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The number of choices tends to drop off to one or two (at most) outside of metro areas. I live in a semi-rural area and TWC is the only broadband option. DSL is available but only …

I've used Snorkel[1] for a few C/C++ projects in the past, you may want to check it out; it sounds like it could be what you're looking for (or quite close). Link it with your code…

Cool idea! From a privacy perspective -- what info can you glean from someone's library file? (other than the obvious artist/track information)

That verifies the domain, but not the actual mailbox. One possibility would be to lookup the MX, then connect to the remote MTA and ask it directly if the mailbox is valid. But tha…

John, while I think that a lot of value will be derived from this (the environment is very cool!), your blog included the following: "When I look back at how I became interested in…

Unfortunately, some of my smaller clients have shared hosting packages which means FTP is still the only game in town.

I also much prefer ST2's regex grammar for find/replace.. not only do you have to enable regex find/replace in VS, it uses a clunky grammar.

I use both IDEs and ST2. As with most things it comes down to personal preference, but perhaps mine may shed a little light. I use Eclipse for Java, VC++10 for C++, and ST2 for eve…

This is a great idea! One of the bigger stumbling blocks for me, as a hopeful one-man-studio, is that I am crap at making music. This could be the answer to that. Best of luck to y…

If you simply regard this as the prototype for a typical day, and not a script that's intended to handle all possible atypical scenarios, then there is no problem for it. As to 4am…

Unimpressed Flash: "I just killed all the little O's, were they supposed to do something?"

All the games mentioned previously are RTS games, which doesn't include Myth (which is a great game on its own, though).

Manga/anime are essentially just cultural designations; they are referring to comics and animated cartoons (respectively) endemic to Japan. Note that "cartoon" here can refer to a …

It appears that the animations are flavoring, not complete substance. From the trailer video it appears that only key panels are animated, which makes more sense to me in terms of …

It's grown up into a relatively good framework. I've used it for a few one-off projects at work (nothing at high scale); CRUD is a well-solved problem, so it's not surprising that …

Not to mention the lengthy litigation following cease-and-desist letters, pursuant to the patent the Kidz Club filed on bee honey made from genetically-enhanced beez (sic).

Apparently one of my throwaways is secure nearly until the heat death of the universe. 2.1123066418521704e+73 years to crack

Part of the battle system could be causing segfaults in rival ship computers.

There's also the Tiny Towers/Dream Heights debacle where Zynga essentially ripped off the entire game.

I didn't downvote, but I do think it's a bit pedantic. From my dogeared, beaten copy of K&R: "By definition, the value of a variable or expression of type array is the address of e…

It's not a simplification. It's information theory. It's not about one-to-one encodings (eg, bit 14 is whether you live in Arizona or not -- such a scheme would be ridiculous), but…

The implication (not entirely clearly stated in the article) is that if a puzzle with n clues is solvable, a puzzle with n+1 clues is also solvable. Conversely, if a puzzle with n …

I strongly doubt that the writer meant it to be taken literally that R.R. had mastered DiffEQs in 3rd grade.

I bought a Roku about two years ago; it's been a wonderful little device; have had very few problems, and most of those were down to the content providers and not the box itself.

Rock on, thanks :)