Once Frank Herbert had Gurney Halleck to tell Paul Atreides, thus to us as reader:
"Mood? What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises — no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting."
Similarly loving a language has nothing to do with its utilisation or benefits, it is for (well not cattle, but) cowboys who love to brag about last huge program they wrote, which contains 1.000 or more lines, even excluding whitespace that is...
I'm pretty sure people who "love" a programming language really love not having to use other languages. It's not that complicated and not necessarily an ego thing.
It sounded cool at first, then it turned out to be 2 gen old rental beige boxes with a seriously crippled feature set.
I'd rather mine bitcoin with an abacus than f*ck around with Docker and Kubernetes.
I think the real perceived value of the cloud for many companies is how much easier it (can) make it for them to be acquired. The product is already running on somebody else's computers. It may as well be running on somebody else's somebody else's computers.
So they should only vote on things when it is guaranteed to pass? It honestly doesn't take that much time for a vote, and it is important to know where your representative and senators stand on issues that are important to you, even if the bill ultimately fails.
Furthermore, how many bills of actual substance are likely to make it through Congress this term? Maybe 5-10? I hate to think that my representative and senators are going to spend the next 1.7 years doing nothing but raising money and pontificating after saying "aye" or "nay" 5-10 times.
They should write bills designed to accomplish things instead of writing bills designed to rally their faithful. All politicians do this crap.
The rise of steam, mmo's, always online drm and f2p games means the average pc and software consumer is a fucking moron.
No, it means that the average pc gamer is a fucking moron. The average PC and software consumer has probably never heard of steam, mmo's, and f2p games.
I don't think it means either of those things. Steam works better for a lot of people than boxed games did. No more lost or scratched discs, lost CD keys, no more infinite updates whenever you have to reinstall. Built in cross-game chat. It's not perfect, but it helps more people enjoy more games.
That's the same with almost any work that can be pleasurable, until you mix in a giant organization you have to please with a million bosses above you who all have a say.
The thing is, there has never been a better time to be a game developer and make games in a very small (sometimes just yourself) company.
Small shops can have too many bosses, too. Partnerships, for instance. You also may not be able to specialize in a particular area, because you are more likely to be wearing many hats. Not saying working for a megacorp is always better, but there are tradeoffs either way.
I always give younger people starting out their careers the same general advice that I was given and subsequently failed to heed as early as I should have: Find something you are good at and seek a job in whatever industry needs that skillset and will allow you to develop it further. Basically, I try to tell them to keep their "passion" for a particular cause or industry at bay, and develop their skills and resume instead. This is for two reasons.
1) You aren't going to become CEO of Sustainable Tech Incorporated because you loved what they stood for so much you took a job in the mail room. Sorry, it just isn't going to happen. And, 2) You will learn to appreciate the benefit that different industries provide, and how just being good at something helps out your coworkers and customers.
The video games industry is notorious for running sweat shops that prey on the young and naive, people who would do better to find a steady, "boring" gig with a 401k and reasonable chances for advancement. Maybe something union, if that floats your boat.
Nice to see the Democrats showing some balls. But it is pointless grandstanding at this point, as it will never get to Trumpy's desk, let alone him signing it.
The bill says "do things the way the last Chairman did." It is not about Net Neutrality, it is about politics.
If they really cared then they would write a bill that codifies Net Neutrality and takes it out of the reach of regulatory and Presidential whims.
Yeah, how could interactive fiction from a company that hired psychologists to make the interactive fiction addictive actually be addictive?
All electronic games are made to be addictive, ever since the heyday of pinball. They should have hired the people behind Candy Crush Saga or Farmville or something if that was their goal.
Fortnite has had huge gains in adoption, and has gone way beyond where Angry Birds was in terms of cultural impact - they are even attending concerts in Fortnite now, and lots of people watch streamers play which was never the case with Angry Birds. So it too is a kind of social community, especially the streams...
