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Fucking genius. Live coding rocks (in a very geeky way, of course).

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  • dj, haskell, live coding, mix, programming, synth

 

A screen capture from one of the early previews of the now-doomed Duke Nukem Forever

A good behind-the-scenes report from Wired on the demise of Duke Nukem Forever. One of the many lessons that can be drawn from the whole story is that ideas make money and not the other way around.

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  • 3D, computing, duke nukem forever, programming

 
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  • artificial intelligence, game, programming, tetris

 

This is good programming shit, made with good ASCII art shit.

Speaking of which, have you noticed the Google logo when you search for ascii art?

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  • animation, ascii, iframe, javascript, morph, programming, real time

 

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Brainfuck is so bad it’s good! There is also a JavaScript Brainfuck interpreter if you are so inclined.

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  • brainfuck, esoteric, javascript, Language, minimal, programming

 

(Don’t touch that play button if you can’t cope with flashing images!)

Kate Moross and Alex Sushon switched off and on some lights in an industrial setting for the new Simian Mobile Disco video. Yeah, I love organic stuff too, but they could have gotten a good Flash guy to create this video with some masks and Actionscript, man.

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  • british, industrial, lights, live, music video, programming

 

Hey, Mr Scientist in the suit… you’re so dumb you are trying to divide by zero

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  • computer, programming, retromercial, scientific, univac

 

Teaching children to use Windows is like teaching them to smoke tobacco — in a world where only one company sells tobacco. Like any addictive drug, it inculcates a harmful dependency.

›› Richard Stallman rips into the One Laptop Per Child project

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  • free, freedom, OLPC, open source, programming, tobacco, windows

 

Keep getting “ActionScript 2.0 class scripts may only define class or interface constructs” errors in Flash?

Here’s how you fix the damn problem!

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  • actionscript, AS2, AS3, code, flash, include, programming

 

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