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The FIDO Alliance envisions a system where users can interact with an online service without surrendering personal details. You can pry p@ssw0rd out of my cold dead fingers!
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More generally, these books tell amazing stories of human ingenuity. It is this ingenuity that helps explain why the world keeps getting better, and why at the end of each year I look forward to the next one with hope and optimism. Read like Bill, be like Bill (you have to get your own billions, though)
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"amazing stories of human ingenuity"
Yep, that sounds like Threshold alright.
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We’re proud to announce that Qt 5.2 is now available. With the release of Qt 5.1 in July, we showcased the Qt for Android and iOS ports and laid down the beginning of some heavy improvements we have now done on Qt’s graphics capabilities. In the last 6 months, we’ve worked very hard to finalize this release and especially these ports. Now with even more cutieness
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Less than a month after Google released the Dart 1.0 SDK and announced the language was stable and mature enough for wide Web use, Ecma International is establishing a technical committee to publish a standard specification for the language. "All the other kids are doing it" (thank you, Christopher Shields)
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Leslie Neilsen[^] already has a standard for it!
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
- Mitchell Kapor
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Oculus VR raised $75 million in Series B funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Spark Capital, Matrix Partners and Formation|8 to help launch the consumer version of its Rift virtual reality headset.
I tried out the VR goggles at New York Comic Con. They were absolutely bonkers.
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Christopher Shields wrote: They were absolutely bonkers.
Good bonkers or bad bonkers?
/ravi
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As in amazeballs bonkers. The immersive, panoramic feel was unreal. The game they demoed wasn't even high-def, just a sample of an old pixelated racing game. I can only imagine what modern graphics would look like.
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Yowza. 
/ravi
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usd 75 million... Facebook got usd500k for its initial funding[^], second stage is usd 12.7 million. Third is about usd30 million.
A developer gets paid usd 100k in silicon valley, which is less than half Fund Managers and traders throwing quantitative darts. So, what 75 million gets is, a team of 30 developers working their arse off for two years, deliver something the world never seen before... okie, that doesn't sounds like a lot of money all of a sudden.
Guys, developers, we really need to get a little more "Business Oriented" collectively. We aren't really getting paid.
dev
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Ecma International is publishing a standard specification for Google's Dart 1.0 programming language, less than a month after the SDK was released.
Grow a pair of eyes in the back of your head, JavaScript.
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Former COO and newly announced CEO of Qualcomm, Steve Mollenkopf, was reportedly on the short list for Microsoft CEO before deciding to stay at Qualcomm.
Another candidate bites the dust. Put us out of our misery already and just announce Elop.
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Qualcow still exists? I thought it died ages ago. Maybe that was just wishful thinking.
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I thought they were pretty successful - their CPUs power many smartphones these days.
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Hosted images mean better privacy, faster load times, and less competition for Google. "Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull."
Have you read the fine print?
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51% of readers write client-side code, while 28% said they write server-side code. Last year client-side was at 98%, so I imagine this is partly due to a changing audience on DailyJS, but it’s interesting how strong server-side development is becoming. This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a survey.
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If you are visiting this page the chances are that you are not a human, at least according to research. "Domo arigato Mr. Robotto. Himitsu wo shiritai"
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SmarterChild is the evil mastermind behind it all. AIM was just the beginning...
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I've seen a sharp increase in the frequency at which google crawls my site but I didn't expect the percentile to be that large.
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Together with Google, Mozilla, and other community leaders, the W3C Web Performance working group has standardized the Navigation Timing, Resource Timing, User Timing, and Performance Timeline interfaces to help you understand the real-world performance of navigating, fetching resources, and running scripts in your Web application. You can use these interfaces to capture and analyze how your real-world customers are experiencing your Web application, instead of relying on synthetic testing, which tests the performance of your application in an artificial environment. With this timing data, you can identify opportunities to improve the real-world performance of your Web applications. All of these interfaces are supported in IE11. "If you want to know your future, look into your present actions."
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Google's Portable Native Client technology gives a new Web-based lease on life for an old operating system and the games it could run. Oh, workbench, how I miss you
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It's funny. I had one of that Amiga 500 computers and I remember it produced a much better image quality than the one in the emulator. I'm wondering if it's my memory that fails me or really the quality worse...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is (V).
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Get out the salt, do your rain dance, and take this next bit of information as just another rumor - but Eldar Murtazin is saying that Windows Phone 9 will feature an updated UI that will drop the tile-based interface formerly known as 'Metro'. And I have some ocean-front property in Saskatchewan to sell you
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