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Job Interviews: 5 Questions Great Candidates Ask. 10 Programming Languages You Probably Never Heard Of. Okay – you know your variables and you know you declarations.

10 Programming Languages You Probably Never Heard Of

You can write something more advanced than ‘Hello World’. But if you think that you know every programming logic in the world, think again. Programming and logic co-exist…one is a Siamese twin of the other. But there are some very strange and bizarre programming languages which have turned logic on its head and have still managed to stay true to the science of communication with a computer. You are going to hear about ten programming languages you probably never heard of. 7 Free E-Books and Tutorials for Learning and Mastering Node.js. OK, we won't bore you by telling you what Node.js is again or why it's so dang hot.

7 Free E-Books and Tutorials for Learning and Mastering Node.js

You want to learn Node.js? There's no completely finished Node.js book out there that we're aware of. But there's one complete book in rough draft form, two partial guides and several other great resources for learning Node.js. No more excuses: Try Node.js for $0.02 or less in just a few minutes No more excuses: Try Node.js for $0.02 or less in just a few minutes is a short tutorial from the developers of NowJS. Up and Running With Node.js. Why I've Opted for a Piecemeal Social Network Over Facebook or Google+ Learn the Proper Running Technique in 30 Seconds. How Asus designed the Google Nexus 7 in four months. iPhone Touch Screen" Electronic devices can use lots of different methods to detect a person's input on a touch screen.

iPhone Touch Screen"

Most of them use sensors and circuitry to monitor changes in a particular state. Many, including the iPhone, monitor changes in electrical current. Others monitor changes in the reflection of waves. These can be sound waves or beams of near-infrared light. A few systems use transducers to measure changes in vibration caused when your finger hits the screen's surface or cameras to monitor changes in light and shadow. The basic idea is pretty simple -- when you place your finger or a stylus on the screen, it changes the state that the device is monitoring. Most of the time, these systems are good at detecting the location of exactly one touch. Many systems detect changes along an axis or in a specific direction instead of at each point on the screen.

3 Top Tips To Maintain Performance & Extend The Life Of Your SSD. For years, standard hard drives have been the speed limiting factor in overall system responsiveness. While hard drive size, RAM capacity, and CPU speed have grown almost exponentially, the spinning speed of a hard drive, i.e. the factor defining how fast it can be read, has increased only moderately in comparison. If you really want to give your computer a speed boost, try switching to a solid state drive, short SSD. Unlike traditional magnetic hard disk drives, SSDs do not employ any moving mechanical components.

Instead, they rely on NAND-based flash memory, which is much faster than HDDs for several reasons. 5 Of The World’s Most Famous And Most Influential White Hat Hackers. Hackers weren’t always known for being social misfits and Internet ninjas.

5 Of The World’s Most Famous And Most Influential White Hat Hackers

In fact, the word “hacker” was originally a positive term, indicating someone who had an extensive knowledge of computers and computer networks. It wasn’t until Hollywood got their hands on the word that it became synonymous with “criminal computer expert.” Documents in our possession. The Bendix G-15 General Purpose Digital Computer System Documentation What we have, What else is available, and What we don't have Last updated: 3 July 2010: David Green. Searching for Numbers: a Powerful Tool for Makers and Students. Digital Tools.

Searching for Numbers: a Powerful Tool for Makers and Students

16,000 People Laugh At Apple's Siri (WPC 2012) Start Moving! Sitting Can Reduce Your Life Expectancy [STUDY] If you're sitting at a desk reading this on a computer screen, take note: reducing sedentary behaviors like sitting and watching TV may have the potential to increase your life expectancy, even if you get regular exercise.

Start Moving! Sitting Can Reduce Your Life Expectancy [STUDY]

According to a study published in the online journal BMJ Open if you sit for more than three hours a day, your life expectancy is lowered by about two years. Throwing in a few hours of watching TV can add another 1.4 years. SEE ALSO: Fitness App Lets Charities Cash in on Your Exercise Routine That's enough to make someone stand up and take note! The Terrible Management Technique That Cost Microsoft Its Creativity. How LinkedIn Makes TWENTY Times More Money Per User Than Facebook. The Lacuna Blog - Computer Tips, Tricks, Make Money Online. Share some love, will you?

The Lacuna Blog - Computer Tips, Tricks, Make Money Online

Finally, here's a working tutorial to disable the SEEN message from appearing on Facebook chat. It was easier earlier to pretend as if you were offline, if someone you don't like to chat with started a conversation. But after the SEEN message started appearing, people don't usually do so. Your friends know that you have seen the message but still have not replied to it and that might not be the wisest thing to do. Don't worry though, here's a solution to the problem to prevent your friends from knowing that you have already seen the message. Follow this guide depending upon your browser. For Firefox Users : First of all, download and install this add-on (AdBlock Plus) on your browser. Now, look on the bottom of your browser. Go to Custom Filters tab and click on Add filter group button. Click on the Actions button and select Show/hide filters.

Click on Add Filter button on the pane and paste this : Here Comes The Most Powerful Wi-Fi! This wireless system is almost 8,000 times faster than your fastest wired home Internet connection that can only manage up to 300Mbps.

Here Comes The Most Powerful Wi-Fi!

Literally, the output is the same as transmitting seven full Blu-ray movies per second. Google's Artificial Brain Learns to Find Cat Videos. By Liat Clark, Wired UK When computer scientists at Google’s mysterious X lab built a neural network of 16,000 computer processors with one billion connections and let it browse YouTube, it did what many web users might do — it began to look for cats.

Google's Artificial Brain Learns to Find Cat Videos

[partner id=”wireduk”] The “brain” simulation was exposed to 10 million randomly selected YouTube video thumbnails over the course of three days and, after being presented with a list of 20,000 different items, it began to recognize pictures of cats using a “deep learning” algorithm. This was despite being fed no information on distinguishing features that might help identify one. Picking up on the most commonly occurring images featured on YouTube, the system achieved 81.7 percent accuracy in detecting human faces, 76.7 percent accuracy when identifying human body parts and 74.8 percent accuracy when identifying cats. “The network is sensitive to high-level concepts such as cat faces and human bodies. Image: peasap/Flickr. Security beyond passwords: What's next? Patrick Lambert looks at the rash of stolen password exploits and how websites are trying to move beyond passwords only as a security check.

Security beyond passwords: What's next?

We've talked a lot about passwords. In fact, they have been in the news like crazy in the past couple of weeks. First there was the LinkedIn incident, where over 6 million LinkedIn account names and unsalted SHA1 passwords were released. 10 Things Online Data Collectors Won't Say.