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I don't understand why they don't put a cap on the funding; it just feels like Kickstarter is taking advantage of successful ideas (because they always get a percentage cut).
I'm sure it's very cool to get this kind of money for your project, but if your scope was intended for 30K and you get a million, or God knows how much more it will inflate, it puts a much larger burden on your shoulders that you didn't ask for.
Suddenly you are responsible for a lot of peoples money; that can mess with your head and make you worry about other things than the project you've intended to do.
The whole idea of a kickstarter is to not have to worry about money; but having "too much" can be even more worrisome than having too little imo...
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Yesterday, The New York Times reversed its opinion on the review of our Model S and no longer believes that it was an accurate account of what happened.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
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Easy:
- Click 1: Open your browser;
- Click 2: Click in the address bar; (optional - you can use Ctrl+L instead)
- Type in the URL of the page;
- Hit Enter;
That's 1 or 2 clicks to reach any Internet page; what you do with the other 18 clicks is your own business!
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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We’ve already looked at MOOCs, tablet computing, gamification, and learning analytics. Joining 3-D printing on the ‘third horizon’, (or entering mainstream use in four to five years) is wearable technologies. Much like 3-D printing, wearable technologies are much less mainstream than tablets in the classroom, so they’ve gotten a bit less face time with our lovely audience (Shout out to you guys! Thanks for being awesome!), though there have been a few mentions as of late. The Horizon Report identified some of the trailblazers that are already using wearable technologies in their classrooms. New Project > Runway.
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Hi. I’m a former developer who’s moved into database administration, and here’s what I wish somebody would have told me when I got started. File these away in a stored procedure for reference.
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using three separate connection string for 1. realtime, 2. 15minutes old data, and 3. historical data --> What good suggestion.
dev
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Contemporary compilers are capable of performing a wide variety of optimizations on the code they produce. Quite a bit of effort goes into these optimization passes, with different compiler projects competing to produce the best results for common code patterns. But the nature of current hardware is such that some optimizations can have surprising results.... GCC provides an optimization option (-Os) with a different objective: it instructs the compiler to produce more compact code, even if there is some resulting performance cost. Such an option has obvious value if one is compiling for a space-constrained environment like a small device. But it turns out that, in some situations, optimizing for space can also produce faster code. Is there an optimization for "fix my bugs"?
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A couple of months ago, I was lucky enough to be asked if I would like to participate in an upcoming Intel challenge, known at the time as Ultimate Coder 2. Having followed the original Ultimate Coder competition, I was highly chuffed to even be considered. I had to submit a proposal for an application that would work on a convertible Ultrabook™ and would make use of something called Perceptual Computing. Fortunately for me, I'd been inspired a couple of days earlier to write an application and describe how it was developed on CodeProject - my regular hangout for writing about things that interest me and that haven't really been covered much by others. Our own Peter O'Hanlon explains his entry in the Intel Ultimate Coder competition.
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Oh wow. I'm news now, and it's nothing to do with that court case, me and Salma Hayek.
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Salma insulted you?
Wout
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She certainly did; when she took out the restraining order.
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Well, Insider News .
Just kidding, I am very impressed
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Thanks. The original approach was for Sacha and me to form a team to compete, but he couldn't compete due to other commitments.
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I would say good luck, but I don't think luck has much impact on this kind of competition.
Hope you do well.
<edit>I guess you could be lucky enough to have shoddy competitors, but I like to think you're honourable enough to hope for them to be tough. May the best man win!</edit>
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Thanks. I've already wished them good luck. They have some amazing projects on the go. I'm looking forward to seeing more from them.
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Nice to see Intel are dedicated to protecting us from XSS. So much so that they've double encoded your name:
Submitted by Peter O'Hanlon
After all, it's not as if there are many people with apostrophes in their names, are there?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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When you ask a web developer what makes good markup, you’ll probably get some mix of the following: readable code, separation of content and style, semantically meaningful markup, cross-browser/device support, graceful degradation, standards compliance, and performance. Each of these aspects of a markup are important, however, they can’t all be the highest priority.... The best developers understand these constraints and deliver markup that balances these factors in an ideal manner. What web development tools help you write readable, maintainable markup?
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Notepad - It doesn't second guess your typing.
Q. Hey man! have you sorted out the finite soup machine?
A. Why yes, it's celery or tomato.
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As was evident with the insane adoption of iOS, developers – or lack thereof – will make or break a platform. Ubuntu is doing an incredible job making sure everything is as easy to access and implement as possible. Apps can be native, using OpenGL and QMP, with C, C++, and Javascript or can run as HTML5 web apps, independent of the browser. This is a huge factor for many developers, as it allows more flexibility in deciding what direction to take their applications. This option will help the platform a great deal, even if unintentional from the developers. Oh, great. 2013 will be the year of the Linux desktop *and* phone.
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Apple, Facebook, Twitter — all hacked. And there’s probably more to come. In the spate of large companies hacked in recent weeks, it seems that many of them have one thing in common. Many of them have visited one compromised web site specifically devoted to sharing information related to mobile development. It’s a hub for many companies concentrated on the mobile space, and it’s not just tech companies. Malicious code injected by a mobile development-focused site. Read on to find out which one...
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When the Xbox 360 originally launched back in 2005—followed by the Wii and PS3 in 2006—the question was "which console should I buy?" A lot has happened in the gaming scene since then, between smartphones, tablets, streaming media, Ouya, and the rebirth of PC gaming—and that's just the beginning. Now the question becomes, "should I buy a console in the first place?" We take a look at the competition stacked up against the next generation consoles, where consoles have changed this generation, and where they will need to go if they want to keep up. History has shown that you can trump piracy if you make your service convenient and affordable.
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An unusually detailed 60-page study, to be released Tuesday by Mandiant, an American computer security firm, tracks for the first time individual members of the most sophisticated of the Chinese hacking groups — known to many of its victims in the United States as “Comment Crew” or “Shanghai Group” — to the doorstep of the military unit’s headquarters. The firm was not able to place the hackers inside the 12-story building, but makes a case there is no other plausible explanation for why so many attacks come out of one comparatively small area. “Either they are coming from inside Unit 61398,” said Kevin Mandia, the founder and chief executive of Mandiant, in an interview last week, “or the people who run the most-controlled, most-monitored Internet networks in the world are clueless about thousands of people generating attacks from this one neighborhood.” Wouldn't you prefer a nice game of chess?
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There's just as much hacking originates from the good ol' US-of-A
Spoiling for a fight they are. (more aging weapons to make safe = drop on someone)
Q. Hey man! have you sorted out the finite soup machine?
A. Why yes, it's celery or tomato.
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After the first SimCity beta weekend had ended, I read an article by Norman Chan over at Tested.com in which he attempted to discover the best suburban city layout according to the game. It's hugely interesting stuff, and quite frankly I hadn't considered the idea of putting this new SimCity to real-world use. So when the second beta weekend rolled around, I decided to have a crack at testing some theories that I have about my own hometown... Turn right at Tesco and watch out for Godzilla attacks.
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