Four short links: 6 March 2015

Matt Jones: Practical Design Fiction (Vimeo) — the log scale of experience! Fantastic hour-long recap of the BERG thinking that he’s continued at the Google Creative Lab in NYC. (via Matt Jones) 3dPL — public license for 3d objects. (via …



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Microsoft is taking you back to school -- free online courses through edX!

Higher education is damn expensive -- yes, damn. Many young people in America are taking out massive student loans to fund their education. As bad as the debt problem is, I stand by the fact that your education is the best investment you can make. It may sound like a cliche, but knowledge is power. You should strive to learn as much as you can. Unfortunately, many people go to college for the degree and not necessarily for the knowledge. This is understandable, as many employers just want to see that you have a degree. Lately, however, I have been… [Continue Reading]



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Unreal Diary – Day 8

UE4 4.7.2 | ~4 hours in-engine Personal notes via Google Docs Remember how I said I was going to start entering Ludum Dare again? No? Well, pay attention! At any rate, I’ve been getting up to speed with Unreal Engine’s Twitch broadcasts, & I noticed that they hold their own jams. While they’re not peer-judged […]



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C'est une révolution, Free fait de la pub pour Google et ses partenaires

Free annonçait lundi matin avoir une surprise à dévoiler ce mardi matin. Un lot de journalistes triés sur le volet a été convié à une présentation tenue par Xavier Niel et accessible en streaming pour ceux qui ne pouvaient pas faire le déplacement jusqu'à Paris... [Tout lire]



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Destiny's animators studied boxing to keep you from getting sick

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Prospects For Open-Source Engines Now That UE4/Source2/Unity Are Free?

How do you think the community-based game engine projects like ioquake3 will evolve now that Unreal Engine 4, Source 2 Engine, and Unity 5 are "free" for use by game developers?..



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Google Introduces Freon, a Replacement For X11 On Chrome OS

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Art Project

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Four short links: 4 March 2015

Microservices in Go — tale of rewriting a Ruby monolith as Go microservices. Interesting, though being delivered at Gophercon India suggests the ending is probably not unhappy. Watch & Wear (John Cross Neumann) — Android watch as predictor of the …



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Study: Refactoring Doesn't Improve Code Quality

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Metal Gear Solid 5 launches Sept. 1, according to leaked video (update)

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Why Kevin Spacey's accent in House of Cards sounds off ( Video )

The linguistics behind Kevin Spacey's Southern accent in House of Cards...(Read...)

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Mastering Bitcoin

A book that promises you mastery has to be a good investment. It is, but be warned this is a very detailed technical look at Bitcoin and its technology.

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Hard Reboot

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Blender Cycles Cloud Render Farming Using AWS, Deadline and Brenda

Set up your own render farm on Amazon Web Services. Stirling Goetz writes: Learn about some cool tools available to help build your own affordable render farm in the cloud. In this session we cover Amazon Web Services concepts and then we jump into how we can utilize AWS with Blender friendly commercial software from [...]



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Four short links: 5 March 2015

The Web’s Grain (Frank Chimero) — What would happen if we stopped treating the web like a blank canvas to paint on, and instead like a material to build with? Bruce Sterling on Convergence of Humans and Machines — I …



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Google Tests First Error Correction in Quantum Computing

A quantum computing team hired by Google has built the first system capable of correcting its own errors



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Valve Developed an Open-Source Intel Vulkan GPU Driver For Linux

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First game for Valve's VR device is an immersive recreation of ... a job

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Intel XDK Provides New Game Tools And Services for HTML5 Devs

To accelerate the deployment of new mobile games across an increasingly diverse spectrum of devices, Intel today released the latest Intel® XDK, an all-in-one HTML5 development environment that allows game developers to write a single app and automatically build versions for Android, iOS, and Windows app stores. Intel® XDK gives gamers the ability to enjoy the same experiences across their PCs, phones, and tablets, and lets developers focus on creating new experiences instead of porting games to different platforms. This version adds popular game engine support for Construct2, Cocos2D, Phaser, EaselJS part of CreateJS suite of libraries, and Pixi.js; includes an Asset Manager to access, manipulate, and manage game assets; plus the W3C Gamepad API for devices; and supports Google Play Game Services and Apple Game Center Services. Comments



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