL, so I can’t guide you as to what your privacy policy should say... but this is how you make one.
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I published an innocent little story yesterday about an N64 controller that provoked an unexpected response. You see, I hate the Nintendo 64 controller. All my friends hate it. Everyone I ever gamed on the console with hated it. I figured it was pretty safe to share that dislike. Others, on the internet, disagreed. Some said it was fine, others even said it was their favourite. Wow. A disconnect like that meant only one thing. Time for a Pecking Order, see where everyone's thoughts on the subject really lay. Thumbs up. Thumbs down. Thumbs on the D-pad... what's your favorite game controller?
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Nintendo, Sega, Sony, Microsoft, 1983, 1993, 2003, or 2013 models; it doesn't matter: They all make my hands cramp painfully within 30 minutes of use. They all suck.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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To summarize, the problem isn’t that there aren’t enough good minority speakers in technology. The problem is that there aren’t enough minorities in technology. Since you can only draw speakers from those who are in the industry then it follows that it would be harder to find minority speakers that it would white male speakers because of the available pool. That led me to realize, as a football fan, that the NFL is facing a similar issue right now. You can't get a diverse pool of experts without starting with a diverse pool of beginners.
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