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US Army field manual for Trolls ..

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.. chapter "Why PHP sucks". highly recommended for all JS fanboys spock
http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/

5 stages of debugging

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Updating BIOS via LPT-to-SPI cable is not that scary as it sounds ...

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..if your motherboard gets killed by defamed ASUS Update for Windows utility. Never ever use it!.

But if you will feel lucky one day, and decide to play russian rullete - your BIOS will be damaged, your PC will not boot and (surprise!) no "traditional" methods (like clearing CMOS or removing battery) will help you. Accept it.

Thanx to stackoverflow, i discovered that there is quite an easy fix, albeit scary sounding.
Read this article (its from 2009 and there are some redundant advices, but its a MUST read, as you will only have one chance to recover your mobo, and you better be prepared for all the accidental stuff that might come out during the operation)

Read more...

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liquid ascii art
http://nkwiatek.com/

obfuscat

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What will this return in JavaScript?
+!([] * []) + '' + ( - [])
Answer: 10 (select with mouse to see)

if your reaction to this is normal, ie: 'wtf ?' refer to article which will give you some insights.
http://www.2ality.com/2012/01/object-plus-object.html

p.s: yes this is useless, and you should not write code like this, but who cares wink

Gamers help scientists design better proteins

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.. as a cheap source of computational power:
"I worked for two years to make these enzymes better and I couldn't do it," says Justin Siegel, a post-doctoral researcher working in biophysics in Baker's group. "Foldit players were able to make a large jump in structural space and I still don't fully understand how they did it."

http://thibaudguymard.visibli.com/share/jXJtgJ

Cut the Rope game ported to HTML5

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http://www.cuttherope.ie/
(looks) Sponsored by Microsoft, works in all modern browsers and even in IE9, very smooth framerate.

Quoting my friend: "when i see it.. i am scared. I can never do anything like this with all my knowledge of CSS and HTML".
Good time to start learning new stuff, if you want to stay in the biz wink

There is a small postmortem - http://www.cuttherope.ie/dev/ - but it has more marketing, than tech stuff.

p.s.: game is awesome, if you have never heard of it (for some reason)

Lem. Robots. HTML5

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New Google doodle is a game, to honor Stanislaw Lem. Worth checking out.

p.s: if you don't know who he is - fix it. And enjoy some of his brilliant books wink

Lost in translation: GO MO

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http://www.howtogomo.com/en/#homepage

1) Google is american company, and it can ignore dumb and poor russians.
2) Google has more money than you will ever have.
3) Chinese, hispanics, and english speakers will not understand the joke anyway.
4) There is nothing funny about being gay. And nothing wrong about calling your phone .. a gay.

There is no problem, Google. Everything is ok. troll

p.s.: if you don't see sarcasm in this post, its also ok.

MS Antivirus mistakes Chrome for Zeus

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and deletes it! // 3000 users are said to be affected.

http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/Threat/Encyclopedia/Entry.aspx?Name=PWS:Win32/Zbot

NOTICE: September 30, 2011: MMPC has identified an incorrect detection for PWS:Win32/Zbot affecting Google Chrome. Signature version 1.113.672.0 or higher addresses the issue.



Article:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/faulty-microsoft-av-update-nukes-chrome-browser/9515

p.s.: it's all fixed already, but we can let ourself curious "what are the similarities between cool browser and famous trojan, that caused anti-virus to fire false positive ?"
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