This worth the news simply cause this is one of the few decent looking games for linux. Any linux purist (i.e. someone who has no dual boot) who likes computer (as opposed to console) games should try this, yes all ten of you. If not for any other reason then to encourage more developers to do this. If more developers do this it will indirectly improve code quality, cause programming a multi platform game/software requires a certain level of code quality. I hope linux and windows client here are developed separately.
I still prefer League Of Legends, mainly for it's more lighthearted design.
Seriously though, it was..well not 'nice'...but a right thing to do I suppose. I am not sure how old are these kids you're talking about. If they were 12-13, maybe using violence was not the best choice....but i suppose if they were around 18..and still bullying it is fair to say they deserve a beating.
But you are right, support from and adult or older sibling in these situations means a lot. The worst thing about these situations is that the bullied person starts feeling like they are on their own.
I disagree with your analogies...especially the car analogy. Every craftsmen (in broadest terns, cooks, mechanics,programmers etc) needs or has great benefits from substantial understand of the abstraction level below his is working on.
By level below I mean that Automotive engineer benefits greatly from knowledge of physics, probably mostly those involving friction and heating. Cause car parts are built around physics principles.
A car driver would benefit from knowledge of automotive engineering...a driver who understands how car works is GENERALLY a better driver.
A pizza cook greatly benefits from knowledge of spice production (chemistry would be two levels below), which spices go together, what plants are used. Differences in dough...some need to be baked for a longer time, and knowing or having insight to the reason why (as opposed to empirical knowledge) helps a lot.
On the other hand a spice maker WOULD greatly benefit from knowledge of chemistry, as chemistry is closer to the his level of abstraction then it is to the pizza makers'.
Now programming and mathematics...it depends. If you are making new algorithms, compilers, frameworks, database engines you definitely benefit from knowledge of maths, and cant make a good database engine or compiler without knowledge of maths.
A web programmer, is on a higher level of abstraction...than database engine designer, and has less need for maths.
So it depends, on which level of abstraction as a programmer do you want to concentrate.
Do you want to make new and faster encryption modules, or do you want to be an application designer? Or maybe be jack of all trades kind of programmer?
Programming has evolved. and the term 'programmer' has become to general to have any use in discussions like this. It's like farmers and cooks, they are both food producers...but their jobs are quite different and require different knowledge. Nobody mixes those two professions up.
So in programming you have 'farmers' which code the lowest level of software... drivers, compilers, frameworks
and programming 'cooks' which use what 'farmers' grow to make 'dishes'. or use frameworks to make applications.
Analogies are traps, so dont read too much into my analogy...and don't look too closely.
Just to complete the picture after using the same Data presented in the article and summing up all internet explorers and all firfoxes we get ie first column firefox the second chrome third and others fourth
So as always with statistics it can be skinned anyway you want it.
For example why are firefox 3 and firefox 3.5 being treated as two different browsers. They are both Firefox version 3 If we were to add those to statistics Firefox 3 would have roughly the same share as internet explorer 8.0 that is 22.30%
Version numbering is affecting the statistics here, MS doesn't use the same philosophy as Firefox when it comes to versioning. MS never had internet explorer 6.5...but it had internet explorer sp1 and sp2...which are as different from each other as firefox 3 and firefox 3.5. Yet internet explorer 6.0 is displayed as one browser.
Once IE 8 receives a sp or a major update should its statistics be split to ie 8 with sp and ie 8 without sp
How different two versions of the same browser have to be different to justify the splitting of their statistics.
The aim of this thread is actually to promote Google as synonym of good. You know like band-aid or in use xerox-ing stuff.
You'll see, in a few years people will be saying gentleman 1:very google morning to you, sir gentleman 2:Google morning, status update? gentleman 1:I had a fail of a day
The problem with sims is that if you make it too real, too good of a simulation it's going to be as boring as your life. Which is what,i believe, happened in that MMO.
Did one update make unions possible? Could you organize strikes?
Imagine, The Great Depression MMO. You could rise from being ordinary worker to being union leader, or you could be a cop just going to strikes and beating up people.
yes...we have doubt about fingerprints NOW, but at a point in time people were 100% certain in fingerprint evidence. This a very logical procession of events. There will be nothing that will ever be 100% reliable.
I agree, but it was only question of time. If you're (as human race) researching cloning it's logical that dna replication will be discovered along the way. It's like when tv was invented it was logical and very foreseeable that color tv's will exist at some point in time.
Then again this will make crime series interesting again. CSI writers rejoice.
