I've had occasion to read through stacks of Curriculum Vitea (I'm English) Then lern to spel propper. It's "vitae". Long lists of skills mean nothing You know that. I know that. The candidates know that. Unfortunately the droid at the employment agency doesn't. They are given a list of buzzwords to match and a pile of CV's. Any CV's that match the buzzwords get their addresses tippexed out and are faxed through to you. Daft, innit?
Look, they are going to look *exactly* the same. The 360 and PS3 will be sufficiently close in their performance that it will be practical to use the same game engine and the same art assets hence saving two arms and three legs off total development cost. Exactly the farking same, mark my words.
One of the best things about having your own business is that you can walk away. Unless you have investors in which case, at least ethically, you're locked in for the ride. Note that this can mean five or ten years in a "zombie" company struggling along. Even if you think your next big idea is the shit, you still get to deal with a product nobody wants and the tech support nightmare you created for yourself because you took the kings' shilling while it seemed like a good idea.
Word to the wise: sometimes failure is the preferable option.
Myself, I have an MBox2 by digidesign. Doesn't seem like a long of bang for your buck, but it does come with ProTools.
Other way round, ProTools comes with a 'free' MBox. It's a fucking expensive piece of software. I believe there is a light version around now - look on Digi's site for "M-Powered" - that works with M-Audio's gear.
Don't listen to those losers who tell you that you need a Mac. You'll be paying twice the price (no offense, I love OSX, but hardware is $$$) for the same thing.
ProTools 7.2 on Intel Mac (including the bottom end laptops) runs like a rocket. Macs aren't really any more expensive than a PC laptop.
I had one of these and had to send it back, it's a piece of shit. To make things worse Unibrain have been astroturfing amazon reviews really transparently.
1, Ring up Dell and get a cheap as chips server delivered with two SATA drives. 2, Stick Debian on it ensuring that you've created a RAID set you can boot off. 3, Maintain sanity.
I assure you that stage 3 is the hard one. I guess it's only a big deal if stopping computers from falling over is something you'd care about.
More to the point it will be using 2.6.17 as the boot kernel. In other words, transparent support for SATA chipsets and (therefore) the ability to create a bootable raid set straight from the iso.
It might not sound like a big deal, but it's the only reason I'm using etch right now.
Get a favourite album, one you know well. Put it on repeat, drop into the zone and code for an hour or so. Do this for... dunno, maybe twenty or thirty repetitions and you'll quickly find that putting the music on drops you into the zone whether you want to or not. As an added bonus you'll find memories associated with the music so getting back into the work is faster.
Clearly you're going to need to change music from time to time but because of the memory associations I suggest you have an album per module, or per project, or whatever suits you. The memory associations also make maintenance easier.
But, danger! Do not listen to the work album and fsck about!
As a starter can I suggest "Snivilisation" by Orbital.
Yes, but no specifically in regards to this article.
What the article says is "when faced with impossible demands from management, do a quick but brutal project plan that shows what the actual realities are". I.E. blast through this and come back with what the real schedule is.
I was disappointed that it didn't mention my all time number one schedule shortening trick though: lose features. Brutally. Slaughter the bastards. Keep slaughtering until someone says "but if it doesn't do that then what's the point". Now work out how it's going to be made, who'll do the work and how long it will take. If that number is "too long" then go somewhere f*cking else because this one is doomed to failure.
At the end of the war do you think anyone is really going to be fucked? Is there necessarily going to be an end to the war (hint: you poor bastards aren't coming out of Iraq for a while).
Sorry man, get real. These bastards are not for defence.
Soo... the guy is going to take a year long vacation and then Google might know what job they're giving him? No, his job for the next year is to *not* evangelise Microsoft. Past that, god knows. Perhaps more of the same.
I bitched about it at the time (i.e. late 90's) and I'm happy to have managed to avoid it ever since. XML and SOAP, the whole f'king shebang. Inefficient shite. There's nothing wrong with binary formats at all - file systems appear to survive, for instance.
To a certain extent I can see the point. I like XML-RPC and can see that if you want to ask a webserver to do something from a piece of code, it's basically OK. It's not a particularly big improvement over doing a semi-tortuous HTTP POST, but it's OK. The performance is dogshit, but then it's not something you do all that often.
I agree, if it wasn't for your comment I wouldn't have seen it otherwise. Blah blah commentary on the gradual decline of slashdot. If it'd had the word Linux in it, it would have been modded to the sky, of course.
We deployed it at 3.5.1 (about six months ago) and it has improved significantly since then. Overall I guess it's OK but still has a way to go, particularly on the documentation front. Reliability has been good in a kinda "we haven't lost any data" fashion. Performance is shoddy, but we're running it on a fairly slow box. Quicker than Salesforce though. The source is a bit scary and while there is a SOAP API the documentation (again) is shite.
BTW, you can export from Salesforce in any one of a dozen ways so I wouldn't get tense about that.
