By Jessica Roy 9/27/12 2:51pm

It's All About the Bitcoins

Mr. Andresen, approaching baller status. (Photo: Facebook)

Gavin Andresen Launches Nonprofit Bitcoin Foundation to ‘Standardize, Protect and Promote’ Bitcoin

Bitcoin may have just gotten an upgrade.

Bitcoin Gavin Andresen announced today on the Bitcoin Talk forums that he has launched a non-profit, modeled on the Linux Foundation, that will seek to “help people exchange resources and ideas [about Bitcoin] more freely.”

If you’re unfamiliar with the Linux Foundation, it’s a non-profit aimed at promoting the growth and advancement of Linux, an open-source operating system. David Perry, author of Coding in My Sleep, describes the foundation as: Read More

By Kelly Faircloth 7/20/12 1:30pm

Brogramming

Guys, it's not THAT big of a secret. (Photo: Wikipedia)

Some Sparkling Wit at Microsoft Slipped ‘Big Boobs’ Into Random Code

Is it possible that Microsoft is partially staffed by developers who are, literally, 12-year-old boys? Maybe we’re dealing with a Big situation, here? Because we’re pretty sure that’s the best possible explanation for this, from NetworkWorld:

“Some chucklehead working for Microsoft thought it would be funny to slip a thinly camouflaged sexist remark — “big boobs” — into software code that connects the Linux kernel to Microsoft’s HyperV virtualization product.”

We could easily work ourselves into a tizzy over this. But instead, we’ll take a cue from our unflappable high school principle and say: Guys, we work on the Internet. It’s going to take a lot more than some juvenile reference to titties to shock us.