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I would like to point to the extraordinary lengths the mainstream media will go to maintain a sensationalist story.
Arimaa's a better game than I thought. It follows a fairly sound approach to making the game difficult for computers.
Epic has prided itself on providing software directly to customers ever since I started mailing floppy disks in 1991.
Just because something is a standard doesn’t mean it is the right choice for every application. Like XML, for example.
Everyone knows that a federal job is a lifetime job, and for many in Congress, it seems they have a lifetime job, too.
Governments sometimes turn paranoid. And they fear things. And sometimes the thing they fear the most is the populace.
JavaScript is the only language that I'm aware of that people feel they don't need to learn before they start using it.
The ultimate laziness is not using Perl. That saves you so much work you wouldn't believe it if you had never tried it.
People are afraid of their own lives. Shouldn't your goal be to have a meaningful life? Unknown, mysterious, thrilling?
All signs point to there being many virtual and augmented reality competitors, and not just a single, dominant company.
The only important property of evils of the past is that they not be repeated in the future, in any way, shape, or form.
Would you buy a book proudly stating on the cover that its reader is a dummy? Or would you think "of course it's ironic"?
A simple social engineering hack might involve leaving a thumb drive on the pavement close to the driver's door of a car.
I had disagreements with all my neighbors about my dogs. I had a disagreement with myself about my dogs. They were noisy.
The strategic marketing paradigm of Open Source is a massively-parallel drunkard's walk filtered by a Darwinistic process.
Now, the typical way you make good things happen in Washington is you find a bunch of wealthy companies who agree with you.
It turns out that style matters in programming for the same reason that it matters in writing. It makes for better reading.
No, you can’t force other people to change. You can, however, change just about everything else. And usually, that’s enough.
Without the ability to talk about government power, there's no way for citizens to make sure this power isn't being misused.
There is no better form of trade a developing nation can engage in than to sell services provided by an educated population.
Generally, the craft of programming is the factoring of a set of requirements into a a set of functions and data structures.
People can live without a Facebook account: my 13-year-old daughter has cancelled her account because it's not cool anymore.
Games like 'Fortnite' are way more fun to play with your real-world friends, and they're so accessible that anybody can play.
I welcome Microsoft having a store on Windows; what I've always resisted was a push to close down Windows to competing stores.
'Code sharing' is an economic surplus phenomenon. It works only when none of the people involved in it are in any form of need.
That's why the smartest companies use Common Lisp, but lie about it so all their competitors think Lisp is slow and C++ is fast.
I do know that the world knows or thinks that I have money and lots of it. They perceive me as an old weak man and an easy target.
I don't claim to be a methodologist, but I act like one only because I do methodology to protect myself from crazy methodologists.
Counting lines is probably a good idea if you want to print it out and are short on paper, but I fail to see the purpose otherwise.
My well-discussed 'paranoia' urges me to believe that some tiny segment of the NSA's parsing algorithm is finely tuned to my voice.
Progress comes from finding better ways to do things. Don't be afraid of innovation. Don't be afraid of ideas that are not your own.
I have long since given up dealing with people who hold idiotic opinions as if they had arrived at them through thinking about them.
Social engineering has become about 75% of an average hacker's toolkit, and for the most successful hackers, it reaches 90% or more.
So, what does it mean for teaching and learning programming when the solution to every beginner problem is available on the Internet?
Gotos aren't damnable to begin with. If you aren't smart enough to distinguish what's bad about some gotos from all gotos, goto hell.
Corporate competition is fierce, viewed by many as economic warfare where all is fair. But politics... now, this is something unique.
It's awesome to see other games picking up on battle royale, adding their unique spin to it, and advancing the state of the industry.
Unfortunately, nigh the whole world is now duped into thinking that silly fill-in forms on web pages is the way to do user interfaces.
My motivation has always been to do technology apps and companies, not making money. Just because the money's come, nothing's changed.
What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? ... And if you're not working on that, why aren't you?
I have developed my most meaningful relationships online. None of them live within driving distance. None of them are about my own age.
Now, as far as I know, nobody has ever put up the U.S.'s nuclear missiles on the Internet. I mean, it's not something I've heard about.
The FBI and our entire government has become a bureaucracy. Sick, tired, and old as far as technology is concerned. This has to change.
Corporations understand the value of security because the leakage of their competitive information could be the end of the corporation.
Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion.
A hacker is someone who uses a combination of high-tech cybertools and social engineering to gain illicit access to someone else's data.
Don't you hate code that's not properly indented? Making it [indenting] part of the syntax guarantees that all code is properly indented.
Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.
When we're building tools, we respect developers' complete creative freedom. It can be used for the development for anything that's legal.
We are a game developer ourselves, and we built everything we need for our games. We share everything we built, including our game engine.