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“Most of my readers will understand that cache is a fast but small type of memory that stores recently accessed memory locations. This description is reasonably accurate, but the “boring” details of how processor caches work can help a lot when trying to understand program performance.
In this blog post, I will use code samples to illustrate various aspects of how caches work, and what is the impact on the performance of real-world programs.”
Tags: tech cache performance
Endlich diese vermaledeite Mausbeschleunigung los werden. Eine Alternative wäre noch USBOverdrive das hat bei mir mit Lion jedoch nicht mehr funktioniert.
Tags: tech mouseacceleration
“As responsive design becomes more popular, it’s worth looking at the various ways of handling navigation for small screen sizes. Mobile web navigation must strike a balance between quick access to a site’s information and unobtrusiveness.”
Inventing on Principle
In this hour-long presentation to CUSEC (Canadian University Software Engineering Conference), Bret Victor delivers a stirring manifesto for interaction design and relates it to having a principled stand on technology and ethics.
Bio: Bret Victor invents tools that enable people to understand and create. He has designed experimental UI concepts at Apple, interactive data graphics for Al Gore, and musical instruments at Alesis.
Tags: tech design BretVictor
“escapes.js is a small JavaScript library for rendering ANSI art, a form of computer art that flourished in the mid 90s. ANSI art was composed by colorizing sequences of characters and blocks drawn in the built-in system font, which made it easy to transmit across telephone wires. As a result, ANSI art was especially popular on Bulletin Board Systems (BBSes).”
Tags: tech javascript
Mithilfe von WebGL, WebAudio und tree.js wurde das Spiel “Trigger Rally” für den Browser geportet (direkt spielen).
Das Indiespiel Bastion kann man nun im Browser spielen (aktuellste Version von Chrome). Die ersten level sind kostenlos für $14,99 wird es komplett freigeschalten.
Ein sehr schönes Beispiel für die Nutzung des “Native Client”-SDK, auch wenn es nach den Kommentaren zu urteilen nicht bei jedem ohne Probleme lief. So stell ich mir jedenfalls die Zukunft ohne Flash vor.
Das Spiel das notch in den letzten 48 Stunden samt Enginen für den Ludum Dare Wettkampf zusammengebastelt hat.
//Dear future me. Please forgive me.
//I can't even begin to express how sorry I am.
//When I wrote this, only God and I understood what I was doing
//Now, God only knows
// Dear maintainer:
//
// Once you are done trying to 'optimize' this routine,
// and have realized what a terrible mistake that was,
// please increment the following counter as a warning
// to the next guy:
//
// total_hours_wasted_here = 39
// sometimes I believe compiler ignores all my comments
// Magic. Do not touch.
Exception up = new Exception("Something is really wrong.");
throw up; //ha ha
// I am not sure if we need this, but too scared to delete.
// I am not responsible of this code.
// They made me write it, against my will.
// I will give you two of my seventy-two virgins if you can fix this
// if i ever see this again i'm going to start bringing guns to work
// Houston, we have a problem
(Quelle)
Tags: code tech lol comments programming
“This is a faithful port of the “Adventure” game to Python 3 from the original 1977 FORTRAN code by Crowther and Woods (it is driven by the same advent.dat file!) that lets you explore Colossal Cave, where others have found fortunes in treasure and gold, though it is rumored that some who enter are never seen again. To encourage the use of Python 3, the game is designed to be played right at the Python prompt.”
Microsoft wirbt für den Wechsel weg vom IE6 mittels einer Countdown-Seite (12%, Feb. 2011):
“10 years ago a browser was born. Its name was Internet Explorer 6. Now that we’re in 2011, in an era of modern web standards, it’s time to say goodbye.”
