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The one tool that, in my opinion, has always been an insanely personal and opinionated preference is your IDE or editor. Everything about it matters, from keystrokes and language support to plugins and themes. It all has to flow nicely within your development style, and most importantly, it needs to help you solve the problems you’re facing without making you jump through hoops.... With Microsoft wholeheartedly embracing HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript for both web and Windows 8 app development, there’s been a ton of changes with Visual Studio 2012 that make it an awesome tool for building for the web. This is what I plan on covering next, and hopefully you’ll see it in a very different light. What's your favorite web development IDE or editor?
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Receptionist and fiance left red-faced after she sends email discussing their sex life to entire office
Always check what your emailing to your colleagues, especially when the Sandwich Van arrives.....
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Parallel computing and heterogeneous systems — with mixed types of computational units — are able to break through SMP scaling limits and achieve increased performance with reduced power consumption. However, they also come with their own challenges, and making parallel computing easy to use has been described as “a problem as hard as any that computer science has faced.” With these challenges in mind the Parallella project has set out to help close the knowledge gap by developing an affordable, high performance and truly open parallel computing platform. From Kickstarter to Colossus.
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Pretty cool!
But.... only 1 GB RAM? I'm sure this is more than enough for testing and prototyping, but most tasks I have heard of that could utilise such an immense amount of processing power also tend to need a LOT more than 1 GB to run.
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Perhaps in the intended use case, 1 GB *per node* is enough. Just a guess.
Director of Content Development, The Code Project
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But but but... 640K... ? Bill said 640K ...
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16000 Cores on one 10mm chip in 2022?
We already know the answer is 42...
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The clock to unlock a new mobile phone is running out. In October 2012, the Librarian of Congress, who determines exemptions to a strict anti-hacking law called the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), decided that unlocking mobile phones would no longer be allowed. But the librarian provided a 90-day window during which people could still buy a phone and unlock it. That window closes on January 26. Ironically, jailbreaking is still OK.
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I hear the faint rumblings of a massive class-action lawsuit coming down the pike...
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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In 2010 Apple introduced the first iPad and basically created a new segment of devices – tablets. iPad wasn’t a full PC replacement (and still isn’t) but was considered a big step towards the real post-PC era. It wasn’t unreasonable to think that at some point in the near future iPad (and possibly similar competing products) would replace PCs for most purposes, except maybe some very specific areas. That said, to this day it’s pretty much inconceivable for someone who ever really needed a PC to be able to get by without one. Tablets are for consuming content; not creating content... or are they?
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Andrew Bujalski’s new film Computer Chess, which debuted Monday at the Sundance Film Festival, is perhaps one of the oddest sports movies ever made. A black-and-white period piece shot on 16 mm film straight out of the 1980s era it depicts, Computer Chess follows a series of programming teams at a computer chess tournament as they compete to write the ultimate program to defeat a human competitor. To be a nerd in the 1970s and early 80s was a more serious endeavor than it is now.
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Well, a slew of African start-ups are now facilitating similar types of transfers, but instead of cash, the currency being exchanged is airtime minutes. In addition to their most obvious application, these can be exchanged for cash at mobile phone dealers or bartered for products and services. One immediately apparent advantage of such a set-up is that there is no need for a proprietary system of agents — anyone dealing in prepaid airtime minutes would do. Fascinating: making payments with airtime minutes where capital is scarce.
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From the article: "The key to the discovery is a new molecule developed by chemists at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) in Kolkata. It allowed researchers to build magnetic memory with fewer layers of material, making it thinner, less expensive, and more usable at normal temperatures. The reward for consumers and enterprises could be storage that holds 1,000TB per square inch." [ITworld]
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I was asked to give an introductory talk on HTML5 for the latest Adobe User Group Belgium Web SIG Event. The presentation I ended up with is entitled “HTML5: It goes to ELEVEN” and can be viewed on Slideshare. Since the target audience was filled with ‘esteemed HTML5 newcomers’ I decided to focus on how easy it is to ‘switch’ to HTML5 and use it today. The way I see it, there are three levels of HTML5 usage... Fourth type: works in IE.
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Flat design is beautiful and refreshing. It’s also generally faster to design and easier to make responsive. If it was a graphic design trend, it’d be well received. Unfortunately, us web designers have that pesky ‘usability’ thing always looming large. We cannot ignore the user experience with our work, so because of that, flat design is inherently flawed. Next up: abstract expressionist interfaces. Click wherever you like. It won't mean anything.
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If it ain't broke don't fix it. If you want change for the sake of change, please don't require us to go along with you. I like buttons and menues, leave me alone!
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Said the fish in the sea, said the monkey in the tree, said grumpy Baldconsult P.
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The fish had it right. You can keep your digital watch.
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also said teh monkee in teh tree
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I like flat. I also like 3D. I like all the myriad ways to present yourself to the world via the web. There is no right or wrong: there is only fad and fashion and page hits.
"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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The C# compiler is a pretty good thing, but it has limitations. One limitation that has given me a headache this evening is its inability to guard against cycles in structs. As I learn to think and programme in a more functional style, I find that I am beginning to rely more and more on structs to pass data. This is natural when programming in the functional style, but structs can be damned awkward blighters. Here is a classic gotcha. The following code won't compile... Garbage in, garbage out?
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I don't see how that's the compiler's fault.
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huh, does he really want to able to do something like that??
That's just nuts.
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