This 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.
When to declare classes finalIn the last month, I had a few discussions about the usage of the final marker on PHP classes. It is therefore clear that coders need a better explanation of when to use final, and when to avoid it.
Lou's Pseudo 3d PageNEW: Important details on the segmented road system and some additional linksNEW: An (optional) explanation of finding field-of-view for the 3d projection formulaNEW: An analysis of S.T.U.N. RunnerNEW: General writing improvements
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Control the terminal, the right wayNowadays, there are plenty of terminal emulators in the wild. Each one has a specific way to handle controls.
What most young programmers need to learnIn the past 7.5 years I have supervised over a dozen programming interns at Ronimo and have seen hundreds of portfolios of students and graduates. In almost all of those I saw the same things that they needed to learn.
Apple has lost the functional high ground – Marco.orgGetting date and time algebra to work just right has always been a challenging task in software development, so I decided to take a look at the implementation of the Joda-Time library. The obvious place to start looking, if you’re at all familiar with the library, is the DateTime class.
Stack Exchange9 web servers RAM: 48GB 4 sql servers Organized as 2 clusters Stack Overflow RAM: 384 GB • DB size: 1.6 TB Stack Exchange, Careers, Meta RAM: 288 GB • DB size: 1.2 TB 2 redis servers RAM: 96GB Master Slave It’s a unique custom, high performance index of Stack Exchange questions.
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.