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>“I see JavaScript as the modern equivalent of BASIC. ...because of its simplicity, it is a great language for learning fundamental programming concepts.” So what's wrong with BASI…

They used Archimedes at CERN? Truly one of the greatest computers of all time.

That's why Danny Boyle did such a good job. If the British media had been in charge of the ceremony in could have very easily been a cringeworthy ordeal featuring a cast of z-list …

A picture here: http://i.imgur.com/bthc3.jpg

Excellent attention to detail by Danny Boyle. They could have had him on any old PC and 90% of the audience wouldn't have noticed. http://i.imgur.com/bthc3.jpg

a) Is "respect" really so important to you that you are willing to sacrifice a 25 year career? Surely if the pay is good and you enjoy that's all that matters. b) By switching prof…

Don't look to Minecraft for an example of well written code, there are open source alternatives (Minetest in C++ springs to mind) that run rings around it. And Notch himself is wel…

CS courses tend to explain what bit shifting is but not when you would use it . For example you'll often see a lecturer drawing lots of 1s and 0s on a whiteboard to illustrate it b…

Is the diagram to scale? That apparatus is huge!

The demo doesnt seem to work in Firefox

http://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#objc_gc_flags

Then what happens when you inevitably need to work on a project that doesn't use ARC?

Meetings bloody meetings: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWYnVt-umSA

They're not doing that, making a genuine clone and undercutting the competition is 100% okay (unless you're one of those pesky PIPA-supporting types) What these guys are doing is g…

It's free, though... what's the problem?

They pulled "Temple Jump" because it received too much negative press coverage. However, "Eclipsecraft" and all the other scam games by "Top Best Adult Entertainment" are still ava…

I think he may have coined a new term >Brogrammers

>Similar to Angry Birds, this is a great world to explore physics. Comparing Angry Birds (a physics-based game) to Minecraft (a game with... gravity) is a bit of a stretch.

As crap as Hotmail is, I found this pretty funny.

More due to their attitudes towards source code and supporting a new generation of developers (Notch pays lipservice to open source and claims to be an avid supporter of the Pirate…