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Folklore.org: Macintosh Stories: -2000 Lines Of Code
Author: Andy Hertzfeld
Date: February 1982
Characters: Bill Atkinson
Topics: Software Design, Management, Lisa
Summary: It's hard to measure progress by lines of code
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Authors@Google: Kyle Johnson 'Inception and Philosophy' - YouTube
"The question of whether or not Cobb's top falls doesn't really matter." Kyle Johnson, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, gives a detailed, multi-layered analysis of Inception as part of Authors@Google talks. Very insightful and interesting, even if you think he's dead wrong.
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(CBS) - When Ohio emergency room physician Dr. Howard Mell heard that Rudy Eugene, the man who allegedly chewed another man's face off in Miami over the weekend, might have been high at the time on a synthetic stimulant known on the street as "bath salts," he wasn't terribly surprised: in the past year, Mell says seven people - all under age 27 - have died in the two Cleveland-area hospitals where he works after using "bath salts."
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20 lines of code that will beat A/B testing every time - Steve Hanov's Programming Blog
A/B testing is used far too often, for something that performs so badly. It is defective by design: Segment users into two groups. Show the A group the old, tried and true stuff. Show the B group the new whiz-bang design with the bigger buttons and slightly different copy. After a while, take a look at the stats and figure out which group presses the button more often. Sounds good, right? The problem is staring you in the face. It is the same dilemma faced by researchers administering drug studies. During drug trials, you can only give half the patients the life saving treatment. The others get sugar water. If the treatment works, group B lost out. This sacrifice is made to get good data. But it doesn't have to be this way.
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The Design of LLVM | Dr Dobb's
In the last five years, LLVM has evolved from an academic project to the universal back-end of C, C++, and Objective C compilers. The key to its success is its performance and adaptability, both of which derive from its unique design and implementation.
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How Facebook's Timeline is like genital herpes | Technically Incorrect - CNET News
A film that spoofs the TV ads for Valtrex shows how Facebook's Timeline tries to dominate your life. But you can manage it. No, really. You can.
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Introduction by Sam Harris
I recently wrote two articles in defense of "profiling" in the context of airline security (1 & 2), arguing that the TSA should stop doing secondary screenings of people who stand no reasonable chance of being Muslim jihadists. I knew this proposal would be controversial, but I seriously underestimated how inflamed the response would be. Had I worked for a newspaper or a university, I could well have lost my job over it. -
Logout before you burnout : Coding Ninja
Burnout amongst software engineers is a real danger. Years ago when I had first heard about “burnout” I brushed it off as a myth. After seeing it first hand and experiencing a little burnout myself, I can attest it is indeed real.
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The victim of the vicious attack has been identified as 65-year-old Ronald Poppo, who remains in critical condition at Ryder Trauman Center.
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
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What are the tax implications of the zombie apocalypse?
The only certainties in life are death and taxes, but how do you handle the taxes when death doesn't go quite as planned? Law professor Adam Chodorow takes a stab at estate planning for the undead in perhaps the only legal paper to cite both the Internal Revenue Code and Weekend at Bernie's II.
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The original Guild Wars turned the massively multiplayer online game (MMO) subscription model on its head in 2005. Up until that point, the standard practice across all MMOs, such as EverQuest, Lineage II, Final Fantasy XI, and World of Warcraft, to name just a few, required a monthly subscription between $10 and $20 to keep playing the game on top of the $40 to $60 already spent on just buying the retail package. Guild Wars dropped the subscription model all together, instead offering a comparable triple-A experience at a fraction of the price.
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“Incredibly sophisticated” cyber war tool unveiled today, hitting the Middle East | VentureBeat
An extremely complex virus infecting computers in the Middle East called Flame was made public today, and is likened to the Stuxnet virus, which attacked Iranian nuclear systems in 2010.
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Voyager FAQ - The Interstellar Mission
Question: What kind of computers are used on the Voyager spacecraft?
Answer: There are three different computer types on the Voyager spacecraft and there are two of each kind. Total number of words among the six computers is about 32K.