Minecraft is probably a better comparison, and I don't see Fortnite having close to the same lasting appeal or impact. It's a stylish, but limited game that still revolves around guns as much as anything.
Microsoft doesn't decide how Amazon operates. If Amazon looks bad, it's down to Amazon alone.
You are being played.
This is common business stuff. Usually it's large businesses getting in bed with government, because they have the heft to comply but small competitors don't.
In this case it's a bit more nuanced, they are leveraging this against a large competitor.
It's hardly virtuous. In fact, pouring money into computer science education is just a ploy to drive down wages of their own employees. It's a twofer.
So you're optimistic that the programs will work, but pessimistic as to the motives? I'm rather the opposite: I do not believe pushing people into STEM will result in many more people competing in the field, though I think it's from a misguided effort on the corporations' part to do something about job opportunities for under served groups. I do think in ten years there will be a lot more middle managers who make their careers fiddling around in Python rather than the current crop that have made their careers twiddling around in Excel... but they won't be the ones writing the modules or supporting the databases.
``...the cause could turn out not to be a design flaw or software malfunction that can be rectified, but a basic shortcoming in human perception and psychology that cannot be fixed as long as humans are entrusted with the control of airplanes.''
On the other hand, we have two recent examples of what can happen when a flight computer is given control of the plane and it is unable to avoid doing something stupid like--as the old euphemism goes--`make inadvertent contact with the terrain'. Until we know more about how this was supposed work and exactly why it didn't, I think I'll trust the human with his hands on the controls more than the flight computer. (Thankfully, the occasions for my needing to fly are few and far between.)
Pilot error never stopped being the most common cause of aircraft crashes.
Was there ever a time when people were likely to subscribe to more than a handful of streaming services? My wife and I were just talking about this this morning. We would love to watch Cobra Kai but have no interest in signing up for anything, not even a free trial. Same with Star Trek Discovery.
It might be easier for us to avoid FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) because we are not cord-cutters.
I really like Adobe as a company, but I think its suite has become so costly and unavoidable for the average creative consumer that it needs to be a little bit smaller
No. You like the software. All of the things in your article are reasons you should NOT like Adobe as a company.
Side note: hard to take the criticisms about usability very seriously when they are posted on mobo.vice. Talk about a bloated.
To me it seems pretty obvious that Penny Arcade is directly responsible for this resurgence. Not only because for a few years now they have made non-electronic games like tabletop cool again with a whole show dedicated to showcasing them, but even more because of the very popular webcast of "Acquisitions Incorporated" D&D sessions.
That has interested a ton of people in D&D and I think may be the key reason for the rise you see, because they have shown it is cool, and maybe more importantly shown how fun it can be with a good DM and plot.
That's what got me interested in RPGs again (not that I've been playing them). Their features have been really good at showcasing the different ways to approach the game. They initially got Chris Perkins from Wizards of the Coast to run their games, who represents the traditional DM, able to keep a game loosely on the rails to follow well written campaigns. Then you have the games Jerry (Tycho) does, where he can take the story convincingly in any direction the players want to go. Then you have Mike (Gabe) who I think they've only once or twice featured as a DM, but who is most interested in cool events and, above all, cool crafted terrain.
There are so many parallels between a good RPG session and film or TV
Director = DM Actors = Players Sets = Maps and or Terrain Wardrobe = Minis Writer = Everybody Craft Services = Pizza Delivery Guy
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Once Frank Herbert had Gurney Halleck to tell Paul Atreides, thus to us as reader: "Mood? What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises — no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting." Similarly loving a language has nothing to do with its utilisation or benefits, it is for (well not cattle, but) cowboys who love to brag about last huge program they wrote, which contains 1.000 or more lines, even excluding whitespace that is...
I'm pretty sure people who "love" a programming language really love not having to use other languages. It's not that complicated and not necessarily an ego thing.
*pulls out moto x pure and stares at it.* There is an Android programming language? who knew?
