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Ipswich! I'm from Birmingham originally

I'm not sure if a virtual machine (VM ware player) allows you to have direct access to your graphics hardware. I think VMware workstation allows you to use the hosts video card. But is only supports acceleration for OpenGL.

Besides, this makes justifying PC gaming and the PC as a games platform even more difficult. Especially considering that the xbox 360 and Playstation 3 have already had this game for a while and don't have this DRM system.

Shame, seems like a good game.

reminds me of an old 'net meme :

Step 1) Make [Facebook game | iPhone app | social network]

Step 2) ????????????????????

Step 3) Profit !

Whenever I go for a walk, I normally leave folding@home running. If you have a particularly powerful GPU you can run folding@home using your GPU, which yields better results. If you're interested in GPU folding, I would recommend checking out Bit-techs features on folding ( http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2009/06/15/what-is...

http://www.bit-tech.net/bits/2009/08/03/how-to-build-the-bes... )

Suffolk, England

Is it just me, or has there been an increase in the amount of attacks on apple hardware? Either that or I just seem to be more aware of them.

Apple's increasing popularity seems to be attracting more hackers to target the platform. This attack combined with an iTunes Buffer Overflow attack could lead to fair amount of serious security breaches.

In hindsight, hate was a bit strong. thanks for the bookmarklet. I too prefer the low-band version of the msdn. But I prefer java docs layout. It's a lot easier to use and navigate. With namespaces at the top, classes just below and method/class details as the main view. I think it's very elegant.

I wouldn't describe it as painful myself. But, I would agree with sentiment. Having spent 3+yrs working with Java and then moving to C# (2yrs+ dev) has been a pleasant experience. C# is great language with features like delegates, Indexers, Pointers and Unsafe Code (executed in an unsafe context) and constraints on type parameters.

In contrast, I hate the msdn documentation for C# and still have a soft spot for java documentation.And yes, C# v Java is not the same as JVM v CLR

Agreed, Technology should be like a sewage treatment facility. In that, you know it treats your water supply. But you don't have to be aware of the interact refinement process and engineering splendour that has gone into it.

im in a similar situation at the moment. My friend and I are taking a very low-tech approach. A few beers, pad of A4 paper and a couple of pens seems to do us very well.

We model UIs, entity-relationship's and use cases all free hand. I think it's a lot quicker than using something like visio, etc to mock-up ideas.

At first it looked like link bait, but was well worth the read. Very articulate and for some reason I found it quite comforting.

Regardless of AMD's intentions in this case or the financial implications of this decision. Intel with either look like a petulant corporation or worse, an organisation that actively strong arms its competition...well at least to any anti-trust commissions any way.

After losing $1.45 billion due to illegal operations in Europe, I'm sure kicking AMD out the x86 market won't warm them to the anti-trust commission.

I disagree. We are no more not part of the evolutionary cycle than we are not part of planetary climate change. (Pardon the double negative).

Evolution is no more than genetic drift within a population through reproduction and variation shaped by selective pressure. What you describe as gene therapy could be seen as a selective pressure. But there are many selective pressures on large populations of humans and these selective pressure vary from one set to another. I do agree that the dynamics of selective pressures has changed for humans thanks to modern medicine. But I contest it still applies.

"Many hackers are one-trick ponies who know how to use a few specific tools but are clueless after those fail."

I think he has confused script kiddies with hackers. Hackers don't just run scripts and shrug their shoulders when things don't work. Hackers make the scripts and find vulnerabilities in systems. Usually employing some very smart techniques to obtain their goals..(shellcodes, buffer overflows, etc). A fantastic knowledge of C / ASM is usually required...

"the U.S. government believes that you need criminals to think like criminals"..Just for the record (Hackers != Criminals)..

they had me for a second... :D

Ditto !!!

Nice, I guess I can get rid of the reflection invocation of the T Type constructor. Should speed things up a bit. Cheers.

Differentiate Between Dr. Pepper and Mr. Pibb?! Beat Quake in Under an Hour ?!

Really? Are these the skills you really need?

Java - I love Javadoc Tool. Don't really get to use it much now, but still love it.

c# - Constraints on typed params.

public T AssignLiteItem<T>(ArchivingItem archivingItem ) where T : Item {

T myITem = (T)typeof(T).GetConstructor(new System.Type[] {}).Invoke(new Object[] { });

myITem.ItemReference = new ItemReference(archivingItem.Id);

return myITem;

}

"There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live-did live, from habit that became instinct-in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized."

-1984

Nice article, The litmus test I have always used (with a varying degree of success), is enthusiasm.

How keen are they on programming? Do they read coding blogs in their spare time? Are they involved in any open source projects or any coding projects outside of work?

To me, all of these things scream "This is not just a job, I actually love to code"

Scientists and engineers have long been the engine of progression for societies. I think it's a shame that people don't have more of an appreciation at the technological and scientific wonders of the modern world. But like you said "At least it's the first thing on Hacker News" :D

This article made me think of another quote my old physics teacher use to quote -

"Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion"

- Democritus

"Scientific truth is too beautiful to be sacrificed for the sake of light entertainment or money. Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles."

- Richard Dawkins

Surely concurrency has more to do with performance than scaling?

Scaling is more about a product's ability to easily grow and handle an increasing amounts of work, rather than it's ability to render/dish out pages.

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is it just me, or does this site look broken in firefox 3?

Good point, but your parents will never say to you "we need to drop certain functionality to improve the core framework in order to secure a stable release" or "private static long MAGIC_NUMBER = 1024*1024; ?!?! you crazy man!! what the hell does this do?"

I personally find it easier to work on a project when I have somebody to look things over with. It's very easy to get side tracked when you work on things by yourself, well thats what I find for myself any way.

"The second biggest danger with going solo is the loss of motivation."

I found this to be true, a few weeks a go I mentioned my idea to an old friend of mine and he was sold.

I have found a cofonder and now things are back on track. I was lucky, the guy I'm now working with is my best friend from grad school. So I already knew I wouldn't have a problem with him.

I do think that having somebody else working with you makes a huge impact. Not only on the product itself but also on your mentality.

There is no cake, the cake is a lie!