In mid-1958, X was a newly employed engineer at Y who did not yet have the right to a summer vacation. He spent the summer working on the problem in _____ design that was commonly called the "tyranny of numbers" and finally came to the conclusion that manufacturing the circuit components en masse in a single piece of ____________ material could provide a solution. On September 12 he presented his findings to the management and proved that his invention Z worked and thus that he solved the problem. Identify X, Y and Z.
>>8 Jack Kilby, Texas Instruments, integrated circuit.
Next time, rewrite it so I can't just paste chunks of the string into a search engine.
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Anonymous2014-01-22 21:19
boring ass /newpol/-style DNPT's on /prog/! Code talks. I'm not here to think a non-programmers thought: If you advocate change I expect to see a patch, not 15 paragraphs of political drivel. icanbelievethisshit.png aintnobodygottimeforthat.gif
This is now a personal projects thread; what are you working on /prog/?
Me, I'm building a persistent virtual world populated by tamagotchis: If I can't find friends I'll code them up myself. The idea is to create an Age-of-empires like interface in which I can order my friends around and help them build a city to protect them from starvation / the elements. I'm using Go for the backend and SDL (through cgo) for the front, learning OpenGL as I go. The code for the network protocol is generated using awk from a very simple "protocol description". Ultimatly I'd love to integrate with the gocircuit so the world could scale in the cloud, but that's still a ways in the future.
i'm still quite low on game mechanics, focusing instead on my physics engine and a figuring out a proper way of abstracting the "properties" of entities and (inter)actions. game programming is far more involved than I had expected (dealing with time, synchronization, prioritization, flood control, ..)
>>13 Tip, and I mean it, give up any notions of ``architecture'' and just build a graph of objects providing services. Any concept of stratification should be aposteriori.