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Submission + - It looks like C has peaked (businessinsider.com)

Submitted by Gamoid on Monday August 29, 2016 @06:03PM

Gamoid writes: The venerable C programming language hit a 15-year low on the TIOBE Index, perhaps because more mobile- and web-friendly languages like Swift and Go are starting to eat its lunch.

Submission + - The weird history of the Microsoft Windows Start button (businessinsider.com)

Submitted by Gamoid on Thursday July 30, 2015 @06:05PM

Gamoid writes: Windows 3.1 was so complicated that even a Boeing propulsion scientist couldn't figure out how to open a word processor. A behavioral scientist, who once worked with BF Skinner at Harvard, was brought in to Microsoft to figure out what was going wrong — and he came to the Start button, for which he holds the patent today. It's a weird and cool look at how simple ideas aren't obvious.

Submission + - Why Apple and Google made their own programming languages (businessinsider.com)

Submitted by Gamoid on Friday June 05, 2015 @04:45PM

Gamoid writes: I looked into the state of Google Go and Apple Swift, looking at what the two languages have in common — and why tech companies would bother involving themselves in the programming language holy wars.

Submission + - EFF declares online harassment a digital rights issue, lays out plan (computerworld.com) 1

Submitted by Gamoid on Friday January 09, 2015 @03:56PM

Gamoid writes: The Electronic Frontier Foundation has identified online harassment as a major challenge facing free speech on the Internet, and lays out its plan to fix it.

Submission + - Nonprofit builds Salesforce cloud for the blind (citeworld.com)

Submitted by Gamoid on Monday September 08, 2014 @02:11PM

Gamoid writes: I got to talk to a nonprofit that built a cloud based on Salesforce with a UX that lets anyone with any level of sightedness — from visually impaired to fully blind — get to work in any part of the business. It's kind of a cool story about the importance of accessibility in tech, check it out.

Submission + - VMware unveils Workplace Suite and NVIDIA partnership for Chromebooks (citeworld.com)

Submitted by Gamoid on Tuesday August 26, 2014 @01:02PM

Gamoid writes: At VMworld today, VMware introduced the Workplace Suite, a platform for securely delivering applications and content across desktops and mobile devices from the cloud. The really cool part, though, is a partnership with Google and NVIDIA to deliver even graphics-intensive Windows applications on a Chromebook. I was on the scene.

Submission + - How the Coachella school district handled rolling out 20,000 iPads (citeworld.com)

Submitted by Gamoid on Monday July 21, 2014 @01:14PM

Gamoid writes: This past school year, the Coachella Valley Unified School District gave out 20,000 iPads to every single student. The good news is that kids love them, and only 6 of them got stolen or went missing. The bad news is, these iPads are sucking so much bandwidth that it's keeping neighboring school districts from getting online. Here's why the CVUSD is considering becoming its own ISP.

Comment Well... (Score 2, Informative) 358

by Gamoid on Friday June 25, 2004 @06:47PM (#9533162) Attached to: Spider-Man in India

In Japan, they released manga versions of Spider-man and the X-men. And when I say manga version, I mean manga version--the stories were all redone, with new characters, character names, and written and drawn by manga artists. Japanese Spidey had very little to do with American Spidey if memory serves.

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