Tech ups and downs anything interesting you find
#151
Posted 06 January 2012 - 03:08 PM
one of the first hackers?
http://www.pcworld.c...censorship.html
private satellites for freedom of speech?
#152
Posted 08 February 2012 - 10:37 AM
Facebook really sucks at deleting photos that are supposed to be gone...
http://blogs.msdn.co...3/10263262.aspx
Microsoft's C++ compiler makes 20 years old this year
http://www.nytimes.c...st-hackers.html
as mobile phones become more and more like mini computers, the risk of hacking increases
http://modernerd.com...who-print-shoes
teehee, Pirate Bay
http://www.mondaynot...ital-ecosystem/
Piracy being not a bad thing necessarily, it will probably instead help shape how executives think about what people want
http://prog21.dadgum.com/68.html
this is an article about something that's been bothering me for awhile now, the general responsiveness of the devices we use. Sure, a computer is an excellent multitasker, but why oh why does my phone have such crappy responsiveness when being a phone is all it's designed to do? I don't want my input to be shown to be recognized half a second later, I want a keypress or stroke to be done in realtime as far as the phone's GUI is concerned.
#153
Posted 10 February 2012 - 05:05 PM
why is thin better? perhaps we should look into other things when we list desirable traits for our electronics, so perhaps they could have more battery life.
http://www.mcsweeney...conquering-hero
lol, Beowulf fixes a router.
http://www.antoniori...eet-as-a-proxy/
Google Docs as a proxy server
#154
Posted 15 February 2012 - 10:36 AM
Windows 7 was running on ARM before the ipad was announced
http://www.gerrymcgo...13-Why-ugly.htm
perhaps ugly is the way to go?
http://www.dansdata.com/gz125.htm
despite advances in very nearly all other aspects of computing, file extensions are still a necessity.
http://www.dodgycode...developers.html
tricks that game programmers do...
http://www.component...raction-junkie/
distraction bad!
#155
Posted 20 February 2012 - 02:22 PM
Programming in debt?
http://www.johndcook...arp-batch-file/
running C# as an interpreted language?
http://lea.verou.me/...early-superior/
lol, someone's rant on why you should use tab spacing and not spaces
http://eric.themorit...hould-read.html
important books to read for computer scientists
http://news.cnet.com...last-mainframe/
NASA shuts down their last mainframe computer
http://techland.time...finition-of-pc/
seriously, what is a 'PC' nowadays?
http://www.wired.com...ers-lee-patent/
Tim BL takes a stand against those who try to patent web technologies
http://www.gamasutra...ame_bottom_.php
a very down to earth blog post from an indie game developer.
http://arstechnica.c...les-for-ipo.ars
investing in Facebook?
http://mywiki.wooledge.org/FtpMustDie
why FTP must die
http://channel9.msdn...s-SDK-v1-is-out
kind of an old post, but Microsoft released an SDK for Kinect
http://windowsteambl...ndows-logo.aspx
the new, redesigned logo for Windows as of Windows 8
http://erratasec.blo...ns-servers.html
Anonymous can't take down the internet by attacking DNS servers, unlike they say...
#156
Posted 07 March 2012 - 02:44 PM
http://www.theatlant...the-web/253758/
http://lifehacker.co...ow-to-stop-them
various sites are finding ways to circumvent the stoppage of tracking cookies. here's what you can do to make sure your privacy is safe.
http://www.pcpro.co....er-a-pc-company
Dell moves away from the consumer PC market and instead will focus on enterprise computing instead.
http://cdixon.org/20...arn-to-program/
really, who should learn programming?
http://al3x.net/2012...re-in-2012.html
how (not) to sell software in the modern environment
http://www.knowyourm..._the_world.html
Mozilla's mobile OS based on HTML5 and other open technologies
http://www.wired.com...2/03/antivirus/
do you really need antivirus? I don't.