Reread the sentence
with Python edging out Android and enterprise workhorse Java
It is not well constructed but a second glance clarifies things. It would be better written, if still clunk, thus
with Python edging out Android-and-enterprise-workhorse Java
It sounded cool at first, then it turned out to be 2 gen old rental beige boxes with a seriously crippled feature set. I'd rather mine bitcoin with an abacus than f*ck around with Docker and Kubernetes.
I think the real perceived value of the cloud for many companies is how much easier it (can) make it for them to be acquired. The product is already running on somebody else's computers. It may as well be running on somebody else's somebody else's computers.
So they should only vote on things when it is guaranteed to pass? It honestly doesn't take that much time for a vote, and it is important to know where your representative and senators stand on issues that are important to you, even if the bill ultimately fails. Furthermore, how many bills of actual substance are likely to make it through Congress this term? Maybe 5-10? I hate to think that my representative and senators are going to spend the next 1.7 years doing nothing but raising money and pontificating after saying "aye" or "nay" 5-10 times.
They should write bills designed to accomplish things instead of writing bills designed to rally their faithful. All politicians do this crap.
The bill was designed neither to pass nor to fix the problem. It was designed to draw distinction between the President and the opposing party.
How difficult is it to show a side-by-side diagram instead of a bunch of mangled composite images of bottles and cut up posters and things?
The rise of steam, mmo's, always online drm and f2p games means the average pc and software consumer is a fucking moron.
No, it means that the average pc gamer is a fucking moron. The average PC and software consumer has probably never heard of steam, mmo's, and f2p games.
I don't think it means either of those things. Steam works better for a lot of people than boxed games did. No more lost or scratched discs, lost CD keys, no more infinite updates whenever you have to reinstall. Built in cross-game chat. It's not perfect, but it helps more people enjoy more games.
Typing is largely muscle memory. So you do.
Part of the gameplay experience is how you experience it, and how others react to you in the game world.
That does change based on cosmetic items.
Just because cosmetics exist does not mean you must have them.
That's the same with almost any work that can be pleasurable, until you mix in a giant organization you have to please with a million bosses above you who all have a say.
The thing is, there has never been a better time to be a game developer and make games in a very small (sometimes just yourself) company.
Small shops can have too many bosses, too. Partnerships, for instance. You also may not be able to specialize in a particular area, because you are more likely to be wearing many hats. Not saying working for a megacorp is always better, but there are tradeoffs either way.
I always give younger people starting out their careers the same general advice that I was given and subsequently failed to heed as early as I should have: Find something you are good at and seek a job in whatever industry needs that skillset and will allow you to develop it further. Basically, I try to tell them to keep their "passion" for a particular cause or industry at bay, and develop their skills and resume instead. This is for two reasons.
1) You aren't going to become CEO of Sustainable Tech Incorporated because you loved what they stood for so much you took a job in the mail room. Sorry, it just isn't going to happen.
And, 2) You will learn to appreciate the benefit that different industries provide, and how just being good at something helps out your coworkers and customers.
The video games industry is notorious for running sweat shops that prey on the young and naive, people who would do better to find a steady, "boring" gig with a 401k and reasonable chances for advancement. Maybe something union, if that floats your boat.
Nice to see the Democrats showing some balls. But it is pointless grandstanding at this point, as it will never get to Trumpy's desk, let alone him signing it.
The bill says "do things the way the last Chairman did." It is not about Net Neutrality, it is about politics.
If they really cared then they would write a bill that codifies Net Neutrality and takes it out of the reach of regulatory and Presidential whims.
Yeah, how could interactive fiction from a company that hired psychologists to make the interactive fiction addictive actually be addictive?
All electronic games are made to be addictive, ever since the heyday of pinball. They should have hired the people behind Candy Crush Saga or Farmville or something if that was their goal.
Fortnite has had huge gains in adoption, and has gone way beyond where Angry Birds was in terms of cultural impact - they are even attending concerts in Fortnite now, and lots of people watch streamers play which was never the case with Angry Birds. So it too is a kind of social community, especially the streams...
