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Why do people spend so much effort fighting over which tool/language is better?
So that we can learn from our developments and mistakes, and then progress.
The truth is - existing software quality sucks.
And without discussion we'll never find out how to improve that.
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except, we can't call it c hash, because when we see hash, we smoke it, and frankly, i've tried smoking c#, and it's damned harsh. not worth it at all.
Re:Because pseudo-compiled languages are better..
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You can get garbage collection and bounds checking in fully compiled languages (such as C++,) too. Simply install a garbage collector, which generally does something silly like overloading global new, or write it into a class with operator new.
Bounds checking? vector.at(), not vector[], simpleton. Learn yr tools, anakin!
I tend to agree with the above poster that everyone should have written to the bare metal at least once. A good simple well documented well emulated learner platform which provides a lot of neat convenience functions but which still makes you handle low-level stuff is the GameBoy Advance.
If you'd like to get started using the AGB, get the GCC build "DevKitAdvance" rather than using the 3.5 target (better lnkscript, utilities); get the emulator "VBA" (win, linux, mak), and get the document GBATEK.
Are the Tivo watching habits really worth anything. Right now, as I sit here at work typing this message, my Tivo is on. It has no idea if the power to the TV is on or off though. It THINKS the digital cable box is on channel X, but I could have turned it or the TV off, or changed the digital box with a different remote.
I suspect that since you haven't touched the remote in six hours, they've realized it's not in use.
That's because you don't know how Nintendo treats developers. While I'm no big Microsoft fan, the way Nintendo has put its iron foot down in the past is what drove the developers to Sony in such an incredible exodus.
Go read at WarioWorld.com some time, and realize that this is after nearly ten years of reflection on what their behavior towards developers has caused. Try reading about what the Nintendo Seal of Quality really meant to developers back in the day, why the shell companies used to exist for publishers, et cetera.
Yes, because while Sony's platform has almost ten times as many games (that number is real!,) clearly it's one publisher that makes the difference.
If you want to hang your hopes on one publisher, hang it on EA, not Rockstar. Rockstar has two big hit games. EA has five times as many big hit franchises.
XBox' only hope is XBox live, because Microsoft has gotten the network right the first time, and everyone else is juggling mouth rocks trying to catch up. Moreover, Microsoft has done a magnificent job of making the network work across games (admittedly via a heavy hand towards developers) and has gotten a large number of high quality network games out to push the system.
I hold no opinion on the weight of such a network versus an order of magnitude more games, including almost all of the popular hits and virtually all of the single-platform hits. The call is too close. It's a tipping point - if it gets momentum, which it has been, it becomes a Juggernaut.
Sony better have the network ready with the PS3, or that PSP had better knock the AGB and DS completely off of the map, or else there's gonna be trouble.
Yeah, because if Microsoft got into the *joystick* market... oh, wait.
It's really so that they could keep the prices of their console joysticks high, to help ameliorate the losses on the console itself. Microsoft would stand to lose a lot if cheapasses like me just started buying $5 USB joysticks.
Actually, it lasted for almost a second. Remember, half-lives go back up as you reach predicted islands of stability, one of which happens to be at p=126.
Area 51 conspiracy theorists are to be trusted regarding the nature of cutting edge materials research in the way that the scriptwriters for Buffy can be counted on to describe the sociological impacts of Vlad Tepes' madness on the nearby royal courts.
Conspiracy authors are one of three things: entertainers, intrepid reporters, or madmen. Given that the best evidence they've been able to cough up seems to consist of Alien Autopsy, Bryant Gumball Presents "Aliens Abducted my Credibility," and plots to hypnotize the entire population of China into jumping up and down simultaneously to knock the world out of orbit (admittedly, I read the tabloids in the checkout line,) I think we can rule out reporters.
Which leaves you with two options: are you believing an entertainer (rube) or a madman (sheep) ?
No, no. The Unpentium has to be a computer; therefore, Macs, Abaci and supernumerates are disallowed. Curiously, this leaves Alan Greenspan in the running.
Yes, of course they name it with its latin ordinal while they confirm it, and then they'll name it properly. That's how it's worked ever since we recognized the lanthanides.
