I had still been playing some civ 4 in concurrency with civ 5, but the biggest draw for that bundle was civ 3. I can't put the Civ smack down, ever since civ 1 on the Amiga. I still have a copy of civ2 floating around somewhere...
The beta doesn't suck. The slow cantankerous site form the 90's sucks. Every armchair webdev who thinks they know best sucks. The fact that there are 300 posts in this thread at +5 informative without a single real criticism should speak volumes. Ignore the noise, and do the redesign.
Seriously. Tweaks I'm sure are necessary. The rest of the hatred is bandwagoning noise and bullshit. Take the real criticisms (if any) and listen. To all the jerkwads with the hashtag "fuckthebeta" nonsense and petulant "But they're gonna change it anyways! boo hoo me! I'll just go to reddit!", fuck off. You'll still be able to post "frosty piss!" just as easily on the beta as you are on this old dinosaur.
My apologies - I assumed that any discussion that involved opinions on coding languages would be immediately understood to be completely subjective, anecdotal, and most likely offensive to someone. I forgot that this is slashdot.
It's been a decade since I've done any Objective-C, but, coming from a C++ background, among others, the advice I found useful was to think of it as a way to get C to do smalltalk, not a way to add message passing to C++.
Smalltalk was a little before my time. I learned OOP on Java (yikes!) and Python then got a job doing C++ (even more yikes). All the objective C I did was on my own. It also didn't help that the mac I had was an old macbook with tiny screen - it makes storyboarding and XCode awful to use, and I never got ninja enough with the syntax to just slam it out in vim. I got the feeling it could be a language I could learn to like, but after I hopped off the Apple bandwagon at the Iphone 4 and got a droid I went droid API and never looked back.
Obscure syntax, lack of quality stack overflow answers to questions, terrible API, reliance on XCode...I found it an absolute nightmare, and I code in C++.
There are a lot of jobs out there for "non-sexy" coding, like C++ or even Ada. One of my classmates managed to get on with Boeing doing Ada programming. Ada! He had to move to Oklahoma City (which is a serious change for a West Coast kid), but the program is funded through 2046 or something. It isn't Rails or the next craptastic web language, but its solid unsexy well paying work for as long as he wants it.
There are still bulwarks of coding being done here in the US. I just recently graduated with a CS degree and had no problem finding employment here in the states, with a family and grey hair.
I think the AC above, talking about 70 hour crunch times is closer to the mark. H1b visas means getting young Chinese and Indian employees for low-end salaried pay but who routinely work much longer days (as well as being well trained) than most typical US college grads. At least, that is what I see in the company that hired me. However, you have to be in an area actively searching for talent or be willing/able to relocate, and not every city has a thriving tech sector.
What does something I wrote while in a particularly good mood have to do with this conversation?
Also... stalk much, bro?
Seriously? Stalking? Grow up, kid. You link to your website in your profile. Its the web. I know it must be confusing to millennials like yourself that never lived in a society where there was privacy. BTW, cool steampunk speakers and homemade guitar amp.
I can't draw all the lines for you. If you can't figure out why that link was applicable, I got nothing for you. I didn't see this thread past reply two as a "conversation". I replied in a manner to test troll potential. From my standpoint I was confirmed in that hypothesis. Nothing wrong with trolling occasionally. But if you seriously consider this a conversation, I'll play along some more...
To start - make a point and clarify it if the person you are responding to doesn't seem to understand what you are really trying to say. Real conversations happen a lot easier when you lose the hard-on for rebuttal and try to actually listen to what is being said. I clarified my point into a succinct "I think they are ugly and would like something that looks nicer." You clarified your point into line-by-line spasms and a refusal to acknowledge that your original "point" could be read as antagonistic.
So, you want to try again? Or is it enough for you to high five your bros and proclaim troll victory?
I would argue that your point was tangential from the start. You took my point of wanting a less intrusive, more natural looking piece of kit straight to "ZOMG Think of the poor childrens! Perverts armed with google glass! News at eleven!". My follow on suggestions/desciptions were meant to be in the same absurd, vacuous realm. I simply was trying to state that I would prefer it to not be horribly ugly and obviously intrusive to everyone around the people wearing these.
You didn't really suggest that Google glass has "nefarious uses". Your suggested the reason that someone (me, in this case) might want a less intrusive device was to clandestinely film children at the playground. You then went on to say "well, I'm only half joking since I can't know for sure that you aren't a pervert".
If you were only addressing a concern that Google glass can have bad uses, then all I can reply is that, sure, you are absolutely right. You just have to ask yourself is it worth being constantly paranoid about? I guess you have to decide whether Google is the Devil incarnate, sent to enslave us all with their very ugly eyewear, or whether they are simply a tech company trying to hit the next big thing before Apple does. I am not losing sleep over Google glass, at least not from the privacy concerns.
