I couldn't stop watching the little red square bounce around yesterday, so I decided to extend the program a bit to illustrate more complex movement and collision with other moving objects. The code is at the point where if I were to add more stuff, I'd need to start wrapping my little square pieces into their own Class objects to make the...

Now, if you would kindly hold onto your torches and pitchforks for a few minutes, I can explain. It isn't that your new awesome killer app written in the latest shiny toy you found in a box won't be the best thing since sliced Google bread; rather, your app will never be perfect.

Why?

Assume for a moment that you're writing a hello...

Fair warning, I'm about to give a company some praise, of which I was not paid for.

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I was browsing around for the best deal on a textbook I need for graduate school this fall and Amazon was ~$15 cheaper then anyone else. As soon as I added it to my cart the price jumped ~6 bucks. WTF? So I call up Amazon (all prepared to bitch ...

I've had a fun last couple weeks.

In my spare time, I've been assembling some old hardware I've been holding onto. I was in need of a dedicated Linux box for some home development and why not use what I had lying around? Decent, but older hardware (ranging from 2003 onwards), what could possibly go wrong?


Everything.
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You can trust your test data right?
You can trust the architecture you're building against right?
You can trust the module right in front of yours right?

No!...