PUBLISHED: 12:25 03 August 2018 | UPDATED: 12:33 03 August 2018 Jessica Frank-Keyes The image from the Cities: Skylines computer game used in the Lanpro prospectus about the Mid Norfolk Garden Town, Image: Lanpro/Colossal Order Archant Developers behind plans to build a new 10,000 home town in mid Norfolk have been criticised for using an image from a computer game in a project document. The eight-page brochure, which was published by this newspaper earlier this week, outlines Norwich-based firm Lanpro’s vision for a town the size of Thetford, just off the A1067.Lifelong gamer, Matt Carding-Woods, recognised an image used on page three of the document as a screenshot from the 2015 city building game, Cities: Skylines, released by studio Colossal Order.Lanpro defended the image’s use as educational, and said the document was only ever intended to be distributed internally.Mr Carding-Woods, 33, said: “I’m very familiar with the game … [Read more...] about Developer behind plans for new 10,000 home Norfolk town criticised for use of computer game image
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This Is Drew Houston’s 2007 Y Combinator Application For A Company That’s Now Worth $US4 Billion, Dropbox
In 2007, an MIT graduate named Drew Houston was trying to get his startup, Dropbox, off the ground. He didn’t have another co-founder because the person who had agreed to work with him fell through. He had been programming since age 5, and he was trying to get Y Combinator to invest in his file storing and sharing startup. He told Y Combinator he was determined to see the idea through…although if someone offered him $US1-2 million for Dropbox after six months of work, he’d have trouble walking away. It’s a good thing no one made Houston that offer, because now he’s worth much more than that, and his company is worth multiple billions. Here’s the application he submitted to Paul Graham back then. Y Combinator Funding ApplicationSummer 2007Application deadline: 12 midnight (PST) April 2, 2007. Please try to answer each question in less than 120 words. We look at online demos only for the most promising applications, so don’t skimp on the … [Read more...] about This Is Drew Houston’s 2007 Y Combinator Application For A Company That’s Now Worth $US4 Billion, Dropbox
Darling Ingredients Inc. Announces Cash Tender Offer By Darling Global Finance B.V. For Any And All 4.75% Senior Notes Due 2022
[STK] NYSE:DAR[IN] FOD REA HEA PHA UTI[SU] TNMTO BUSINESS EDITORS:Darling Ingredients Inc. Announces Cash Tender Offer By Darling GlobalFinance B.V. For Any And All 4.75% Senior Notes Due 2022IRVING, Texas, April 23, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Darling Ingredients Inc.(NYSE: DAR) ("Darling" or the "Company") today announced that DarlingGlobal Finance B.V. ("DG Finance"), an indirect, wholly-ownedsubsidiary of the Company incorporated under the laws of TheNetherlands, has commenced a cash tender offer (the "Tender Offer")for any and all of DG Finance's outstanding 4.75% Senior Notes due2022 (the "Notes"). The Tender Offer is being made on the terms andsubject to the conditions set forth in the offer to purchase datedApril 23, 2018 (as it may be amended or supplemented, the "Offer toPurchase") and the related notice of guaranteed delivery (as it may beamended or supplemented, the "Notice of Guaranteed Delivery").The Tender Offer will expire at 3:00 p.m., London time (10:00 a.m.,New … [Read more...] about Darling Ingredients Inc. Announces Cash Tender Offer By Darling Global Finance B.V. For Any And All 4.75% Senior Notes Due 2022
Why You Should Make Room in Your Company’s Budget for More Senior Developers
PHOTO CREDIT: Getty Images What differentiates junior and senior programmers, beside years of experience? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world. Answer by Mario Peshev, CEO of DevriX and SME Digital Consultant, on Quora: Niels Bohr once said, "An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field." Career growth in software engineering (and many other areas) is determined by the depth of knowledge and the breadth of expertise. A project can scale both horizontally, and vertically - which requires a different set of skills and experience in practical applications following both patterns. In practice, a senior developer can solve almost any type of problem with less supervision. They can assess the risks, ask the right follow-up questions, determine the right workflow, analyze the possible bottlenecks and deliver a stable solution (usually … [Read more...] about Why You Should Make Room in Your Company’s Budget for More Senior Developers
This hacker is rating software security Consumer Reports-style
The poor security of much enterprise software can be dramatically improved at low cost with the compile-time equivalents of seatbelts and airbags. With that in mind, the Cyber Independent Testing Lab (CITL) is building a Consumer Reports-style rating systems to grade the security of thousands of software binaries.Founded by l0pht hacker and former head of cybersecurity research at DARPA Peiter "Mudge" Zatko, and bankrolled with seed funding from the US Air Force, the CITL presented their methodology and some preliminary results at the 34c3 hacker conference in Leipzig, Germany a few weeks ago."It's ridiculous," Tim Carstens, acting director of the CITL, says. "At the enterprise scale, you've easily got a hundred thousand different binaries running in different places, and some infinitesimal fraction of that has the latest security features, and most of it isn't compiled in a way that enables those trivial defenses."While basic compile-time security features like ASLR or DEP may not be … [Read more...] about This hacker is rating software security Consumer Reports-style