Linkage 2007.02.14
On continuations<br/>
Beware of AJAX<br/>
Some developers view AJAX view as the silver bullet for every scenario. However, AJAX introduces its own set of hazards in various areas, which include: development time, browsing history and experience, search engine interaction, accessibility, server load, and security.
Debian Timeline<br/>
C.S. Math @ OCW<br/>
Strategy game programming<br/>
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graphs.py<br/>
Inside Woz<br/>
Apple designers come up with 10 entirely different mock ups of any new feature. Not, Lopp said, “seven in order to make three look good”, which seems to be a fairly standard practice elsewhere. They’ll take ten, and give themselves room to design without restriction. Later they whittle that number to three, spend more months on those three and then finally end up with one strong decision.
Pi Day!<br/>
Pi is everywhere: not only in circles and spheres, but also in the results of all kinds of integrals, sums, and products, as well as in number theory and physics.
vanilla.rb<br/>
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GBA to console<br/>
Carmack on …<br/>
No, tessellation has been one of those things up there with procedural content generation where it’s been five generations that we’ve been having people tell us it’s going to be the next big thing and it never does turn out to be the case.
The original Mile High Collection<br/>
He seemed quite happy to hear from me, and explained that he was trying to sell a house for the heirs of an estate, but that the house was overflowing with “junk.” Included in the junk was a closet full of old comics, which they desperately wanted to dispose of immediately.
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Sabermetrics and risk-aversion<br/>
The Arundel Mills Incident<br/>
Awesome Highlighter<br/>
Rotating Hashes<br/>
C++ Resyntaxing<br/>
It is widely accepted that the syntax of C/C++, having been evolved over several decades by a large number of contributors, leaves much to be desired…
They asked questions like: Do you have any experience writing operating systems? I told them that I’d read Lion’s notes on Unix, and about my CS coursework at Maryland and the tools work that I liked to do. Did I want to work on a new computer? Sure, that sounded kind of exciting. I might have mentioned Soul of a New Machine and stuff about compilers.
Gentoo LiveCD from scratch<br/>
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