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I was thinking more along the lines that without the eye, the idea of light being projected in any direction at all has no meaning =) And then we could get started on the concepts …

>Ray tracing involves projecting light from the "eye" towards the scene, whereas in real life the light is being projected from the scene towards the eye. I can't write a decent re…

Any good hacker will code around bullshit.

Of course there is evidence: the stock market wasn't invented until 1999. Before 1999, noone dared buy stocks because they were afraid they couldn't sell it later. Its historical f…

This [1] was a joke. This [2] was for real. [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Qi_AAqi0RZM#%21 [2] http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2012/03/how-casual…

I think you hit the nail on the head. The number of brogrammer entrepreneurs out there is huge. They are equivalent to Big Jims Baha XTReme Racing Shop that slaps lifted suspension…

Because its actually: file.rb: require 'stuff' class foo def something alert = UIAlertView._alloc \ ._initWithTitle _S("Hello"), :message, _S("I'm MobiRuby"), :delegate, nil, :canc…

>Sounds like a reason not to buy a 2015 Honda. Ah yes, the "free market" in action. That has worked so well for us in protecting our privacy, as evidenced by the plethora of commer…

Honda Civic 2015 EULA: 23.1.23.44 (Page 198 of 301) "Your use of this vehicle grants us your irrevocable and permanent consent to download, transmit, or otherwise obtain the inform…

* A wiki. * Google Docs. * Assembla. Passing around a word document via email (or shared folder) makes about as much sense as passing around a C++ file, or the text of a facebook s…

"suffice it to say that among the people who actually design operating systems, the debate is essentially over." A lesson for us all.

Like I said, its a book about dogma and cherry-picked studies. The dogma and studies were wrong. So if you want books about broken dogma and studies, read Code Complete.

Have to agree on Code Complete. The first edition was a load of waterfall bollocks and I couldn't believe anyone wrote code like that. It actively put me off a "proper" programming…

Sounds like someone said, "Make me a language that is hard to reverse engineer using IDA Pro".

But of course, to be allowed textual format for asset metadata, you have to buy the pro version. Or did they change that in 3.5?

A self-employed person can deduct health expenses against gross income. You are correct in that COBRA cannot be deducted in this way. But it can still be taken as an itemized deduc…

If you lose your job you may have to pay a lot more (COBRA) for a limited time No, you'll pay the same as you were paying. Its just that before, you thought you were being paid $10…

I did the Stanford ml-class. Its TOCs said: In consideration for your agreement to the terms and conditions contained here, Stanford grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-trans…

>PS. For that matter, Xcode 4 is not radical enough too. We are still typing a lot of boring cruft ... But it's a huge difference with Xcode 3 and other IDEs out there. I can only …

Most programmers fall into one of two categories: console editor (e.g. vim) or IDE. The IDE camp includes Visual Studio, Eclipse, IntelliJ, SlickEdit, NetBeans, MonoDevelop, etc. T…

Gosh, I know. That's awful. Its much better that hg allows people to type hg mv, rather than forcing lazy people to modify the .bashrc file so that they can type "ga" instead of "g…

"Every time you throw in something that seems to work, find out why it works." This. Especially for bugs. If I don't know why its fixed, I haven't fixed the cause - I've fixed a sy…

Half of the duty "solicitors" are cops. You don't have to actually be a solicitor in the UK. You just have to pass a test. So retired cops take the test and earn themselves beer mo…

"You do not have to say anything unless you wish to do so, but I must warn you that if you fail to mention any fact which you rely on in your defence in court, your failure to take…

A friend sends me a link to a 60 Minutes segment she feels it's important I watch. I'm on an iPad -- not that it matters ... There is no alternative -- no way to click through to t…