It would help if they could design that into a form factor that isn't blatantly a pair of google glasses. I would want my wearable tech to be as inconspicuous and non-intrusive as possible, both to my experience and the public around me.
Yea, don't want to let the parents at that playground know you're secretly videotaping their kids, eh? That could end badly.
BTW, I'm only half-joking (specifically, the half where I suggest you're a pervert - I don't know you well enough to make that determination)
So, are you suggesting that playground perverts are being stymied today by a lack of suitable surreptitious videography gear? Or that even in its current form factor that it is acceptable to walk up to people whom you deem "pervy" and demand they leave a public place because of their google glass?
I could have said something like "I would like to not advertise an expensive wearable computer on my face to the unwashed masses on the subway train, since it would only lead to me being robbed". The fact that her face wear drew knowledgeable attention should be indicator enough. Other reasons to have it surreptitious? How about witness to a crime, intentional or otherwise?
If you are really a parent concerned with your child's privacy at the playground, I would suggest things that are actually under your control, like not letting them play where the hoodlum teenagers broke the vodka bottle by the jungle gym, or keeping them from putting foreign objects in their mouths. That is time well spent.
It would help if they could design that into a form factor that isn't blatantly a pair of google glasses. I would want my wearable tech to be as inconspicuous and non-intrusive as possible, both to my experience and the public around me.
I have a big 4k monitor and an "older" 21 or so inch that I turn in portrait. That combination works best for me, as I can have API info open on the vertical while I code in the main screen. I can tell you, however, that it isn't just the real estate, its how insanely crisp the monitor is. Fonts are gorgeous from 8 point to absurdly huge. My monitor is routinely borrowed on "impress the client" presentation days for the hands on.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Lets read up a little bit on it before we compare LFTR reactors and nuclear processes to putting diesel in a gas car...
This! :/
I had still been playing some civ 4 in concurrency with civ 5, but the biggest draw for that bundle was civ 3. I can't put the Civ smack down, ever since civ 1 on the Amiga. I still have a copy of civ2 floating around somewhere...
Aren't there better countries for hosting black market silk road style servers? Like Russia, or Chechnya? Liberia?
This is why we need thorium reactors
...that Dyson only knows how to make things that suck...
The beta doesn't suck. The slow cantankerous site form the 90's sucks. Every armchair webdev who thinks they know best sucks. The fact that there are 300 posts in this thread at +5 informative without a single real criticism should speak volumes. Ignore the noise, and do the redesign.
Seriously. Tweaks I'm sure are necessary. The rest of the hatred is bandwagoning noise and bullshit. Take the real criticisms (if any) and listen. To all the jerkwads with the hashtag "fuckthebeta" nonsense and petulant "But they're gonna change it anyways! boo hoo me! I'll just go to reddit!", fuck off. You'll still be able to post "frosty piss!" just as easily on the beta as you are on this old dinosaur.
I think the flat design is fine. I've been on slashdot since the 90s - it was time for a change.
Koch brothers, creationism in the classroom... So glad i got out in the 90s. My home state is nothing but a source of shame on an almost daily basis.
We already have a way of dealing with these monopolies
My apologies - I assumed that any discussion that involved opinions on coding languages would be immediately understood to be completely subjective, anecdotal, and most likely offensive to someone. I forgot that this is slashdot.
Well, thar's 'yer problem.
Yes :-)
It's been a decade since I've done any Objective-C, but, coming from a C++ background, among others, the advice I found useful was to think of it as a way to get C to do smalltalk, not a way to add message passing to C++.
Smalltalk was a little before my time. I learned OOP on Java (yikes!) and Python then got a job doing C++ (even more yikes). All the objective C I did was on my own. It also didn't help that the mac I had was an old macbook with tiny screen - it makes storyboarding and XCode awful to use, and I never got ninja enough with the syntax to just slam it out in vim. I got the feeling it could be a language I could learn to like, but after I hopped off the Apple bandwagon at the Iphone 4 and got a droid I went droid API and never looked back.
This.
Obscure syntax, lack of quality stack overflow answers to questions, terrible API, reliance on XCode...I found it an absolute nightmare, and I code in C++.
There are a lot of jobs out there for "non-sexy" coding, like C++ or even Ada. One of my classmates managed to get on with Boeing doing Ada programming. Ada! He had to move to Oklahoma City (which is a serious change for a West Coast kid), but the program is funded through 2046 or something. It isn't Rails or the next craptastic web language, but its solid unsexy well paying work for as long as he wants it.
Your turn!
There are still bulwarks of coding being done here in the US. I just recently graduated with a CS degree and had no problem finding employment here in the states, with a family and grey hair.
