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The Making of Prince of Persia
Jordan Mechner is an author, graphic novelist, screenwriter and video game designer, best known as the creator of Prince of Persia. Follow his latest projects here.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,923 posts.
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Developers: You Are What's Wrong With the iPhone AppStore
instapaper for iphone is $5. I've bought a bunch of games for >$3. It is addicting.
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Apple's Mistake
November 2009 I don't think Apple realizes how badly the App Store approval process is broken. Or rather, I don't think they realize how much it matters that it's broken. The way Apple runs the App Store has harmed their reputation with programmers more than anything else they've ever done. Their reputation with…
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Closure. "I had the only farm capable of nuclear weapons design."
For those that know me, I’m kind of a “life is too short” kind of guy. I liked to fail fast, move on, and not look back. However, in catching up with the VP of Sales of Ardent last night, I was rem…
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Microsoft makes patent claim for sparklines
A forum moderated by author and artist Edward Tufte, including discussion and questions dealing with information design.
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Gruber: The OS Opportunity
These PC makers are lacking in neither resources nor opportunity. What they’re lacking is ambition, gumption, and passion for great software and new frontiers.
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PyPy vs Unladen Swallow vs CPython: benchmarks
Hello. Recently, thanks to the surprisingly helpful Unhelpful, also known as Andrew Mahone, we have a decent, if slightly arbitrary, set of...
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An Early Look At IE9 for Developers
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Microsoft's New Killer App
This message is coming to you via a simple NodeJS application that's live on your Droplet! This droplet is all set up with NodeJS, PM2 for process management, and nginx.
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Deep Tracing of Internet Explorer
After reading a recent post by Steve Souders concerning a free tool called dynaTrace Ajax , I was intrigued. It claimed to provide full tracing analysis of Internet Explorer 6-8 (including JavaScript, rendering, and network traffic). Giving it a try I was very impressed. I tested against a few web sites but got the…
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How Pinball Ate itself: The Economics of Pinball
Will…You…Play…Black Knight Again?? There is a reason I live in Winnetka and not in Evanston. And it’s not because, as Sandeep would put it, I like to get up 30 minutes earl…
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Finding the laws that govern us
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Put that database in memory
Writings on artificial intelligence, personalization, recommendations, and the tech industry.
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