msvan

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Four must-read predictions about the Chinese mobile game market in 2013(gamasutra.com)
1 points by msvan 13y ago|0 comments
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The Best Card Trick (Clever Math)(apprendre-en-ligne.net)
2 points by msvan 14y ago|0 comments
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by msvan 14y ago
I guess what you're overlooking is that there is little financial incentive to do this. No one makes money revealing fake identities; the money is in making them.
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How to Slice a Bagel into Two Linked Halves(georgehart.com)
198 points by msvan 14y ago|34 comments
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by msvan 14y ago
It's not picky enough. Even when I try it with sloppy tones, it tells me that my pronunciation is perfect.
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by msvan 14y ago
Looks great, congratulations! It would be even better if you had an attention-grabbing picture on your index page, instead of just black text on a gray background.
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by msvan 14y ago
Why is it that Microsoft seems to lag so far behind? Don't they have lots of funds and competent programmers to take the lead? Or is it simply not a priority?
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by msvan 14y ago
I'm also going to SF soon and would like to meet up with some interesting people. Although, I imagine, you could just walk up to the first person you see with a MacBook and start chatting.
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by msvan 14y ago
Maybe that's also the ultimate proof of him having chosen the wrong words.
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by msvan 14y ago
Well it certainly gets him some celebrity, as if he were in need of any more. It seems Linus Torvalds lashes out on someone every month, and it's probably not an attitude that makes people want to cooperate with him. Or are they used to it
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China's cyber-hacking: Getting Ugly(economist.com)
1 points by msvan 14y ago|0 comments
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by msvan 14y ago
Crimecam made me laugh, hehe. The uses are potentially endless: 5) Procrastination monitor: Someone is actively monitoring you, making sure that you do what you're supposed to do. Actually, this would be even creepier if it were your corpor
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by msvan 14y ago
Cool. But when will browser games be taken seriously? I'd like to see it happen, but web-based games are still mostly considered something to do when you've got five minutes to spare.
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by msvan 14y ago
This seems more realistic than Google's grand plans of displacing JavaScript with Dart. Let's hope it gains traction!
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by msvan 14y ago
Open source shouldn't be considered free either. People put in countless man hours working on open source projects, and giving something back in return should be common etiquette. My point is, you always pay for something. In the case of Ch
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by msvan 14y ago
If someone chooses to spend several years of her life only in order to get a few letters in front of her name, that's her problem. Meanwhile, the rest of us can get out there and do something productive. Degree obsession is a choice.
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by msvan 14y ago
I think many of those of us who get into programming in the first place do it because of some kind of intellectual curiosity and because we get a thrill out of building things with tangible results. Which is probably why you'll find lots of
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by msvan 14y ago
I'll go ahead and claim that most of these books are pretty dry these days. Historically significant, yes, and everyone should definitely know of them and what they're about. But reading them probably won't make much of a difference to your