I hire programmers with a proven track record of actually "shipping" product. I could care less what mind bending interview problems you can solve or what school you may have attended.
The android market is fantastic if you are wanting to distribute software. If you are wanting to get paid for writing software, well good luck with that.
Not only is the hardware top notch but he overlooks the most important reason the iphone still blows away the competition. Apple's development pipeline uses "native executable code" resulting in apps that run far faster and much more efficient. The hardware is as near standard as possible allowing developers to easily target a known platform. Then we get to the market vs the app store, there is no comparison the app store wins hands down.
Never underestimate the number of people who simply want a great phone that just plain works. I have owned my 3GS for quite a few years now and will not hesitate for even a split second to buy this new phone.
Yes and Solyndra is a perfect example of this great job producing industry right? No you are talking about creating non sustainable employment with cash taken from the taxpayer. Green energy companies are not profitable and will not be profitable anytime in the future.
I would love to see it myself also but unfortunately I can do simple math.
You are correct the android market is no where near a profitable venue for developers. I happen to use a great cross platform tool kit but refuse to even compile a copy for android. By the time I press the compile button and upload the apk to the market I have already wasted more time than it is worth.
"This new project will be re-written in a total modern way."
I can hear the counter devs talking now, you see we are going to use this really cool OOP hierarchy and this great ORM for mysql. The server is only going to consume 100MB of ram for each request it will be awesome.
You must be looking at a different list than I am, I have yet to find any that perform well. You may be able to get away with rather simple click based games but anything with any intensity is just not going to happen.
Good luck with that we have a hard enough time getting enough performance out of flash. It would be a great thing but the performance just is not there for most gaming needs.
I like the programing model behind app engine, wrote a few apps using it etc. However being locked to the platform you never had real control over sucked.
Today however if I want the same sort of infrastructure all I need to do is install tornado and redis on a ec2 or a rackspace instance and I have all the speed and bandwidth I need.
Not this sysadmin, I frigging love java it is the greatest platform in existence. Not really it is rather damn stupid to run a vm to abstract the hardware when everyone runs it on the same architecture.
The real reason I love it is it takes a ass ton of hardware to run even the most simplistic applications. It may be a pain in my nut sack but my wallet frigging loves java.
I have worked on some huge facebook games, if you have to store 1G of data per player you are already setup for failure.
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I have enough change in my pocket to run a multiplayer server for a month. If you are writing a game and it is profitable a little server hosting is not a big deal.
"At the moment, my company is aggressively encouraging our customers to avoid the Cloud at all costs. Let me explain why."
Because it is eating your profits.
The same lightning strike we are talking about could have just as easily taken out a in-house data center. I would also argue with that being the case the situation would have likely even been worse for the customer.
Yep and it is exactly the direction that should be taken. I know if it was my ass on the line I would take a capsule over a over engineered shuttle any day.
The shuttle was a incredible show of stupidity. Why hoist all of the control surfaces, landing gear, associated control equipment into space just so it can land on a runway.
Over the last few years the most disturbing trend I have seen is programmers that do not have the ability to ship a product. You can talk all the shit you want about architecture, cute technology, methodology but if you don't ship product you don't count.
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I hire programmers with a proven track record of actually "shipping" product. I could care less what mind bending interview problems you can solve or what school you may have attended.
hmmmm looks like we have another walled garden?
One fantastic reason is native executable code, however they are now too late to the game for it to make any difference.
over to android ... lol come now
The android market is fantastic if you are wanting to distribute software. If you are wanting to get paid for writing software, well good luck with that.
Not only is the hardware top notch but he overlooks the most important reason the iphone still blows away the competition. Apple's development pipeline uses "native executable code" resulting in apps that run far faster and much more efficient. The hardware is as near standard as possible allowing developers to easily target a known platform. Then we get to the market vs the app store, there is no comparison the app store wins hands down.
Never underestimate the number of people who simply want a great phone that just plain works. I have owned my 3GS for quite a few years now and will not hesitate for even a split second to buy this new phone.
Yes and Solyndra is a perfect example of this great job producing industry right? No you are talking about creating non sustainable employment with cash taken from the taxpayer. Green energy companies are not profitable and will not be profitable anytime in the future.
I would love to see it myself also but unfortunately I can do simple math.
Actually if iran where to choose to assassinate one of its own rouge citizens labeled as a terrorist on US soil I would be ok with it.
You are correct the android market is no where near a profitable venue for developers. I happen to use a great cross platform tool kit but refuse to even compile a copy for android. By the time I press the compile button and upload the apk to the market I have already wasted more time than it is worth.
The first thing you will need to fix is the admin problem and a couple of experienced cluster admin is not going to be cheap.
As for the distro question unless you need something really specific if it where me it would be centos.
"This new project will be re-written in a total modern way."
I can hear the counter devs talking now, you see we are going to use this really cool OOP hierarchy and this great ORM for mysql. The server is only going to consume 100MB of ram for each request it will be awesome.
And what would you be charged with if you did this to a stranger at some bar perhaps?
You must be looking at a different list than I am, I have yet to find any that perform well. You may be able to get away with rather simple click based games but anything with any intensity is just not going to happen.
Good luck with that we have a hard enough time getting enough performance out of flash. It would be a great thing but the performance just is not there for most gaming needs.
I like the programing model behind app engine, wrote a few apps using it etc. However being locked to the platform you never had real control over sucked.
Today however if I want the same sort of infrastructure all I need to do is install tornado and redis on a ec2 or a rackspace instance and I have all the speed and bandwidth I need.
Not this sysadmin, I frigging love java it is the greatest platform in existence. Not really it is rather damn stupid to run a vm to abstract the hardware when everyone runs it on the same architecture.
The real reason I love it is it takes a ass ton of hardware to run even the most simplistic applications. It may be a pain in my nut sack but my wallet frigging loves java.
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Why must Zynga's offering be so much less efficient?
It is not, it's called talking out of ones ass.
I have worked on some huge facebook games, if you have to store 1G of data per player you are already setup for failure.
Facebook currency 50%? come now
I have enough change in my pocket to run a multiplayer server for a month. If you are writing
a game and it is profitable a little server hosting
is not a big deal.
Yes it is the only one I like, very close to app engine and extremely fast.
The only python one I have tried and liked so far is tornado.
"At the moment, my company is aggressively encouraging our customers to avoid the Cloud at all costs. Let me explain why."
Because it is eating your profits.
The same lightning strike we are talking about could have just as easily taken out a in-house data center. I would also argue with that being the case the situation would have likely even been worse for the customer.
Yep and it is exactly the direction that should be taken. I know if it was my ass on the line I would take a capsule over a over engineered shuttle any day.
The shuttle was a incredible show of stupidity. Why hoist all of the control surfaces, landing gear, associated control equipment into space just so it can land on a runway.
Over the last few years the most disturbing trend I have seen is programmers that do not have the ability to ship a product. You can talk all the shit you want about architecture, cute technology, methodology but if you don't ship product you don't count.