May 2012
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April 2012
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Wikipedia | Timeline of the Far Future →
Or, TIL that the universe is not an endlessly replenishing ecosystem and will in fact come to an end. An incredible read.
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List of Software Bugs →
Bugs in code you write happen, but they usually only mean a cryptic error message appearing and scaring all your users.
But if you were writing a program for, say, flying a spaceship?
- A booster went off course during launch, resulting in the destruction of NASA Mariner 1. This was the result of the failure of a transcriber to notice an overbar in a written specification for the guidance...
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Light Table - A New IDE Concept →
This sounds like a great concept, and something I’d really like to have a play with as soon as I’ve time. My favourite thing about it?
Towards the end of my time on the Visual Studio team, I came to the conclusion that windows aren’t a good abstraction for what we do. Other engineers have large tables where they can scatter drawings, tools, and other information around. A...
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Ignore the Code | Screens Under the Microscope →
Putting screens of things under microscopes, and looking at how teeny pixels are.
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March 2012
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Coyote Tracks: No Mere Patent Troll →
chipotle:
I have a friend who works at Yahoo! who recently expressed frustration at the way the company’s always portrayed in the tech press—as an irrelevant dinosaur we’re all just waiting on to die. Yahoo had nearly seven times the revenue that Facebook did last year. They’re profitable. They do a lot of cool development stuff, from the well-known YUI Javascript library to YQL (“Yahoo Query...
“This is the vexing question that has been percolating inside my mind while...”
– Is Ice Cream Sandwich out yet? | The Verge
For Apple users in the crowd who don’t pay much attention to Google’s Android release schedule, Fraser Speirs contextualized it pretty well:
Imagine the iPad 3 was shipping next week….with iOS 3.2.
That’s Android.
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The Secret World - A Smorgasbord of Interviews and... →
These series of great interviews with the TSW guys are really illuminating on the directions the game is taking. They’re SO worth taking the time to read: there’s a lot of new information here, on servers and especially on crafting, as well as some nuggets about PvP rewards too.
Did I mention I’m really I to PvP these days?
Anyway, my favourite question, from all of these...
February 2012
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The Word of Notch: Coding skill and the decline of... →
notch:
I am a decent programmer. I know a decent amount of computer science theory, I can type correct code fairly easy. I don’t let my classes expand too much. But I still struggle some with math, and I have a tendency to have too many cross-dependencies in my code.
I used to think I was an awesome programmer. One of the best. After I made a game in the first programming lesson in school, I...
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WatchThe Avengers Superbowl Trailer (Extended Cut) in glorious 1080p. EDIT: Okay I uploaded a 1080p video, but Tumblr seems to have stolen the quality. Shame on them. Go here for 1080p, fullscreen, fruity goodness.
Oh my GOD that 360 shot, I creamed myself. I need a 3D IMAX theatre. Where is there an IMAX?
I will go to London on my own to see this movie if I have to.
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January 2012
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Coyote Tracks: Fear the hashtags of rage →
chipotle:
In large part I hate hashtags for the same reason I hate most user-generated content tagging. The point of tagging is to organize data—tweets, blog posts, Word documents, porn pictures, whatever—with a taxonomy that makes it easy to find related data. But this isn’t what most crowd-sourced tagging systems get you. What you usually get are a lot of jokes, some of which are funny, many...
Hunt on for randy anti-social dildo user from... →
Well, this beats the guy who lived a couple floors down from me with his 24/7 raves when I was there.
Guys at the Cranborne House halls of residence on St Paul’s Place, who couldn’t believe their luck to begin with, have since grown weary at the constant pleasuring by the horny female with her trusty tool.
“At first we couldn’t get enough of hearing her but now we just want some peace – she...
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So, I have a new Tumblr theme.
I’ve been writing this (from scratch of course) sporadically for a little while now and it’s finally come to a stage in which I’m willing to use it on my own blog, sort of as a beta test.
Once I’m happy I’ve worked out all the kinks, I’m thinking I’ll put it up on the Theme Garden and see if anyone in the general public likes it.
I’ve tested this...
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Who likes nostalgia?
The theme from Battlefield...
RIM co-CEOs stepping down in a “surprise exit” →
“Someone else can take it from here”
(via @marcoarment)
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December 2011
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How does the iPhone 4S camera stack-up against... →
The Camera+ for iPhone team take a look at how each generation of iPhone camera has changed, and how they compare to a high-end point-and-shoot camera (the Canon S95) and to a DSLR (Canon 5DMKII).
Most interesting is this photo - alongside an article from TheNextWeb observing how Apple redefined photography with the iPhone. Suffice it to say that I’d trade in my iPhone 4 for a 4S if I...
