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Since I left my job at Amazon I have spent a lot of time reading great source code. Having exhausted the insanely good idSoftware pool, the next thing to read was one of the greatest game of all time : Duke Nukem 3D and the engine powering it named "Build". It turned out to be a difficult experience: The engine delivered great value and ranked high in terms of speed, stability and memory consumption but my enthousiasm met a source code controversial in terms of organization, best practices and comments/documentation. This reading session taught me a lot about code legacy and what helps a software live long. Nukem 'till they glow, then shoot 'em in the dark!
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LearnGitBranching is a pseudo-git sandbox and interactive series of tutorials / challenges to accelerate the understanding of how git commit trees work. The ideal audience is a complete newcomer to git, but a wide range of experience levels should be able to benefit from these tutorials. It supports a fairly wide range of commands and dynamically visualizes the effects each change has on a commit tree visualization next to the command box... Here's a nice opportunity to learn the details of git branching without completely borking your codebase.
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HDCP (the copyright protection mechanism in HDMI) is broken. I don't mean just a little bit broken, I mean thoroughly, comprehensively, irredeemably and very publicly broken. Broken in such a way that any possible recovery would mean layering it with so much additional new infrastructure as to render it entirely pointless. Broken. B-R-O-K-E-N. How can I put this? It doesn't work. So why, then, is it still being shoved down my throat? Let's look at all of the wonderful ways in which HDMI is broken.
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Windows RT, the version of Windows being loaded onto ARM-powered tablets and netbooks such as the new Microsoft Surface, has one drawback: there are tens of thousands of apps written for x86 hardware that simply won’t run on this new ARM-powered architecture. While this may present a problem for hospitals, banks, and other institutions needing a proper Wintel platform, we’re wondering how to get classic games such as Civ III and Age of Empires running on these new tablets. An x86 emulator for ARM devices that also passes Windows API calls to Windows RT.
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help.. => sanity check <=
Q. Hey man! have you sorted out the finite soup machine?
A. Why yes, it's celery or tomato.
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Japan is renowned for its robots and bullet trains, and has some of the world’s fastest broadband networks. But it also remains firmly wedded to a pre-Internet technology — the fax machine — that in most other developed nations has joined answering machines, eight-tracks and cassette tapes in the dustbin of outmoded technologies.... Yuichiro Sugahara learned the hard way about his country’s deep attachment to the fax machine.... A decade ago, he tried to modernize his family-run company, which delivers traditional bento lunchboxes, by taking orders online. Sales quickly plummeted. Folding origami from a tablet is difficult. Not impossible, though...
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By now you may have heard of NFC. It’s been the next big thing for the past five years.
Okay, so maybe this tech hasn’t hit its stride yet. But there are several new mobile phones that claim “NFC” as a feature. So what does NFC mean, how does it work and will it finally catch on? These are questions that many consumers will have as they hear more and more about this technology — and here are some answers. Darn, left my “mobile wallet” in the other pants...
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The weaknesses in Craigslist are painfully obvious: The site is ugly, any listing you post almost guarantees spam to your inbox, the apartment listings are full of scams, the site was once a known destination for sex trafficking (albeit minimized now) and lastly, people have died from engaging in a Craigslist transaction. Yet, we continue to rely on Craigslist.... Are we content trudging along, searching classified listings like it's 1999? The answer lies not just in the strength of product design, but also the limitations native to every network. Send lawyers, guns and money. They'll get me out of this...
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Really? I thought it was a way of sneaking Java in [^] while installing a totally valuable toolbar.
Update: fixed the frigging URL.
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modified 18-Feb-13 15:33pm.
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Your link does not work. It says "Resource not found".
This friendly reminder was brought to you by Ask Toolbar.
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Sorry, fixed.
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No problem. You gave me the chance to show my "Bad-Joke-Side"
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I saw the title and was about to jot off something about Java malware coming along with the Ask toolbar, then I saw the following line.
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I can't imagine why. It seems like a pretty common feeling about that language (as well as Flash) these days.
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I'm sure everyone else has seen this already, but there is a new release for ASP.NET and the Web tools[^]. Nothing earth-shattering (or even Russia-shattering), but it looks like a nice collection of new templates (for SignalR, Facebook , Knockout and more).
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The new support for CoffeeScript, LESS, and JavaScript template libraries is quite impressive. The LESS editing and support is top notch, I haven't seen anything that compares in speed and features.
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Some engineers have never dated a real person.
They've tried to, but it's hard for them to appreciate that real people don't necessarily use data to make decisions -- especially when it comes to love.
Never dated a real person ?!
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The moment when you realise your partner of many years is in fact an android.
Check out my latest article: Celerity: How it was all done.
A complete how-to on our sensor-driven head-tracking virtual reality tunnel game in C#.
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Quote: The moment when you realise your partner of many years is in fact an android ice cream sandwich. FTFY
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John Isaiah Carmona wrote: but it's hard for them to appreciate that real people don't necessarily use data to make decisions -- especially when it comes to love.
No, it's not. One gets used to the irrational thing called a "user" and "manager" very quickly, and no, I do not mind them taking important decisions based on horoscopes. I mind cleaning up the mess after the decision.
So, you go dating and stop making decisions.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Why doesn't the link go to a relevant article and what does the title of this thread have to do with any of this?
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That's just the journalist's way of being overdramatic; what they really meant to say was that the Google stores look unappealing (which is normal for their inexperienced first attempt at creating store layouts).
The author probably spent all night thinking up the best way to call the store "nerdy-looking".
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In which case, shouldn't they have gone aspdotnetdev/members/codeproject.com.www//:http
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