Dig dug. Qix. Q-bert. Panic! Burgertime (admittedly, burgertime does have its realism moments; the last time I was being chased by a giant sunny-side-up egg, I did in fact kill it by crushing it under a gigantic slab of lettuce, though under entirely less preposterous circumstances.) Pit drop. Arcanus. Anything that "wraps" (Joust, etc.) Arkanoid. Boulderdash. Yar's revenge. Jumpman. Two levels from Pigs in Space. Various Epyx and Spinnaker games. Gyruss.
Unless by depart from our physics you mean that the yellow dot-eating circle all of a sudden can go through the big blue maze bars. I mean, that's pretty realistic, and Pac, nobody's ever heard of that game, Man.
Hint: if you want less realistic games, try playing a game on something older than a Playstation.
It never ceases to amaze me how many people fail to make the connection that these are historic Japanese cultural things. How would you expect them to react to a powdered wig that gave you impunity, a burning shotglass with three beans which made any enemy a friend, or a sword which when pulled out of the ground made you the King?
Just because you haven't read their stories doesn't make their cultural references nonsense. Grow up.
Exactly what is it about delivering pizza that makes it something that you need to "swallow your pride" in order to do it?
The customer's attitudes. Good people that have never had problematic service industry jobs rarely understand this. One person in three treats you like shit, and makes active efforts to humiliate you for any problem be it your fault or not. If the other drivers or the kitchen are falling behind, you hear about it all night.
This is surprisingly humiliating on short order, and after not too long you begin to struggle to keep your self esteem.
But none of these facts makes it shameful or somehow dehumanizing.
The ones you listed? No. But they're not the motivating forces here. A slaughterhouse job sucks, but not because it fails to be glamorous, challenging, stimulating or fiscally rewarding. It's important to identify the key factors in awfulness before challenging them.
You should never consider yourself too good to take a job, if you are unemployed.
He didn't. He just looked at them with horror which, I can assure you from personal experience, is well-earned. If I ever go destitute, I'll go back to a job like that, and I'll be cheery and have a good work ethic about it. But I sure as hell won't look forward to it. And I don't think I'd keep faces on Slashdot about it, either. On slashdot, honesty > politesse.
Heh. Homebrew games on closed platforms have been getting stronger every year. Have a look at pdroms.com, gbadev.org, devrs.com, et cetera. We all hold competitions like this all the time. It's what keeps us going.
That's not the point. If the subconscious didn't deal with a greater volume of data than the conscious, then it wouldn't see the embedded frames, and subconscious advertising wouldn't work at all.
What you're pointing out is that the conscious mind is more gulliable than the subconscious mind.
Well, we're not actually so clear as you suggest on what the subconscious has access to or does. However, what you just said is demonsrtably false; the subconscious deals with a greater volume of data from the real world than the conscious does, hence the viability of techniques like subliminal advertising.
What I say here is opinion, and I'm not an expert in any of the five fields that could claim authority here. However, my opinion of the matter is that the subconscious is the architecture upon which the conscious is built. It handles parsing the data from the senses into usable streams, it filters data from memory on the conscious' request, and it performs upkeep during sleep cycle to sort, key, cull and compress the containers containing today's to-be-shelved data.
As such, there would be good argument for just sleeping on it. Besides getting out of the rut that one is apparently stuck in, your brain has had time to collate, sort and cross-reference the data, which may give you a way to reduce the equivalent of paging to disk. That would have a *tremendous* impact on your ability to handle a situation.
That's all based on personal experience and belief regarding how my thought processes work. I'm curious to see how others feel.
If you had a superior lawnmower that could mow two stripes in a lawn at once, how do you think a client would react to being charged per hour for each mower?
The way the billing and salary system works is that implicit extra work per hour is billed in hourly rate, not extra phantom hours. If you can do 200% the work that an "average" programmer can do per hour, charge 175% the "average" programmer's cost. In that way, both you and the employer win.
You seem not to understand the difference between being cancelled and being over. Evangelion had a closed-arc plot; it was written with an end. Many series are written that way in Japan, including virtually every series the Anime nerds over here will name.
Iron Chef was no such beast. Like an American serial, it was intended to be milked dry. The carrier network has a history of cancelling shows BEFORE THEIR TIME while they're popular.
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Why do people spend so much effort fighting over which tool/language is better?
So that we can learn from our developments and mistakes, and then progress.
The truth is - existing software quality sucks.
And without discussion we'll never find out how to improve that.
except, we can't call it c hash, because when we see hash, we smoke it, and frankly, i've tried smoking c#, and it's damned harsh. not worth it at all.
