LG tries, but mastering all the features is daunting.Welcome to Mossberg, a weekly commentary andreviews column on The VergeandRecodeby veteran tech journalist Walt Mossberg, executive editor at The Verge and editor at large ofRecode.Last Thursday, my beloved Pioneer Elite 50-inch plasma HDTV suddenly died. I had owned it for nearly a decade, and when it was new it was regarded by many as the best TV on the market. I distinctly recall Steve Jobs recommending it to me, among others, and I sprang for it even though its roughly $5,000 price (with optional side-panel speakers) put a much bigger de ...继续阅读 (21)

Don’t reinvent the wheel — unless the wheel is written in PHP, opinionated in ways you’ll always be fighting against and not a wheel, but a steaming pile of hot code. This site is not a WordPress site and I am so happy I "reinvented the wheel." I chose a stack — Rails — that I enjoy working with and gave me just the right balance between constraint and freedom for the project. Rails is not "better" than WordPress. They are apples and oranges, but laying the concrete myself has given me the ability to truly make the thing I want to make. Also, in my day job I don ...继续阅读 (23)

Angular 2 is written in TypeScript. In this article I will talk about why we made the decision. I’ll also share my experience of working with TypeScript: how it affects the way I write and refactor my code.I like TypeScript, but you don’t have toEven though Angular 2 is written in TypeScript, you don’t have to use it to write Angular 2 applications. The framework also works great with ES5, ES6, and Dart.TypeScript Has Great ToolsThe biggest selling point of TypeScript is tooling.It provides advanced autocompletion, navigation, and refactoring. Having such tools is almost a requirement for larg ...继续阅读 (11)

PG Phriday: The Audacity of NoSQLJuly 22nd, 2016 |Published inDatabase,Tech Talk | No CommentsThe pure, unadulterated, presumptuous impudence of NoSQL. Engines like MongoDB recklessly discard concepts likeACIDin some futile quest to achieve “web scale”, and end up accomplishing neither. RDBMS systems have literally decades of history to draw upon, and have long since conquered the pitfalls NoSQL platforms are just now encountering. There may be something to a couple of them, but by and large, they’re nothing wereallyneed.At least, that’s something I might have said a couple of weeks ago.Now, I ...继续阅读 (17)

一般情况下学习一个新东西，我们肯定是不懂或者完全不会或许知道一点点，然后对这个知识点特别的感兴趣，所以特别想去学习这个新的知识点，那么我们一般情况下就会上网查询资料看大神们的回答与解释，或者加入一个相关论坛、相关群去了解学习这个新的东西，往往得到的解释或者回答特别好。 But，我们忽视一个很重要的问题，很重要的问题，很重要的问题，就是可能询问者听不懂，在大神们的眼中这些知识都是不算知识，应该是个人都会，（不是吐槽，也不是有意见）按照他们的回答肯定可以解决，可是往往询问者都解决不了。这点确实很让人着急。不知道有没有同感者。PS：大神的回答还是很有帮助的，向乐于帮助的大神致敬。 ...继续阅读 (42)

Harem queens in the corporate world 职场的宫斗明星作者：Michael O.Church @ 2015-11-01 译者：Drunkplane（@Drunkplane-zny） 校对：龙泉（@L_Stellar） 来源：Michael O. Church，https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2015/11/01/harem-queens-in-the-corporate-world/I recently came across a New York Times article about shitty behaviors that our society often associates with the female gender. It’s about the stupid, catty, bitchy behavior that makes for an entertaining evening in a film like Bridesmaids, but that actually wastes an enormous amount of emotional energy and gives the female gender a bad name. The choice paragraph, in ...继续阅读 (15)

I saw dozens of pitches for what was essentially YouTube between 1998 and 2005. But when YouTube launched, it was pretty clear pretty quickly that they had nailed it and nobody else before them had.I saw way more pitches for what was essentially Pokemon Go between the arrival of the iPhone and now. But when my daughter told me to download Pokemon Go and play it, I immediately realized that they had nailed something that nobody had before themAVC regularLIADtweeted this today:Saving myself the anguish of digging up the 2008 game spec & mock-ups we made for a AR treasure hunt/landmine avoida ...继续阅读 (29)