Computer Command System (CCS) - 18-bit word, interrupt type processors (2) with 4096 words each of plated wire, non-volatile memory.
Flight Data System (FDS) - 16-bit word machine (2) with modular memories and 8198 words each
Attitude and Articulation Control System (AACS) - 18-bit word machines (2) with 4096 words each.
According to my calulations, that's a total of about 68KB, or small potatoes compared to today's microprocessors. We probably could perform all functions with one of today's boards and still have room for solid state data storage and much more fault detection software. We would still need a second unit for redundancy. Today's microprocessors are also much faster than the chips used on Voyager and a comparative system would use less electrical power. On the other hand, software might be more complicated as opposed to that used in an interrupt type system, but it would be much more capable and more flexible.
Let's look closer at the CCS. The CCS has two main functions: to carry out instructions from the ground to operate the spacecraft, and to be alert for a problem or malfunction and respond to it. Two identical 4096- word memories contain both fixed routines (about 2800 words) and a variable section (about 1290 words) for changing science sequences. The CCS issues commands to the AACS for movement of the scan platform or spacecraft maneuvers; to the FDS for changes in instrument configurations or telemetry rates and to numerous other subsystems within the spacecraft for specific actions. Fault-protection algorithms are also stored in the CCS, occupying roughly 10 percent of the CCS memory.
The main functions of the FDS are to collect data from, and controls the operations of, the scientific instruments; and to format engineering and science data for on-board storage and/or real-time transmission. The FDS also keeps the spacecraft "time" and provides frequency references to the instruments and other spacecraft subsystems.
The Voyager spacecraft computers are interrupt driven computer, similar to processors used in general purpose computers with a few special instructions for increased efficiency. The programming is a form of assembly language.
There is no clock chip, as such, in the spacecraft. The "clock" is really a counter, based on one of several electronically generated frequencies. These frequencies, based on a reference, generated by a very stable oscillator, are converted and fed to different locations in the spacecraft as synchronization signals, timers, counters, etc. The "clock" signal is part of the information telemetered to the ground and it is with ground software that we convert to day of year, time of day Greenwich Mean Time.
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Crowd Documentation | Nin Labs
Traditional documentation requires a process where a few people write for many potential users (especially in the case of API documentation). The resulting documentation, more often than not just doesn’t cut it — There isn’t enough examples, details, or explanations.
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'Modern Warfare' creators Jason West, Vince Zampella vs. Activision – USATODAY.com
LOS ANGELES – A star-studded trial of a different mode kicks off Friday here.
Kotick image by Patrick Fallon, Bloomberg; West and Zampella images by Frazer Harrison, Getty Images; body images by Jupiter Images; illustration by Kris Kinkade, USA TODAY
Vince Zampella, middle, and Jason West, right, are going to court over allegations that CEO of Activision Bobby Kotick, left, unfairly fired them before getting paid millions in bonuses for their role in creating 'Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.'
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Kotick image by Patrick Fallon, Bloomberg; West and Zampella images by Frazer Harrison, Getty Images; body images by Jupiter Images; illustration by Kris Kinkade, USA TODAY
Vince Zampella, middle, and Jason West, right, are going to court over allegations that CEO of Activision Bobby Kotick, left, unfairly fired them before getting paid millions in bonuses for their role in creating 'Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.'
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Greek-Style Corn On The Cob A La Evelyn Recipe - Food.com - 133092
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Louisiana Incarcerated - NOLA.com
"Louisiana is the world's prison capital. The state imprisons more of its people, per head, than any of its U.S. counterparts. First among Americans means first in the world. Louisiana's incarceration rate is nearly triple Iran's, seven times China's and 10 times Germany's. The hidden engine behind the state's well-oiled prison machine is cold, hard cash." Louisiana Incarcerated is a tour de force eight-part series on the Louisiana prison system. [more inside]
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Scientist: Evolution debate will soon be history - Times Union
NEW YORK — Richard Leakey predicts skepticism over evolution will soon be history.
