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In the US, Census data is used for redistricting purposes, which CAN influence election outcomes in the future - so the implications of a census may be wider than you think. I don'…

Many companies in the games industry have settled on using Perforce or SVN (or more recently Plastic DVCS) internally as, out of the box, it can handle both code and non-code asset…

Kind of - it depends on the artist you talk to. OpenSubdiv utilities have been part of the major 3D packages for about a year or two now, and it's true that they can offer some sig…

This really doesn't tell me anything about Unity, especially in respect to other solutions. - Unity is only for games Who said they were? You can find lots of examples of game engi…

Some (maybe) lesser known gems for Windows machines: http://www.peazip.org/ - Zipping/Unzipping utility, better than WinRAR or 7-Zip http://implbits.com/products/hashtab/ - Shell e…

Cool stuff, but unfortunately Intel has really delayed AVX512 instructions for their main consumer processors (ffs, it was supposed to hit on Skylake). It looks like we have anothe…

Usually you can just search for languages with weird unsearchable names as "*lang". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_(programming_language) (Not really sure how you'd search for thi…

I'm surprised people don't really think about this in the opposite direction - that programming can be used to help understand math better. How many people have gotten along better…

I'd argue that their Surface line seems to be going on quite well - in fact, its been inspiring a lot of copycats itself (e.g. Elite X2, Asus Transformer Book, IdeaPad Miix)

Apparently out of sheer coincidence, it landed me on a Voyager episode that I had just watched yesterday

Attention to all websites with "live support chats" that randomly pop in the corner without prompt: please stop doing this.

I've been using a language that uses python-style indentation (Nim) and while I've grown to like to like the language itself, the back of my mind pines for braces. At least using b…

True, but I'd at least regard such a system as likely fairly fault tolerant, considering its been in use for 50+ years.

The article mentions that the oldest actual computer in use by the government regards nuclear strike operations, and that it's actually being upgraded sometimes next year. I find t…