So apparently, the way to sell games these days is to supply maybe a dozen copies for the entire country and let everyone fight it out with eBay scalpers. Because of course being perpetually out of stock is an excellent indicator of how popular a game is - look, it's so popular we sold out within 5 minutes it's the fastest selling game ever!!!1111 ( Read more... )

I've voted, and not for you ( Read more... )

So my latest bonkers programming project is a tool to detect if a collection of audio files are gapless or lot. Now, before anyone gives the obvious answer of "check the CD the files came from", I should point out that these are free albums from the like of OCRemix and so there is no source CD ( Read more... )

In today's instance of "it's all terrible", I'm trying to decode a bunch of FLAC audio from Java (I've got a half-baked idea for trying to determine if a sequence of files should be gapless or not by comparing the end of one with the start of the next - and no, I can't just check the original CD because these are online albums). A quick search ( Read more... )

Can you spot the problem with this screenshot?

( Schrödinger's question )

I think I've cracked Facebook's approach to deciding what to show in the laughably-named News Feed ( Read more... )

You would have thought putting together an audio CD complete with labels and tray inserts would be an easy job, no ( Read more... )

Today's discovery is a whole pile of messages in Facebook Messenger that various people have sent me over the years, which Facebook has "helpfully" hidden because the senders aren't FB friends. That's all very well except several of the senders are real-life friends who needed to get in touch with time-critical messages. Such as trying to arrange a ( Read more... )

Okay, so some of this is my own fault for not placing the order sooner, but still that's no excuse for the sheer amount of fail on some online stores ( Read more... )

Riddle me this...

What's the point of having a footer on a webpage with infinite scrolling? You can't scroll to the end to click on any links in the footer, because whenever you do the page loads some more stuff and the footer disappears off the bottom of the screen!