Sugar themselves are a bit weird. It took a while to be able to buy support queries ($95 a pop or $295 for five, IIRC), the organisation being set up a bit *too* focussed on upselling to Sugar pro or whatever it's called. They seem to be an organisation that learns, however, and hopefully people like me ringing up and trying to give them money for support queries will change their tune fairly quickly.
With any luck it turns into a big OSS success story.
I agree, with one exception. On development+gateway boxes it's good to be able to do ssh -Y as root so you can start ethereal as root and see WTF is going on with the network. If you ssh in as yourself the su over to root you lose the X11 tunnel for reasons I don't have the time to investigate.
If there's a cunning/easy way around this, I'm all ears!
Hitler lost the war because the Russians threw flesh at him. The second world war was won by the sacrifice of millions of young Russian men and it pisses me off that people forget this. Fucking Americans only got interested when someone blew up a holiday resort.
I thought this was one of the few things we "knew" about the revolution? Nintendo have been quite open about not joining the 360/PS3 horsepower bandwagon, and also quite open about not giving a toss about HD. Between that, the prospect of downloadable titles, significant efforts to make it friendlier to non gamers (hey, I *like* the controller) and Nintendo's history of being the best at producing cheaply it looks like they may be going to make really quite a bit of coin this time around.
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Oh, very nice. "+1 - Well aimed pedantry" ... or is that the thing involving sheep and Wellingtons?
Dave
I've had occasion to read through stacks of Curriculum Vitea (I'm English)
Then lern to spel propper. It's "vitae".
Long lists of skills mean nothing
You know that. I know that. The candidates know that. Unfortunately the droid at the employment agency doesn't. They are given a list of buzzwords to match and a pile of CV's. Any CV's that match the buzzwords get their addresses tippexed out and are faxed through to you. Daft, innit?
Dave
Look, they are going to look *exactly* the same. The 360 and PS3 will be sufficiently close in their performance that it will be practical to use the same game engine and the same art assets hence saving two arms and three legs off total development cost. Exactly the farking same, mark my words.
Dave
One of the best things about having your own business is that you can walk away.
Unless you have investors in which case, at least ethically, you're locked in for the ride. Note that this can mean five or ten years in a "zombie" company struggling along. Even if you think your next big idea is the shit, you still get to deal with a product nobody wants and the tech support nightmare you created for yourself because you took the kings' shilling while it seemed like a good idea.
Word to the wise: sometimes failure is the preferable option.
Dave
Myself, I have an MBox2 by digidesign. Doesn't seem like a long of bang for your buck, but it does come with ProTools.
Other way round, ProTools comes with a 'free' MBox. It's a fucking expensive piece of software. I believe there is a light version around now - look on Digi's site for "M-Powered" - that works with M-Audio's gear.
Don't listen to those losers who tell you that you need a Mac. You'll be paying twice the price (no offense, I love OSX, but hardware is $$$) for the same thing.
ProTools 7.2 on Intel Mac (including the bottom end laptops) runs like a rocket. Macs aren't really any more expensive than a PC laptop.
Dave
I had one of these and had to send it back, it's a piece of shit. To make things worse Unibrain have been astroturfing amazon reviews really transparently.
In short: Fuck them.
Dave
Never mod points when you need them. Nice post.
Dave
Then you should try the following:
1, Ring up Dell and get a cheap as chips server delivered with two SATA drives.
2, Stick Debian on it ensuring that you've created a RAID set you can boot off.
3, Maintain sanity.
I assure you that stage 3 is the hard one. I guess it's only a big deal if stopping computers from falling over is something you'd care about.
Dave
More to the point it will be using 2.6.17 as the boot kernel. In other words, transparent support for SATA chipsets and (therefore) the ability to create a bootable raid set straight from the iso.
It might not sound like a big deal, but it's the only reason I'm using etch right now.
Dave
So, what were it's goals?
Dave
Get a favourite album, one you know well. Put it on repeat, drop into the zone and code for an hour or so. Do this for ... dunno, maybe twenty or thirty repetitions and you'll quickly find that putting the music on drops you into the zone whether you want to or not. As an added bonus you'll find memories associated with the music so getting back into the work is faster.
Clearly you're going to need to change music from time to time but because of the memory associations I suggest you have an album per module, or per project, or whatever suits you. The memory associations also make maintenance easier.
But, danger! Do not listen to the work album and fsck about!
As a starter can I suggest "Snivilisation" by Orbital.
Cheers,
Dave
Yes, but no specifically in regards to this article.
What the article says is "when faced with impossible demands from management, do a quick but brutal project plan that shows what the actual realities are". I.E. blast through this and come back with what the real schedule is.
I was disappointed that it didn't mention my all time number one schedule shortening trick though: lose features. Brutally. Slaughter the bastards. Keep slaughtering until someone says "but if it doesn't do that then what's the point". