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manuel — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:13:18 +0200

»Boss, it seems that while many players play our new game, they steal it by downloading a cracked version rather than buying it legally. If players don’t buy the games they like, we will sooner or later go bankrupt.«

Studio releases own game as a pirated copy, modifying it so that players get bankrupt due to piracy.

on www.greenheartgames.com · the article page · www.greenheartgames.com on QUOTE.fm

How to Debug

manuel — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 15:17:51 +0100

»Somehow, at some point in every serious programming project, it always comes down to the last option: stare at the code until you figure it out. I wish I had a better answer, but I don’t. Anyway, it builds character.«

Relevant to this article: 'The 6 Stages of Debugging' plasmasturm.org/log/6debug/

on blog.regehr.org · the article page · blog.regehr.org on QUOTE.fm

Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed

manuel — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 23:54:26 +0100

»The ultimate tool for corporations to sustain a culture of this sort is to develop the 40-hour workweek as the normal lifestyle. Under these working conditions people have to build a life in the evenings and on weekends.«

on www.raptitude.com · the article page · www.raptitude.com on QUOTE.fm

Inside Evasi0n, The Most Elaborate Jailbreak To Ever Hack Your iPhone

manuel — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 13:40:41 +0100

»The first place it writes is to the part of the kernel that restricts changes to its code–the hacker equivalent of wishing for more wishes.«

Auch lesenswert: blog.accuvantlabs.com/blog/bthomas/evasi0n-jailbreaks-userland-component

on www.forbes.com · the article page · www.forbes.com on QUOTE.fm

The Problem With The Big Bang Theory...

manuel — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 19:19:09 +0100

»Whereas The Big Bang Theory sees nerd culture as an object of ridicule, Community celebrates it. Community’s laughing with you whereas Big Bang is giving you a wedgie and laughing at you.«

on butmyopinionisright.tumblr.com · the article page · butmyopinionisright.tumblr.com on QUOTE.fm

How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet

manuel — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 17:23:10 +0100

»We didn't give a shit about that. The theory behind buying Flickr was not to increase social connections, it was to monetize the image index. It was totally not about social communities or social networking. It was certainly nothing to do with the users.«

Although it's an old article, the Instagram TOS thing made it interesting again.

Now it seems utterly obvious, that they bought the fishes and not the fishermen.

on gizmodo.com · the article page · gizmodo.com on QUOTE.fm

Optimally Stacking the Deck – Texas Hold ‘Em

manuel — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 13:54:03 +0100

»Running the algorithm overnight on the supercomputer gave us a list of approximately 100,000 distinct optimal stackings for two-player Hold ‘Em.«

on jeremykun.com · the article page · jeremykun.com on QUOTE.fm

Rethinking the iPhone Lock Screen: A Counterpoint

manuel — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:06:37 +0100

»Just because a design looks good doesn't mean it has been well thought out.«

About redesigning the iPhone lock screen and not.

on www.theverge.com · the article page · www.theverge.com on QUOTE.fm

Why programmers work at night

manuel — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 12:32:27 +0100

»To conclude, programmers work at night because it doesn’t impose a time limit on when you have to stop working, which gives you a more relaxed approach, your brain doesn’t keep looking for distractions and a bright screen keeps you awake.«

on swizec.com · the article page · swizec.com on QUOTE.fm

Life lessons from functional programming

manuel — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 18:13:52 +0100

»A person who approaches life like a strict programming language is not every smart, and even lazy in the sense of not exercising judgment.«

on www.johndcook.com · the article page · www.johndcook.com on QUOTE.fm

Inside the Secret World of the Data Crunchers Who Helped Obama Win

manuel — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 23:23:15 +0100

»The polling and voter-contact data were processed and reprocessed nightly to account for every imaginable scenario. “We ran the election 66,000 times every night,” said a senior official, describing the computer simulations the campaign ran to figure out Obama’s odds of winning each swing state. “And every morning we got the spit-out — here are your chances of winning these states. And that is how we allocated resources.”«

How Big Data helped Obama's campaign.

on swampland.time.com · the article page · swampland.time.com on QUOTE.fm

Small

manuel — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 01:17:04 +0200

»“We came all this way to explore the moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth.”«

on blog.alexmaccaw.com · the article page · blog.alexmaccaw.com on QUOTE.fm

Open Source (Almost) Everything

manuel — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 01:57:30 +0200

»That code represents millions of man-hours of time that has been spent and then given away so that everyone may benefit. We all enjoy the benefits of open source software, and I believe we are all morally obligated to give back to that community.«

on tom.preston-werner.com · the article page · tom.preston-werner.com on QUOTE.fm

Dark Social: We Have the Whole History of the Web Wrong

manuel — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 21:46:31 +0200

»There are a couple of really interesting ramifications of this data.«

Data ♥

on www.theatlantic.com · the article page · www.theatlantic.com on QUOTE.fm

Tracking the Runaways

manuel — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:41:57 +0200

»All in all, it was incredibly fun build, and one that was extremely hard for us to stop working on. Hell, I just wanted to build Cruis'n World at the end. Don’t believe me? Try punching in the Konami code. ;-)«

That's exactly what happened to me on my last project. (The Konami code made it in, too)

on leemart.in · the article page · leemart.in on QUOTE.fm