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Posted on: 2020-04-09 17:21:47.000 Creating and shipping a brand new product is insanely difficult. It takes a ton of money, sweat, and time. Even people with tons of experience can underestimate timelines and encounter unexpected difficulties. So telling the story … Read more
For years, advocates for web standards, performance, and accessibility have implored web developers to “use the platform”. I’ve often been one of those advocates. The argument is simple: why build something yourself, in JavaScript, when the browser can do it … Read more
In Rust, one of the most common ways to implement core traits (like Debug, Display, and Clone) is to #[derive(…)] them, e.g.: #[derive(Debug)] struct Widgets { foo: u32, bar: usize, } What I didn’t know until recently is that Rust … Read more
Well, we said there was one more thing..and we meant it. At RuneFest, we gave you the first glimpse of something we’ve been quietly working on: an entirely new RuneScape MMORPG, built in Unreal Engine and set in the world … Read more
Bob Cringely Has Died 107 points by paveworld 1 hour ago | hide | past | favorite | 15 comments I heard from a friend of the family that Bob passed away in his sleep early Saturday. Very sad news. Bob, … Read more
3rd October 2026 Here’s a product feature which the world is going to need a whole lot more of over the coming months and years: default hard budget caps. I’m talking about the feature of pay-by-usage services and APIs that … Read more
A safety leader at OpenAI has quit the company, warning that its culture was broken and that AI firms were not “being nearly careful enough” about developing the technology. David Robinson, who led the writing of safety reports that accompanied … Read more
TL;DR: We ported the original 1993 Doom’s game logic and renderer to SQL and ran it inside a database. The game loop runs at the original 35 FPS, while the renderer produces the complete 320×200 frame buffer at up to … Read more
A federal judge ruled this week that a Tulsa, Oklahoma sheriff’s deputy violated a woman’s Fourth Amendment rights when using Flock Safety to search for her license plate without a warrant. As reported by 404 Media, this ruling does not … Read more
I’m an EMT (Emergency Medical Technician). My main job is software engineering, but I’ve always been interested in medicine. A friend turned me onto the idea in college, and it rattled around my head for years. I delayed for a … Read more