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I've had the experience of embedding Awesonium as a GUI system for an educational game/project I worked on back in college. http://sourceforge.net/projects/learn-cnc-game/ The proj…

Great idea! If only searching on your site brought up exactly the same themes as searching on Themeforest (eg: searching for "Landing Page" on Themeforest returns 150 results while…

I actually own the domain NewCircles.com and was working on an idea very similar to what Google has done here (including group video chat) but with emphasis on users finding and jo…

The Powerfood Nutrition Plan: The Guy's Guide to Getting Stronger, Leaner, Smarter, Healthier, Better Looking, Better Sex With Food! http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1594862354/ref=re…

I've never heard of Houdini so I had to look it up (it's a purely procedural 3D animation package): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houdini_(software) Here is their demo reel: http://…

SFU was replaced with SUA in Vista. SUA supports more of the POSIX standard. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX

This approach is higher performance, officially supported by Microsoft and comes with all Ultimate Vista/7 installations. Cygwin runs as a user-mode app that emulates the POSIX env…

Why not do it behind the scenes? Simply use the existing MD5/SHA1 hash as input to bcrypt and update all password hashes in your database in one go. Then, whenever the user logs in…

You can also take 1. to the extreme and write a mini-OS from scratch. Bootloader and all. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1605119

Very interesting. Eagerly waiting for Node.js bindings.

I used to work there a few years ago and now I work at a 'big, boring organization', as some might call it. Having interacted with people who've been at EA most / all of their care…

I recently started using Intel Matrix Storage RAID solution that allowed me to use my 5 1TB drives for two RAID volumes. First one a 1TB RAID 0 striped across all 5 drives and seco…

How is Tokio Cabinet used? I was trying to find code that uses Tokyo Tyrant to interface with Tokyo Cabinet but didn't find any. I did find a compiled tokyocabinet.o object file - …

I realize that running Node on top of the .net runtime will probably be significantly slower than running it on top of the highly optimized V8 engine, but some perf numbers would b…

Direct link to an iPhone watchable video: http://vimeo.com/channels/carsonifiedtv#10506751

I've also been working on something similar. It's a small world we live in.

Does it make sense to start off a potentially DB-bound project using Cassandra rather than go with a traditional MySQL setup? How is the perf of Cassandra compared to MySQL running…