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Add"I was really influenced by three films," Ridley Scott told Fantastic Films in 1979, on the subject of the Nostromo and its claustrophobic corridors. "Not so much in terms of Star Wars, but definitely from 2001 and Dark Star." The latter film, directed by a young John Carpenter and written by, and starring, Alien writer Dan O'Bannon,…
As one of the co-creators of Crash Bandicoot, I have been (slowly) writing a long series of posts on the making of everyone’s favorite orange marsupial. You can find them all below, so enjoy.…
For the last ten years or so of working on Bundler, I’ve had a wish rattling around: I want a better dependency manager. It doesn’t just manage your gems, it manages your ruby versions, too. It doesn’t just manage your ruby versions, it installs pre-compiled rubies so you don’t have to wait for ruby to compile from source every time. And more than all of that, it makes it completely trivial to run any script or tool written in ruby, even if that script or tool needs a different ruby than your application does.
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“Hello! I am a developer. Here is my relevant experience: I code in Hoobijag and sometimes jabbernocks and of course ABCDE++++ (but never ABCDE+/^+ are you kidding? ha!) and I like working with Shoobababoo and occasionally kleptomitrons. I’ve gotten to work for Company1 doing Shoobaboo-ing code things and that’s what led me to the Snarfus. So, let’s dive in!
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SpaceX has launched a rescue mission for the two stuck astronauts at the International Space Station.
Foreground p.20 RECYCLING USED ICs [theme Hardware] [author Mikkelsen] p.62 DECIPHERING MYSTERY KEYBOARDS [theme Hardware] [author Heltners] p.72 LIFE...
The classic UNIX magic poster by Overacre was distributed at past USENIX conferences and featured a white bearded wizard with UNIX related things around him,...
Time seems simple. But we engineers lose sleep over something as basic as keeping clocks in sync. Here’s why…
Fake image-generating app allowed man to download 1.1TB of Disney-owned data.
The open source "Jarvis" chats via WhatsApp but requires access to your files and accounts.
AWS has suffered at least two incidents linked to the use of AI coding assistants.
With falling sales and shrinking profits, the recurring revenue will be most welcome.
The Settings app has taken over, but Control Panels aren’t going anywhere yet.
Winamp released its source code with a license that drew a lot of attention. That’s when other apps’ code was found inside.