You can get garbage collection and bounds checking in fully compiled languages (such as C++,) too. Simply install a garbage collector, which generally does something silly like overloading global new, or write it into a class with operator new.
Bounds checking? vector.at(), not vector[], simpleton. Learn yr tools, anakin!
The most primitive? No. It's the most complex. You don't build other gates out of it, you reduce it to other gates.
I tend to agree with the above poster that everyone should have written to the bare metal at least once. A good simple well documented well emulated learner platform which provides a lot of neat convenience functions but which still makes you handle low-level stuff is the GameBoy Advance.
If you'd like to get started using the AGB, get the GCC build "DevKitAdvance" rather than using the 3.5 target (better lnkscript, utilities); get the emulator "VBA" (win, linux, mak), and get the document GBATEK.
Are the Tivo watching habits really worth anything. Right now, as I sit here at work typing this message, my Tivo is on. It has no idea if the power to the TV is on or off though. It THINKS the digital cable box is on channel X, but I could have turned it or the TV off, or changed the digital box with a different remote.
I suspect that since you haven't touched the remote in six hours, they've realized it's not in use.
Heh. I'm 6'3". You must be six foot forty.
Anybody over Microsoft at this point. IMHO.
That's because you don't know how Nintendo treats developers. While I'm no big Microsoft fan, the way Nintendo has put its iron foot down in the past is what drove the developers to Sony in such an incredible exodus.
Go read at WarioWorld.com some time, and realize that this is after nearly ten years of reflection on what their behavior towards developers has caused. Try reading about what the Nintendo Seal of Quality really meant to developers back in the day, why the shell companies used to exist for publishers, et cetera.
I loved the original controller.
What are you, the big-hand actor from that Yahoo! dating commercial?
Yes, because while Sony's platform has almost ten times as many games (that number is real!,) clearly it's one publisher that makes the difference.
If you want to hang your hopes on one publisher, hang it on EA, not Rockstar. Rockstar has two big hit games. EA has five times as many big hit franchises.
XBox' only hope is XBox live, because Microsoft has gotten the network right the first time, and everyone else is juggling mouth rocks trying to catch up. Moreover, Microsoft has done a magnificent job of making the network work across games (admittedly via a heavy hand towards developers) and has gotten a large number of high quality network games out to push the system.
I hold no opinion on the weight of such a network versus an order of magnitude more games, including almost all of the popular hits and virtually all of the single-platform hits. The call is too close. It's a tipping point - if it gets momentum, which it has been, it becomes a Juggernaut.
Sony better have the network ready with the PS3, or that PSP had better knock the AGB and DS completely off of the map, or else there's gonna be trouble.
Yeah, because if Microsoft got into the *joystick* market... oh, wait.
It's really so that they could keep the prices of their console joysticks high, to help ameliorate the losses on the console itself. Microsoft would stand to lose a lot if cheapasses like me just started buying $5 USB joysticks.
Actually, it lasted for almost a second. Remember, half-lives go back up as you reach predicted islands of stability, one of which happens to be at p=126.
Area 51 conspiracy theorists are to be trusted regarding the nature of cutting edge materials research in the way that the scriptwriters for Buffy can be counted on to describe the sociological impacts of Vlad Tepes' madness on the nearby royal courts.
Conspiracy authors are one of three things: entertainers, intrepid reporters, or madmen. Given that the best evidence they've been able to cough up seems to consist of Alien Autopsy, Bryant Gumball Presents "Aliens Abducted my Credibility," and plots to hypnotize the entire population of China into jumping up and down simultaneously to knock the world out of orbit (admittedly, I read the tabloids in the checkout line,) I think we can rule out reporters.
Which leaves you with two options: are you believing an entertainer (rube) or a madman (sheep) ?
No, no. The Unpentium has to be a computer; therefore, Macs, Abaci and supernumerates are disallowed. Curiously, this leaves Alan Greenspan in the running.
That got +5 informative how?
Yes, of course they name it with its latin ordinal while they confirm it, and then they'll name it properly. That's how it's worked ever since we recognized the lanthanides.
Remind me to call you when there's a murder.
I mean, is this difficult for someone?
