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What happens when you play a single game of Civilization II across ten long years? Well, carpal tunnel syndrome and a lifelong fear of pixels smaller than than the size of a fist. Also, an in-game world which is “a hellish nightmare of suffering and devastation”, riddled with nuclear fallout and caught in a terrible stalemate between three ultra-nations which have been at war for millennia. You want to get out of here? You talk to me.
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And I thought my 24 hour game of Civ V a couple weeks ago was long...
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As many grizzled job veterans know, a sharp résumé and near-flawless interview may still leave you short of your dream job. Competition is fierce and never wanes. But finding new ways to distinguish ourselves in today’s unforgiving economy is vital to a developer’s survival. Here are four reasons why it’s a great idea to author your résumé in HTML.
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For at least two years, Flame has been copying documents and recording audio, keystrokes, network traffic, and Skype calls, and taking screenshots from infected computers. That information was passed along to one of several command-and-control servers operated by its creators. In all that time, no security software raised the alarm. Wasting hackers' time can skew the economics of attacks.
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Salted SHA-1 is fine for data on the fly; data in place needs password hashes [ITworld]
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A student of mine named Eric once joked that Visual Basic 6 was “the un-killable cockroach” in the Windows ecosystem. That analogy goes deeper than you might think. Cockroaches are successful because they’re simple. They do what they need to do for their ecological niche and no more. Visual Basic 6 did what its creators intended for its market niche... The things that Visual Basic 6 did still need doing.
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Not every problem requires the use of a specific design pattern. But here are two handy patterns that may help you today. Learning design patterns also helps in understanding other libraries like jQuery, Spring etc which make heavy use of many such patterns. Meet the Singleton and the Adapter.
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While I love Console2, I think I'm ready to switch as I've just been turned on a NEW contender in the Windows Console Wars. It's ConEmu and it's insane (in a good way.) It's also actively developed. You had me at Norton Commander.
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In short, if you try to authenticate to a MySQL server affected by this flaw, there is a chance it will accept your password even if the wrong one was supplied. MySQL, YourSQL... everyone's SQL if they try long enough.
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Good developer is an artist, a craftsman who enjoys the process of creation. Bad developer considers himself as a programmer, responsible for generating lines of code... What do you think separates the good developers from the bad?
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While Apple’s Mountain Lion has been coolly waiting for its chance to pounce on Apple’s website, Craig Federighi announced at WWDC 2012′s opening Keynote that the next big cat will be available next month (no specific date given) for only $19.99 from the Mac App Store. More iCloud. More sharing. More notifications... for more money.
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Two hundred must be a magic number for Apple engineers and executives – it’s the number of new features to be found in OS X Mountain Lion, due in July, and it’s also the number of enhancements Apple has announced for iOS 6, which was unveiled today at the WWDC keynote address. Coming soon to an iOS device near you.
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Today’s keynote at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference highlighted a number of new features that the company has added to its mobile operating system. And while a number of updates will make life easier for users, there are also some new features that will compete directly with developers who build for the iOS platform. WWDC is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something.
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Traditional usability guidelines propose that error messages should be rationally informative. However, error messages are also inherently brand messages. Branding seeks to create emotional responses to products, and failure evokes emotional responses. Current failure reflects backwards to prior experiences and forward to prospective experiences, and the form of an error message is indicative of the the brand’s sensitivity to the user experience. Plus: A Brief History of Error Message Infamy
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If you follow the world of Android tablets and phones, you may have heard a lot about Tegra 3 over the last year. Nvidia's chip currently powers many of the top Android tablets, and should be found in a few Android smartphones by the end of the year. It may even form the foundation of several upcoming Windows 8 tablets and possibly future phones running Windows Phone 8. So what is the Tegra 3 chip, and why should you care whether or not your phone or tablet is powered by one? Are 4 + 1 cores better?
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Who’s tracking your movements across the Web? The biggest offenders are Google and Facebook, says the Evidon Global Tracker Report, a semi-annual analysis of the ad tracking industry that will be made public tomorrow. [ITworld]
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Well they are two of the biggest online advertisers, so I'd be surprised if they weren't.
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Yepp, but you can use Google and even escape them : https://startpage.com/
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Author of Primary ROleplaying SysTem
How do I take my coffee? Black as midnight on a moonless night.
War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who's left.
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During the Pocono 400 NASCAR race, Twitter ran its first TV ads promoting Hashtag Pages. Are we witnessing the birth of a viable advertising strategy? [ITworld]
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At least they didn't have the cars tweet automatically when certain events during the race occured, else #TurninLeft would rapidly become one of the most overused hashtags.
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But Microsoft have added HTML 5 support as an output target for the next version of Lightswitch[^].
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There are billions upon billions of ad and spending dollars in our phones, waiting to be snatched up. Why can't big, cynical corporations capture them? [ITworld]
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A few weeks ago, we shared our plans for the Express editions of Visual Studio 2012. As we've worked to deliver the best experience with Visual Studio for our platforms with Windows 8, Windows Phone, and for Web and Windows Azure, we heard from our community that developers want to have for Windows desktop development the same great experience and access to the latest Visual Studio 2012 features at the Express level.
Today, I’m happy to announce that we will add Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop to the Visual Studio 2012 family. This will bring to the Visual Studio Express family significant new capabilities that we’ve made available in Visual Studio 2012 for building great desktop applications.
They listened. It's back.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I don't want new facilities.
I don't want a new interface.
I just want the elephanting thing to work properly, and for MS to fix some of the annoying bugs that have been in there for at least the last two revisions! For example, being able to derive a user control directly from an abstract class without the designer coughing up blood!
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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