Everything is a computer nowdays

I’ve stumbled upon this gem while reading Abhijit Nadgouda’s blog – iface thoughts (it was in his side bar).

Every time you turn on your new car, you’re turning on 20 microprocessors. Every time you use an ATM, you’re using a computer. Every time I use a settop box or game machine, I’m using a computer. [...]

The sliced bread approach to learning programming

Today at work I introduced a new feature that is exceptionally cool. For a certain reason we need to group database records without primary/foreign keys. The lack of restrictions allows more flexibility to the user, but comes at the expense of uncertainty. The goal was to develop a fuzzy match that would demonstrate an acceptable [...]

Now Loading… Loading Bar anti-pattern

A school year has ended, programming projects have been submitted, so it’s time for me to reflect on a common element I keep on seeing in high school quality games – loading bar animations. Some are alright, some are quite artistic, all of them are coded somewhat as follows:

for i: 0 .. 100
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