The irony is that I found about Taleb through Gladwell, I think it was an article "Blowing up" or something like that:) That's why I appreciate Gladwell the most, he pointed out a few interesting people to me.
Onto your point, yes i think Taleb spoke about Gladwell, there was a quarell/dispute between those two. I've read only blink and tipping point by gladwell. Frankly I am not interested in reading more by him. But I think that in tipping point he intentionally or unintentionally showed very well how success is very fragile. That working hard isn't enough, and that a lot of things are purely circumstantial. I actually think Gladwell did decent research in his books, he went out and talked to some people, he didn't sit in his room and make up stuff. So his books (the ones i read) are interesting purely cause of all the people he talked to.
I guess. There is not much point in perusing this discussion. In person, maybe over internet, no.
For example i disliked Freakonomics, it was too far fetched. It makes great leaps to connect random events, Tho I did learn the interesting story of KKK and superman radio show. But the book (freakonomics) is the perfect example of the behavior criticized by Taleb in fooled by randomness. Connecting two random events by series of leaps of faith. Tipping point might make similar point. However it claims that for big things to happen a lot of things have to align. Nothing new, I know, as I said I didn't LOVE tipping point I found the choice of the stories interesting, maybe not the reason why are they told.
I will not continue this discussion, as I have ran out of the books I have read.;)
I don't admire gladwell, but tipping point was an interesting read. Not brilliant, but it felt like an interesting conversation with a friend who had one of those crazy but interesting ideas. It made interesting observations, but made a conclusions I didn't entirely agree with. However it made me think and look up things, people and ideas.
What bothers me about your post is that it says nothing. You have two paragraphs of cynicism, with typical array of cynical adjective: 'Mensa bottom feeder', 'Hack', 'Soft journalism'.... You know, being cynical doesn't make you wise.
I haven't read Anderson. However I don't understand people's problem with someone having an idea. Gladwell has ideas, he tries to put them together. Are they a bit dan brownish at times, yes. He is however doing something constructive and entertaining to read. And inspiring. He inspires people to write even if to prove him wrong. Progress in science and progress in general depends on going down the wrong paths as much as on going down the right ones. Gladwell helps the whole process of progress even if it's by writing things that turn out to be wrong.
Cynical people on other hand don't do much just stand on the sidelines screaming "You're stupid!". They offer no alternate answer or make effort to do anything, but glorify their passivity as wisdom.
In general I am bothered by people's binary opinions. Someone's either a genius or hack, without anything in between. In some people's minds apparently one wrong opinion makes all your other opinions and achievement worthless. I bet someone will find a grammatical error or typo in this post and use that as an argument that everything I sad is wrong.
I agree, use reason and e-mails (to avoid he said she said situations) and quote other people as much as you can. If priorities are a problem ask your boss. If your boss doesn't want to be bothered all the time , establish a procedure which he/she will approve which will describe how your priorities are handled. Be simple with it. Use First in first out system, unless the request is critical and may endanger the system. If people complain why aren't you doing something about their problem, quote the procedure. IT people are supposed to have very strong sense of logic, use that.
It wont be easy, especially in smaller companies where nepotism is usually very prevalent.
And since it's java it will be painfully slow and resource consuming,
but stable i suppose.
Back to the original discussion web apps are better as far as distribution is concerned, once you distribute a web app to servers you KNOW everyone is using the new version and not some old version with a potential bug or exploit.
Then again, web apps are easier to exploit, it's amazing what you can do with http headers.
Yes, as someone mentioned, the problems with cellphones is that people don't fully use them. Most people let phones control them. For a while I felt uneasy about not answering phone calls right away, but now i don't really care. My phones on silent most of the time. If I am available it's usually next to me, and I can see it blink or feel it vibrate.
If I got the time I'll answer if don't, I'll call you beck...i have your number.
And here's tip...when assigning a ring tone to people you don't like assign a file containing...silence.
Slashdot Mirror
1 Elo BenchmarkOpen 0.723834
2 EdROpen 0.729125
3 whiteknightOpen 0.731656
so at this moment elo is back on top.
Could it be that people have been done some quickly jumpening to conclusions?
I guess george is working at /. now.
This worth the news simply cause this is one of the few decent looking games for linux.
Any linux purist (i.e. someone who has no dual boot) who likes computer (as opposed to console) games should try this, yes all ten of you.
If not for any other reason then to encourage more developers to do this.
If more developers do this it will indirectly improve code quality, cause programming a multi platform game/software requires a certain level of code quality.
I hope linux and windows client here are developed separately.
I still prefer League Of Legends, mainly for it's more lighthearted design.
or pedophilia.
