The Twitpocalypse Returns

02Aug09

 In my last post, I explained what truly went on in the Twitpocalypse, which dealt with tweet IDs passing the limits of the 32-bit signed integer (from -2,147,483,647 to +2,147,483,647), which is the most common datatype in use in computer applications today. Yet, whilst computer science has limits embedded into its structure, Twitter does not [...]

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USB Laser Guided Missile Launcher from ThinkGeek has .NET API

22Jun09

ThinkGeek has updated the warfare category of their catalog with a new USB-powered missile launcher. Its perks: it has a built-in laser to guide the missiles, it has a very powerful software frontend, and most importantly, it offers an API!!! Finally, developers can terrorize others by coding applications that make use of the firing capibilties [...]

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