Sony just launched its PlayStation Now service that lets you rent access to streaming games. The pricing seems a bit odd to some, but it actually uses some well established psychological tricks to …
At Open Whisper Systems, we believe users should have both privacy and powerful services. Today we’re releasing Flock, a private cloud sync service for your personal data. Your contacts and calendars belong to you. So does your privacy. Flock makes it possible to have both.
Irken is a simplified, statically-typed dialect of Scheme . It uses an ML-like type system supporting parametric polymorphism (i.e., "let polymorphism") and algebraic datatypes . With type inference and a pattern-matching syntax, it could be considered ML with a lisp/scheme syntax .
Like any artistic medium, games are emotional experiences filled with joy, sadness, frustration, and more. Special moments can bring tears, cause shouting, or even screams. But imagine during one of those emotional highs if the audio simply died, and the game continued onward in a deafening silence before eventually…
Depending on your age, your first computer might have been an Apple II, a Radio Shack TRS-80, an IBM PC, an Apple Macintosh, or another of the early personal computers. If you missed these early machines the first time around, perhaps you have seen them in the Personal Computer section of the Revolution exhibit at the…
Generational garbage collection (GGC) has now been enabled in the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine in Firefox 32. GGC is a performance optimization only, and should have no observable effects on script ...
I wrote Planjure to learn ClojureScript and Om. It’s a fun little program. You paint islands on a canvas and run path-planning algorithms to find the optimal path for your ship to traverse from start to finish. Sailing across blue ocean is faster than hiking through green islands. The three algorithms implemented are…
The .NET Framework was good. Really good. Until it wasn’t. Why did I leave .NET? In short, it constrained our ability to choose (which is a huge deal for
Why does every nice car in California have a license plate frame from a charity that supports highway patrol officers? They think they'll get out of speeding tickets.
How to use your language's most-overlooked feature to its utmost.
isocpp.org announced "the C++ FAQ" to which reportedly Bjarne Stroustrup and Marshall Cline will link to help boost its search rank. Good stuff; also, given that the language is >30 years old – it's about time.
(Third and final update: If you read this post, please also read this follow up post, which includes summaries of ways to try to reduce the likelihood of running into the same problem.) Last fall, …
A few days ago, I was scouting for office space around West 57th Street when I happened to walk by Stack’s Rare Coins shop…
Often times, physical access to a machine means game over. While people like to think that OSX is immune to most security threats, even Apple computers can be susceptible to physical attacks. Mac OSX is capable of booting into single user mode by holding a special key combination (Command-S). From this point, an…
It is time to get parasitic structured finance out of our economy - and we should start with the musical instrument industry.
Microservices - everyone talks about them nowadays. There’s no common understanding however what they are. I’ve been researching this topic for a while, gathering and evaluating articles, presentations and conference videos.
In addition to CppCon announced earlier this week , today the Standard C++ Foundation is pleased to announce a new unified C++ FAQ . The following introduction was written by Herb Sutter.
