I recently hired a CS masters graduate. He's really bright; otherwise, we wouldn't have hired him. He's doing the usual new guy "toilet-licking" tasks; massive integrates of required-but-unpopular technologies, whitebox testing, automation and application profiling.
Someday, he'll get to work on tasks specifically related to his masters. Hopefully, his masters will prepare him for success in those pursuits.
For today, he gets to earn his stripes, like any other recent hire.
Counterpoint: I really, really enjoy Anathem
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While it's not exactly paced to keep the MTV generation glued to their seats, I adore Stephenson's writing style.
Postulate: Maybe he's INTENTIONALLY making you go slowly, providing you with a surfeit of information, and making your brain work to place those made-up words.
Maybe, by complaining about having to actually take time and experience the novel instead of flying through it like a Heroes marathon, you've identified yourself as...Extramuros.
I enjoy the first-person viewpoint of the open-minded-and-curious-yet-emotionally-retarded main character, as he fumbles his way through profound events in his life. Not that it reminds me of anyone I know personally, mind you...
Few writers actually USE language as deftly and deeply as does Stephenson. He gives me hope, and reminds me that we're not ALL illiterate yet.:)
Of course, I haven't finished yet. If a Shaftoe character crops up, I officially withdraw the nice things I've said about Anathem.
...but since the content hasn't been indexed yet, and you can't possibly KNOW what's in every Flash file ever, your grounds for dismissing Flash are...debatable.
In my experience developing win/mac x-platform apps, Purify (Win), Instruments (OSX) and BoundsChecker (Win) have all been useful. They find obvious stuff, that might have led to other issues. Recommended.
How does a promise made in 2006 and broken in 2007 explain the previous 9 years of footdragging, from 1997-2006? Footdragging? No. Adobe had no need to go down a 'rewrite-for-no-goddamn-reason' path, and received assurance from Apple that they wouldn't have to.
I'd say it's a paint app that remains expensive and hasn't added anything extraordinary to the feature lineup in 10 years.
False. Tens of thousands of people who use Photoshop to make a living every day could point out dozens of ways in which your sweeping generalization is inaccurate.
One example: Ever tried to place a fake sign on the side of a building, in Photoshop 5.0 (ten years ago)? It's hard. Try it in CS3; it's trivial. Another: Healing Brush. I could go on, but I'm no Photoshop guru...
Shot? Someone's a bit grumpy. Innovation at Adobe is far from dead; read some Siggraph papers sometime, and you'll see plenty of "@adobe.com" contact info. Besides, if Adobe was gone, who would we blame for anything Apple does wrong? Oh, right, Microsoft...
developers are more content to repackage old code, than to rewrite it. I think "employed-ness" has more to do with it than "contented-ness". If code works, and you have other priorities (features/bug fixes), you'd be double-plus INSANE to waste engineering time on it. While that may not apply to folks with.org and.edu addresses, it's definitely a fact of life in profe$$ional $oftware development.
Adobe had no issues writing new programs in Cocoa
And how, praytell, would you know that? Maybe gleaned from the same Apple Developer Marketing puffery that assured developers compiling OS X apps for Intel was as simple as checking a checkbox, and hitting build?
They also said, as recently as WWDC 2007, that they would DEFINITELY support 64-bit Carbon in OS X. Now, they're shanking Adobe (and anyone else who believed them), by 'decommitting' from their previous commitment.
I'm as much an Apple fanboy as most here (4 macs in my house, only 2 are for work), but don't blame Adobe for trusting Apple.
The speedup comes from the fact that, in addition to increasing the bits, AMD also added a bunch of extra registers to the spec.
Vendor-specific registers aren't the point (and I doubt whether Adobe spends much time on them, as "Optimized for Intel" as they've become).
The extra address space speeds things up by preventing (much) swapping/paging.
I have personally not coded in a multi-threading project but have the concepts down.
I admire your can-do attitude, but take your assuredness with a grain of salt. In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.
There once was time when debugging was part of your job. Now; someone else does that
?! Wherever that is, I'm glad I don't work there. My guys still have to debug.
That would indicate they're not writing this stuff with Apple's xcode tools at all, but rather, doing some kind of ports directly over from their Windows versions Your comment indicates that you don't develop Apple software, and are unfamiliar with 'Universal Binaries'. What tool would you choose, beside XCode, to 'port a windows app directly' to OS X?
Also, Adobe not supporting PPC macs anymore may have something to do with Apple moving to Intel two years ago.
