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“In the previous post we explored “array extras” and how they can help us to write concise yet performant and clean code. In this post we take a look at generalizing recursive algorithms with recursion combinators — high-level functions that source...

“ Typing on the Storm isn't much fun, either. You have to click the screen keyboard for each keystroke (the keys flash blue under your fingertips as you click), which ends up feeling like a lot of work in a source...

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“What's most interesting about the game is that it's built on Valve's Source engine technology - the same technology that powered Half-Life 2 (four years ago), Counter-Strike: Source and Portal. Source's versatility is demonstrated with the regular stream of inventive source...

“Remember those videos from a while back that showed groups of friends pointing ringing cellphones at popcorn kernels, which then popped, implying phones emit enough radiation to heat kernels to 300 degrees Fahrenheit (the temperature at which popcorn pops)? And source...

“The new-for-2009 Mini E electric car is undoubtedly one of the most highly-anticipated cars being released next year. Initially the car will only be offered to a select group of 500 people in the Los Angeles, New York and New source...

“ Often, developers have poked fun at colleagues who choose to use bleeding edge languages/frameworks/whatever saying they are just exercising RDD (Resume Driven Development). The idea being that the item was chosen just to create some meat to fluff their source...

“Gopher, meanwhile, has stagnated. According to the biggest Gopher search engine, there were less than 100 Gopher sites left in the world as of 2007. And Mozilla has announced that future versions of Firefox (starting with Firefox 4) will not source...

“This is not a death knell - quite the opposite. It's the start of a new era, a higher level of success and widespread adoption for the language and its ecosystem. In a few years, Ruby will be the status source...

“If you want to have some fun with a freely available piece of software for 3D face modeling, then click on to ThatsMyFace.com for some fun. The website and face modeling tool is the brainchild of a former PhD student source...

“I recently saw a thread that highlights the distinction between expected value and utility. Would you take a more likely but lower payoff instead of a less likely but higher payoff? Similarly, the St. Petersburg Paradox takes the problem to source...

“ Several months later I got a call from John Dickinson. He had been hired by the magazine to put together an issue reviewing every printer available for the PC. They needed writers who lived in the New York City source...

Into a Belfast pub comes Paddy Murphy, looking like he’d just been run over by a train. His arm is in a sling, his nose is broken, his face is cut, and bruised, and he’s walking with a limp.