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HP laptops covertly log users’ every keystroke, researchers warn(arstechnica.com)
113 points by alxmdev 9y ago|23 comments
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Generic, type-safe delegates and events in C++ (2011)(blog.molecular-matters.com)
1 points by alxmdev 9y ago|0 comments
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Why GNU Autotools is not my favorite build system (2011)(voices.canonical.com)
6 points by alxmdev 9y ago|0 comments
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Rock and Roll Days of StarCraft: A Development Retrospective(starcraft.com)
2 points by alxmdev 9y ago|0 comments
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by alxmdev 9y ago
I wonder if most major sites that whitelist Googlebot also have exceptions for Slurp, Bingbot, and other major search engine bots. If not, then it would be interesting to know how these other companies deal with it, or if they just politely
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by alxmdev 9y ago
Well-written primer, so cool to see something complex reduced to its simplest form that captures the essence. Funny to read how PC memory can be "millions of bytes on modern machines". To be fair, I was using a computer with only
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by alxmdev 9y ago
> “Or, more precisely, snobbery has to be hidden and camouflaged as something else” Yes, just like this advertisement seems to have been hidden and camouflaged as a New York Times article...
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Making Videogames the Old-Fashioned Way–On a 52-Hour Train Ride(wired.com)
1 points by alxmdev 9y ago|0 comments
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by alxmdev 9y ago
A while back I was chatting with an engineer who worked on the network code and infrastructure for a popular simulation game. After all the heavy lifting was done, he and others were promptly fired and replaced by contractors. The guy poure
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Blood, Sweat and Laughter: The Beauty of the Build Engine(rockpapershotgun.com)
3 points by alxmdev 10y ago|0 comments
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by alxmdev 10y ago
Having children is the choice that, if nobody were to make, would lead to humanity's literal extinction. For many it's also a natural biological drive, and nobody should be pressured about it one way or the other. Calling it an &q
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StarCraft Remastered(starcraft.com)
360 points by alxmdev 10y ago|143 comments
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Seattle tech engineers are more loyal than those in San Francisco (Indeed data)(geekwire.com)
1 points by alxmdev 10y ago|0 comments
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by alxmdev 10y ago
If anyone else is curious about the cool title artwork, the artist is Josan Gonzalez and you can find more here: https://www.neondystopia.com/cyberpunk-art-photography/the-f...
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Ask HN: How has software engineering changed since you started your career?
7 points by alxmdev 10y ago|2 comments
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Porting Retro City Rampage to MS-DOS: From PS4 to 1.44MB Floppy(youtube.com)
3 points by alxmdev 10y ago|1 comments
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The fallen price of indie games(rockpapershotgun.com)
6 points by alxmdev 10y ago|0 comments
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by alxmdev 10y ago
I know a lot of indie game developers that use Unity, and not having access to the source code to understand why something isn't working as expected is a very common complaint. Being able to dive into the code you're building on t
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Uninitialized Reads (Understanding the proposed revisions to the C language)(queue.acm.org)
2 points by alxmdev 10y ago|0 comments
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Migrating 140,000 commits from Mercurial to Git(hackernoon.com)
7 points by alxmdev 10y ago|0 comments
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Insights on RedHat, SUSE and Canonical; the Major Linux Companies(fosspost.org)
1 points by alxmdev 10y ago|0 comments
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by alxmdev 10y ago
Canada did away with pennies: http://www.mint.ca/store/mint/about-the-mint/phasing-out-the... From Wikipedia: Production of the penny ceased in May 2012, and the Royal Canadian Mint ceased the distribution o
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Humans Mourn Loss After Google Is Unmasked as China’s Go Master(wsj.com)
3 points by alxmdev 10y ago|0 comments
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by alxmdev 10y ago
Yes, it's amazing how many game development techniques appeared and faded out in the 90s, in that window of time between fast-enough CPUs and affordable GPUs. I have a copy of the Black Art of 3D Game Programming on my shelf and it&#x2
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by alxmdev 10y ago
Excellent resource, I remember browsing it many years ago - glad to see it's still online! Also check out this other nice raycasting tutorial: http://lodev.org/cgtutor/raycasting.html
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by alxmdev 10y ago
A reasonable course of action is to vote with your wallet and only buy full-priced games. If you were going to spend money on IAPs anyway, might as well use that money to support higher quality products that deliver a deeper experience and
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The unremarkable career of (some) modern software developers (2015)(shiftedup.com)
2 points by alxmdev 10y ago|0 comments
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8bitworkshop – Atari 2600 IDE(8bitworkshop.com)
1 points by alxmdev 10y ago|0 comments
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by alxmdev 10y ago
The robots.txt comment explaining that they disallow the Internet Archive crawler to protect users' privacy sounds so facetious given they require people register with their real names and in certain cases go as far as to ask for gover
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by alxmdev 10y ago
> Lifehacкer.com mimicked lifehacker.com with the only difference in Cyrillic letter ‘к’ instead of Latin ‘k’ used in the original traffic source. The substitution was obscure. The Wikipedia article "IDN homograph attack" des

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