I graduated with a Computer Science minor from the University of Virginia in 1992. The reason it's a minor and not a major is because to major in CS at UVa you had to go through the Engineering School, and I was absolutely not cut out for that kind of hardcore math and physics, to put it mildly.
Concurrency Matters. A lot.A short while back, Linus Torvalds wrote a bit about parallelism, and it showed up on Reddit a week or two ago. As is usually the case when it comes to Linus, he said some things that were a bit hyperbolic and got a strong reaction from the rest of the internet. In other news, water is wet.
We Suck at HTTPUnlike web pages, mobile apps do not have links. They do not have web addresses. They live in worlds by themselves, largely cut off from one another and the broader Internet. And so it is much harder to share the information found on them. Yes, yes, for the love of God yes.
2015 is getting an extra second and that's a bit of a problem for the internetOn June 30th at precisely 23:59:59, the world’s atomic clocks will pause for a single second. Or, to be more precise, they’ll change to the uncharted time of 23:59:60 — before ticking over to the more worldly hour of 00:00:00 on the morning of July 1st, 2015.
Is it really "Complex"? Or did we just make it "Complicated"?Alan Kay, education, process science, and economics of mediocrity.Original file: https://vimeo.com/82301919
One Hacker Way - Erik MeijerOne Hacker Way, a Rational Alternative to Agile Presented at Reaktor Dev Day 2014 http://reaktor.fi/blog/erik-meijer-software-eating-world/ http://reaktordevday.fi
Dirty Coding TricksDirty Coding Tricks By Brandon Sheffield [When the schedule is shot and a game needs to ship, programmers may employ some dirty coding tricks to get the game out the door.
Engineer Anti-PatternsThe other week I had a particularly disheartening discussion with a potential new hire.
Keeping the Pirates at BayThis is what happened to Insomniac's 1999 Playstation release, Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage. Even though it had good copy protection, it was cracked in a little over a week.
The idea of giving up is worse than of it killing me: How $150,000 post-it came to be?The whole thing started with an innocent promise of two naive teenagers. It was in August 2004, our last summer at primary school, when Premek and I started with our first project – a movie website Coming Soon Planet.
This Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.
This list is compiled from my Pocket list.