So the idea is you didn't learn it at school, you didn't do it at work, you didn't do it as a hobby, but halfway through another career you can suddenly start doing something specialized but completely unrelated?
Yes. People are not robots, built to do one thing perfectly. At least not all of us. And people can learn anything, anytime.
You and they guy above you said that if someone did not do some projects at school, they will never be good programmers. This is wunderkind bullshit and I don't buy it.
The article is about code, not design. It's also not about managing a team of programmers. Or estimating budget. Or planning business. Or playing a guitar.
Programming would be more like car design -- and car designers most definitely ARE asked about their portfolios.
Except you often have to sign a non-disclosure contract and have no rights over the code you write ever (we're not talking "freelance" here, do we?). The only thing that can be proved is that you've worked for company X for N years.
You heard that people can completely change their field of work throughout in life? It's like those music elitists saying "if you didn't start learning musical instruments at the age of four, you will never achieve anything". This is bullshit.
I keep asking myself why. Why did they divide games by platform? Why there is a "PC" and "Modern Windows" platforms? Why did they divide games by four genres (one of them they 'invented')? Why 5 Zelda games? Why sequels instead of originals? Why did they chose what they chose, and what "art" all this games have in them?
I absolutely hate when system tries to "predict" or "optimize" something. Microsoft started it with XP, Gnome and KDE adopted it very quickly. It became so awful that Windows 7 GUI or KDE4 almost give me headaches whenever I get to use them.
And at the darkest hour of the humanity we, tinfoil hatted basement dwellers, the only ones unaffected by this social "thing", will arise to fight dark agencies and corporations for freedom... and free porn!
Okay. I'm not an iPod user, so I don't know everything.
'But your post is screaming "I bought an iPod, but it won't play Vorbis, that means Vorbis is baaaad". You got what you bought, and you bought what you had chosen. Bashing Vorbis in this matter is stupid.
I use music player with OGG/Vorbis support. I've got a feeling that by "music player" you mean only iPod. But even in this case, you could install Rockbox firmware and play Vorbis.
Chernobyl explosion is a criticality accident. This requires a really high level of ignorant stupidity or purposeful attack.
Are you an expert in this matter? Because from what I've read about Chernobyl, it was mainly a cheap design's fault, which failed under extreme conditions of an experiment.
Well, I have to admit it, I am wrong. The book I have was originally published in 1977 (cold war explains the book's content), but for whatever reason it was translated and republished in my country in the 90s (my childhood). So, "Mir" didn't exist then. However, Soviets launched many space stations even before 1977. The book never mentions them. There is also a picture of "Vostok", but Gagarin's name or his flight are never mentioned. According to the book, Soviets launched only dogs using "military rockets".
Wow, there is a page about "Star Wars" (not the film)!
The amount of butthurt USSR did to the USA amazes me. I still have a space encyclopaedia for teens composed by USA authors, which doesn't mention Gagarin or "Mir" space station. Actually, the chapter about space station only mentions some fictional US project to build one (which never came into fruition) , as if it had never been done before. Lulz.
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Funny. Why do you think I'm talking about myself?
So the idea is you didn't learn it at school, you didn't do it at work, you didn't do it as a hobby, but halfway through another career you can suddenly start doing something specialized but completely unrelated?
Yes. People are not robots, built to do one thing perfectly. At least not all of us. And people can learn anything, anytime.
You and they guy above you said that if someone did not do some projects at school, they will never be good programmers. This is wunderkind bullshit and I don't buy it.
The article is about code, not design. It's also not about managing a team of programmers. Or estimating budget. Or planning business. Or playing a guitar.
Programming would be more like car design -- and car designers most definitely ARE asked about their portfolios.
Except you often have to sign a non-disclosure contract and have no rights over the code you write ever (we're not talking "freelance" here, do we?). The only thing that can be proved is that you've worked for company X for N years.
Programming is not art or something. It's like asking a car mechanic for his "portfolio" of repaired cars.
You heard that people can completely change their field of work throughout in life? It's like those music elitists saying "if you didn't start learning musical instruments at the age of four, you will never achieve anything". This is bullshit.
I keep asking myself why. Why did they divide games by platform? Why there is a "PC" and "Modern Windows" platforms? Why did they divide games by four genres (one of them they 'invented')? Why 5 Zelda games? Why sequels instead of originals? Why did they chose what they chose, and what "art" all this games have in them?
What is a black kiss?
I absolutely hate when system tries to "predict" or "optimize" something. Microsoft started it with XP, Gnome and KDE adopted it very quickly. It became so awful that Windows 7 GUI or KDE4 almost give me headaches whenever I get to use them.
And at the darkest hour of the humanity we, tinfoil hatted basement dwellers, the only ones unaffected by this social "thing", will arise to fight dark agencies and corporations for freedom... and free porn!
He sure was eager to hand American secrets over to the Russians, Chinese, Iranians, etc.
So... there is the glorious U.S.A. and other countries which no one cares about? Wow, you're fantastically narrow-minded.
I have nothing to hide from them, and it won't embarrass me if they know my dirty secrets, as long as they don't tell my dirty secrets to my friends.
It's called "blackmail". Favorite dish of faceless agencies.
Care to fix it? It's open source.
Fantasy is the limitation of artistic aspirations! WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY!
Maybe that's why art came down to smearing semen on canvas and public urinating like a dog.
No. No, you couldn't
Okay. I'm not an iPod user, so I don't know everything.
'But your post is screaming "I bought an iPod, but it won't play Vorbis, that means Vorbis is baaaad". You got what you bought, and you bought what you had chosen. Bashing Vorbis in this matter is stupid.
I use music player with OGG/Vorbis support. I've got a feeling that by "music player" you mean only iPod. But even in this case, you could install Rockbox firmware and play Vorbis.
Chernobyl explosion is a criticality accident. This requires a really high level of ignorant stupidity or purposeful attack.
Are you an expert in this matter? Because from what I've read about Chernobyl, it was mainly a cheap design's fault, which failed under extreme conditions of an experiment.
But Steam is not DRM!
Newell Distortion Field, maybe?
That you're a cheap, unethical bastard. However, this doesn't mean everyone is.
This is not Insightful, this is Arrogant.
Thanks, it is interesting. Cold war is over, but propaganda still lives.
Well, I have to admit it, I am wrong. The book I have was originally published in 1977 (cold war explains the book's content), but for whatever reason it was translated and republished in my country in the 90s (my childhood). So, "Mir" didn't exist then. However, Soviets launched many space stations even before 1977. The book never mentions them. There is also a picture of "Vostok", but Gagarin's name or his flight are never mentioned. According to the book, Soviets launched only dogs using "military rockets".
Wow, there is a page about "Star Wars" (not the film)!
The amount of butthurt USSR did to the USA amazes me. I still have a space encyclopaedia for teens composed by USA authors, which doesn't mention Gagarin or "Mir" space station. Actually, the chapter about space station only mentions some fictional US project to build one (which never came into fruition) , as if it had never been done before. Lulz.
And with Gnome 3.0 release they're dying together! Seriously, what a nonsense!
And I found out that I do not care for real people anymore. Or the world outside. Guess it's too late for me.
I don't like it. Get this Facebook/Bing/Yahoo/Flickr/Google/Ubuntu marketing crap out of my browser! I don't care who pays you and what for.