Seriously though, it was ..well not 'nice'...but a right thing to do I suppose. I am not sure how old are these kids you're talking about. If they were 12-13, maybe using violence was not the best choice....but i suppose if they were around 18..and still bullying it is fair to say they deserve a beating.
But you are right, support from and adult or older sibling in these situations means a lot. The worst thing about these situations is that the bullied person starts feeling like they are on their own.
at the bottom of TFA there are links to related articles...and there's one which talks about something i tried to explain here. It is not exactly same, but it's probably much clearer then i was.
http://www.skorks.com/2010/03/the-difference-between-a-developer-a-programmer-and-a-computer-scientist/
I disagree with your analogies...especially the car analogy. Every craftsmen (in broadest terns, cooks, mechanics,programmers etc) needs or has great benefits from substantial understand of the abstraction level below his is working on.
By level below I mean that
Automotive engineer benefits greatly from knowledge of physics, probably mostly those involving friction and heating. Cause car parts are built around physics principles.
A car driver would benefit from knowledge of automotive engineering...a driver who understands how car works is GENERALLY a better driver.
A pizza cook greatly benefits from knowledge of spice production (chemistry would be two levels below), which spices go together, what plants are used. Differences in dough...some need to be baked for a longer time, and knowing or having insight to the reason why (as opposed to empirical knowledge) helps a lot.
On the other hand a spice maker WOULD greatly benefit from knowledge of chemistry, as chemistry is closer to the his level of abstraction then it is to the pizza makers'.
Now programming and mathematics...it depends.
If you are making new algorithms, compilers, frameworks, database engines you definitely benefit from knowledge of maths, and cant make a good database engine or compiler without knowledge of maths.
A web programmer, is on a higher level of abstraction...than database engine designer, and has less need for maths.
So it depends, on which level of abstraction as a programmer do you want to concentrate.
Do you want to make new and faster encryption modules, or do you want to be an application designer? Or maybe be jack of all trades kind of programmer?
Programming has evolved. and the term 'programmer' has become to general to have any use in discussions like this. It's like farmers and cooks, they are both food producers...but their jobs are quite different and require different knowledge. Nobody mixes those two professions up.
So in programming you have 'farmers'
which code the lowest level of software... drivers, compilers, frameworks
and programming 'cooks'
which use what 'farmers' grow to make 'dishes'.
or use frameworks to make applications.
Analogies are traps, so dont read too much into my analogy...and don't look too closely.
Just to complete the picture after using the same Data presented in the article and summing up all internet explorers and all firfoxes we get
ie first column firefox the second chrome third and others fourth
as you can see in past months ie has steadly lost market share( lost 12 %) while firefox...has been..actually pretty steady.
Chrome is the biggest winner in past few months
So as always with statistics it can be skinned anyway you want it.
For example why are firefox 3 and firefox 3.5 being treated as two different browsers. They are both Firefox version 3
If we were to add those to statistics Firefox 3 would have roughly the same share as internet explorer 8.0 that is 22.30%
Version numbering is affecting the statistics here, MS doesn't use the same philosophy as Firefox when it comes to versioning.
MS never had internet explorer 6.5...but it had internet explorer sp1 and sp2...which are as different from each other as firefox 3 and firefox 3.5. Yet internet explorer 6.0 is displayed as one browser.
Once IE 8 receives a sp or a major update should its statistics be split to ie 8 with sp and ie 8 without sp
How different two versions of the same browser have to be different to justify the splitting of their statistics.
or...just buy it
They're very Google people
The aim of this thread is actually to promote Google as synonym of good. You know like band-aid or in use xerox-ing stuff.
You'll see, in a few years people will be saying
gentleman 1:very google morning to you, sir
gentleman 2:Google morning, status update?
gentleman 1:I had a fail of a day
Agreed.
I would definitely play it if they have Tim Curry as a playable class.
The problem with sims is that if you make it too real, too good of a simulation it's going to be as boring as your life. Which is what,i believe, happened in that MMO.
Did one update make unions possible?
Could you organize strikes?
Imagine, The Great Depression MMO. You could rise from being ordinary worker to being union leader, or you could be a cop just going to strikes and beating up people.
yes...we have doubt about fingerprints NOW, but at a point in time people were 100% certain in fingerprint evidence. This a very logical procession of events. There will be nothing that will ever be 100% reliable.
That's called progress.
I agree, but it was only question of time. If you're (as human race) researching cloning it's logical that dna replication will be discovered along the way.
It's like when tv was invented it was logical and very foreseeable that color tv's will exist at some point in time.
