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Gamasutra - The History of Civilization

[Gamasutra is proud to be partnering with the IGDA's Preservation SIG to present detailed official histories of each of the first ten games voted into the Digital Game Canon. The Canon "provides a starting-point for the difficult task of preserving this history inspired by the role of that the U.S.…

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Nimrod by Example - Main

Nimrod is a powerful statically typed language that allows the programmer expressiveness without compromising run-time performance. As a general purpose programming language, it gives the same sort of power and performance as C++, but in a nicer package and with even more powerful tools!

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Verizon’s Accidental Mea Culpa | Beyond Bandwidth

David Young, Vice President, Verizon Regulatory Affairs recently published a blog post suggesting that Netflix themselves are responsible for the streaming

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Hasnain says:

""If that’s the case, we’ll buy one for them. Maybe they can’t afford the small piece of cable between our two ports. If that’s the case, we’ll provide it. Heck, we’ll even install it.""

Posted on 2014-07-17T22:21:55+0000

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Large Round of Layoffs Expected at Microsoft

Microsoft is planning to announce layoffs that will substantially exceed the largest layoffs in the company’s history, according to several people briefed on the decision.

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The Tao of Programming

Note: I copied this from http://misspiggy.gsfc.nasa.gov/tao.html and stripped out all of the IMHO extraneous formatting. ---Alex

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Amazon Tests ‘Kindle Unlimited,’ A Netflix For Ebooks And Audiobooks | TechCrunch

Amazon might give readers something to get really excited about: A digital ebook and audiobook subscription service that provides Kindle users with all the..

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Build your shiny new PC

Pangoly is a free service that helps you pick the best hardware and peripherals for your new PC build, according to your budget and personal needs.

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Mutable Algorithms in Immutable Languages, Part 1 · tel.github.io

One of the big challenges you might face when learning a language like Haskell which favors immutability or purity is that suddenly all of the algorithms you once kept at your side have… well, by-and-large they’ve vanished.

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What Problems to Solve - By Richard Feynman

A former student, who was also once a student of Tomonaga’s, wrote to extend his congratulations. Feynman responded, asking Mr. Mano what he was now doing. The response: “studying the Coherence theory with some applications to the propagation of electromagnetic waves through turbulent atmosphere… a…

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Hasnain says:

"You say you are a nameless man. You are not to your wife and to your child. You will not long remain so to your immediate colleagues if you can answer their simple questions when they come into your office. You are not nameless to me.

Do not remain nameless to yourself – it is too sad a way to be. Know your place in the world and evaluate yourself fairly, not in terms of your naïve ideals of your own youth, nor in terms of what you erroneously imagine your teacher’s ideals are."

Posted on 2014-07-15T20:52:33+0000