Departure from original planA brief note from the author…After launchingggplotin September of 2014 to great fanfare, there was a bit of a "development hiatus". It took a while, but I finally freed up enough of my weekends to giveggplotsomeTLC(oh wait not that TLC,this TLC). It was long overdue but I think you’ll be really happy with the results.0.10.0 also marks a shift in project goals for python-ggplot. While the initial intention was to mimic the R-ggplot API, it’s now clear that this isn’t 100% neccessary (and can make for some really strange looking code) ...继续阅读 (24)

作者：Vince Weller在过去，游戏产业就像是一片绿油油的牧场，一派祥和。创办你的商店，创造你的作品，尽情地享受生活。所有的一切都是那么的简单。green pasture（from gamasutra）而遗憾的是，几十年过去后，这里的情况发生了很大的变化。crowded(from gamasutra )这片牧场变得越来越拥挤。虽然我们都在等待着能够作为压轴作品出现，我还是希望在此分享我对此的一些看法并希望能够带给你们帮助。步骤1:设计你的游戏必须足够突出。它至少需要有非常出色的一面，即拥有别人之前从未尝试过的内容。如果不去尝试一些新内容的话你为什么还要成为一名独立游戏开发者呢？创造一款带有“经过验证是好的”的机制是远远不够的，因为大多数情况下在你尝试“经过验证是好的”的内容前已经有很多人做过这件事了。如果你所添加的只是全新视觉效果，你就必须重新想一想了。当然了有可能Kim Kardashian会发条tweet去宣传你们游戏并将其变成下一场网络轰动，但毕竟Kim那么忙碌，你也别只是想着依赖于这种“狗屎运”。当然了，每个规则都有例外。如果你复制的是像《铁血联盟2》，《巫术8》和《Shadow of the Horned Rat》等值得尊敬的游戏的游戏玩法，那你大可一试。而如果不是的话就别这么做了。对于我们的第一款游戏，我们选择了“选择和结果（C&C）”，即一个包含了99% ...继续阅读 (16)

Marc Benioff has built Salesforce into a major force in cloud software in recent years, in large part through acquisitions. But in losing LinkedIn to Microsoft, the limits of Mr. Benioff’s ability to compete with bigger firms for deals showed. And that raises the prospect that Salesforce could end up itself being bought, perhaps by Microsoft or Oracle.The company’s once red-hot sales growth has slowed to 27% annually in fiscal 2016 from 37% in 2013. The acquisition of LinkedIn would have transformed the company, boosting annual revenue in one shot by 45% to $10 billion and putting Salesforce i ...继续阅读 (15)

Google Maps is an incredibly useful smartphone app, and I use it every single day. But there are some things that it’s still reallystupidabout. Sure, the Android and iOS app can tell you about gas, food, and other places to stop along your route from point A to point B. But what if you want to add another destination? What about point C? Until now, only the desktop version of Google Maps has allowed you to get directions for a trip that spans multiple stops. Thankfully that feature is now headed to mobile — starting first with Android.It’s rolling out now, and you’ll know you ...继续阅读 (19)

7 billion people on Earth.Fewer than 150 Kakapos.3 months after the first commit,Kakapo.jsreaches the first release and we are proud to announce that now it is ready to use. Let us introduce you Kakapo.Kakapo – The next generation mocking framework in JavascriptKakapo is just a set of tools that tries to make your life easier when building web apps, specially when creatingclient side mocks. It provides components and APIs which let you easily replicate your backend logic and responses in the client-side.This is nothing new and I’m quite sure you are familiar with tools likejquery-mockjax ...继续阅读 (19)

libui-nodelibui Node.js bindings.libui is a simple and portable (but not inflexible) GUI library in C that uses the native GUI technologies of each platform it supports.It is in early stage of development, but is evolving at great pace and is really awesome.It could become an awesome, lightweight alternative to Electron to develop multiplatform GUI.Supported platformWindows: Windows Vista SP2 with Platform Update or newerUnix: GTK+ 3.10 or newerMac OS X: OS X 10.8 or newerProject statusAll currentlibuiAPI, except forthese ones are implemented.I’m developing onlinux, so this is the prefer ...继续阅读 (163)

