As another imperialist pig who's not a native English speaker (Romanian in this case), I strongly recommend getting her used to the English keywords. An important part of learning programming is going through documentation on your own, and most documentation worth a damn is in English. Mind, i first started with machine code/assembly language when i was 10-ish, and that has no connection with any language known by humans:)
My 15 months old iPhone 4S continues to be good enough. I'm not interested in the new Samsung, the new iPhone or the new anything. Maybe after two more hardware refreshes...
Of "you can work 200 hour weeks if you sleep under your desk" (while at google) and more recently "no more telecommute" (at yahoo) fame? Is that someone to be praised, regardless of gender? I think she belongs on the "stay away form wherever she works" list.
But the iPhone 4 is just the right size for me. The 5 feels already too long. I'm worried that if Apple jumps on the 'my phone is bigger than your phone' bandwagon I'll be left with no replacement, as all the Android small phones are el cheapo versions with slow hardware. Btw, I'm male, and I don't have particularly small hands. I can reach around a 4-4.3" screen with one hand, I just don't want one.
freelancer/rentacoder are there if you want to starve. And I say that as a Romanian programmer who works in theory cheaper than USers. Maybe I do, but not *that* cheap. If you network, you will end up with side projects without even asking for them. Someone you know will need just a little help on some project, someone you know from a previous job will contact you to tie up a loose end, or do something simple, etc etc. From personal experience, my holiday expenses for the last 3 years have been paid from money made outside the day job.
I've lately upgraded the GPU every other generation (i buy mid range cards like the 660) and the CPU every 4 years or more. It's been fast enough for my purposes.
I think your problem here is that you have no gaming machines, and even if you install windows you will get crap performance even if the games work at all. As some other people here say, I've been running WoW with no hassle in linux for the better part of 5 years until i got so bored i didn't even look at the latest expansion. Do you have a PC with non integrated graphics?;)
I live in Romania and i was using iGo anyway; google maps didn't have what i needed here. Same probably goes for more countries around me. So when i upgrade my phone to iOS 6... i will be still using iGo:)
Meanwhile, no matter the hardware specs, iOS will keep being more responsive and iOS phones will keep getting software updates for years after launch. Clock speed and number of cores has stopped being relevant even in phones (it's not really relevant on the desktop any more as well) already. Note: i've owned two Android phones before switching to iOS.
"the great ones aren't likely to want to go anywhere but Google." After the famous Marissa Meyer statements that she doesn't believe in burnout and that you can work 130 hour weeks all the time, why would anyone want to go to Google? Note that she is at Yahoo now, but those statements are from the time when she was working at Google...
Any method will work, as long as you don't piss them off enough to leave for greener pastures. Agile, waterfall, they will make anything work. Unfortunately there's a limit to the number of awesome people you can find. When someone presents a new development method that does not include the phrase "if you hire awesome people", please wake me up.
My current rig that i build in 2007 and upgraded once in a while has decent gaming performance, even though i haven't put any money in it in 2 years or so... still on a Geforce 450. Calm down please:)
Killed the Might and Magic series (especially the RPGs, but Heroes is just a shadow of its former self as well). Killed Beyond Good and Evil. Killed Settlers. (Personal opinion) Splinter Cell is just a Metal Gear solid clone, and Assassin's Creed is a medieval GTA. Used all forms of shitty DRM across the years. Everyone is complaining about UPlay, but I remember getting a free Splinter Cell disc with a video card and not installing it because of StarForce. The result? I don't even read news or reviews about Ubisoft games. How can I pirate them when I don't know what they have out? And of course the Assasin's Creed lovers will pirate the game because the piratebay version actually works. Note 1: I have 120ish purchased games on Steam. Note 2: I own a PS3, I have a stack of about 10 unopened PS3 games waiting for me to have time to play them, plus a stack of 30+ games that i've at least ran once. Note 3: I still wouldn't buy Ubisoft games for the PS3 for fear of what they might do to my console.
I don't know about the 2999999 other sheep, but i will be upgrading my laptop from snow leopard to mountain lion indeed. I liked some features in Lion, but they sounded like they needed improvement. Mountain Lion may be it. Also, it's cheap.
That's right, nowhere. All we have are multiplayer shooters (no single player, because designing a proper single player experience is hard and doesn't involve programming much), and a few clones of programming heavy genres (wesnoth is heavily inspired by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warlords_(game_series) ). To produce a finished game you need more than a group of bored programmers working in their spare time. Although that sufficed to take over the internet - look at apache:) So let's all bid a warm welcome to our new Steam overlords. Especially since we will probably get the linux versions of games we already own for free - as in beer.
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That would make an xbox worth buying? I didn't notice one in the previous generation...
Monsanto wants more money. Let them plant seeds in *one* plot, then they'll sue all the crops in the EU for royalties...
As another imperialist pig who's not a native English speaker (Romanian in this case), I strongly recommend getting her used to the English keywords. :)
An important part of learning programming is going through documentation on your own, and most documentation worth a damn is in English.
