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Something similar was described in this GDC talk which you may find interesting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZft_U4Fc-U

Cory's link to the instrumentation source doesn't seem to exist anymore, but here's the latest public version... https://github.com/battlecode/battlecode-server/tree/master/... Mos…

Linkbait aside there are some reasonable points being made here, specifically "Failover means downtime" about HBase. We run into this pretty much every day in one of our customer f…

You can use SaneTimeField to store sanetime objects in your Django app.

I believe someone is working on writing up a more detailed post about this, but I'll throw the sanetime library out there. It's pretty slick and even has built in Django support. h…

Drunkasaurus! Oh man, 2009 was a good year :) I'll echo what skates and iba said -- battlecode was probably one of the most productive things I did in school. when everyone else is…

Totally agree. I can't tell you how many times I tried to close apps on my android phone by swiping upwards after I started using WebOS.

Good stuff! Reimplementing old hardware on an FPGA is a really fun and enlightening exercise that I would highly recommend to any CS people with some extra time and patience. I've …

What does this do to battery life?

Indeed. I wrote a similar framework in Actionscript / Flex a few years ago, actually with a lot of input from the Scratch team. I've been thinking about porting it to JS recently. …

Very impressive stuff. For what it's worth, I played around with the new audio reCAPTCHA a bit. - I heard 50+ distinct words, plus the numbers 1-9 - Numbers are not written out any…

That was my point. For example, TortoiseGit presents "revert" instead of "checkout" (e.g. on a file, not a branch). "revert" in git actually means something else entirely.

I use TortoiseGit (and was a long time user of TortoiseSVN before that), but I find it to be a poor substitute for the command line. I feel like they tried to make the names of git…

Not sure why you're getting downvoted -- this was my reaction as well. Particularly the lack of any sort of top or bottom border makes the app feel very cramped. Also, some of the …

Somewhat related, I think his site has my favorite 'forgot my password' email ever. Apparently you forgot your password? Ok, so here's your new one, stupid: EMAIL: xxxxx@gmail.com …

This is really neat. One of my favorite Windows design features (there aren't many) is the way icons in the taskbar are highlighted with their primary color when you mouseover. Thi…

I tried it out - very nice work! I really like the design of the landing page. A few comments... LinkedIn doesn't seem like a great reason to "Go Pro" since I've likely already cop…

Here are the new features... - Instant provisioning - Client IP address is forwarded to application as X-Forwarded-For - Better validation of certificate files - Rollback of certif…

From the highlights in the article this appears to be very similar to an MIT student's project from a few years back... http://web.mit.edu/zacka/www/midas.html

Not sure how this stacks up against other fair use guidelines, but I'm pretty sure a 3-10 second sample is within the allowable limits of copyright law[1]. However, there are other…

I actually had a friend in school who did this (lottery tickets) as a side business. They had an investor that provided the capital, and when the jackpot reached a certain level, t…

If you're into this kind of thing, you should check out Battlecode ( http://www.battlecode.org ). It's primarily an MIT competition, but in recent years we've opened it up to the g…

My favorite part of this article... [T]his course is tied to two courses offered by the English department on J.R.R. Tolkien and Anglo-Saxon literature. Students in the computing c…

Whenever I see a story like this I always think of this XKCD strip: http://xkcd.com/137/ I don't aim to offend people with things I post online, but I don't expect to make everyone…