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Google buys $1 billion plot of land for new central London HQ(theverge.com)
8 points by gebe 14y ago|1 comments
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Chess - A Quandary for the Game in a High-Tech Era(nytimes.com)
74 points by gebe 14y ago|70 comments
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by gebe 14y ago
Ok, thank you for explaining! I am not from the US so I didn't know it was uncommon with online courses for non-degree students. edit: Although now that I think about it I should have guessed. Having a system with an expensive tuition to be
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by gebe 14y ago
Is the ground-breaking part the cost of it? I just think it sounds like normal online courses. Maybe I am missing something?
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by gebe 14y ago
A couple of years ago they actually started a one year COBOL/Mainframe education program here in Stockholm. Mostly backed by banks and insurance companies and from what I have heard many of the people that have applied and graduated have be
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by gebe 14y ago
And don't forget the check the discussion about Carmack's comment from yesterday http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5055808 .
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by gebe 14y ago
Wow, I didn't know about that. Thanks for sharing.
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by gebe 14y ago
I would say the experience is what matters. The user doesn't care what technology the developer used. If you can make gorgeous, fluid and speedy native apps with Mono and C# (which is very much possible) while at the same time making it eas
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by gebe 14y ago
Much like in the rest of the world then, the status thing that is :)
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by gebe 14y ago
Worked without an account for me.
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The Making of the 1984 Space Game Elite [video](gamasutra.com)
2 points by gebe 14y ago|0 comments
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by gebe 14y ago
Mostly on mobile I would guess. Xamarin has a showcase on their site: http://xamarin.com/apps . Also every game made in Unity is using Mono, which is _a lot_ of games. The Playstation Vita and Wii U uses Mono as well for third party devel
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by gebe 14y ago
This wouldn't hold at all where I am from. Also I don't get your point at all to be honest, it's completely disconnected from work. Even though it may feel like a personal betrayal I just don't see how this is work related.
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Mono 3.0.3 released – includes a concurrent garbage collector(mono-project.com)
3 points by gebe 14y ago|0 comments
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by gebe 14y ago
Going off topic here but: I won't disagree with the utopian notion of a world where everyone have a common lingua franca, I think that would be a good thing as well. There being only a single language though, that's definitely not a very po
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Morphing touchscreen keyboard(stuff.tv)
1 points by gebe 14y ago|0 comments
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by gebe 14y ago
A couple of years ago they actually started a one year COBOL education program here in Stockholm. Mostly backed by banks and insurance companies and from what I have heard most graduates have gotten relevant jobs. I doubt that the demand wi
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Ubuntu Phone OS Demonstration by Mark Shuttleworth at CES 2013(youtube.com)
2 points by gebe 14y ago|0 comments
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by gebe 14y ago
I very much doubt that this is Valve's "official" steam box offering. This article is a bit more sensational than others' that have been posted on the subject today.
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by gebe 14y ago
Using it daily since 13 years back (half of my life) as the sole medium for communicating with most of my friends. First we had a channel on a public network but now we are on our own server since 4 years back. MSN had a stint as the way of
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by gebe 14y ago
In the MMORPG area there is today Darkfall which is kind of a spiritual successor to UO in many regards (full loot, anyone can kill you outside cities and so on) but in first and third person 3D. The original game had its issues though and
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The State of Mobile Game Development(gamesindustry.biz)
3 points by gebe 14y ago|0 comments
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by gebe 14y ago
Wow, not often accomplishments from people you actually know and have had as teachers end up on the frontpage of HN. I was at the same talk by Kevin Knight as Schaefer and I can vouch for that it was a mighty interesting one! I actually cha
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Why GL Now(timothylottes.blogspot.se)
78 points by gebe 14y ago|43 comments
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Student creates virtual keyboard for the iPhone by using its accelerometer(bgr.com)
3 points by gebe 14y ago|0 comments
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Valve at Ubuntu Developer Summit(youtu.be)
4 points by gebe 14y ago|0 comments
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Putting the science back in Wasteland 2's science fiction(arstechnica.com)
1 points by gebe 14y ago|0 comments
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by gebe 14y ago
No need for it in Sweden. It probably varies from country to country.
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by gebe 14y ago
Yeah, Ballmer is presenting all of the brands at the moment. I noticed that he even pocketed the Nokia, I wonder if that was part of the deal ;)
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by gebe 14y ago
According to the live event taking place right now it should be available tomorrow.

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