Today comes the shitty news that Dr. Dobb's (...Journal of Computer Calisthenics and Orthodontia) is shutting down.
I would not have had the career I have had without DDJ: first as an inspiration, then as a competitor, and then as the last torch of technically rigorous, personally-voiced but professionally edited …
read moreGoing on record with my Breaking Bad prediction:
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Decrypt with:
var key = new Rfc2898DeriveBytes("BreakingBadEndingPrediction", "o6806642kbM7c5");
var bytes = Convert.FromBase64String(cipherText);
using (var msDecrypt = new MemoryStream(bytes))
{
aesAlg = new RijndaelManaged();
aesAlg.Key = key.GetBytes(aesAlg.KeySize / 8);
aesAlg.IV = ReadByteArray(msDecrypt);
var …FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
NEANY Inc. to Exhibit Unmanned Solutions at AUVSI’s Unmanned Systems North America 2013
\~ Arrow UAV, Ground Control Station, and Unmanned Surface Vehicle will be on display\~
Hollywood, MD - August 07, 2013 (myPressManager.com) --
NEANY Inc., an industry leader in providing time-sensitive tactical solutions for a variety …
read moreAccording to Evans Data, the worldwide developer community will reach 29M by 2019. The largest growth is expected to come from China and, to a lesser extent, other developing economies.
I tend to be very skeptical about quantitative analysis of the developer community, and more-so when it comes to global …
read moreGiles Thomas makes the case that the Python programming community numbers in the low millions. This seems right to me: that's a large community, but it's not quite at the level of the most popular programming languages. That size is supported by this chart, which has impressed me as "feeling …
read moreYes, it's worth it.
It's a pity that the phrase "…in their natural habitat," is so boring. The difference between this:
and this:
is the difference between a pixel and the Sistine Chapel.
Deciding to spend the money on this trip was the hardest part of our Alaska trip. My …
read moreThe other day I'm doing the bills and I get one of those healthcare "This is not a bill. It describes services." things. You know, the sort of things that 90% of the world throws out without reviewing. But I look at it and check with my wife if she …
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The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Very well written. First-person account of a psychopath or maybe a sociopath living deep inside a metaphor in Scotland. Very unsettling, with a narrator who's clearly unreliable, so one is always wondering if incidents or even entire characters …
read moreHow to enable developer settings on Android 4.2 | Android Central.
I just got myself a Nexus 4 for cross-platform development, but it didn't initially appear as a device in Xamarin Studio. Initial Googling and SO'ing indicated a non-existent "Settings->Application->Developer" route to enable debugging on the phone.
Instead …
read moreThe Justified finale had a scene that summed up one of it's greatest strengths: Raylan, the putative hero, and Boyd, the putative villain, demonstrate how parallel they are to each other: Raylan points to Boyd's career and sneers at the thought that Boyd imagines himself anything other than "the bad …
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