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Would have to be the games Wolfenstein, Phantasie, and IK+[^].
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It was October 4th, 1957. Scientists at MIT noticed that the frequency of the radio signals transmitted by the small Russian satellite increased as it approached and decreased as it moved away. This was caused by the Doppler Effect, the same things that makes the timbre of a car horn change as the car rushes by. This gave the scientists a grand idea. Satellites could be tracked from the ground by measuring the frequency of the radio signals they emitted, and conversely, the locations of receivers on the ground could be tracked by their relative distance from the satellites. That, in a nutshell, is the conceptual foundation of modern GPS. You are here.
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Narrative is this crazy itch we all want scratched – if you think back to the last speech, song or standup routine that really grabbed your attention, chances are good that it told a story. This very human craving is something we try to feed on our developer evangelism team here at Twilio. But, I’ll be the first to admit, constructing a narrative out of code is damn tough. It was a dark and stormy codebase...
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The long-delayed TextMate 2 text editor for Mac has been open-sourced under the GPL 3 license, says its creator Allan Odgaard. The editor, after being announced years ago, was released as an alpha in December of last year. Now, the app has been open sourced, which has led a lot of folks to immediately predict its death by disinterest, at least in terms of official development. I've embraced Sublime Text. What's your favorite editor?
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All I had to do is write software to tell the modem to dial over and over and try different combinations. Because I was a self-taught programmer, this was no problem. But because I was an overachieving self-taught programmer, I didn't just write a program. No, I went off and built a full-blown toolkit in AppleBasic, with complete documentation and the best possible text user interface I could muster, and then uploaded it to my favorite BBSes so every other addict could get their online modem fix, too. I called it The Hacking Construction Set, and I spent months building it. Using my own software got me in trouble with the law. And deservedly so.
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Agile development isn't just for software anymore. Even NPR is using it to develop programs like TED Radio Hour [ITworld]
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One Methodology to rule them all, One Methodology to find them,
One Methodology to bring them all and in Scrum bind them.
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In this installment we talk to Vanessa Hurst, founder of Developers for Good, co-founder of Girl Develop It!, and a consultant and advisor to startups. Our continuing series in which we talk to developers about their backgrounds, projects, interests and pet peeves.
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In a significant divergence from traditional fault-tolerance approaches, ROC emphasizes recovery from failures rather than failure-avoidance. This philosophy is motivated by the observation that even the most robust systems still occasionally encounter failures due to human operator error, transient or permanent hardware failure, and software anomalies resulting from "Heisenbugs" or software aging. Fixing Murphy's Law.
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Let's say you have a large computer system and you want to measure it for performance or efficiency. You want metrics. You want pretty pictures that tell you what's going on. You start looking at graphing libraries and databases. I think this is exactly backward. You have to start with measurement. It's shockingly easy to fool yourself and you really have to get it right. Bad data looks very much like useful data and it's worse than having no data at all. Understanding the difference between measurements and metrics.
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Windows 8 apps can be designed and coded using HTML/CSS/JS just like PhoneGap apps can. And with very little effort you can use your skill and existing resources to crank out a sleek, modern looking Windows 8 style app in no time. PhoneGap and Windows 8 development – more similar than you realize.
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After the hacking of a former Gizmodo writer’s Apple account, a lot of discussion has been going on concerning turning on two-factor authentication on services like Google Apps. I absolutely recommend doing so, but I also think that’s not enough. A good majority of the people who read this blog are creators of webapps of some description. It’s time for us to start building two-factor authentication into our products. 7 well-documented methods of implementing two-factor authentication.
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Shameless plug, but there's an article for that!
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This page introduces a compact and efficient implementation of Bresenham's algorithm to plot lines, circles, ellipses and Bézier curves. A detailed documentation of the algorithm and more program examples are availble, as well as four C-program examples. A simple implementation to plot lines, circles, ellipses and Bézier curves.
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Message Closed
modified 9-Aug-12 15:41pm.
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Go ahead and write the article, I'd be interested.
In settings like creating a bitmap in e.g. Silverlight where basically only a SetPixel is available the Bresenham algorithms are still quite relevant. In Silverlight Bitmap drawing is quite a bit faster than the WPF type of graphics. The WriteableBitmapEx[^] project was created for this purpose.
Wout
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So I started the GNOME project at that point in August 1997. The draft for the announcement was sent to various friends of mine which included Richard Stallman, Marc Ewing, Elliot Lee, Erik Troan, Spencer Kimball and Peter Mathis. When the project was ready Federico and I sent the announcement of the creation of the GNOME projects to a few mailing lists: The GIMP mailing list, the Guile mailing list, the GNU project announcement mailing list and comp.os.linux.announce. Federico and I started developing the GNOME libraries on our spare time. He was still mostly working on the GIMP and I was still mostly working on the X11 IRIX emulation code for Linux on the SGI/Indy. We setup the makefiles to mimic the Gtk+ setup.... Miguel de Icaza tells the story of GNOME.
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It has taken nearly a decade, but SCO’s hard-fought but ultimately ludicrous legal campaign against Linux is finally winding down, seemingly for good. The company, now know as The SCO Group (TSG), filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection this week, conceding that there’s no longer any hope of a reorganization under Chapter 11. Its only option now is liquidation. Both feet in the grave and still swinging wildly at IBM for allegedly “devaluing” its version of Unix.
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SCO had the greatest collection of douchebags.
I am surprised it is still alive.
Somebody please drive a stake through its heart.
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Vivic wrote: Somebody please drive a stake through its heart.
Maybe a silver bullet too
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
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I did some research into what they were doing, and had to think "WTF? That makes no sense!". I seriously think they were just money/power crazed nutcases with no moral or common sense. And on the topic of 'Common' sense, why is it so rare these days? I think the name should be changed to 'uncommon sense'.
Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.
Dave Barry
Read more at BrainyQuote[ ^]
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Zac Greve wrote: . And on the topic of 'Common' sense, why is it so rare these days?
I don't know, but I think exactly the same when I hear about more patent bullshit, especially from Crapple and Microsoft.
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True.
And what is your sig supposed to be? I have wondered about it for some time.
Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.
Dave Barry
Read more at BrainyQuote[ ^]
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Only people who are interested in electronics are likely to recognise it
It's a circuit diagram[^] (and another link[^]) of the tuning circuit[^] of a radio
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With very little effort and cost you can set up an automated and trustworthy backup system. I can only assume most people don’t back up their data because they are either lazy, unsure where to start, don’t see a need, or all of the above. Assuming Mat Honan’s horror story gives you the motivation for backing up, here are some tips on how to set up a rock-solid backup system. This is Mac-centric, but Windows has very good built-in backup tools, too.
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