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Google to acquire Motorola
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I’m sorry, but were you actually trying to remember your comical passwords?
I love a good XKCD comic; Randall Munroe has a unique way of cutting right to the crux of technology issues and always doing it in a humorous fashion. Little Bobby Tables [http://xkcd.com/327/] remains an all-time classic and it’s amazing how many times you’ll
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Perlis Languages
A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. – Alan Perlis
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Do trees communicate? Networks, networks
I was unfamiliar with how mycorrhizal networks connect the roots of trees, facilitating the sharing of resources. Dr. Suzanne Simard writes: Graduate student Kevin Beiler has uncovered the extent a…
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Quake Engine source review
I happily dove into Quake World source code . Here is what I understood, hopefully it will help someone to swim. This article is in four parts : Architecture section Network section Prediction section Rendition section
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Understanding "Prototypes" in JavaScript
For the purposes of this post, I will be talking about JavaScript objects using syntax defined in ECMAScript 5.1. The basic semantics existed in Edition 3, but they were not well exposed. A Whole New Object In JavaScript, objects are pairs of keys and values (in Ruby, this structure
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The Sad Reality of Post-Mature Optimization
Thoughts and musings of Dennis Forbes, expert software developer/architect and AI engineer
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Jonathan's Card shut down
Get a coffee, give a coffee - Jonathan's Card
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C++ 11 Approved
[Update: “C++11” is now the confirmed name — Geneva informs me that they plan to have it published in a matter of weeks, and then we’ll have ISO/IEC 14882:2011(E) Programmin…
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Welcome to the Cloud - "Your Apple ID has been disabled."
Welcome Hacker News, Slashdot, DF and TechMeme. Be sure to read the follow up ...
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Why you don't steal from a hacker.
So during the London riots I return home the next morning to find my flat ransacked and my Macbook Pro laptop stolen! Police showed ...
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Flickr is dead
You know what? It doesn’t matter. It’s totally irrelevant. The Google one looks far better, but that’s so beside the point at this point.
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Free Printed Copies of "Version Control by Example"
The printed copies of Version Control by Example arrived last week. We moved seven tons of books into our fourth-floor office space and all the tenants on the third floor are still alive.
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Git: fetch and merge, don’t pull
This is too long and rambling, but to steal a joke from Mark Twain Blaise Pascal I haven’t had time to make it shorter yet. There is some discussion of this post on the git mailing list , but much of it is tangential to the points I’m trying to make here.
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Google releases Games for Google+
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Why software patents are not fixable
I’m not a patent lawyer. I’m not even a lawyer. I’m just a software developer, and like every software developer, I’ve probably unknowingly infringed upon hundreds of patents while routinely doing my job.
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Understanding JavaScript function invocation and "this"
Over the years, I've seen a lot of confusion about JavaScript function invocation. In particular, a lot of people have complained that the semantics of this in function invocations is confusing. In my opinion, a lot of this confusion is cleared up by understanding the core function invocation primitive,