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RPT-INSIGHT-Minute by minute, Nasdaq chaos engulfed Facebook IPO | Reuters
For nearly 20 minutes on the morning of Facebook Inc's trading debut last Friday, the line Nasdaq had opened up to keep traders informed about the social media company's $16 billion IPO had been mute. Well after the stock was supposed to have opened at 11 a.m. New York time, no one from Nasdaq was talking - and there was still no sign of trading.
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What's an American Indian? Warren case stirs query | HeraldNet.com - Nation/World
What, exactly, makes someone American Indian? Even Indians themselves don't agree as they debate the case of Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, whose disputed claim of Native American identity is shining a rare spotlight on the malleable nature of Indian heritage and the long history of murky claims to such ancestry.
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Marcus Persson (Notch) answers an offer to track people across the internet (i.imgur.com)
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Erik McClure: Multithreading Problems In Game Design
Consequently, don't try to multithread your games. It isn't worth it. Separately parallelize each individual component instead and write your game engine single-threaded; only use additional threads for asynchronous activities like resource loading.
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What the final decision on Oracle v. Google really means | Open source software - InfoWorld
The jury finally decided yesterday that Google did not infringe on any of Oracle's patents related to Android. Fantastic news -- but the wider view offers little comfort
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Transfer Photos From Phone to Computer With a 'Bump' | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
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5 Weeks of Go | Internet Alchemy
I promised a few people that I’d write up my impressions of Go after spending 5 or so weeks learning it while developing Amberfell. I’m not an expert in computer language design nor do I have extensive experience in obscure languages. I pick my language based on how productive I and others can be with it not on how pure it is.
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The guide to implementing 2D platformers | Higher-Order Fun
Having previously been disappointed by the information available on the topic, this is my attempt at categorizing different ways to implement 2D platform games, list their strengths and weaknesses, and discuss some implementation details.
The long-term goal is to make this an exhaustive and comprehensible guide to the implementation of 2D platform games. If you have any sort of feedback, correction, request, or addition – please leave it in the comments!
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Browser choice: A thing of the past? | Internet & Media - CNET News
Devices using iOS and the future Windows RT hobble third-party browsers. Despite some good reasons for doing so, the change could undermine browser competition.
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
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Ever wish there was an easy way to get up and running with Git and GitHub on your Windows computer? Turned off by command line utilities and setting up SSH keys? Want to join the incredible world of open and closed source collaboration that happens on GitHub.com every day?
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The Ego and the System Administrator
Because the Sys Admins and DBAs who are efficient end up wielding a great deal of power, there is always a danger that it can 'go to their head'. If ever you start imposing your decisions on the organisation for no better reason than the fact that they're yours, then it is time to read Matt's simple guide on how to prevent your actions being controlled by your ego.
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Engineering Infrastructures For Humans | Standalone Sysadmin
The idea behind Nudge is that every design decision that you make, as an engineer, affects the way that people behave toward your creation, so you should tend toward design decisions that encourage positive behavior in users.
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LA Deputies On Beating Johnnie Franklin Jones - Page 1 - News - Orange County - OC Weekly
[Moxley Confidential] It isn't just the Kelly Thomas killing in which cops believe they have the right to execute a citizen during a scuffle
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Is College’s Stone Age About to End? - Bloomberg
Excessive specialization has created a culture of expertise that has distorted higher education and had a negative impact on faculty members, students and the broader society.
While global transportation, communications and information technologies have created interconnection, academic disciplines and fields have, paradoxically, become more fragmented and isolated. Universities boast of their global expansion and vision, but they are mostly siloed institutions ill-adapted to a networked world.
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Japanese culture is extraordinary for the way it seems able to accommodate every niche, every fetish, every tribe. Whatever you're into, you're not alone, and when you find your fellow travelers you can construct your own community, language, art and culture together. The Internet will get us all there eventually, but Japan usually gets there first.
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sipml5 - The world's first HTML5 SIP client - Google Project Hosting
This is the world's first open source HTML5 SIP client (May 12, 2012) entirely written in javascript for integration in social networks (FaceBook, Twitter, Google+), online games, e-commerce sites... No extension, plugin or gateway is needed. The media stack rely on WebRTC.