Re:It's really not clear from this review...
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Yes, it's worth it. Although AE is the best generalist compositing tool out there that produces professional results (important, since "rebels" are likely to not have Nike Ad(TM) budgets).
I grew up in silicon valley [insert screed about disappearing orchards here]. One of the factors that keeps our area relevant is the networks of people who self-select, around a given technology. The video nerds at Apple and Adobe know each other, and the YouTube kids probably went to La Costena for burritos, same as the Googlers.
People and proximity still matter.
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I recently hired a CS masters graduate. He's really bright; otherwise, we wouldn't have hired him. He's doing the usual new guy "toilet-licking" tasks; massive integrates of required-but-unpopular technologies, whitebox testing, automation and application profiling. Someday, he'll get to work on tasks specifically related to his masters. Hopefully, his masters will prepare him for success in those pursuits. For today, he gets to earn his stripes, like any other recent hire.
While it's not exactly paced to keep the MTV generation glued to their seats, I adore Stephenson's writing style. Postulate: Maybe he's INTENTIONALLY making you go slowly, providing you with a surfeit of information, and making your brain work to place those made-up words. Maybe, by complaining about having to actually take time and experience the novel instead of flying through it like a Heroes marathon, you've identified yourself as...Extramuros. I enjoy the first-person viewpoint of the open-minded-and-curious-yet-emotionally-retarded main character, as he fumbles his way through profound events in his life. Not that it reminds me of anyone I know personally, mind you... Few writers actually USE language as deftly and deeply as does Stephenson. He gives me hope, and reminds me that we're not ALL illiterate yet. :)
Of course, I haven't finished yet. If a Shaftoe character crops up, I officially withdraw the nice things I've said about Anathem.
Whoa, then...then they're right too!!!
My team (which is American) has shown me that they actually prefer me (their manager) to be right, than popular. Strange, I know.
Nobody really gives a damn what fuels their cars
Demonstrably false. Many of us also care WHO fuels our cars.
...but since the content hasn't been indexed yet, and you can't possibly KNOW what's in every Flash file ever, your grounds for dismissing Flash are...debatable.
In my experience developing win/mac x-platform apps, Purify (Win), Instruments (OSX) and BoundsChecker (Win) have all been useful. They find obvious stuff, that might have led to other issues. Recommended.
False. Tens of thousands of people who use Photoshop to make a living every day could point out dozens of ways in which your sweeping generalization is inaccurate.
One example: Ever tried to place a fake sign on the side of a building, in Photoshop 5.0 (ten years ago)? It's hard. Try it in CS3; it's trivial. Another: Healing Brush. I could go on, but I'm no Photoshop guru...
Shot? Someone's a bit grumpy. Innovation at Adobe is far from dead; read some Siggraph papers sometime, and you'll see plenty of "@adobe.com" contact info. Besides, if Adobe was gone, who would we blame for anything Apple does wrong? Oh, right, Microsoft...
Okay, stipulated. Regardless, it's the memory address space that allows for the speed improvement when working with large files, not new JMP routines.
They say lots of things.
They also said, as recently as WWDC 2007, that they would DEFINITELY support 64-bit Carbon in OS X. Now, they're shanking Adobe (and anyone else who believed them), by 'decommitting' from their previous commitment.
I'm as much an Apple fanboy as most here (4 macs in my house, only 2 are for work), but don't blame Adobe for trusting Apple.The speedup comes from the fact that, in addition to increasing the bits, AMD also added a bunch of extra registers to the spec.
Vendor-specific registers aren't the point (and I doubt whether Adobe spends much time on them, as "Optimized for Intel" as they've become). The extra address space speeds things up by preventing (much) swapping/paging.AIR is web 3.0...buzzwords are mandatory.
I have personally not coded in a multi-threading project but have the concepts down.
I admire your can-do attitude, but take your assuredness with a grain of salt. In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.
There once was time when debugging was part of your job. Now; someone else does that
?! Wherever that is, I'm glad I don't work there. My guys still have to debug.
Yes, it's worth it. Although AE is the best generalist compositing tool out there that produces professional results (important, since "rebels" are likely to not have Nike Ad(TM) budgets).
I grew up in silicon valley [insert screed about disappearing orchards here]. One of the factors that keeps our area relevant is the networks of people who self-select, around a given technology. The video nerds at Apple and Adobe know each other, and the YouTube kids probably went to La Costena for burritos, same as the Googlers. People and proximity still matter.