#158
Posted 02 April 2012 - 10:42 AM
http://chronicle.com...l-Media/131300/
new 'facebook' allows you to add enemies!
http://www.buzzfeed....veryones-flippi
Homeless Hotspots? I think it's brilliant.
http://www.technolog...imssbits/27663/
running a startup company? you'd be surprised at the statistical necessity of having women on your team
http://jclaes.blogsp...wnload-and.html
browser cache management not as good as we'd like to think?
http://www.joshondes...are-dead-to-me/
lol, iframe
http://www.extremete...eath-of-firefox
is Firefox dead? (and is it really a bad thing?)
http://www.technolog...og/arxiv/27642/
is the Cloud no more stable than our economy?
http://simpleprogram...-cancel-button/
the importance (and how to implement) a good cancel button. seriously, read this article.
#159
Posted 18 April 2012 - 03:50 PM
quite an amazing look at the supercomputers of past and present
http://techland.time...iconic-product/
35th anniversary of the Apple II
http://37signals.com...ng-like-the-tsa
you are probably testing your programs too much...
http://pksunkara.github.com/semicolon/
a programming language based on semicolons. dafuq?
http://www.nytimes.c...=2&pagewanted=1
an article about the seemingly explosive addiction to 'stupid' games with an AMAZING stupid game on the page itself
http://everythingsys...-rebooting.html
fear of rebooting justified
http://www.softwareq...or-a-rock-star/
you don't have to be a prodigiously good programmer to contribute to open source projects
http://www.whattofix...-programmer.php
bringing up a good point: what happens when a programmer dies? where does their digital legacy go, and how is it best handled?
http://arstechnica.c...ng-yourself.ars
how to properly erase hard drives before selling, etc.
http://www.dailymail...ly-days-PC.html
lol, vintage ads for computing related products
#160
Posted 07 September 2012 - 10:12 AM
passwords keep getting worse and worse, while password cracking techniques are accelerating
http://www.newfangle...p_is_your_fault
how to put the hammer down and prevent scope creep
http://www.inc.com/r...laint-call.html
quite a nice inspirational story to better yourself and your tolerance
https://community.qu...kedin-passwords
more stuff on bad password ethics
http://www.osnews.co...cy_in_UI_design
a personal peeve of mine is that there is no standardization whatsoever in GUI
#161
Posted 10 September 2012 - 10:29 AM
first world problems: my OS boots too fast
http://www.infoworld...193065?page=0,0
keeping yourself safe on mobile Android devices
http://www.scriptol....ming/quotes.php
funny quotes about programming languages
#162
Posted 03 October 2012 - 04:26 PM
I don't think people understand what it means to run a data center. sure, it must waste a lot of energy when the servers are not stressed to capacity, but it's very little $$ in the way of an insurance policy. Companies are willing to pay for that in order for their website to have as much uptime/scalability/reliability as possible.
http://techblog.rose...yptography.html
very informative article on cryptography. worth reading if you're interested in security at all.
http://www.olsenhome.com/gif/
how is the "GIF" file format suffix pronounced?
http://uxmovement.co...aster-to-users/
interesting psych article about how to make users feel as though your program is loading/installing faster (even when it isn't)
http://www.datagenet...2012/index.html
analyzing passwords. more specifically, analyzing PIN choice patterns.
http://blog.cloudfla...ddos-no-problem
65 Gbps DDOS?!
http://www.mentalflo...archives/142550
did blowing on the NES cartridges actually do anything?
http://arstechnica.c...urceforge-site/
phpmyadmin mirror on SourceForge was found to have a malicious backdoor inserted in
#163
Posted 30 November 2012 - 11:23 AM
why you should be wary about internet privacy
http://arstechnica.c...-in-your-inbox/
tracking YOU through your email
http://yuzhikov.com/...estoration1.htm
a particularly interesting deblurring program, and it really works. not as clear as CSI fiction but enough to be legible.
http://www.theregist...firefox_legacy/
what Firefox has taught everyone
http://www.creativeb...-website-912823
things to keep in mind when designing a mobile-compatible website
http://net.tutsplus....-for-beginners/
coding pitfalls 'for dummies'
http://windows95tips.tumblr.com/
LOL
http://www.technewsd...ead-faster.html
high contrast reading surfaces, ie. backlit screens, improves WPM
http://buildnewgames...-to-javascript/
compiling a program...to Javascript?
http://arstechnica.c...it-the-new-ie6/
Webkit engine the new IE6 scourge?
http://windowswave.c...ation-for-free/
free Windows 8 lol
http://techblog.bozho.net/?p=1021
autonomously generated music!
