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by arocks 14y ago
> Plus, in the history of the world, he said, is there one thing you can think of that has been hand-made, and on such a large scale as software, that was as complex? It is a testimony to the innovation in any field that leads to tools
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by arocks 14y ago
> Open Source is not a feature Most of time games developed with a particular engine look similar. Sharp eyed gamers notice this and other don't. But they definitely perceive the lack of freshness when they play. Successful games produc
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by arocks 14y ago
True. Straightforward application of the Knapsack problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knapsack_problem
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by arocks 14y ago
I think SASS is great for reusing pages or styles within or across projects. If a website has color-coded areas, say like The Guardian[1], then using color variables as the OP mentioned would make it extremely trivial to reuse. The math beh
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by arocks 15y ago
One of the main reasons why I am so scared to use Wordpress is PHP. The article does a good job explaining why security holes in applications built on PHP wouldn't be a surprise. The only alternative is to constantly upgrade to the latest v
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by arocks 15y ago
As the author himself comments "To be honest, I don't think I would have done it any better. There is no player on player fighting, so my cheating only ruined the game for myself. It didn't really do anything else."
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Create a blog in 30 mins with Django 1.3 (Screencast)(arunrocks.com)
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by arocks 15y ago
So the concept of selfless Karma has been rediscovered?
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by arocks 15y ago
Extremely useful information here. A naive way to approach cross platform architecture would be to work at a higher level of abstraction like working in a Domain Specific Language or pick a language with a good set of cross-compilers for va
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by arocks 15y ago
For those who didn't understand the new constructs, the following excerpt from TameJS[1] website helps: > `await` marks a section of code that depends on externals events, like network or disk activity, or a timer. An `await` block cont
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by arocks 15y ago
It is best to understand the quote in the context of what Picasso meant. This article explains it well: http://www.businessofdesignonline.com/picasso-good-artists-c...
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by arocks 15y ago
There are two reasons why an average person learns computers and uses a particular OS: * Even if it is not very intuitive, it is universally used (Windows) * Even if it is not universally used, it is intuitive (Mac OS) Linux is currently, I
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by arocks 15y ago
You might want to check out Jeash[1], an HTML5 library which mimics the Flash API written in Haxe[2], a typed language. [1]: http://jeash.com/ [2]: http://haxe.org/
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by arocks 15y ago
I agree that the website is quite functional and presents great content but I don't believe it conveys great design aesthetics. Some of the problems that I instinctively felt were: - Intuitively I do not expect the clickable diagrams to be
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Innovation Lessons From India's Titan Watches(blogs.hbr.org)
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Growing up as a programmer(beta.arunrocks.com)
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Only 14 percent of Earth's species have been discovered (news.nationalgeographic.com)
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by arocks 15y ago
> I proposed to start with a “quick and dirty” OS that would eventually be thrown away. DOS is a great example of Worse is Better
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by arocks 15y ago
In this era of software bloat, a compact yet functional app is a thing of rare beauty.
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by arocks 15y ago
Actually early proponents of XML used to downplay this by claiming that it will be compressed on wire anyways and it's well-suited to higher compression
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by arocks 15y ago
One of the longest running gags in software industry is finally coming to an end?
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by arocks 15y ago
Would have been much more convenient if they had converted all these Word documents to a more multimedia-rich web format
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Learning OOP Programming in C++ – A Horror Story(arunrocks.com)
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The Dying Art of Reading Properly(arunrocks.com)
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by arocks 16y ago
> If anything I think the right analogy with Inception is the second Matrix movie. I too prefer to think Inception as a spiritual successor to Matrix. It explores the idea of layers of constructed reality in a recursive fashion that I h
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by arocks 16y ago
I'm sorry if this might be slightly off-topic, as it focusses on the 'new BASIC' part of your question. However, the points outlined might be helpful to understand why Javascript isn't the best first language for pedagogy. Compared to most