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The modern, non "black hat" use of the word originates with the MIT Tech Model Railroad Club (http://www.gricer.com/tmrc/dictionary1959.html) who define "hack" as '1) an article or project without constructive end; 2) work undertaken on bad self-advice; 3) an entropy booster; 4) to produce, or attempt to produce, a hack (3)."
Quite a few words in the "computer geek" lexicon were borrowed from the TMRC.
Objective-C isn't a proprietary language, as this author annoyingly suggests several times. Regardless, the new JavaScriptCore framework is pretty impressive. It would be nice if there were some official Apple docs beyond the one WWDC video, though.
No it couldnt. Air Conditioning is not just about temperature but also humidity, which this doesn't address. I think room fans would still be necessary to keep the air moving as well. Plus, could tricking your body into thinking its cooler than it actually is be dangerous? Make sure people don't wear it while doing vigorous physical activity in the summer heat.
You can also just play on one board, swapping your opponents pieces for pieces of your color when you take them (obviously you need two sets of pieces). This is called crazyhouse.
Agreed. In fact, none of it is indicative of terminator development. That's a totally different DoD initiative.
It's unfortunate that the icon designer mentions iterating on handles for the cup and how difficult it was because he still got the perpective (and color) wrong.
Universities will shrink to coffeshops? That's a very CS/math-centric viewpoint. How are you going to do MITx with with Chemsitry? Physics? Biology? Med School? Anything that requires specialized equipment? How will you do team projects that require people to be in physical proximity to one another (building complicated things, for instance).
Universities aren't going away. At most, some programs may become "virtualized" but even then there's a lot of value add with college. They have specialized libraries and librarians to help you find information that may not be on the internet. They can afford expensive equipment and the people to take care of them. It's often useful just to be around people in your same program to talk about projects and learn from each other. It may not be $100k value add, but that just means college will get less expensive and possibly shrink, not that it will go away all together.
Exactly. The labeling of anything with low resolution sprites/graphics as 8-bit drives me up the wall. The atari 2600 was 8-bit. The NES, 8-bit. They have very different aesthetics. "Low resolution" (lo-rez if you're nasty) would be a much better term as it doesn't tie the graphics to any type of hardware.
Also, how long should we celebrate it for? 1 second?
Because no one knows the second they were born? I actually know the minute (0:21 EDT) but I suspect even that is unusual to know.
That visualization is not very readable. It's neat looking, but kind of horrible. A regular2d grid with countries across the top and meanings down the side would be wat easier to read, especially you wouldn't have to look up what the letters/number mean.
How is Zynga supposedly worth over 20 times what PopCap is being bought for? I must be massively underestimating how much people spend on in-game items in * Ville\* Wars. Or really overestimating how many copies of PvZ have been sold (I've bought it twice). And PopCap's revenue model isn't even almost wholly dependent on another companies success.
I think they should just be clumped together. There's no distinction between Android phones and tablets, so there shouldn't be for ios. Also, the development skills for the the two are largely the same.
In the mobile graph, I wonder why ios and iphone are separate lines.
low-res and 8-bit are not the same thing.