Game Programming Patterns
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Hasnain says:
This book is finally completed. A really good resource for game programmers.
Posted on 2014-04-23T16:58:12+0000
Do Men Suck at Friendship?
The key to a long, healthy life is not exercise or diet. It's strong social connections – in other words, friends. The problem: Research shows that men suck at friendship.
What you’d need to make in every county in America to afford a decent one-bedroom
The federal minimum wage doesn't cover fair market rent anywhere in the United States.
The Quest for Randomness » American Scientist
For example, suppose we were interested in the randomness of the following sequence: 314159265358979323846264338327950288419716...
Hasnain says:
Reasons you should read this article:
1. It's a great perspective on randomness
2. It's by Scott Aaronson.
3. Refer to 2.
Meet Mellow, the smart sous-vide machine.
Mellow is a sous-vide machine that takes orders through your smartphone and keeps food cold until it’s the exact time to start cooking. Tell it what to do, teach it what you like, and it'll do its best to make your life simpler.
Hasnain says:
I still haven't tried sous-vide but this looks really exciting.
Posted on 2014-04-23T04:58:32+0000
Space Monkey | Beyond the Cloud
Store all of your music, movies, photos, and documents in the cloud and never have to worry about losing anything ever again. The future of data storage is here.
Hasnain says:
"It’s a shame Go didn’t exist when Space Monkey started. We’re very lucky to have it now."
Posted on 2014-04-23T04:56:13+0000
My Quest to Build the Ultimate Music Player - Andrew Kelley
Over the past few years, I have been slowly but surely building my own music player. It's been a wild ride. The codebase has radically changed several times, but is always converging on a better music listening experience.
Project Naptha
Project Naptha automatically applies state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms on every image you see while browsing the web. The result is a seamless and intuitive experience, where you can highlight as well as copy and paste and even edit and translate the text formerly trapped within an image.
Hasnain says:
I rarely install browser addons or extensions - after seeing this, however, I'm wondering what took the world so long to get this. This is amazing.
Posted on 2014-04-23T04:44:30+0000
Results of the GitHub Investigation
Last month, a number of allegations were made against GitHub and some of its employees, including one of its co-founders, Tom Preston-Werner. We took these claims seriously and launched a full, independent, third-party investigation. The investigation found no evidence to support the claims against…
Hasnain says:
GitHub loses one of their co-founders. Ouch.
(TPW's take on things: http://tom.preston-werner.com/2014/04/21/farewell-github-hello-immersive-computing.html)
Posted on 2014-04-21T20:22:43+0000
Is the Toilet Free?
Is the Toilet Free? Callum Jefferies April 16, 20140 commentsA few of us Many have been working on a side project that we’ve aptly named Is the Toilet Free? Its purpose to provide an at-desk indication of whether a toilet is free in an effort to remedy that laborious walk to the loo only to find tha…