How Disney Made Snow Look Real
PAPERSA Material Point Method For Snow SimulationSiggraph 2013Alexey Stomakhin, Craig Schroeder, Lawrence Chai, Joseph Teran, Andrew Selle - 08/2013VideoPDFTechnical ReportSnow is a challenging natural...
View ArticleCompiling Rust for GPUs
A couple of days back, I tweeted that I had just ran code written in Rust on the GPU. It’s about time I provided some more details. This is a project I worked on with Milinda Pathirage, a fellow...
View ArticleEU Parliament adopts resolution to set standards for cloud interoperability
19 December 2013Backing the European Commission’s cloud computing strategy, the European Parliament has voted on a new resolution to engage the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) in...
View ArticleTarget stores hit by data breach affecting 40 million cards
Target says about 40 million credit and debit card accounts may have been affected by a data breach linked to recent purchases in its U.S. stores.The chain said Thursday that the accounts may have been...
View ArticleBill Gates takes part in Reddit's Secret Santa
168Spoiler alert: Bill Gates did not get you, because he got me.Think this gift post is awesome? Let NY1227 know and make them a redditgifts Elf!I want to start by giving a HUGE THANK YOU to Mr. Bill...
View ArticlePerl is 26 Today
26 years ago today, on December 18, 1987, Larry Wall released Perl to an unsuspecting world. The earliest reference to the posting to Usenet's comp.sources.unix is Perl, a "replacement" for awk and...
View ArticleHow I've made $1M in 3 years in the educational iOS market
So after my 2011 and 2012 reports. Here's my 2013 report about my sales and experience as an indie educational iOS app developer. I hope you can find some valuable information.For those who read this...
View ArticleKPI dashboard for early-stage SaaS startups, the 1.0 version
[Note: This post first appeared as a guest post on the blog of Totango. In case you don't know Totango, it is a powerful analytics product which gives online services the information they need to...
View ArticleJavaScript spin-off asm.js brings web even closer to native performance
Summary: Firefox creator Mozilla release benchmarks showing that asm.js, its performance-optimised subset of JavaScript, can deliver performance only 1.5x slower than code compiled to run...
View ArticleFabrice Bellard: Portrait of a Super-Productive Programmer
Hollywood portrayals of computing superstars are more rooted in comic-book super-heroics than the realities of software development. Except that in programming, superpowers do exist. Fabrice Bellard...
View ArticleN.S.A. Dragnet Included Allies, Aid Groups and Business Elite
Secret documents reveal more than 1,000 targets of American and British surveillance in recent years, including the office of an Israeli prime minister, heads of international aid organizations,...
View ArticleLetter From A Psychopath
8th October 2011 from TwitlongerFor the people who ask me if I ever get emails from psychopaths:message: Dear Jon,I just saw your interview on Australia's ABC 7:30 report on 'The Psychopath Test' and...
View ArticleHow Dogecoin changed my perspective on cryptocurrency
How Dogecoin changed my perspective on cryptocurrency Steve Klabnikis writing on theSvbtle network.steveklabnik.comsay hellorss feedmagazineabout svbtleapply@svbtlerss feedSteve KlabnikDec 21, 2013I...
View ArticleA basic guide to when and how to deploy HTTPS
Independent App Maker.Many web developers know about SSL, but it is very common to see it only partially deployed, or not deployed where it should be. This basic guide on when and how to deploy SSL...
View ArticleWhy do most programming languages only return a single value from a function?
Stack ExchangeThis Q&A is part of a weekly series of posts highlighting common questions encountered by technophiles and answered by users at Stack Exchange, a free, community-powered network of...
View ArticleUbuntu 14.04 LTS supports TRIM on SSD drives
We have been writing about “5 crucial optimizations for SSD usage in Ubuntu Linux” in the past. Today everybody is using SSD’s and the usage of the Linux “fstrim” command and the fstab “discard”...
View ArticleSmartphone can use its microphone to extract RSA decryption key from laptop
A blog covering security and security technology.« Tor User Identified by FBI | MainDecember 19, 2013This is neat:Here, we describe a new acoustic cryptanalysis key extraction attack, applicable to...
View ArticleIntroducing itch.io: a marketplace for hosting indie games
Today I'm launching a new website called itch.io. It’s a marketplace for hosting indie games with a ‘pay what you want’ pricing model. Anyone can quickly upload their game and then customize the game’s...
View ArticleAlternative Christmas Message - 4OD [UK]
Skip to Channel 4 NavigationSkip to 4oD NavigationSkip to Search Channel 4Skip to ContentSkip to Secondary ContentAudio Described Programmes4oD HomeCatch UpBrowse AllCollectionsA-ZParental ControlMy...
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