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The modern, non "black hat" use of the word originates with the MIT Tech Model Railroad Club ( http://www.gricer.com/tmrc/dictionary1959.html ) who define "hack" as '1) an article …

Objective-C isn't a proprietary language, as this author annoyingly suggests several times. Regardless, the new JavaScriptCore framework is pretty impressive. It would be nice if t…

No it couldnt. Air Conditioning is not just about temperature but also humidity, which this doesn't address. I think room fans would still be necessary to keep the air moving as we…

You can also just play on one board, swapping your opponents pieces for pieces of your color when you take them (obviously you need two sets of pieces). This is called crazyhouse.

Agreed. In fact, none of it is indicative of terminator development. That's a totally different DoD initiative.

It's unfortunate that the icon designer mentions iterating on handles for the cup and how difficult it was because he still got the perpective (and color) wrong.

Universities will shrink to coffeshops? That's a very CS/math-centric viewpoint. How are you going to do MITx with with Chemsitry? Physics? Biology? Med School? Anything that requi…

Exactly. The labeling of anything with low resolution sprites/graphics as 8-bit drives me up the wall. The atari 2600 was 8-bit. The NES, 8-bit. They have very different aesthetics…

Also, how long should we celebrate it for? 1 second?

Because no one knows the second they were born? I actually know the minute (0:21 EDT) but I suspect even that is unusual to know.

That visualization is not very readable. It's neat looking, but kind of horrible. A regular2d grid with countries across the top and meanings down the side would be wat easier to r…

How is Zynga supposedly worth over 20 times what PopCap is being bought for? I must be massively underestimating how much people spend on in-game items in * Ville\* Wars. Or really…

I think they should just be clumped together. There's no distinction between Android phones and tablets, so there shouldn't be for ios. Also, the development skills for the the two…

In the mobile graph, I wonder why ios and iphone are separate lines.

low-res and 8-bit are not the same thing.