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There's only one Orion project and only ever will be one. This is not ol' boom boom.[^]
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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London-based security researcher Ibrahim Balic has come forward, claiming he may be the one behind Apple's recent security threat. Following Apple's statement to developers earlier regarding a security threat to the developer portal, Balic posted a comment on TechCrunch's report of the story trying to set the record straight that no harm was ever intended. In the post, Balic explains that he uncovered 13 bugs while researching Apple's security, and reported them all through Apple's bug reporting site. The long-awaited evidence that Apple doesn't ignore Radar posts entirely.
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My principal memory from that period was a meeting in which I, as the resident 3D expert on the DirectX team, was asked to choose a handedness for the Direct3D API. I chose a left handed coordinate system, in part out of personal preference. I remember it now only because it was an arbitrary choice that caused no end of grief for years afterwards as all other graphics authoring tools adopted the right handed coordinate system standard to OpenGL. Alex St. John renders his POV from the early days of DirectX and Direct3D.
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Like many of you, I spend the majority of my day on a desktop PC. My PC happens to have two 30" displays, neither of which is touch, and a Logitech Touch Pad that has some basic gesture recognition.... In the course of regular usage, I've found a bunch of desktop features which make huge difference in the usability of Windows 8.1, but which aren't talked about a lot. So here are the little things that matter. This isn't a rah-rah post, just things that *I* personally found useful as a long-time user of Windows (since Windows 3.0, in case anyone is counting). What are your favorite Windows 8.1 features?
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Quote: What are your favorite Windows 8.1 features?
That it's one step closer to Microsoft realizing to bring Windows 7 back as Windows 9 Classic
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A while ago, I was thinking about which programming language I wanted to learn next. At first I was doubting between Scala, Ruby or perhaps Clojure. But I couldn’t really make up my mind. So I decided to pick up Seven Languages in Seven Weeks. This way I was able to take a small bite from a couple different cakes in order to decide which flavor I liked the most. This one's too hard... This one's too dynamic... But this one's just right!
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After reading the Edge article on the Making of Berzerk, you’ll learn from Mr. McNeil that the game went through 2 earlier phases before acquiring Mazes. "I figured I’d need barriers between the robots and the human. So I started looking at maze generators, and devised a super-simple scheme...." How Alan McNeil created the randomized mazes for the arcade classic, Berzerk.
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Scientists often talk about creating artificial intelligence, but how "intelligent" are these systems really? Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago came up with an answer after giving one of the top artificial intelligence (AI) systems an IQ test. The system, ConceptNet 4, was built at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was determined to be about as smart as the average 4-year-old. Its invisible friend says "Nya nya nya you don't compute either."
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Apple’s developer site was accessed by “an intruder” last Thursday, the company has disclosed, and Apple has not ruled out the possibility that developers’ names, mailing addresses, and/or email addresses were compromised.... Before it reopens the developer site, Apple is “completely overhauling our developer systems, updating our server software, and rebuilding our entire database,” the email said. Amazingly, someone cared enough about WebObjects to find a vulnerability.
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An otherwise healthy earnings statement from Microsoft was overshadowed by a substantial $900 million charge attributed to "Surface RT inventory adjustments." The ARM-powered tablet, Microsoft's first foray into selling computers, recently had its price cut by $150 to $349 amid long-standing reports of poor sales. With this $900 million charge, those poor sales and price cuts are hitting Microsoft's bottom line. Other than that, it wasn't such a bad quarter.
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The Microsoft surprise... has infused the discussions of the company’s future, what Ballmer will do with his new organization now that the Redmond Giant (finally!) seems to be aware that it’s playing catch up in a Post-PC era. As luck would have it, I got a draft of Ballmer’s memo to a small group of Microsoft execs. I can’t vouch for its authenticity — it was “regifted” through a series of contacts, friends and foes of old OS wars — but I hope you’ll find it interesting. Windows Mobile 9 and Office everywhere - stroke of genius or the kiss of death?