Then again this will make crime series interesting again.
CSI writers rejoice.
I always liked the smell of money, now i know why.
So it's not the weed..it's the binging after that has negative effects!
The irony is that I found about Taleb through Gladwell, I think it was an article "Blowing up" or something like that :) That's why I appreciate Gladwell the most, he pointed out a few interesting people to me.
Onto your point, yes i think Taleb spoke about Gladwell, there was a quarell/dispute between those two. I've read only blink and tipping point by gladwell. Frankly I am not interested in reading more by him. But I think that in tipping point he intentionally or unintentionally showed very well how success is very fragile. That working hard isn't enough, and that a lot of things are purely circumstantial. I actually think Gladwell did decent research in his books, he went out and talked to some people, he didn't sit in his room and make up stuff. So his books (the ones i read) are interesting purely cause of all the people he talked to.
I guess. There is not much point in perusing this discussion. In person, maybe over internet, no.
For example i disliked Freakonomics, it was too far fetched. It makes great leaps to connect random events, Tho I did learn the interesting story of KKK and superman radio show. But the book (freakonomics) is the perfect example of the behavior criticized by Taleb in fooled by randomness. Connecting two random events by series of leaps of faith. Tipping point might make similar point. However it claims that for big things to happen a lot of things have to align. Nothing new, I know, as I said I didn't LOVE tipping point I found the choice of the stories interesting, maybe not the reason why are they told.
I will not continue this discussion, as I have ran out of the books I have read. ;)
I don't admire gladwell, but tipping point was an interesting read. Not brilliant, but it felt like an interesting conversation with a friend who had one of those crazy but interesting ideas. It made interesting observations, but made a conclusions I didn't entirely agree with. However it made me think and look up things, people and ideas.
What bothers me about your post is that it says nothing. You have two paragraphs of cynicism, with typical array of cynical adjective: 'Mensa bottom feeder', 'Hack', 'Soft journalism'.... You know, being cynical doesn't make you wise.
I haven't read Anderson. However I don't understand people's problem with someone having an idea. Gladwell has ideas, he tries to put them together. Are they a bit dan brownish at times, yes. He is however doing something constructive and entertaining to read. And inspiring. He inspires people to write even if to prove him wrong. Progress in science and progress in general depends on going down the wrong paths as much as on going down the right ones. Gladwell helps the whole process of progress even if it's by writing things that turn out to be wrong.
Cynical people on other hand don't do much just stand on the sidelines screaming "You're stupid!". They offer no alternate answer or make effort to do anything, but glorify their passivity as wisdom.
In general I am bothered by people's binary opinions. Someone's either a genius or hack, without anything in between. In some people's minds apparently one wrong opinion makes all your other opinions and achievement worthless. I bet someone will find a grammatical error or typo in this post and use that as an argument that everything I sad is wrong.
I agree, use reason and e-mails (to avoid he said she said situations) and quote other people as much as you can. If priorities are a problem ask your boss.
If your boss doesn't want to be bothered all the time , establish a procedure which he/she will approve which will describe how your priorities are handled. Be simple with it. Use First in first out system, unless the request is critical and may endanger the system. If people complain why aren't you doing something about their problem, quote the procedure.
IT people are supposed to have very strong sense of logic, use that.
It wont be easy, especially in smaller companies where nepotism is usually very prevalent.
Good luck!
Yes and shareware tattoos. Which will have shareware version only written across them once the trail period runs out.
love his contribution to the foo fighters.
And since it's java it will be painfully slow and resource consuming,
but stable i suppose.
Back to the original discussion web apps are better as far as distribution is concerned, once you distribute a web app to servers you KNOW everyone is using the new version and not some old version with a potential bug or exploit.
Then again, web apps are easier to exploit, it's amazing what you can do with http headers.
if i wore a shirt with
Siht,
P's,
Fcuk,
Cnut,
CokcSucekr,
MotehrFcuker
Teats
written on it?
These laws are fun.
or is this just a gimmick to popularize Battlestar galactica and its frak.
Yes, as someone mentioned, the problems with cellphones is that people don't fully use them. Most people let phones control them. For a while I felt uneasy about not answering phone calls right away, but now i don't really care. My phones on silent most of the time. If I am available it's usually next to me, and I can see it blink or feel it vibrate.
If I got the time I'll answer if don't, I'll call you beck...i have your number.
And here's tip...when assigning a ring tone to people you don't like assign a file containing...silence.
good point by that logic the helicopter is celebrating its 515th year, since da Vinci had an idea and technical drawings for one.