Sony’s news that it is cutting jobs and cancelling projects for the mega-console underlines a depressing fact about game development – it’s go big, or go home

One in three 18- to 24-year-olds now report symptoms indicating they have experienced a common mental health problem, such as depression or anxiety disorder, compared with one in four in 2000.

This figure was not the result of a quick and dirty snapshot poll. It was one result from a three-year research programme by the Resolution Foundation

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To me as an engineer, that is just incredibly unsatisfying. Without understanding how something works, we are doomed to be just users

Studie: Open Source trägt global 8,8 Billionen Dollar zur Wirtschaftskraft bei

Bitwise Liminal - Kurzfilm in 256KB Code

"let it crash". The core idea behind it has to do with the fact that modern applications have a huge number of states that they can find themselves in. The more complex your application is, the more variables you need to keep track of everything. Eventually it becomes impossible for developers to predict all combinations of state that these variables will form. Once your app gets into an undesirable state, the best thing you can do is to reset it and start from a fresh, well known and correct state

"...software is too efficient and has this nasty tendency of being completed. Software offers us a glimpse into a post-scarcity society, but it is being actively sabotaged by those who seek to turn a profit"

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It turns out, the “One Weird Trick” to faster software delivery was not “fire your testers”.

Wrecking this discipline was one of the worst kind of management mistakes

alarmingly large portion of the world's business and finance systems run on COBOL, and only a small community of programmers know it

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Astronomers have detected a rare and extremely high-energy particle falling to Earth from space.

Named Amaterasu, after the sun goddess in Japanese mythology, it is one of the highest-energy cosmic rays ever detected, according to the scientists

Thank. Goodness.

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"Das Verhältnis zwischen Unternehmen, Regulierern und Märkten, ist völlig verzerrt. Vor so einer Situation stand man das letzte Mal in der goldenen Zeit des US-Wirtschaftswunders (Gilded Age, 19. Jahrhundert). Die führte zur amerikanischen Dominanz im Automotive Sektor und begründete letztlich die politische und wirtschaftliche Vormacht der USA für ein ganzes Jahrhundert. Genau das wiederholen wir im Moment"

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