本系列文章由@yhl_leo出品，转载请注明出处。文章链接：http://blog.csdn.net/yhl_leo/article/details/51646781在如下使用LaTeX编译下面的文件类型：\documentclass[journal,article,pdftex,10pt,a4paper]{IEEEtran}出现如标题所示的Error：Package pdftex.def Error: PDF mode expected, but DVI mode detected!(pdftex.def) If you are using`latex', then call`pdflatex'. }\@ehc大概是因为latex和pdflatex编译的差异，使用latex模式，并不能编译后者，查阅相关文档说明：TheoptionpdftexisforusewithpdfLaTeX.Ifeps figure are used, remove theoptionpdftexanduse LaTeXanddvi2pdf.也就是说，在使用eps(内嵌式PostScript)的图片文档时，应该选用latex模式，而使用pdftex时就会出问题（解决办法可以尝试把pdftex删掉）。另外看到网友，在如下用法下也会出现同样的问题：\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}解决 ...继续阅读 (68)

This week has seen a lot of announcements and looking at the submission queue for next week it looks like it will be jam packed with updates and new features. Today we have a new plugin update which is jam packed with features and changes, the biggest of which is the removal of all the skins (they are now in the More menu item).We also have a lot of great new features in this plugin including Windows UWP build preview, new settings UI & much more!We’ll write more about all of those next week…​.Stackoverflow was also brimming with great questions on a multitude of subjects.How to enhan ...继续阅读 (15)

译者按：Wait But Why 是一个专注于写专题长文的博客网站，风格简洁，插图的火柴人有趣又吸引人。作者及其富有洞察力，用他们特有的幽默文风吸引了全世界各地的读者。在如今信息碎片化的网络世界，很多人连 140 字的微博都读不下去，这样一个动辄两三千字的博文网站却大受欢迎，似乎也预示了今后内容网站的发展方向。这篇文章专访了网站创始人兼主笔 Tim Urban，给出了他对于写长文的建议。BuzzFeed 网站每周都会在其 Big Stories 板块发布长篇专题文章。执行编辑 Noah Robischon 曾经就网站不得不节选长文的行为表示抱歉，他解释说并没有轻视各位编辑和作者辛勤付出的意思。在最近几年里，有许多职业作家和记者都表示对“ BuzzFeed 式内容碎片化”感到悲哀。在如今的网络世界，能够源源不断地产生和传播的内容才是王道，内容本身的实质仅排其次。若是想要在最当红的网络媒体公司以写作谋生，你必须对信息传播的方式及原因了如指掌，这甚至和你个人的写作能力同等重要。诸如 BuzzFeed、PlayBuzz、ViralNova 和 Upworthy 这样的内容大户网站，是响应现在“太长了不读”年轻一代的需求而产生的。这一代人都是现代的网络用户，基本依赖短信和 140 字的推特进行交流。如果还是嫌太费事的话，他们会用 Snapchat（译者注：一款“阅后即焚”的照片分享软件）发张 ...继续阅读 (16)

译者按：Wait But Why 是一个专注于写专题长文的博客网站，风格简洁，插图的火柴人有趣又吸引人。作者及其富有洞察力，用他们特有的幽默文风吸引了全世界各地的读者。在如今信息碎片化的网络世界，很多人连 140 字的微博都读不下去，这样一个动辄两三千字的博文网站却大受欢迎，似乎也预示了今后内容网站的发展方向。这篇文章专访了网站创始人兼主笔 Tim Urban，给出了他对于写长文的建议。BuzzFeed 网站每周都会在其 Big Stories 板块发布长篇专题文章。执行编辑 Noah Robischon 曾经就网站不得不节选长文的行为表示抱歉，他解释说并没有轻视各位编辑和作者辛勤付出的意思。在最近几年里，有许多职业作家和记者都表示对“ BuzzFeed 式内容碎片化”感到悲哀。在如今的网络世界，能够源源不断地产生和传播的内容才是王道，内容本身的实质仅排其次。若是想要在最当红的网络媒体公司以写作谋生，你必须对信息传播的方式及原因了如指掌，这甚至和你个人的写作能力同等重要。诸如 BuzzFeed、PlayBuzz、ViralNova 和 Upworthy 这样的内容大户网站，是响应现在“太长了不读”年轻一代的需求而产生的。这一代人都是现代的网络用户，基本依赖短信和 140 字的推特进行交流。如果还是嫌太费事的话，他们会用 Snapchat（译者注：一款“阅后即焚”的照片分享软件）发张 ...继续阅读 (12)