Dig dug. Qix. Q-bert. Panic! Burgertime (admittedly, burgertime does have its realism moments; the last time I was being chased by a giant sunny-side-up egg, I did in fact kill it by crushing it under a gigantic slab of lettuce, though under entirely less preposterous circumstances.) Pit drop. Arcanus. Anything that "wraps" (Joust, etc.) Arkanoid. Boulderdash. Yar's revenge. Jumpman. Two levels from Pigs in Space. Various Epyx and Spinnaker games. Gyruss.
Unless by depart from our physics you mean that the yellow dot-eating circle all of a sudden can go through the big blue maze bars. I mean, that's pretty realistic, and Pac, nobody's ever heard of that game, Man.
Hint: if you want less realistic games, try playing a game on something older than a Playstation.
It never ceases to amaze me how many people fail to make the connection that these are historic Japanese cultural things. How would you expect them to react to a powdered wig that gave you impunity, a burning shotglass with three beans which made any enemy a friend, or a sword which when pulled out of the ground made you the King?
Just because you haven't read their stories doesn't make their cultural references nonsense. Grow up.
Exactly what is it about delivering pizza that makes it something that you need to "swallow your pride" in order to do it?
The customer's attitudes. Good people that have never had problematic service industry jobs rarely understand this. One person in three treats you like shit, and makes active efforts to humiliate you for any problem be it your fault or not. If the other drivers or the kitchen are falling behind, you hear about it all night.
This is surprisingly humiliating on short order, and after not too long you begin to struggle to keep your self esteem.
But none of these facts makes it shameful or somehow dehumanizing.
The ones you listed? No. But they're not the motivating forces here. A slaughterhouse job sucks, but not because it fails to be glamorous, challenging, stimulating or fiscally rewarding. It's important to identify the key factors in awfulness before challenging them.
You should never consider yourself too good to take a job, if you are unemployed.
He didn't. He just looked at them with horror which, I can assure you from personal experience, is well-earned. If I ever go destitute, I'll go back to a job like that, and I'll be cheery and have a good work ethic about it. But I sure as hell won't look forward to it. And I don't think I'd keep faces on Slashdot about it, either. On slashdot, honesty > politesse.
Heh. Homebrew games on closed platforms have been getting stronger every year. Have a look at pdroms.com, gbadev.org, devrs.com, et cetera. We all hold competitions like this all the time. It's what keeps us going.
Try:
Middle Line Is Borked
Syllabically too short
and hangs to the left
(notably, there are several other forms of Haiku other than 5-7-5)
That's not the point. If the subconscious didn't deal with a greater volume of data than the conscious, then it wouldn't see the embedded frames, and subconscious advertising wouldn't work at all.
What you're pointing out is that the conscious mind is more gulliable than the subconscious mind.
Well, we're not actually so clear as you suggest on what the subconscious has access to or does. However, what you just said is demonsrtably false; the subconscious deals with a greater volume of data from the real world than the conscious does, hence the viability of techniques like subliminal advertising.
What I say here is opinion, and I'm not an expert in any of the five fields that could claim authority here. However, my opinion of the matter is that the subconscious is the architecture upon which the conscious is built. It handles parsing the data from the senses into usable streams, it filters data from memory on the conscious' request, and it performs upkeep during sleep cycle to sort, key, cull and compress the containers containing today's to-be-shelved data.
As such, there would be good argument for just sleeping on it. Besides getting out of the rut that one is apparently stuck in, your brain has had time to collate, sort and cross-reference the data, which may give you a way to reduce the equivalent of paging to disk. That would have a *tremendous* impact on your ability to handle a situation.
That's all based on personal experience and belief regarding how my thought processes work. I'm curious to see how others feel.
If you had a superior lawnmower that could mow two stripes in a lawn at once, how do you think a client would react to being charged per hour for each mower?
The way the billing and salary system works is that implicit extra work per hour is billed in hourly rate, not extra phantom hours. If you can do 200% the work that an "average" programmer can do per hour, charge 175% the "average" programmer's cost. In that way, both you and the employer win.
You seem not to understand the difference between being cancelled and being over. Evangelion had a closed-arc plot; it was written with an end. Many series are written that way in Japan, including virtually every series the Anime nerds over here will name.
Iron Chef was no such beast. Like an American serial, it was intended to be milked dry. The carrier network has a history of cancelling shows BEFORE THEIR TIME while they're popular.
At what point do Angel and good writing intersect?