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A Cornell professor and a senior Facebook engineer are claiming to have developed a Facebook algorithm that can accurately identify who you're dating and, especially for new relationships, whether you're in danger of breaking up. Next up: adverts for divorce lawyers
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he JAVASCRIPT MESS project is a porting of the MESS emulator, a program that emulates hundreds of machine types, into the Javascript language. The MESS program can emulate (or begin to emulate) a majority of home computers, and continues to be improved frequently. By porting this program into the standardized and cross-platform Javascript language, it will be possible to turn computer history and experience into the same embeddable object as movies, documents, and audio. JavaScript port of a machine emulator. Just in case you miss your old Sinclair prompt
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Cool!
Keep Clam And Proofread
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√(-1) 23 ∑ π...
And it was delicious.
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The email link for this story redirects to: www.javascript port of a machine emulator. just in case you miss your old sinclair prompt
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Fixed, thanks. Sorry about that.
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TTFN - Kent
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The Internet Archive has officially released a tool that will let decades-old software run in your browser, along with a catalog of noteworthy, fun, or notorious games and applications. The Archive team has spent two years creating and troubleshooting a JavaScript port of the MESS computer software emulator, giving users of any modern browser an almost instantaneous way to run anything from Atari games to the very first spreadsheet application. To make it more useful, the group has also launched the Historical Software Collection, which cherry-picks the most important and interesting titles from its archives. Those who do not study history... Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go play (uhm, study)
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Wasn't the guy who ported Mario to HTML sued because of this?
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I hadn't heard he was sued (his site is still up), but I guess it's up to the various copyright holders. Nintendo still wants to keep Mario in the herd (they do need to release a Mario game for each platform, at least I think that's a law now), but I think the copyright holder for Lemonade probably doesn't have the money to open a lawsuit.
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TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: they do need to release a Mario game for each platform, at least I think that's a law now
That's interesting! I wonder why? Where did you read this?
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 Sorry, just a joke. But it does seem true. Every time they release a new device, it seems they have to release "Mario Something" on it.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Every time they release a new device, it seems they have to release "Mario Something" on it.
Truth be told, very few games are as interesting to me as the arcade games. 
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New research from Microsoft suggests that software development faces a number of hurdles as the IT world adjusts to new platforms and devices "Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose"
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When Android first launched, it was widely panned by critics and consumers alike. Five years later, it’s installed on more than half of all U.S. devices. Despite its initial struggles, Windows RT could still strike it lucky, according to two of the chipmaker's product executives. Maybe they can also win Miss Congeniality
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Your smartphone is your most portable computer. It’s also a treasure trove of personal information. You wouldn’t leave your laptop unlocked in public, so why leave your phone unprotected? Lock up that data and encrypt it. Before you leave it behind
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I recently had some close friends talk about their hesitation in adopting Git as opposed to continuing to work with Subversion. I’ve used Subversion for many years, and advocated for its use. I have since jumped wholeheartedly on the Git bandwagon, so I wanted to find a way to tell the story of why I made the switch and why I think so much of the open source community is now based around Git and Git-friendly sites like GitHub. I often feel better after a conversation with a git
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The only news you read about Microsoft these days is bad, so it may come as a shock to some that Microsoft just announced a blowout quarter of earnings, with revenue of $18.53 billion and net income of $5.24 billion, both well up from a year ago. Is this a one-time blip, or is the company proving the nay-sayers wrong? "Our weapons are useless against it!"
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Is all this devotion to fatty pig flesh merited? Does bacon truly make everything better, as some cookbooks have boldly declared? "Spoilers"
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More tips on how to make lots of money as a software developer But stop before you get too wet
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You would be much happier with one portable assembly language that could be generated by a front end and implemented by any of several code generators. Such a language should serve as the interface between high-level compilers and retargetable, optimizing code generators. Authors of front ends and authors of code generators could cooperate easily. C– is that language. This one goes to nine
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Or you could just use LLVM, which provides both a portable compiler backend and support for JIT compilation, and is widely used and supported.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Contractors point fingers at each other and the government as they attempt to shift responsibility for healthcare website problems. We were just following orders
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It looks like Google has been working on an oversize secret project on San Francisco's Treasure Island. A water-based data center? Could well be. "You've seen a ship with black sails that's crewed by the damned, and captained by a man so evil that Hell itself spat him back out?"
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Doing this in SF Bay is almost certainly a mistake. The moment they go public about what they're doing at least 20 green groups will file lawsuits over their cooling system heat polluting the bay. Even money says at least one local govt joins in the litigationgo away money quest.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Mozilla, makers of the Firefox browser, has released an add-on called Lightbeam for Firefox which presents a visualization of your browsing history and analyzes which applications are tracking or monitoring you online and how they are connected. "Sunlight is the best antiseptic"
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