Why Unreal, Unity, and Source are Going Free
In the last three days, three major game engine developers have announced they are giving their technology away. Why would they do that? What do they hope to achieve?
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Posted on 2015-03-04T17:46:51+0000
The Night My Girlfriend Dissociated and Forgot Who I Was | VICE | United Kingdom
Because of her dissociative identity disorder, I was a stranger in the eyes of the woman I loved.
Hasnain says:
"She listened for a little while longer and then passed the phone to me. "He wants to talk to you." I spoke to George for a couple of minutes. I've never been so relieved to hear the voice of a girlfriend's ex."
Posted on 2015-03-04T17:43:42+0000
I Do Not Know C
The purpose of this article is to make everyone (especially C programmers) say: “I do not know C”.I want to
The Overprotected Kid
A preoccupation with safety has stripped childhood of independence, risk taking, and discovery—without making it safer. A new kind of playground points to a better solution.
Hasnain says:
Oh man. This is really long but I loved every bit of it. It shows how society has become so risk averse, especially with children.
" If a mother is afraid that her child might be abducted, her ironclad rule should not be Don’t talk to strangers. It should be Don’t talk to your father."
Posted on 2015-03-04T17:12:31+0000
A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering: Attack of the week: FREAK (or 'factoring the NSA...
If you don't know what these are, in year 1999 the US government raised the limit to 56-bit encryption and 1024-bit RSA. They were described in https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tls-56-bit-ciphersuites-01
Click to view the original at blog.cryptographyengineering.com
Hasnain says:
" Encryption backdoors will always turn around and bite you in the ass. They are never worth it."
Posted on 2015-03-04T02:13:13+0000
Scientists have figured out what makes Indian food so delicious
Indian food is something of an anomaly, but not for the reasons you might think.
Unity 5
We’re still geared to delivering even better workflows, more optimizations and the features that give you creative freedom to drive your game development to new heights.
Mozilla not accepted for Google Summer of Code 2015 - Florian Quèze
As you may have already seen, Mozilla is not in the list of organizations accepted for Google Summer of Code 2015.People who have observed the list carefully may have noticed that
Project managers, ducks, and dogs marking territory
There's a story I read on one of the Stack Overflow type sites a couple of years ago about a "duck". It was an answer about terms people have invented in the world of programming, and it went like this.
Corona SDK is now Free + Mac/Win Desktop Apps + GDC | Corona Labs
This week, to coincide with GDC, we’re making some very exciting announcements! Corona SDK is completely FREE First, Corona SDK is now completely free! Starting today, anyone who registers on our site will get the full power of Corona SDK (existing users can just logout and then re-login to the Coro…