Sunday, October 16, 2011

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  • A programmer’s greatest enemy is getting stuck. A crucial skill in programming—and one that many of my beginning game programming students lack—is the ability to recognize when they’re stuck, to get out of being stuck, and to avoid getting stuck in the first place.

    tags: programming

  • When there are two powerful factions in Congress, one of which wants to take an action and the other of which wants to avoid it, what should Congress do?

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    Mary Schapiro, the chairwoman of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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    As the rules get written for Dodd-Frank, the financial reform law that Congress enacted last year, the essential contradictions in the law are being left to regulatory agencies to sort out. Whatever they do, you can depend on legislators to say the regulators are ignoring Congressional intent — or at least the intent of one faction or the other.

    tags: economics

  • Your resume is your greatest tool in your job search, but some information just doesn’t belong there.

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  • Dennis M. Ritchie, who helped shape the modern digital era by creating software tools that power things as diverse as search engines like Google and smartphones, was found dead on Wednesday at his home in Berkeley Heights, N.J. He was 70.

    tags: technology

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