by Scott Aaronson. I have an ingenious idea for a company... My company will be the one that packages ... in 25-cent cardboard boxes, then resells the boxes for up to $300 apiece.
By Pieter Hintjens - That simple question stirs up controversy and divides the IT industry into two camps like no other. Every group has their own ideology about software patents.
Numbers for Fantasy Worlds, a distillation of broad possibilities drawn from a variety of historical reference points, from periods ranging from the 11th to 15th centuries as a good model for a trad-fantasy gameworld.
Ward Cunningham, creator of the wiki, said the power of collaborative development has only just begun to be realized, and open-source software will continue to spur more collaboration and more innovation.
to perpetuate the spirit and sensibilities of the late Athanasius Kircher, SJ. Our interests extend to the wondrous, the curious, the singular, the esoteric, the arcane, and the sometimes hazy frontier between the plausible and the implausible
Interview with Sebastian DeGuy. We discuss how small the textures can actual get, whether procedural textures can compare with textures in games like Crysis and much more
"While MFC remains the library of choice for full application development, ATL provides an attractive alternative when a simple set of window wrapper classes is all that is needed." March 1999
The new technology, known as AMQ, is an open-source message queuing system that provides the same functionality as IBM's WebSphere MQ (formerly known as MQSeries), has implementations on C and C++, and will support C# and Java.
Almost every application with GUI needs icons. And they better be sexy. And stylish. And consistent. And small. Here are few tips for programatically creating icons using Java 2D features
The numbers that control your life. You're identified by dozens of numbers. Your phone number, your driver's license number, your social security number, your zip code, your license plate, your credit card numbers. I find these numbers fascinating. Who distributes them? What can they be used for? How can you use them? How are they issued?
Paul Graham May 2001 "You don't need to know this stuff to program in Lisp, but it should be helpful to anyone who wants to understand the essence of Lisp"
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