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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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Imagine fund managers in Quant funds using SimCity or Command&Conquer to simulate battles between North/South Korea and determine how/what to invest accordingly.
dev
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A few days old, but interesting nonetheless. GitHub has released Boxen[^], an automation tool for Macs (yes, I know, but they are good). Lets you create a consistent DEV setup across your team (and wouldn't it be nice if there were a PC version?)
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TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: an automation tool for Macs (yes, I know, but they are good)
I agree, automation tools are good.
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Domain names[^] are the new software patents?
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TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Only *you* can save Python
Why would anyone want to do that?
On the other hand, "what's in a name?"; I'm sure that any such legal situations will not actually harm the language or lessen its usage. It may of course, do the opposite.
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In most programming classes, students write programs in a single language (e.g., Java, Python) and its standard library; they might use a well-documented third-party library for, say, graphics. Students fill in skeleton code templates provided by instructors or, at most, write a few chunks of code "from scratch." Specifications and interfaces are clearly defined, and assignments are graded using automated test suites to verify conformance to specs. What I just described is necessary for introducing beginners to basic programming and software engineering concepts. But it bears little resemblance to the sorts of programming that these students must later do in the real world. What secrets of programming did they forget to teach you in school?
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As a part time college professor, some of these points in the article does give me some ideas for future classes. All of the points are good, especially #3 and #6...
"I've seen more information on a frickin' sticky note!" - Dave Kreskowiak
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How to function when you're not allowed to smash one of your cow-orkers keyboard into his hands until you've broken all three of them to stop him from injecting nothing but non-functional technical debt into your codebase.
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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Please do share your feelings. Don't hold back.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Quote: What secrets of programming did they forget to teach you in school? How would I know?
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Conceptually simple features take longer than expected to implement. This statement is so true...
The shout of progress is not "Eureka!" it's "Strange... that's not what i expected". - peterchen
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