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I've recently been working on an optimisation problem, and I've come to realise that I can consider it as wandering around on a smooth landscape in 1800 dimensions. Strange number, I know, but that's the way it's worked out.
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Why Teaching Equality Hurts Men « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows
Don’t let the title put you off. This isn’t what you think.
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We Who Value Simplicity Have Built Incomprehensible Machines
The 8086 "AAA" instruction seemed like a good idea at the time. In the 1970s there was still a case to be made for operating on binary-coded decimal values, with two digits per byte. What's the advantage of BCD? Large values can be easily displayed without multi-byte division or multiplication. "ASCII Adjust After Addition," or AAA, was committed to the x86 hardware and 30+ years later it's still there, emulated in microcode, in every i7 processor.
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JPMorgan’s soap opera makes clear that Wall Street is detached from reality - The Washington Post
Jamie Dimon was right about one thing: The embarrassing $3-billion-and-counting trading loss at JPMorgan Chase has played right into the hands of pundits who think Wall Street needs to be put on a shorter leash.
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Developers Need to Index | SQL Performance Explained
SQL Performance problems are as old as SQL itself. Some might even say that SQL is inherently slow. Although it might have been true in the early days of SQL, it is definitely not true anymore. Nevertheless SQL performance problems are everywhere, everyday. How does this happen?
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Rapid-fire debugging thoughts - GameDev.net
Just a collection of assorted things that have been running through my mind during the past week and a half of marathon debugging...
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Writing Scripts - Google Apps Script — Google Developers
Writing Scripts
This section contains basic information about writing Google Apps Script scripts. For a full description of JavaScript syntax, see an online tutorial or book about JavaScript.
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The Wizard of Oz (1939 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
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How John Roberts Orchestrated Citizens United : The New Yorker
When Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission was first argued before the Supreme Court, on March 24, 2009, it seemed like a case of modest importance. The issue before the Justices was a narrow one.
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Christopher Doyon, a.k.a. Commander X, sits atop a hillside in an undisclosed location in Canada, watching a reporter and photographer make their way along a narrow path to join him, away from the prying eyes of law enforcement.
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Unsecured connections: Checking the basics | TechRepublic
Takeaway: The sheer number of connections we make every day using common programs and protocols multiplies the risk that basic security is overlooked.
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Out of Cash – Next American City
When former California Governor Jerry Brown became mayor of Oakland some 16 years after leaving statewide office, he pledged to add 10,000 residents to the city’s downtown. Had Brown been the mayor of, say, booming Plano or Aurora, he could have spent his first term back at the Buddhist monastery where he once lived and the city would have reached that goal of its own accord.
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objective c - How dangerous is it to compare floating point values? - Stack Overflow
I know UIKit uses CGFloat because of the resolution independent coordinate system.
But every time I want to check if for example frame.origin.x is 0 it makes me feel sick:
if (theView.frame.origin.x == 0) {
// do important operation
}
Isn't CGFloat vulnerable to false positives when comparing with ==, <=, >=, <, >? It is a floating point and they have unprecision problems: 0.0000000000041 for example.
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http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~rs/talks/AlgsMasses.pdf
ALgorithms for the Masses
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giving.code where programmers help
→ are you a charity, scientist or engineer in need of programming help?
→ are you a programmer who wants to spend just five minutes helping make the world a better place?
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Can You Call a 9-Year-Old a Psychopath? - NYTimes.com
One day last summer, Anne and her husband, Miguel, took their 9-year-old son, Michael, to a Florida elementary school for the first day of what the family chose to call “summer camp.” For years, Anne and Miguel have struggled to understand their eldest son, an elegant boy with high-planed cheeks, wide eyes and curly light brown hair, whose periodic rages alternate with moments of chilly detachment. Michael’s eight-week program was, in reality, a highly structured psychological study — less summer camp than camp of last resort.
