Valve fined for poor customer service
Last week, video game developer and distributor Valve Corporation, was fined AUD$3million (approx USD$2.2million) by the Federal Court of Australia for breaching the Australian Consumer Law. In short,...
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The women cowered behind a flimsy bedroom door. One of them dialed 911. Another clutched a stubby kitchen knife.Since leaving the corps in 2012, Siatta had been unable to switch off the habits of war....
View ArticleInsecam: Large Directory of Unsecure Cameras
Welcome to Insecam project. The world biggest directory of online surveillance security cameras. Select a country to watch live street, traffic, parking, office, road, beach, earth online webcams. Now...
View ArticleEconomists versus the Economy
LONDON – Let’s be honest: no one knows what is happening in the world economy today. Recovery from the collapse of 2008 has been unexpectedly slow. Are we on the road to full health or mired in...
View ArticleCopywrongs 2.0: prevent EU copyright reform from breaking the internet [video]
C3TV - Copywrongs 2.0Julia RedaEU copyright reform plans threaten freedom of expression: Commissioner Günther Oettinger wants to make sharing even the tiniest snippets of news content subject to...
View ArticleThe Internet Sucks: Or, What I Learned Coding X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter
By Peter LincroftEditor's note: This paper was originally published in the 1999 Game Developer's Conference proceedings.When we started the X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter project, our goal was to create the...
View ArticleNintendo releases original Zelda design docs
That’s right – it’s the overworld map from the original The Legend of Zelda! If you look carefully, you might spot some secrets hidden around Hyrule.Here’s a sketch of the ominous skull room, drawn by...
View ArticleA Guide to Deep Learning
When you are comfortable with the prerequisites, we suggest four options for studying deep learning. Choose any of them or any combination of them. The number of stars indicates the difficulty.Hugo...
View ArticleLand Lines
AboutSatellite images provide a wealth of visual data from which we can visualize in interesting ways. Land Lines is an experiment that lets you explore Google Earth satellite imagery through gesture....
View ArticleFrom Secretary to Software Developer: The Hard Way
This story first appeared on the SAP Community Network.Everyone is quite surprised when I tell them that I once was a secretary. So I decided to write down my story for those who want switch careers...
View ArticleDrchrono – Help us fix healthcare through Django and Python
Ever wonder what it was like to work at Apple, Google or Facebook when there were just forty people at the company? Imagine building a company that sparked a movement. That's the kind of opportunity...
View ArticleMicrosoft Word for Windows Version 1.1a Source Code
Software Gems: The Computer History Museum Historical Source Code SeriesThe dominant word processing program for personal computers in the 1980s was DOS-based WordPerfect. Microsoft Word for DOS, which...
View ArticleMusical Chord Progression Arpeggiator
cssAudio - ActiveCSS - ActiveGeneric - ActiveHTML - ActiveImage - ActiveJS - ActiveSVG - ActiveText - Activefile-genericVideo - Activehtmloctocatspinnerstartv A Pen By Jake Albaugh Run Fork Change...
View ArticleBerkeley: Machine Learning Crash Course
By Daniel Geng and Shannon Shih24 Dec 2016Perceptrons, Logistic Regression, and SVMsIn this post we’ll talk about one of the most fundamental machine learning algorithms: the perceptron algorithm. This...
View ArticleA cross-platform network component developed by WeChat
README.mdMars(中文版本请参看这里)Mars is a cross-platform infrastructure component developed by WeChat Mobile Team. comm:common library, including socket, thread, message queue, coroutine, etc.xlog:a reliable...
View ArticleWhy I close pull requests
I maintain many open source projects on GitHub and elsewhere (over 160 as of this writing). I have merged and/or closed thousands of Pull Requests (PRs) and patches in the past few years, and would...
View ArticleMarkdown.css – make HTML look like plain-text markdown
When this section is styled by markdown.css it looks like plain-text, despite being HTML. Inspect it with firebug or click on <HTML/> to see the markup.A strong tag and an em tag get styled like...
View ArticleLessons from 3,000 technical interviews
The first blog post I published that got any real attention was called “Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data“. It was my attempt to understand what attributes of someone’s resume actually...
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