#164
Posted 13 December 2012 - 01:12 PM
Mozilla says no plans for 64-bit Windows Firefox, which is bad
http://chrismdp.com/...of-good-naming/
the importance of naming your variables, something to keep in mind next time you're prototyping
http://semiaccurate....pcs-go-with-it/
Intel seems to be killing off the socketed processor model.
http://www.wired.co....-mouse-tracking
IE vulnerability allows one to track a user's mouse movements around the entire screen, and even if the webpage isn't in focus!
http://research.micr.../kopf/pixelart/
smoothing algorithm for pixel art (ie. 8-bit Nintendo)
#165
Posted 30 January 2013 - 10:16 AM
million core supercomputer used for fluid dynamics (jet engine research)
http://arstechnica.c...nline-retail/2/
Newegg is victorious in a lawsuit with a company claiming to have patents on online shopping cart technology
http://hal2020.com/2...ow-we-got-here/
the story of crapware, and why it's not going anywhere anytime soon
http://net.tutsplus....he-year-of-php/
2013 is gonna be nice to PHP?
http://css.dzone.com...s-web-designers
font tools for webdevs
http://arstechnica.c...abytes-of-data/
sigh
http://jakevdp.githu...os-with-python/
this guy wrote a Python script to directly access the Super Mario Bros game sprites from the ROM and generate animations
http://blog.theincre...o-we-read-code/
somewhat unsurprisingly, we read code like how a computer would execute it
http://theindustry.c...rends-for-2013/
GUI trends for the new year
http://www.cemetech..../item.php?id=42
TI calculator emulator online
http://damienkatz.ne...eness_of_c.html
why people are tsundere to C
http://www.pcworld.c...ndd-secret.html
Microsoft is probably the most powerful R&D company out there
http://creativejs.co...amiga-emulator/
an Amiga emulator written in HTML5
#166
Posted 12 February 2013 - 05:21 PM
data encoded onto DNA
http://arstechnica.c...ics-on-malware/
an article on malware, but I think the real gem in this page is the 'promoted user comment' on the bottom. I never understood it either.
http://news.harvard....nged-the-world/
Markov Chains are 100 years old
http://blog.ninlabs....er-interrupted/
do not ever interrupt a programmer in progress
http://scienceblogs....re-time-travel/
Reddit upvotes make posts time travel
http://news.national...-personal-data/
stupidity in the form of university administration
http://royal.pingdom...012-in-numbers/
an article I found last month, here are some statistics for 2012
#167
Posted 01 April 2013 - 04:37 PM
hmm...China seems to have a US-targeted hacker group located in a building
http://www.techhive....of-gaming-.html
I admit that when I first started gaming I thought consoles were the way to go, but as I got into PC gaming I can honestly say that I was stupid. Technology comes out so quickly that we really can't expect 5-year-old hardware to support the latest and greatest games. Sure PC gaming is a lot more expensive hardware-wise but the modularity gives us freedom to customize, and sometimes you don't have to upgrade but just do a bit of overclocking.
http://cacm.acm.org/...amming/fulltext
this is how you teach real world programming
http://www.kalzumeus...f-a-programmer/
awesome tech career advice
http://www.russellbe...its-the-browser
shitty Android browsers... :\
http://www.technolog...and-yesterdays/
an algorithm for predicting the future based on the news today
http://www.aaronstan...-Developer.aspx
get up to your potential as a software developer.
http://www.osnews.co...VII_game_engine
FFVII game engine
http://www.troyhunt....rity-is-us.html
we are the biggest web security flaw
#168
Posted 11 April 2013 - 02:57 PM
should software have options out in the open that can potentially cripple software for non-power users?
http://curleybraces....ence-Matters/11
what is Computer Science?
http://www.bbc.co.uk...onment-21831916
Tim BL and other internet pioneers win engineering prize
http://bilaw.al/2013...characters.html
using Javascript to do phishing in which the hover address check appears normal
http://jlongster.com...mes-with-Canvas
make sprite games with Canvas
http://www.wired.com...62&viewall=true
wonderful photo-gallery-cum-article on restored computers from various points in history.
http://www.xbitlabs...._This_Year.html
Seagate is stopping production of 7200rpm 2.5" drives. This is good news, since that means SSD prices are dropping close enough to the "premium" drive price.