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Photo editor online - Pixlr.com edit image
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Scamworld: 'Get rich quick' schemes mutate into an online monster | The Verge
A network of pitchmen have used the internet and fear of a failing economy to play the ultimate long con
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Tony Leung Chiu-Wai - Mickopedia, the feckin' free encyclopedia
Tony Leung Chiu-Wai (born 27 June 1962) is a feckin' Hong Kong film actor and former TVB actor. A major film star since the bleedin' 1990s, Leung has won nine Hong Kong Film Awards and three Golden Horse Best Actor awards (in 1994, 2003 and 2007). Leung also won the oul' Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award for his role in Wong Kar-wai's 2000 film In the oul' Mood for Love, begorrah.
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Were it grounded in reality, Oracle's claim that copyright law gives them proprietary control over any software that uses a particular functional API would be terrible for free software and programmers everywhere.
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Extracting colors with Colorific - 99designs Tech Blog
At 99designs we love great design, and a big part of good design is use of color. We were interested to see how designers make use of color in their designs, so we built an automatic color extractor to enable us to analyse color usage at a massive scale.
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With the release of Visual Studio 11 Beta back in February of this year, we introduced changes to the user experience based on two core design principles, the first being to give you more space for your content and the second being to draw more focus to that content. Since the debut of these changes there’s been significant community response and feedback. We’ve taken this feedback and based on what we heard have made a number of changes planned for Visual Studio 11 RC. I want to thank you for your continued feedback through this blog, and also through the various other community channels - please keep it coming.
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Facebook App Center: More showcase than store, actually | Internet & Media - CNET News
Or, how Facebook makes money and advances its own interest by helping Apple sell apps on its own store. It's a surprisingly clever move.
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6 Tools to Build a Mobile App on the Cheap - ABC News
The Mobile App Trends Series is presented by Sourcebits, a leading product developer for mobile platforms. Sourcebits offers design and development services for iOS, Android, Mobile and Web platforms. Follow Sourcebits on Twitter for recent news and updates.
The massive growth of the app market has coincided with the creation of a parallel niche industry — the proliferation of accessible, low-cost development alternatives to traditional shops and agencies. -
Study helps explain why we over-share on Facebook, Twitter - latimes.com
Researchers at Harvard have gotten to the bottom of why so many of us are compelled to share our every thought, movement, like and want through mediums like Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, Instagram and Pinterest.
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The honeybees are still dying - Boing Boing
The eerie mystery of the vanishing honeybees has not been put to rest.
In the last few weeks, three separate studies explored the effect of insecticides on honeybee and pollinator health. One paper linked neonicotinoids, a new class of systemic insecticides that have come into widespread use in recent years, to impaired honeybee navigation; a second noted the effects of low levels of the pesticides on bumblebee reproduction. -
Inside China's secret 'black jails' - Asia-pacific - Al Jazeera English
elatives seek answers about "kidnapped" family members, as China moves to grant more legal rights to detainees.
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The Most Dangerous Gamer - Magazine - The Atlantic
NEVER MIND THAT THEY’RE NOW AMONG THE MOST LUCRATIVE FORMS OF ENTERTAINMENT IN AMERICA, VIDEO GAMES ARE JUVENILE, SILLY, AND INTELLECTUALLY LAZY. AT LEAST THAT’S WHAT JONATHAN BLOW THINKS. BUT THE GAME INDUSTRY’S HARSHEST CRITIC IS ALSO ITS MOST CEREBRAL DEVELOPER, A MAVERICK BENT ON CHANGING THE WAY WE THINK ABOUT GAMES AND STORYTELLING. WITH HIS NEXT RELEASE, THE WITNESS, BLOW MAY CEMENT HIS LEGACY—OR END HIS CAREER. IN A MULTIBILLION-DOLLAR INDUSTRY ADDICTED TO LASER GUNS AND CARNIVOROUS ALIENS, CAN TRUE ART FINALLY FLOURISH?
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Coding Horror: This Is All Your App Is: a Collection of Tiny Details
Fair warning: this is a blog post about automated cat feeders. Sort of. But bear with me, because I'm also trying to make a point about software. If you have a sudden urge to click the back button on your browser now, I don't blame you. I don't often talk about cats, but when I do, I make it count.
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Complication is What Happens When You Try to Solve a Problem You Don't Understand | SIGPWNED
Code should be simple. Code should be butt simple. Code should be so simple that there’s no way it can be misunderstood. Good code has no nooks. Good code has no crannies. Good code is a round room with no corners for bugs to hide in.
