It’s entirely possible to do your coding in vim or emacs, hammering out hotkeys to drive the interface and bring your code to life. While working in such a way has its charms, it can be confronting to new coders, and that’s before even considering trying to understand command line compiler settings. The greenhorn coder…
A Lightweight AVR IDE
It’s entirely possible to do your coding in vim or emacs, hammering out hotkeys to drive the interface and bring your code to life. While working in such a way has its charms, it can be confronting to new coders, and that’s before even considering trying to understand command line compiler settings. The greenhorn coder…
Bruno Ganz, actor whose Hitler scene became a YouTube meme, has died – CNET
Bunker meltdown scene from 2004’s Downfall has been reworked to focus on everything from pizza to Game of Thrones. …read more Source:: CNet
The Complicated Economy of Open Source Software
An excerpt from a report, which looks at the complicated business of funding open source software development: On the surface, the open source software community has never been better. Companies and governments are adopting open source software at rates that would’ve been unfathomable 20 years ago, and a whole new generation of programmers are cutting…
The best President’s Day sales and deals – CNET
Hail to the cheap! Score great deals on fitness gear, laptops, meal delivery and more. …read more Source:: CNet
India, the World’s Second Largest Internet Market, Is Turning Its Back on Silicon Valley
An anonymous reader shares a report: For years, India has wanted foreign companies to thrive in the country. When the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) took power in 2014, one of its early major pushes was to formulate plans and structure incentives to attract foreign investment. In 2015, Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled plans to liberalize…
Bill and Melinda Gates: Textbooks Are Becoming Obsolete
Reader theodp writes: Thanks to software, Bill and Melinda Gates report in their 2019 Annual Letter, textbooks are becoming obsolete. Bill writes: “I read more than my share of textbooks. But it’s a pretty limited way to learn something. Even the best text can’t figure out which concepts you understand and which ones you need…
Infinity Icosahedron Is Difficult To Contemplate Even Looking Right At It
Cubes and pyramids are wonderful primitive three-dimensional objects, but everyone knows that the real mystical power is in icosahedrons. Yes, the twenty-sided polyhedron does more than just ruin your saving throws in tabletop RPGs – it can also glow and look shiny in your loungeroom at home. [janth]’s build relies on semitransparent acrylic mirrors for…
Hacker puts up for sale third round of hacked databases on the Dark Web
Hacker is selling 93 million user records from eight companies, including GfyCat. …read more Source:: ZDNet
Google Backtracks on Chrome Modifications That Would Have Crippled Ad Blockers
Google has changed its stance on upcoming Chrome Manifest V3 changes as benchmark shows they lied about performance hit. Catalin Cimpanu, writing for ZDNet: A study analyzing the performance of Chrome ad blocker extensions published on Friday has proven wrong claims made by Google developers last month, when a controversy broke out surrounding their decision…
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