(Jean-Léon Gérôme, Diogenes, 1860. Romantic portrait which represents also the dog (in Greek “κύων”) which gave its name to cynicism.) The philosophy was understood very early as a way of life and not just as a theoretical reflection. In other … Read More
Paradigm: Multi-paradigm: scripting, object-oriented (prototype-based), imperative, functional, event-driven Designed by: Brendan Eich Developer: Netscape Communications Corporation, Mozilla Foundation, Ecma International First appeared: May 23, 1995; 21 years ago Typing discipline: dynamic, duck Major implementations: V8, JavaScriptCore, SpiderMonkey, Chakra Influenced by: Lua, Scheme, Perl, … Read More
(Showdown in Omaha hi-lo. The left player wins the pot with nuts 5-4-3-2-1. The right player wins the pot with the strongest hand with a fives full of jacks, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Poker_Omaha_hilo_showdown1.jpg) (Best starting hand in Omaha hi-lo, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Poker_Omaha_Beispielhand2.jpg) In Omaha hi-lo … Read More
Written in: Java Type: Web application framework Website: javaserverfaces.java.net JavaServer Faces (JSF abbreviated) is a Java framework for developing Web applications. Unlike other traditional MVC frameworks based on actions, JSF is based on the notion of components, comparable to that … Read More
(Back of honey bees to the fold after collecting pollen. Photo 2007) Animal intelligence (animal cognition) is a term referring to the cognitive abilities of animals and their study. The subject has given rise to numerous studies whose results not … Read More
(Second part. First part here: https://www.telework.ro/en/poker-bluff/. Image: World Series of Poker celebrity poker tournament – Rio Casino, Las Vegas, https://www.flickr.com/photos/kalooz/3724732892) Neutral point of bluff Alice may decide to penalize a possible bluff (with a frequency α), and Bob may have decided … Read More
Developers: Adobe Systems, Macromedia, FutureWave Target platforms: Web browsers, iOS, Android, Windows, Mac OS X Editor software: Adobe Animate, Flash Builder, FlashDevelop, Powerflasher FDT, Flash Catalyst, Scaleform Player software: Flash Player, Adobe AIR, Scaleform, Gnash, Lightspark Formats: SWF FLV FLA … Read More
The dealer deals the cards one by one, in principle, in the sense of clockwise. It begins with his left, and he takes last. When each player received five cards, all can pick them up and take note. So start … Read More
Cascading Style Sheets, commonly called CSS, form a computer language that describes the presentation of HTML and XML documents. The standards defining CSS are published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Introduced in mid 1990, CSS is commonly used … Read More
During a recent Made By Google event in San Francisco, Google unveiled the lauch of two new smartphones, in partnership with HTC. The launch of the smartphones is on October, 20. Google Pixel and Pixel XL were compared with the … Read More
(The worst hand in Omaha, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Poker_Omaha_Beispielhand3.jpg) Pot-limit Omaha (abbreviated PLO) is popular in Europe in online casinos, as well as high limits “mixed game” in some American casinos. It is played most often in high only, but can also be … Read More
Two attributes characterize a cookie in terms of Web Analytics: its domain and its expiration date. It is often the cookie expiration date that determines the uniqueness of a visitor. If the domain is the same as that of the … Read More