http://hackaday.com/...-foot-switches/
Arduino foot switch
http://www.theverge....uered-the-world
short history of emoji
http://spin.atomicob...05/why-haskell/
maybe I'll learn Haskell over the summer
http://www.geekwire....s-startup-hype/
should you really join a startup right out of school?
http://blog.samuelle...ng-reasons.html
funny article about how PHP is usually referred to as such a crappy language, yet the ones making these accusations have a flawed idea on what PHP is really for.
http://www.sfgate.co...ism-4342160.php
"Innovation" is a buzzword, yet...what is done that is innovative?
http://www.campaul.n...ack-to-firefox/
I've never used Chrome extensively due to my distrust of Google but I'm glad that Firefox is still a contender in the Browser Wars.
http://nostarch.com/xboxfree
"Hacking the Xbox" is a book written by Andrew Huang, who was the first one to hack into the Xbox console back when he was a student at MIT. It's now available as an ebook for free in honor of Aaron Swartz.
http://www.nytimes.c...reach.html?_r=0
speaking of Google distrust
http://www.theverge....es-movies-games
Pixar studio mathematics
http://blog.microfoc...e-browser/2271/
if you don't believe Dijkstra, you can write some COBOL in your web browser
#169
Posted 22 April 2013 - 10:48 AM
an article basically saying that since DNS can parse URLs regardless of how they look, why are modern URLs sometimes so ugly?
https://medium.com/m...ng/2b5ef79482cb
are Bitcoins in a bubble?
http://ferd.ca/don-t...umentation.html
how to write good documentation
http://techland.time...le-april-fools/
an article I've been meaning to post for awhile. Google's greatest "April Fool's" ever turned out to be real
http://www.extremete...-modern-browser
URE3 ported to work in your browser!
http://carywalkin.wo...-xlsm-released/
an RPG that's built in an Excel worksheet
http://www.mycplus.c...ming-languages/
a cool list of Hello World programs in a huge amount of languages
http://hal2020.com/2.../08/touch-hate/
sort of why I don't agree with Win8 (yet?). They focus so hard on making it touch-friendly that they kind of forget that a lot of us don't have touch capable hardware. Well....that, and I fucking hate it when there are fingerprints on my screen.
#170
Posted 26 April 2013 - 04:47 PM
lol code
http://arstechnica.c...r-ad-for-hs-ok/
an ISP injecting ads into popular websites for its subscribers
http://readwrite.com...ed-by-employers
the 15 best programming languages for a career?
#171
Posted 16 May 2013 - 02:26 PM
the importance of color in web design
http://www.greenhear...ause-of-piracy/
quite humorous article about the apparent double standard that software pirates have
http://madebyevan.co...e-cpp-features/
cool features in C++ you probably don't know about
http://www.darkreadi...-fast/240153399
DDoS attacks now break 10Gbps speeds o_o
http://arstechnica.c...ck-it-to-intel/
article about AMD's rise and fall over the years, with a second article to follow it up.
http://www.pcworld.c...day.html?page=0
antique hardware still in use today
http://arstechnica.c...ssword-cracker/
cracking passwords are easier than you think
http://management.fo...?iid=SF_F_River
being smarter doesn't necessarily make you a better contributor or worker
#172
Posted 02 July 2013 - 11:34 AM
maybe developers shouldn't be focused on making the next 'killer app' but instead focus on improving existing solutions
http://www.mjt.me.uk...bout-addresses/
interesting address facts to give devs a headache lol
http://arstechnica.c...your-passwords/
it's easier than you think to break into your accounts
http://www.catswhoco...ns-and-snippets
php is awesome, here's some clever ways to do things
http://happybearsoft...yptography.html
related to passwords, this is how to properly hash things
http://www.aeonmagaz...eveloper-money/
are webdevs really all that glamorous?
http://gigaom.com/20...and-so-can-you/
Wikipedia now has an API
http://www.theinquir...years-old-today
a bit late, but Ethernet is now 40 years old
http://tidbits.com/article/13788
social acceptibility of wearable computing, ie. google glass
http://peter.gillard...nitor-dont-log/
how to make a good logfile
https://www.eff.org/...nt-dnt-proposal
do-not-track is currently by the honor system...
