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Worried that under a new owner BeOS would die a slow, unsupported death, Michael Phipps did the only logical thing he could think of: He decided to re-create BeOS completely from scratch, but as open-source code. An open-source system, he reasoned, isn’t owned by any one company or person, and so it can’t disappear just because a business goes belly-up or key developers leave. How a volunteer crew brought a crack operating system back.
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Responsive web design is arguably the hottest topic in web design today, but how do you monetise responsive sites? Matthew Snyder and Etai Koren, co-founders of ResponsiveAds, present the biggest issues and come up with some solutions. Ads for browsers and devices of all shapes and sizes.
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Do you ever get a craving to do a little BASIC programming, but find yourself without a good old DOS box at hand? Never fear. Cory Smith wrote a Silverlight-based GW-BASIC interpreter that runs in your browser... even on your Windows Phone! GOTO CODE ANYWHERE.
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The concept of Big Data—the practice of acquiring, analyzing and interpreting ridiculously huge data sets—is something much of the technology and business world is extremely excited about. But excited is about as far as it goes because, currently, there just aren't enough practitioners to make it work. Data, data everywhere... and not enough expertise to use it.
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Here are two tools I've been using lately to better understand the functionality of my game designs. The first is the loop, a structure that should be very familiar to those who have looked into skill atoms. The second is the arc. Loop back over this and you'll get the arc of the idea.
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Someone tell me why i dont enjoy games today as i did when I was a child or a teenager. Tell us why today's computer games or better - or worse - than those of yesteryear.
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I disagree with people who say games aren't as good. Back in day I think they were more "amazing" because they were new and ground breaking. Now, there are a set number of genres and 50 games being released in each of those genres a month. A good game to me is now determined by the story and overall polish of the game. Graphics mean nothing, which I guess is just a thing from growing up in the 90's where the most amazing graphics I ever saw was Dues Ex :P (was that even the 90's ???)
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ROGUE ! ! ! !
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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My room mate and I have this discussion every time we stop by the local Gamestop. Personally, I think its a combination of:
0. There is a much larger number of games coming out. With that kind of quantity, there's more to compare to and the really great games stand out (and make the majority of games look bad)
1. Some publishers/studios go for quantity over quality, and as long as its profitable they have no reason to change
2. We're not children anymore, and as a result we're much harder to impress. Even if the quality stayed the same we'd probably feel that it decreased as we become more critical and able to distinguish good from bad
3. Nostaligia
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There's a very interesting discussion about what are good games and the concept of a "gamer" in the current context on episode 64 of the Hypercritical podcast with John Siracusa[^].
Director of Content Development, The Code Project
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You’ve invested in building an API and now you want developers to use it. Very few companies can get away with creating a successful API ecosystem on technical merit alone. You’ll need documentation, SDKs, sample apps, debugging tools and everything else that goes into a great “developer experience”. Based on my experience of working with an array of different APIs, here is what I believe to be the baseline level of support structure anyone who is serious about their API program should implement. If you build it (well), they will come.
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As I do some app development for Windows 8 I wanted to share my thoughts around localization and what it really means to me to provide a ‘world-ready’ application. The three areas of focus are 1) how the platforms support a localized app, 2) what technical tools you have to automate localization 3) getting culture-correct localization and 4) testing your localized app. Parlez vous good user experience?
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I visit a lot of customers and look at a lot of code. I also worked with a number of large production code bases in my previous jobs and I see a lot of ifs, fors and switches. I see loops inside of loops with ifs inside them, all doing various transformations of data from one form to another. I see strings getting parsed to pull bits of data out in ways that are easy to say in English but take 100 lines to say in code. Should they? There are a million things available to the programmer beyond the first three keywords we learn.
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And they are all implemented by shift, add, and complement.
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When I used to teach programming (C), the first project I gave them was to create a little editor. All it had to do was echo the letters to the keyboard when you typed them and allow you to delete the end letter. Most were quite surprised how many steps that took (and this in console screen). Adding the ability to delete from the center of a line and/or insert a character and they had new respect for all the little things.
So the concept of many lines of code required to do a simple spoken concept. Why the surprise?
Or, to put it another way: if you want a copy of that page, build a xerox machine, push the button, and you're done.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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JSIL is a compiler that transforms .NET applications and libraries from their native executable format - CIL bytecode - into standards-compliant, cross-browser JavaScript. You can take this JavaScript and run it in a web browser or any other modern JavaScript runtime. From C# or Visual Basic to the web in one easy step.
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Text Adventures are excellent mental exercise to write! They are useful for learning to program; they are equally useful for seasoned programmers to refresh and recuperate on! They can fit anywhere on a sliding scale between straightforward and high-end CS-research, and the programmer can slide their game anywhere up and down that scale at whim. And they are fun. It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
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The Chinese government has begun the process of picking a national computer chip instruction set architecture (ISA). This ISA would have to be used for any projects backed with government money — which, in a communist country such as China, is a fairly long list of public and private enterprises and institutions, including China Mobile, the largest wireless carrier in the world. The primary reason for this move is to lessen China’s reliance on western intellectual property. Will it be MIPS, Alpha, ARM, Power... or a homegrown CPU?
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In this, the age of cloud computing, Amazon’s service is so popular, it now runs about 1 percent of the entire internet. But despite some strong reviews from those who have actually used it, Microsoft Azure — more than two years after its debut — is often on the edge of the conversation. Those folks from Washington really know something about clouds.
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: Those folks from Washington really know something about clouds.
They should.
It rains all the time in Seattle. 
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It does seem misunderstood. Here are a few misconceptions I've noticed, and the reality:
- You can't put a cap on costs... actually, you now can (services that exceed their quota will be disabled, or you can disable the quota).
- There are hidden transfer fees... they're not really hidden (perhaps poorly emphasized), and there are built-in ways to avoid them (e.g., affinity groups).
- You are stuck with Microsoft technologies... nope, you can use most technologies on Azure.
- You are locked into Azure... actually, it's not much different than hosting with GoDaddy (from a technical perspective), so long as you remember to avoid using local file storage as a permanent medium.
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It looks like Google has finally pulled the plug on the old GMail UI. There’s no more “revert to the old look temporarily” button, so I guess they’re finally forcing us laggards onto the new theme. As far as i can tell, this redesign is just change for the sake of change. I can’t see a single improvement! But I can spot three distinct un-provements. Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
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I m not comfortable with new look of Gmail. Is this temporary or permanent?
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