Minecraft is probably a better comparison, and I don't see Fortnite having close to the same lasting appeal or impact. It's a stylish, but limited game that still revolves around guns as much as anything.
The party's over. Turn out the lights. The days of Apple innovation are long gone. It was buried with Steve Jobs.
Heh. Reminds me of the Onion piece:
Apple Reveals Panicked Man with No Ideas.
Microsoft doesn't decide how Amazon operates. If Amazon looks bad, it's down to Amazon alone.
You are being played.
This is common business stuff. Usually it's large businesses getting in bed with government, because they have the heft to comply but small competitors don't.
In this case it's a bit more nuanced, they are leveraging this against a large competitor.
It's hardly virtuous. In fact, pouring money into computer science education is just a ploy to drive down wages of their own employees. It's a twofer.
So you're optimistic that the programs will work, but pessimistic as to the motives? I'm rather the opposite: I do not believe pushing people into STEM will result in many more people competing in the field, though I think it's from a misguided effort on the corporations' part to do something about job opportunities for under served groups. I do think in ten years there will be a lot more middle managers who make their careers fiddling around in Python rather than the current crop that have made their careers twiddling around in Excel... but they won't be the ones writing the modules or supporting the databases.
So cut NASA completely is what I'm hearing you say?
Speaking of revolutionary features, when is Windows going to get grep?
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.utility/select-string?view=powershell-6
Or if you're biased against object oriented languages and want to go farther back https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/findstr.
On the other hand, we have two recent examples of what can happen when a flight computer is given control of the plane and it is unable to avoid doing something stupid like--as the old euphemism goes--`make inadvertent contact with the terrain'. Until we know more about how this was supposed work and exactly why it didn't, I think I'll trust the human with his hands on the controls more than the flight computer. (Thankfully, the occasions for my needing to fly are few and far between.)
Pilot error never stopped being the most common cause of aircraft crashes.
So is it ok to call it a new language?
It is a superset.
Was there ever a time when people were likely to subscribe to more than a handful of streaming services? My wife and I were just talking about this this morning. We would love to watch Cobra Kai but have no interest in signing up for anything, not even a free trial. Same with Star Trek Discovery.
It might be easier for us to avoid FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) because we are not cord-cutters.
We never had cable to begin with.
I really like Adobe as a company, but I think its suite has become so costly and unavoidable for the average creative consumer that it needs to be a little bit smaller
No. You like the software. All of the things in your article are reasons you should NOT like Adobe as a company.
Side note: hard to take the criticisms about usability very seriously when they are posted on mobo.vice. Talk about a bloated.
To me it seems pretty obvious that Penny Arcade is directly responsible for this resurgence. Not only because for a few years now they have made non-electronic games like tabletop cool again with a whole show dedicated to showcasing them, but even more because of the very popular webcast of "Acquisitions Incorporated" D&D sessions.
That has interested a ton of people in D&D and I think may be the key reason for the rise you see, because they have shown it is cool, and maybe more importantly shown how fun it can be with a good DM and plot.
That's what got me interested in RPGs again (not that I've been playing them). Their features have been really good at showcasing the different ways to approach the game. They initially got Chris Perkins from Wizards of the Coast to run their games, who represents the traditional DM, able to keep a game loosely on the rails to follow well written campaigns. Then you have the games Jerry (Tycho) does, where he can take the story convincingly in any direction the players want to go. Then you have Mike (Gabe) who I think they've only once or twice featured as a DM, but who is most interested in cool events and, above all, cool crafted terrain.
There are so many parallels between a good RPG session and film or TV
Director = DM
Actors = Players
Sets = Maps and or Terrain
Wardrobe = Minis
Writer = Everybody
Craft Services = Pizza Delivery Guy
1. This is literally an article about how he was a hacker - something that Slashdot may respect but most of America thinks equals criminal.
Yes, now watch how the media narrative changes: It's STEM!