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Think you have the wrong title.
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Thanks. Fixed now.
Director of Content Development, The Code Project
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Title Copy-Pasta Fail.
Gryphons Are Awesome! Gryphons Are Awesome!
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The forms the bubbles take have always been a little bit mysterious -- not only to amateur scientists, but to professional ones, as well. While single soap bubbles are fairly straightforward things -- gas, trapped in liquids -- much more complex are the single bubbles that fuse together into composite structures of trapped air: foams. And when bubbles become foams -- when they glom onto each other to create the weird and wobbly little wonders... -- they behave differently than single bubbles do.... The forces behind all that wobbling and wonder-making, however, are different from the forces that determine when each bubble pops -- making it notoriously difficult to predict bubble behavior. Computer models that might account for all the different phases in the lifespan of a bubble.
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We've seen plenty of Bill Gates on television, but we'd never seen him get emotional before. It was a striking, yet subtle moment in Gates' 60 Minutes interview this week when Charlie Rose asked him about his longtime business rival, the late Steve Jobs. Gates grew emotional as he recalled visiting Jobs just before his death. The billionaire welled up as he described their last conversation, which he described as "forward-looking." Once giants lived in the earth...
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What I lack for design skills, I make up for in being good at organizing information, keeping up with trends, and putting in effort. Although it takes me five hours to do what a pro designer can do in one, this competence has helped me at work and in my personal projects, as I don't need to rely on finding designers to make my work at least passable. There's also an external circumstance why I've been able to "pull it off" in recent years: the flat design trend. Flat design entails austerity: reducing the UI to eye-catching levels of minimalism. More practically, it entails using fewer features and techniques in Photoshop. Enjoy it while it lasts. Skeuomorphism will return... to bury us all in Rich Corinthian Leather.
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In Kevin Drum's latest feature, he imagines a bleak future where robots begin taking all of our jobs. Though he predicts this will happen about three decades from now, the concept obviously isn't new. The word "robot" first appeared in a 1920s Czech play (see below), which concludes with human destruction. The plot line started to seem more realistic when robots began performing complex industrial tasks. By 1961, a giant robot arm called Unimate took a welding job on the General Motors factory floor. Throughout the last century, robots—both imaginary and real—have fascinated us with their skills, quirks, and eerie human-like qualities. The timeline below highlights some of the most memorable machine moments and personalities. From Rossum's Univeral Robots to Google's driverless cars.
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Make an instructional video about Android development and upload it to CodeProject.TV for a chance to win a free, full-access pass to AnDevCon in Boston (worth $1,795). Do you have what it takes to become CodeProject.TV’s top Android trainer?
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Bezier Curves are just equations which act on a series of points to define the look of a curve. As a result they can be scaled and modified easily without losing their integrity or fine edge. However, since they are equations that means we also have to look at some math. This tutorial is graded on a curve.
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There are few things sadder than the software that ships with your car's in dash computer. it's 2012 and we have hybrids that can regenerate power from inertia but the car manufacturers haven't figured out that we just want the in-dash car screen to be powered by our smartphone. She's real fine my 404 Not Found.
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ScriptCS allows you to use C# as a scripting language. It harnesses the power of Roslyn and NuGet to enable you to write .NET applications with your favorite editor.... ScriptCS also offers its own REPL providing an interactive experience. You can install nuget packages, type some code, and have it execute instantly! As of writing this post, this functionality is in the dev branch and not yet available on the master branch. C# all the things!
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Removing noise from radar images has turned out to be one of the biggest technical challenges we’ve faced while developing Dark Sky’s forecasting system. We generate our short-term rain predictions using data from the National Weather Service’s network of 150 NEXRAD radar stations, spread across the US. This data comes in as a raw data format, and the very first thing we do after grabbing it is convert it to images. The problem is that the data is filled with noise — false data that looks like rain, but is really something else. Cloudy with a chance of Evil Death Rays.
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There's a secret for Perl being so good at code golf, and this secret is clever use of regexp. The regexps from Posix are just finite automata, but the Perl engine is much more powerful than that. Naturally, I became tempted to check what are the computational limits of Perl's regexp. For example, can we do arithmetic with regexps? After thinking I while, I concluded that yes, we can do arithmetic with regexps! When a problem arises, some think "I know, I'll use regex." Now you have a quadratic equation.
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: When a problem arises, some think "I know, I'll use regex."
Now you have 2 problems the one you started with and regex.
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."
Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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You would probably have 3 problems. The third problem would be maintaining the will to live.
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Python is about to get an Enum. And it's sad. It's not awful. It just fails to do anything particularly well - it's an awkward compromise whose only real achievement is not doing anything new. What would you expect a Pythonic enum to look like?
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A bright star in the JavaScript community, Addy Osmani has skyrocketed to prominence not only for his fabulous JavaScript articles and open source contributions but for also being one of the friendliest and approachable developers around. His blog is a treasture trove of front-end knowledge and well-worth the visit. In this post, we'll chat with Addy about how he got his feet wet in JS and bring up some tough topics relating to his work in developer relations at Google. The Carl Sagan of front-end web development? Read on to find out why readers think so.
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Spear phising is an extremely potent hacking vector that combines social engineering with phishing. Basically, an attacker tries to learn enough about a specific victim to inform the design of a fake email that the victim is more likely to think is legitimate and thus open and engage with.... Over the last several months, I have been the target of what might be a new, more scalable, approach to spear phishing. I have been receiving phishing emails that are sent using the names of people I know but not their email addresses... This is real and it's dangerous. Be careful out there, folks.
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I've seen this sort of thing years ago when an acquaintance had his/her pc/email account compromised and the spammer send spam to everyone in the address-book claiming to be from another randomly selected name in it. Unless I'm overlooking something there isn't anything new here.
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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Same idea, slightly more sophisticated implementation. From what I've read about it, you'd get an email from someone you know about something you might discuss. Much more social engineering effort.
FBI — Spear Phishing[^]
Director of Content Development, The Code Project
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I was explaining on Hacker News why Windows fell behind Linux in terms of operating system kernel performance and innovation. And out of nowhere an anonymous Microsoft developer who contributes to the Windows NT kernel wrote a fantastic and honest response acknowledging this problem and explaining its cause. His post has been deleted! Why the censorship? I am reposting it here. This is too insightful to be lost. New features help much more at review time than improvements to old ones.
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On August 31, 2012, Japanese mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki posted four papers on the Internet. The titles were inscrutable. The volume was daunting: 512 pages in total. The claim was audacious: he said he had proved the ABC Conjecture, a famed, beguilingly simple number theory problem that had stumped mathematicians for decades. Then Mochizuki walked away. He did not send his work to the Annals of Mathematics. Nor did he leave a message on any of the online forums frequented by mathematicians around the world. He just posted the papers, and waited. A B C. It's easy as 1 2 3. As simple as...
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Nice read! Haven't worked on my ABC "proof" in a while.
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Seattle[^]
Seulement, dans certains cas, n'est-ce pas, on n'entend guère que ce qu'on désire entendre et ce qui vous arrange le mieux... [^]
Joe never complained of anything but ever did his duty in his way of life, with a strong hand, a quiet tongue, and a gentle heart [^]
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