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Smartphones are susceptible to malware and carriers have enabled NSA snooping, but the prevailing wisdom has it there’s still one part of your mobile phone that remains safe and un-hackable: your SIM card. Yet after three years of research, German cryptographer Karsten Nohl claims to have finally found encryption and software flaws that could affect millions of SIM cards, and open up another route on mobile phones for surveillance and fraud. But wait! There's a second, bonus bug if you act now...
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The NSA has admitted that the organization's use of Microsoft SharePoint allowed an unnamed sysadmin to leak information. In what can be perceived as either a ringing endorsement of SharePoint's "collaborative power", or a depressing admission that, yes, spooks use the same infuriating software as we do, NSA chief General Keith Alexander indicated recent leaks came from a sysadmin being given SharePoint privileges. New for SharePoint 2014: One-Click Backdoor Workflows.
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Back in June of last year, Microsoft started teasing a "major announcement" that would soon be revealed as its first tablet: the Surface RT. There was an air of excitement, and the expectation that Microsoft might be able to tackle the iPad head-on with a slim and lightweight device that took advantage of a keyboard accessory. Fast-forward 12 months, and Microsoft is cutting the price of its Surface RT tablet by 30 percent worldwide because it's simply not selling. Where we don't hear about missed expectations: Microsoft's enterprise and dev products. Just sayin'.
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According to Microsoft's latest quarterly earnings release it has written off $900 million worth of Surface RT tablets, which it can't sell.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/492120/20130718/microsoft-takes-900-million-charge-surface-tablets.htm[^]
Quote: According to IDC the company only shipped 900,000 of the tablets in the first three months of 2013. Earlier this week in an apparent bid to boost flagging sales the company announced a dramatic price cut of £100 off the basic Surface RT tablet.
Taking the £590m write-down into account, it would suggest that Microsoft has a store of six million unsold Surface tablets.
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LFE.
It couldn't have happened to a nicer company.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Despite the growth of "NoSQL" databases over the past few years, SQL isn't going anywhere. In fact, it seems Structured Query Language is in ascendance in a realm that once seemed bent on excluding it: "Big Data." Hadoop + SQL = an easier way to access Big Data?
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For those new to Test Driven Development, understanding how to take small, incremental steps when writing your tests can be a confounding practice. Even the most basic of problems can lead a developer down a frustrating path. It is possible to write all of the "right" tests, but if they are in the wrong order, the benefits of TDD can decrease significantly. Test early. Test often. Test right.
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I’ve taken something like a 3 year hiatus from web applications to work mostly on SOA/messaging systems using NServiceBus, and am recently back on an MVC project. Lots of things have changed, but a lot is still the same.... So, in no particular order, some items that stood the test of time. ...and some things that didn’t stand the test of time.
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Looks like that website couldn't withstand the Code Project effect (won't load). Guess I'll have to come back to it later.
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It's back! Hooray for hamsters!
Director of Content Development, The Code Project
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Many consumer surveys point to an obvious conclusion: most people hate seeing ads on smartphones and tablets. But the truth is, contrary to the desire for an ad-free experience, when faced with the choice between free apps with ads, or paying even $.99 for apps without ads, consumers overwhelmingly choose the free apps and tolerate the ads. This app brought to you by...
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In his role as a Business Systems Manager (BSMs), Scott had to make promises to various internal clients, but didn’t control the resources necessary to deliver those promises. In addition, he didn’t have his own “team”, but had to share the pool of IT resources with other BSMs. So what did he do that set him apart?... He spent most of his time fostering relationships with people on the Help Desk, Programmers who served his customers and the systems administrators that were responsible for the applications his customers relied upon. Be nice to people if you want their help. This shouldn't be news... but it often is.
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It's truly a unique and interesting experience to watch someone transcend from one community to another with little to no issues. In this case, we're talking about Elijah Manor who successfully worked to build his reputation in the open source community while still maintaining his strong presence in the Microsoft world. He has the best of both communities at his disposal, now able to leverage his cross-platform expertise into a new life-changing role with Pluralsight. A update of sorts to our Coder Interview with Elijah last year.
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