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Happened to me the other day. I got a weird feeling when they responded with a long message within seconds of me messaging (maybe it’s partially automated?), then when they wanted …

I miss my chunky Enter key! Also whenever I have to write a currency value in £ I'm always annoyed that I need to go to the Wikipedia entry for "Pound sign" and copy it from there.…

On the subject of moocs and books, which were some of your favorites? I'm an SWE with an out-of-date background in AI and I'd love to deep-dive into ML, but there are _so many_ moo…

The general aim is to figure out how much money you need at different points in your life, for example: - how many years until you plan to retire? - how much do you need in retirem…

The original version was Taco Bell - Pizza Hut was dubbed over in international releases (the latter has a much greater international presence).

I never understood the appeal of Dwarf Fortress until a good few hours into my first game I had just finished following a detailed tutorial and was starting to get a hang of the in…

I'd also echo the suggestion to think hard about whether you really want to be a Project Manager or are you just following what you think is a traditional 'career path'. I became a…

Setting the desktop background to a screenshot of the desktop, then hiding all the icons and the start bar.

I've lost count of the number of times I've been approach by random people asking for feedback on their killer app idea whilst at http://www.workshopcafe.com/

http://www.theodinproject.com/ helped me when I was first starting out: it organizes a huge amount of free online courses and learning materials into a syllabus to take you from co…

I agree it looks more like Perlin noise due to the finer detail not seen in diamond square [1] and the lack of directional artifacts in midpoint displacement [2]. [1] http://www.ga…

I can't speak for the big guys, but I'm seeing more smaller Flash game devs make the transition from Flash to Haxe, mostly for the ease of porting to mobile/HTML5. I've been making…

I've been learning rails and recently began a personal project to build an app to automate the reinvestment of cex.io profits (i.e. bitcoins into bitcoin mining contracts - Gigahas…

Interesting perspective. I often get annoyed at myself for remember very little from my school years that's not related to my current career or hobbies (e.g. history, geography, En…

I used to be a serious night owl: in university I commonly stayed up till 6-7am working thinking I was at my best. However, since getting into the real world and having a 9-5 I obv…

I don't see how sitelocking would really work with HTML5 games, so I'd assume the revenue primarily came from sponsorships, i.e. a sponsor pays to place ads and links to their site…

My electronics skills are pretty much limited to upgrading my PC, so I was fully expecting to brick my iPhone in the process. Once you actually open it up though, everything slots …

Actually, replacing components in an iPhone is relatively straightforward (if a bit fiddly). The home button on my iPhone 4 went completely (apparently a common issue): I bought a …

Masters of Doom is an absolutely brilliant book that rekindled my interest in game development. I'd heard of Carmack before reading it, but this news is so much more impactful know…

It just plugs straight into the HDMI port, so I don't see why not. Before the presentation started you'd need to set it up on the local wi-fi however.

A bit of feedback: * Nice and simple design * I can't select the "Contains" or "Ends with" fields (this may be intentional) * I'm pretty sure it should be Boys' and Girls' rather t…

This excerpt[1] from "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman" comes to mind. Detailing a stage where Feynman lost his passion for physics and regained it by studying things purely for t…