I think the AC above, talking about 70 hour crunch times is closer to the mark. H1b visas means getting young Chinese and Indian employees for low-end salaried pay but who routinely work much longer days (as well as being well trained) than most typical US college grads. At least, that is what I see in the company that hired me. However, you have to be in an area actively searching for talent or be willing/able to relocate, and not every city has a thriving tech sector.
Alright - troll it is.
What does something I wrote while in a particularly good mood have to do with this conversation?
Also... stalk much, bro?
Seriously? Stalking? Grow up, kid. You link to your website in your profile. Its the web. I know it must be confusing to millennials like yourself that never lived in a society where there was privacy. BTW, cool steampunk speakers and homemade guitar amp.
I can't draw all the lines for you. If you can't figure out why that link was applicable, I got nothing for you. I didn't see this thread past reply two as a "conversation". I replied in a manner to test troll potential. From my standpoint I was confirmed in that hypothesis. Nothing wrong with trolling occasionally. But if you seriously consider this a conversation, I'll play along some more...
To start - make a point and clarify it if the person you are responding to doesn't seem to understand what you are really trying to say. Real conversations happen a lot easier when you lose the hard-on for rebuttal and try to actually listen to what is being said. I clarified my point into a succinct "I think they are ugly and would like something that looks nicer." You clarified your point into line-by-line spasms and a refusal to acknowledge that your original "point" could be read as antagonistic.
So, you want to try again? Or is it enough for you to high five your bros and proclaim troll victory?
Pot...meet kettle?
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Holy crap. Did you seriously go line by line rebuttal?
Uh, well, you obviously read it, so...
I seriously didn't. Did I miss some golden nugget of truth?
You went full retard. Never go full retard.
Translation: I ran out of rebuttals; so here's a ad hominem attack for your reading pleasure.
Thanks, but I have no need for someone of low intellect to be insulted by - I already have brothers.
I bet they never let you get the last word in either ;)
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Holy crap. Did you seriously go line by line rebuttal?
You went full retard. Never go full retard.
I would argue that your point was tangential from the start. You took my point of wanting a less intrusive, more natural looking piece of kit straight to "ZOMG Think of the poor childrens! Perverts armed with google glass! News at eleven!". My follow on suggestions/desciptions were meant to be in the same absurd, vacuous realm. I simply was trying to state that I would prefer it to not be horribly ugly and obviously intrusive to everyone around the people wearing these.
You didn't really suggest that Google glass has "nefarious uses". Your suggested the reason that someone (me, in this case) might want a less intrusive device was to clandestinely film children at the playground. You then went on to say "well, I'm only half joking since I can't know for sure that you aren't a pervert".
If you were only addressing a concern that Google glass can have bad uses, then all I can reply is that, sure, you are absolutely right. You just have to ask yourself is it worth being constantly paranoid about? I guess you have to decide whether Google is the Devil incarnate, sent to enslave us all with their very ugly eyewear, or whether they are simply a tech company trying to hit the next big thing before Apple does. I am not losing sleep over Google glass, at least not from the privacy concerns.
It would help if they could design that into a form factor that isn't blatantly a pair of google glasses. I would want my wearable tech to be as inconspicuous and non-intrusive as possible, both to my experience and the public around me.
Yea, don't want to let the parents at that playground know you're secretly videotaping their kids, eh? That could end badly.
BTW, I'm only half-joking (specifically, the half where I suggest you're a pervert - I don't know you well enough to make that determination)
So, are you suggesting that playground perverts are being stymied today by a lack of suitable surreptitious videography gear? Or that even in its current form factor that it is acceptable to walk up to people whom you deem "pervy" and demand they leave a public place because of their google glass?
I could have said something like "I would like to not advertise an expensive wearable computer on my face to the unwashed masses on the subway train, since it would only lead to me being robbed". The fact that her face wear drew knowledgeable attention should be indicator enough. Other reasons to have it surreptitious? How about witness to a crime, intentional or otherwise?
If you are really a parent concerned with your child's privacy at the playground, I would suggest things that are actually under your control, like not letting them play where the hoodlum teenagers broke the vodka bottle by the jungle gym, or keeping them from putting foreign objects in their mouths. That is time well spent.
It would help if they could design that into a form factor that isn't blatantly a pair of google glasses. I would want my wearable tech to be as inconspicuous and non-intrusive as possible, both to my experience and the public around me.
I have a big 4k monitor and an "older" 21 or so inch that I turn in portrait. That combination works best for me, as I can have API info open on the vertical while I code in the main screen. I can tell you, however, that it isn't just the real estate, its how insanely crisp the monitor is. Fonts are gorgeous from 8 point to absurdly huge. My monitor is routinely borrowed on "impress the client" presentation days for the hands on.
Don't they have an open-air experiment going on already? Just take a day trip to Fukushima.