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The course webcasts of CS61A from berkeley for various semesters are online: The ones prior to 2010~2011 used scheme, and it tracks SICP fairly closely. http://webcast.berkeley.edu…

This feels like blatant sensationalism to me. This particular patent describes the process for 3rd party sites to tell Facebook about something the user did (new Open Graph API, an…

You're quite right. This is why apps have a new permission dialog to show you exactly what gets shared, which you have to click accept prior to using it. As long as the app isn't f…

Real time physics simulations of deformable objects these days tend to be based on fairly accurate physics models. The major issue facing such simulations today is that it's diffic…

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that while using the client-side auth flow does not prevent a malicious program from pretending to be another facebook app, it forces the mali…

Content from spammy apps are hidden when the app is disabled. If you think about this it sort of makes sense: if the app is sending lots of crap without user consent, merely disabl…