http://wekeroad.com/...ake-you-smarter
I kind of noticed this with 'real' languages, so it makes sense. you don't truly understand a language until you learn another one and find out what your language does wrong
http://www.poweradmi...in-should-know/
roxor ur windoes boxor
#173
Posted 17 July 2013 - 12:57 AM
for those of us who do some public speaking, here's some tips from the tech side of things
http://theconversati...-on-a-dvd-15306
upping the bit density on optical media
#174
Posted 07 August 2013 - 04:33 PM
The first artificially grown burger is eaten. This experiment was brought about by the fear of food shortage in the near future. In typical British fashion, the people opposed to this breakthrough say 'eating less meat is an easier solution'.
http://www.theverge....grizzly-updated
another first, this time it's the world's first 3D printed rifle being fired. Very cool stuff.
#175
Posted 12 September 2013 - 01:42 AM
Xerox copies may not actually be verbatim
http://blog.sucuri.n...if-headers.html
hiding malware inside of JPEG headers
#176
Posted 23 October 2013 - 03:46 PM
comic to understanding the basics of Rijndael encryption
http://mashable.com/...amming-pirates/
Smart, Netflix uses the top-pirated lists to decide what to provide
#177
Posted 21 January 2014 - 01:05 PM
anything connected to your home network, including appliances, has the potential to be compromised and added to a botnet
http://www.computerw..._in_clear_text_
Starbucks is the latest company to be revealed to have no data security
http://recode.net/20...betes-patients/
Google's latest publicized endeavor is a contact lens containing a glucose sensor for diabetics to wear
http://mashable.com/...cycling-emails/
Hmm.....Hotmail/Outlook email addresses being reused? Isn't this kind of a big security issue?
http://www.theverge....les-in-your-web
self explanatory
http://readwrite.com...avor-of-mariadb
MySQL isn't owned by Sun anymore, and Oracle hasn't made it clear whether or not MySQL will remain free. As such, Google decided to pull the plug sooner rather than later which is what I would do since changing things at your leisure is much less stressful than doing it because it's necessary.
http://readwrite.com...16/oracle-mysql
On the other half of the MySQL coin, there's no certainty that it will become proprietary at all, and it's actually grown quite a bit under Oracle's development
http://blogs.compute...-password-world
Google probably stores every single wifi password in the world
http://arstechnica.c...could-be-fixed/
The pain of updating Windows XP can be relieved now that there will soon be no more available patches for it
http://www.theverge....u-even-buy-them
Amazon has gotten a new patent for 'anticipatory shipping', or in other words, shipping things to people before they even buy them.
#178
Posted 05 February 2014 - 04:23 PM
Microsoft is providing security updates to WinXP for another year
http://www.wired.com...014/01/mozilla/
Mozilla calls on the world to help protect its browser from the NSA. In the case that the NSA issues both a mandate that browsers insert a snooping backdoor and a gag order on said feature...the open source community can find it, correct it, and because of the licensing, release their own version without it being an official Mozilla product and thus not bound by the same rules.
http://www.zdnet.com...ves-7000025375/
mass hard drive reliability data.
http://betanews.com/...d-out-its-poor/
shitty passwords from last year
http://www.theverge....-atms-worldwide
apparently, 95% of ATMs run some form of Windows XP
#179
Posted 14 March 2014 - 07:05 PM
Personality study shows that people who like trolling people on the internet tend to have some sort of mental health issues
http://sdt.bz/conten...ID=68654&page=1
'Honey encryption' is a new type of encription that is more difficult for hackers to work around, as the application will return data regardless of the credentials entered. The data will always look real, which makes it difficult for brute force attacks as the hacker will have to come up with some way to parse the data.
http://www.theverge....bing-experiment
There is a possibility that there will be a free Windows 8.1 available, bundled with a whole bunch of apps
#180
Posted 16 June 2014 - 03:22 AM
Shonen, on 14 March 2014 - 07:05 PM, said:
Personality study shows that people who like trolling people on the internet tend to have some sort of mental health issues
I knew it!!!! Actually this makes me a bit happy, because I seem to attract trolls, and they annoy me so much, but now, I can just post that link!