编者按：文章首发于公众号FinTech 猫观察（ID：FinTechCat），作者 FinPlus FinTech 投资基金，授权 36 氪转载。有正在 FinTech 创业的团队，可以将商业计划书投递到 BP@FinPlus.me发展了多年的 FinTech 在各国已经面临着 “双向悖反” 的状况，一方面市场的热情不减，行业投融资规模有增无减，2015年 行业融资规模相对 2014年 就增长了 60%，各国政府也在积极地扶持、推动行业的发展；另一方面，创新所带来的风险也被行业和政府注意到，并采取了以 “规范引导” 为主旨的监管方式。2016年，FinTech 将如何在 “悖反” 的境况下走下去，各细分领域又将呈现怎样的状况。我们总结了 10 位全球 FinTech 领域最有影响力的权威人士的最新言论，推出 “2016FinTech 发展趋势” 系列专题。从此出发，为市场对 2016年FinTech 的趋势判断提供认识基础。我们认为，区块链被热捧，虽然他的发明者身份依然扑朔迷离。这个时代的人对待区块链的态度，就像电灯被发明时的人看到夜晚点亮的灯泡那样。“我们终于可以活着经历一次改变时代的 ‘革命’ 了。” 但是，专家说区块链现在还只是个概念，离创造价值的日子还远的很。观点一：被热捧的区块链离产生价值的日子还远区块链如同他的发明者——中本聪的身份一样，扑朔迷离。普通人对区块链的理解， ...继续阅读 (4)

This post is a follow up tomy previous blog post about word size.Three C/C++ programmers walk into a bar. One argues that sizeof(void*) is equivalent to sizeof(long), one argues that sizeof(void*) is equivalent to sizeof(int), and the third argues it’s sizeof(long long). Simultaneously, they’re all right, but they’re also all wrong (and need a lesson about portable C code). What the hell is going on?One of the first few programs a programmer might write after hello world is something like this:#include <stdio.h>intmain(){printf("sizeof(int): %zu/n",sizeof(int));printf("siz ...继续阅读 (11)

In this post I will give you a quick overview about some CSS and UI frameworks. If you are building a rich admin dashboard,Bootstrapis totally fine, but for smaller projects you might not need all the features or you are just looking for a different look and feel. All frameworks in this post are actively maintained and Open Source.BulmaBulma is based on flexbox and SASS. It offers everything you need for the creation of a web site or web app. It has a grid system, single elements and more complex components. There is no Javascript included, so if you are working with modals for example you hav ...继续阅读 (77)

So you heard React wasfast, and decided to give it a go. You grabbed a boilerplate, started working through it, and noticedshouldComponentUpdateandPureRenderMixin. Some googling reveals these are the things you use to make React fast.But wasn’t React already fast?The answer is that Reactisfast… sometimes. The other times, you should useshouldComponentUpdate.But when are the other times?Wouldn’t it be so much easier if there was just a simple yes-no question which you could ask to decide whether to useshouldComponentUpdateor not? And wouldn’t you believe it, there is!WillshouldComponentUpdatepr ...继续阅读 (10)

那天周五刚好下班，DoubanFM里再次传出这曲。"But I'm too young too late too young to find what I've been looking for."然后，竟然情不自禁的就跟着唱起来了。歌词大致是这样吧，翻译来自网易云音乐，比较通顺没有加料:I took a ride down where nobody grins to remind myself我在一个没人打扰的地方骑行it's sink or swimits all over the town suicide环绕着这个小镇 沉没游曳然后自杀A lovers mind is for nobody's sin she'll take off her clothes and jump right in一个爱人的思维没人理解 她会脱光衣服跳进水里being the dog that I am I won't hide而我不会再隐藏But I'm too young too late too young to find what I've been looking for但是在这个贫穷的小镇里in this gutter town in this silly town我太年轻 太晚知道自己到底想要什么But I'm too young too late too young to find ...继续阅读 (72)