Mind, i first started with machine code/assembly language when i was 10-ish, and that has no connection with any language known by humans
My 15 months old iPhone 4S continues to be good enough. I'm not interested in the new Samsung, the new iPhone or the new anything.
Maybe after two more hardware refreshes...
Mmm that I didn't know. I thought she was still sleeping under her desk and doing 200 hour weeks while pregnant...
Of "you can work 200 hour weeks if you sleep under your desk" (while at google) and more recently "no more telecommute" (at yahoo) fame?
Is that someone to be praised, regardless of gender?
I think she belongs on the "stay away form wherever she works" list.
... when I played the original Far Cry.
Pretty engine, then zzzzzzz.
Haven't touched a cryengine game since then.
But the iPhone 4 is just the right size for me. The 5 feels already too long. I'm worried that if Apple jumps on the 'my phone is bigger than your phone' bandwagon I'll be left with no replacement, as all the Android small phones are el cheapo versions with slow hardware.
Btw, I'm male, and I don't have particularly small hands. I can reach around a 4-4.3" screen with one hand, I just don't want one.
freelancer/rentacoder are there if you want to starve. And I say that as a Romanian programmer who works in theory cheaper than USers. Maybe I do, but not *that* cheap.
If you network, you will end up with side projects without even asking for them. Someone you know will need just a little help on some project, someone you know from a previous job will contact you to tie up a loose end, or do something simple, etc etc.
From personal experience, my holiday expenses for the last 3 years have been paid from money made outside the day job.
For complex operations, doing accurate progress may take a lot of development time you can't afford. Mostly everyone has deadlines...
Maybe you... i browse with FlashBlock on all machines, portable or not. If I want to watch a movie I'll click to enable just the movie, thank you.
Subject says it all... why enable flash by default? Even if it didn't have any security holes, it's still the great battery eater...
I've lately upgraded the GPU every other generation (i buy mid range cards like the 660) and the CPU every 4 years or more. It's been fast enough for my purposes.
Wake me up when their linux drivers work as well as nvidia's please :)
I think your problem here is that you have no gaming machines, and even if you install windows you will get crap performance even if the games work at all. ;)
As some other people here say, I've been running WoW with no hassle in linux for the better part of 5 years until i got so bored i didn't even look at the latest expansion.
Do you have a PC with non integrated graphics?
I live in Romania and i was using iGo anyway; google maps didn't have what i needed here. Same probably goes for more countries around me. :)
So when i upgrade my phone to iOS 6... i will be still using iGo
Meanwhile, no matter the hardware specs, iOS will keep being more responsive and iOS phones will keep getting software updates for years after launch. Clock speed and number of cores has stopped being relevant even in phones (it's not really relevant on the desktop any more as well) already.
Note: i've owned two Android phones before switching to iOS.
"the great ones aren't likely to want to go anywhere but Google."
After the famous Marissa Meyer statements that she doesn't believe in burnout and that you can work 130 hour weeks all the time, why would anyone want to go to Google? Note that she is at Yahoo now, but those statements are from the time when she was working at Google...
Any method will work, as long as you don't piss them off enough to leave for greener pastures.
Agile, waterfall, they will make anything work.
Unfortunately there's a limit to the number of awesome people you can find.
When someone presents a new development method that does not include the phrase "if you hire awesome people", please wake me up.
My current rig that i build in 2007 and upgraded once in a while has decent gaming performance, even though i haven't put any money in it in 2 years or so... still on a Geforce 450. :)
Calm down please
Killed the Might and Magic series (especially the RPGs, but Heroes is just a shadow of its former self as well).
Killed Beyond Good and Evil.
Killed Settlers.
(Personal opinion) Splinter Cell is just a Metal Gear solid clone, and Assassin's Creed is a medieval GTA.
Used all forms of shitty DRM across the years. Everyone is complaining about UPlay, but I remember getting a free Splinter Cell disc with a video card and not installing it because of StarForce.
The result?
I don't even read news or reviews about Ubisoft games. How can I pirate them when I don't know what they have out?
And of course the Assasin's Creed lovers will pirate the game because the piratebay version actually works.
Note 1: I have 120ish purchased games on Steam.
Note 2: I own a PS3, I have a stack of about 10 unopened PS3 games waiting for me to have time to play them, plus a stack of 30+ games that i've at least ran once.
Note 3: I still wouldn't buy Ubisoft games for the PS3 for fear of what they might do to my console.
I don't know about the 2999999 other sheep, but i will be upgrading my laptop from snow leopard to mountain lion indeed. I liked some features in Lion, but they sounded like they needed improvement. Mountain Lion may be it.
Also, it's cheap.
That's right, nowhere. :)
All we have are multiplayer shooters (no single player, because designing a proper single player experience is hard and doesn't involve programming much), and a few clones of programming heavy genres (wesnoth is heavily inspired by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warlords_(game_series) ).
To produce a finished game you need more than a group of bored programmers working in their spare time. Although that sufficed to take over the internet - look at apache
So let's all bid a warm welcome to our new Steam overlords. Especially since we will probably get the linux versions of games we already own for free - as in beer.
Subject says it all...
Creative accounting anyone? :)