We all know this. So why does most code suck?
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Reaching the Limits of Adobe Stupidity - whitespace
Lately, I’ve been working on Flash ActionScript 3 decompiler, and I noticed an interesting pattern. Normally, if you work with a piece of well-known software and something goes wrong, it’s your fault. But with Flash it’s not anything like that! If it doesn’t work, then it’s probably a bug in the compiler which was preserved for compatibility. Or the specification is plain wrong. Or it’s a bug in the compiler which no one noticed or attributed to cosmic rays instead.
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How Verizon tried to unsell me an iPhone | Technically Incorrect - CNET News
Rumor has it that Verizon store reps are doing everything possible to divert sales away from the iPhone. To see if this might be true, I went to a Verizon store, only to be told that Verizon doesn't push the iPhone, Apple does
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Sister Brigid McDonald calls Vatican's reprimand of U.S. nuns group a 'misuse of power' | MinnPost
I really feel that Jesus would want us to go forward and to be out there where the people are in pain. I believe that about Jesus. I always say, Jesus never said worship me, he said follow me, so that is what I am trying to do.
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Last week, CISPA (Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, H.R. 3523) passed the House. Now, the process moves on to the Senate, where the primary equivalent bill is the Cybersecurity Bill of 2012 or S. 2105. These security bills intend to modernize laws that govern the sharing of "cyber threat information" between private companies and the government, which is a reasonable goal. Cybersecurity is a serious issue, but we do not need to sacrifice privacy and due process to protect our networks. We are against CISPA and any other cybersecurity bills that don't precisely define what information can be shared between private companies and the government, how that information can be used, and adequate safeguards to ensure these protections.
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Outside Online Print This | Why Noah Went to the Woods
He was a proud Marine who survived three brutal tours in Iraq and had plans to redeploy with the national guard. But when 30-year-old Noah Pippin vanished inside Montana’s remote Bob Marshall Wilderness, he left behind a trail of haunting secrets—and a mystery that may never be solved.
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BBC News - Viewpoint: Why US and China need a deal on Chen
The Chen Guangcheng case has created a crisis for Beijing and Washington.
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California named worst state for business in magazine survey - latimes.com
So much for the idea of West is best. In an annual survey, executives ranked California as the worst place to do business for the eighth year in a row.
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ECB, Behold The Wonders You Have Wrought! - Europe Business News - CNBC
In the middle of a high-profile security operation which has even involved the temporary suspension of the European Union’s Schengen Treaty on freedom of movement as it refers to Spain, the European Central Bank Governing Council are this month holding their annual "moveable feast" meeting in Barcelona.
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Student abandoned in DEA holding cell drank own urine to survive | The Raw Story
Daniel Chong, a 24-year old student at UC San Diego, was taken into custody during a drug raid and abandoned in a holding cell for five days without food or water, according to NBC San Diego.
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5 signs that you should hire a programmer on the spot « More Than Coding
Bringing a programmer in for an interview and a coding test can lead to some interesting experiences, both for the interviewer and the interviewee. Most end up with the hiring manager telling them that they’ll “be in touch,” but sometimes a candidate just nails it. That’s when you consider extending a job offer before they get a chance to leave the building.
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Oracle and the End of Programming As We Know It | Dr Dobb's
If Oracle prevails in its claim that APIs can be copyrighted, nearly every aspect of programming will be changed for the worse.
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California agency ripped over disparities in autism spending - latimes.com
Advocates for children with autism testify at hearing that families with the least resources also get the least help from California's Department of Developmental Services.
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012
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Butterfly Effect Chapter 43, a final fantasy vii fanfic - FanFiction.Net
- One of the first things V. taught me was to always be careful of what you say and where you say it. You never know who is listening, or who they may talk to.
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Private Prison Corporations Are Modern Day Slave Traders | | AlterNet
The Corrections Corporation of America believes the economic crisis has created an opportunity to become landlord, as well as manager, of a chunk of the American prison gulag.