Associate Editor: Bogdan Vasilescu, University of California, Davis. USA (@b_vasilescu)A2014 talk by Jim Larus, currently (after a long tenure at Microsoft Research) Dean of the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL, was circulated recently over email among some colleagues. In the talk, Larus reflects on success and failure stories of software engineering (SE) tools used at Microsoft over the years: interestingly, he lists the empirical work on data mining and failure prediction, from Microsoft Research, as one of the biggest successes, together with Windows error reportin ...继续阅读 (11)

Look out for ad tech and AI.It’s official: Google is launching an internal incubator to birth companies. It’s called Area 120, a nod to its famous latitude for “20 percent” employee side projects.CEO Sundar Pichaiconfirmed it to Forbesfollowing earlier reports fromThe Information. Then Bradley Horowitz, Google’s VP for photos and streams, confirmed in a tweet earlier reporting that he’s involved.Very excited to be helping out with this project!https://t.co/3c6n9eih3z— Bradley Horowitz (@elatable)May 20, 2016Details are still scarce, but the project is probab ...继续阅读 (34)

Distribution, distribution, distribution.We learned quite a bit this week from Google’sthree-day developer bonanzaabout what the internet behemoth sees as the future of tech, of mobile and of itself.But there was much left unanswered. For one, we don’t know when most of the new products — set to propel Google in the emerging fields of artificial intelligence and virtual reality — will arrive.We laid out the lingering questions forGoogle’s new, industry-altering AI chips earlier. Here are three others to chew on:How will Google sell its hardware?While software dominated the sh ...继续阅读 (13)

It’s been quite a busy week with many changes and updates, some of those were in line for a couple of tools we plan to introduce over the next few weeks. This week I also placed an interesting thread from the discussion group. Normally I try to keep this focused on stackoverflow but if a good thread comes up in the discussion group that raises an interesting topic I think this is a good place for it too.The removeCommand is not working for the toolbar commandsRemoving a command from theToolbarrequires that we revalidate the layout, that isn’t as intuitive sometimes but it helps when more than ...继续阅读 (15)

Jane Bambauer and Krish Muralidhar have pusheda blog postresponding to criticisms of their "Fool’s Gold" article. Their response has roughly as much technical shortfall as the Fool’s Gold paper, relative to its volume, so I thought I would go through it and comment on points it makes.To keep you interested, I’m actually going toagreewith them on one point (!!!!).IntroductionThe post starts with some background about differential privacy, their article, and then the responses to it. For example,… a few other computer scientists have written hostile critiques th ...继续阅读 (15)

The latest example of proof by computer enters a new realm, with a proof 200 terabytes in size.Credit: I ProgrammerThe idea that computers play a key role in mathematical proof is well accepted today by all but the purist of mathematicians, but the latest example of proof by computer enters a new realm – a proof 200 terabytes in size.The Pythagorean Triples problem is, or was, an open problem in Ramsey theory:Can the set of natural numbers, 1,2,3 … be divided into two parts such that neither part contains a Pythagorean Triple, i.e. three numbers which form the sides of a right angl ...继续阅读 (23)

Google is making a big play for developer mindshare at Google I/O this week, and it’s all thanks to Facebook. In January, Facebook announced it wouldshut down its Parse servicein a year, giving developers who rely on Parse for its various app-oriented backend services 12 months to cobble together an alternative. To Facebook’s credit, it open sourced Parse Server so developers can move their data and keep their apps alive, but the whole reason app developers chose Parse in the first place is because they didn’t want to deal with building a backend.EnterFirebase. Google acquire ...继续阅读 (35)

Graduating to GoWith finals wrapping up, now is the perfect time as a college student totry GoLang(Go) — Google’s programming language they released in 2009.I started writing Go a year out of college and couldn’t believe how quickly I picked it up, especially compared to other languages (…Scala). Mainly, I was excited by Go because it was based on C, had simplified syntax and program structure while still scaling to modern development practices, and had an excellent developer community.So if you have some spare time in between classes and work (or even if you’re done with school and just inter ...继续阅读 (17)