Categorie: Links
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Links van 23 januari 2015 tot 24 januari 2015
The Best Case for Jesus » Peter Kirby Fair’s fair. Let’s try to make the best possible case for the historical existence of Jesus. One never learns about an issue completely unless they are willing to look at it from more than one angle. I intend to write a few more posts on this blog…
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Links van 18 januari 2015 tot 23 januari 2015
How the CIA made Google — MediumThe inside story of Google’s rise, revealed here for the first time, opens a can of worms that goes far beyond Google, unexpectedly shining a light on the existence of a parasitical network driving the evolution of the US national security apparatus, and profiting obscenely from its operation. New…
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Links van 12 januari 2015 tot 15 januari 2015
A Localization Horror Story: It Could Happen To YouThis article points out cases where gettext (a common system for localizing software interfaces — i.e., making them work in the user's language of choice) fails because of basic differences between human languages. This article then describes Maketext, a new system capable of correctly treating these differences.…
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Links van 7 januari 2015 tot 12 januari 2015
AirshipsA real-time strategy game where you design airships and then fight with them. The aim is to have pretty chaotic explodey fights and interesting ship design choices. Andrew Chen, Gilt: Designing For China | Design Driven NYCAndrew Chen, Director of Product at Gilt, spoke at December 2014’s edition of Design Driven NYC and outlined all…
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Links voor 6 januari 2015
Watch Movie Unlawful Killing (2011) Online Free – SolarMovieA documentary about the allegedly conspiratorial killing of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Fayed Star Trek: The Next Generation In 40 Hours — MediumI want to make the case Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG) is important and worth your time in 2015, and I want…
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Links van 27 december 2014 tot 30 december 2014
Technical Documentation – Copy Protection | Dungeon Master EncyclopaediaThis document describes the copy protection scheme that was used for Dungeon Master and Chaos Strikes Back on Atari ST and Amiga. These games used a very sophisticated copy protection. It took several months after the first release of Dungeon Master before the copy protection was correctly…
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Links van 25 december 2014 tot 27 december 2014
Lost Garden: Top 5 design debates I ignored in 2014Back in the 80’s and 90’s, when conversation about game design was first bubbling up out of our community of insecure practitioners, a few polarizing topics would arise again and again. You’ll recognize them: The correct definition of ‘game’ – Narrative vs Mechanics – Randomness vs…
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Links van 22 december 2014 tot 23 december 2014
A Lost 1996 Interview with David Foster Wallace — MediumIn February 1996, David Foster Wallace came to Boston. He was the not-quite recognized writer of the massive book, Infinite Jest, which was just beginning to capture the attention of reviewers, readers and a generation of writers. Christopher Lydon interviewed David Foster Wallace on The Connection…
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Links van 19 december 2014 tot 22 december 2014
A Poor Imitation of Alan Turing by Christian Caryl | NYRblog | The New York Review of BooksThese errors are not random; there is a method to the muddle. The filmmakers see their hero above all as a martyr of a homophobic Establishment, and they are determined to lay emphasis on his victimhood. BBC News…
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Links van 16 december 2014 tot 17 december 2014
Hexspeak – WikiwandHexspeak, like leetspeak, is a novelty form of variant English spelling using the hexadecimal numbers. Created by programmers who wanted a magic number, hexspeak words can serve as a clear and unique identifier with which to mark memory or data. The Fatal PinchMany startups go through a point a few months before they…
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Links voor 14 december 2014
CBC.ca | Vinyl Tap | Past EpisodesTwo hours of music and stories from one of Canada's musical legends. Playing with The Guess Who, Bachman Turner Overdrive and as a solo act, Randy Bachman has provided a veritable soundtrack to the last thirty years of popular music. Now he's come to CBC Radio to play his…
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Links van 9 december 2014 tot 14 december 2014
You can take down Pirate Bay, but you can’t kill the Internet it created – The Washington PostIn the late hours of Tuesday night, the Pirate Bay abruptly disappeared from the Internet, the result of a surprise raid on the site’s servers by Swedish police in Stockholm. But forget the big-picture questions of Internet freedom…
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Links van 7 december 2014 tot 8 december 2014
How Not to Write an API — On Coding — MediumOne common pattern I see is that most APIs have a REST or NVP based API at it’s core. Then they generally have some method if signing a request. Following that is more than 1 way to send different types of data, between JSON, XML…
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Links van 1 december 2014 tot 4 december 2014
Stop giving Wikipedia money | Newslines – The Story of EverythingDon’t donate to Wikipedia. It doesn’t need the money, and anything you donate will not go to the people who actually created the pages that you like. It doesn’t even go to the admins who help check the content. It doesn’t go to content creation…
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Links van 27 november 2014 tot 1 december 2014
Dan Grover | Chinese Mobile App UI TrendsOne day, for the fun of it, I started writing a list in my notebook of all the things that are different between apps here and those I’m accustomed to using and creating back in the US. When I finished, I was surprised by how long the list…