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Command and Conquer – Programming an RTS game in HTML5 and Javascript
I’m a programmer and author interested in how intelligence, perception and learning work—and in building things that explore those questions directly.
Megaupload could spawn caselaw more destructive than SOPA
The GH engineers correctly identify the MySQL dependency as a problem. It’s such an easy one to remove, though!
An introduction to modern OpenGL
Table of Contents | Chapter 2 » OpenGL has been around a long time, and from reading all the accumulated layers of documentation out there on the Internet, it's not always clear what parts are h…
The things first time founders do…
Last week @robfitz asked me on short notice to join a panel at #foundersexchange about what first time founders shouldn’t do. I qu...
The Lost Art of Becoming Good at Things
Hey folks — on hiatus from writing here, but not forever. Subscribe to hear from me when I surface with updates. Click to read Corbett Barr, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
Waking up at 5am to code
GOPAY303 adalah platform game digital yang menyediakan strategi pola RTP paling ajaib saat ini. Menyajikan analisis akurat, navigasi kencang, dan aksesibilitas ramah mobile 24 jam.
Linux Local Privilege Escalation via SUID /proc/pid/mem Write
Introducing Mempodipper , an exploit for CVE-2012-0056. /proc/ pid /mem is an interface for reading and writing, directly, process memory by seeking around with the same addresses as the process's virtual memory space. In 2.6.39, the protections against unauthorized access to /proc/ pid /mem were deemed sufficient…
Public speaking for normal people
I just gave a presentation on 42Floors to 150 people. It went well. I was really proud of: 1) our team, 2) our product and 3) the way we were able to present it. It was as if we were telling people about it in our living room, but there just happened to be 150 people there. Afterwards, several people told me that it…
Exit Interview: The creators of no-longer-with-us products explain
Verifiable (shut down August 1, 2010) Stuart Roseman shut down Verifiable, a crowdsourced charting and data analysis site, to start SaneBox, a product that automatically identifies important email and separates them in a user’s inbox. Below, he explains how he knew when it was time to pull t…
Books for people in the software business
I have personally read every book in this list. The enormous value I've gotten out of these books is the sole reason I am recommending them. These books helped me to make my Swift To-Do List very successful. There are no affiliate links in this post. I...
Fields medalist Tim Gowers: Elsevier — my part in its downfall
The Dutch publisher Elsevier publishes many of the world’s best known mathematics journals, including Advances in Mathematics, Comptes Rendus, Discrete Mathematics, The European Journal of Co…
Jonathan Coulton on MegaUpload and piracy
I wrote this thing on Twitter this morning about the MegaUpload shutdown, and it’s gotten some crazy traction on the old internet. In addition, I’ve just done a couple of interviews for NPR on the subject, and I think I may have said some crazy, provocative things. There are many comments and questions out there…
Ruby on Rails Tutorial, second edition (updated for Rails 3.2)
News & blog about Learn Enough (including the Ruby on Rails Tutorial)
How to Be Relentlessly Resourceful [a practical guide]
Relentlessly resourceful. This is the essential quality of a good startup founder according to Paul Graham, cofounder of Y Combinator. When asked by Forbes what he looks for in founders, four out of the five elements [http://paulgraham.com/founders.html] relate to resourcefulness. He’s written two essays (Relentlessly
The next SOPA
Every few years, the MPAA’s lobbying power, rhetoric, and immense campaign contributions succeed in purchasing a bill in Congress to advance their agenda in a way that’s hostile to the technology industry and consumers.
New Google Accounts Require Gmail and Google+
Where are you from? Try using TOR to sign up if your country is blocked, once you have an account you should be able to access the service without having to run TOR again.
Haskell web programming (a simple tutorial)
tl;dr : A simple Yesod tutorial. Yesod is a Haskell web framework. You shouldn’t need to know Haskell.
Results of Mozilla's SOPA blackout
Yesterday, we blacked out the default start page in Firefox and redirected visitors to the Mozilla sites to a special action page. We also sent direct mess
Vim ported to iOS
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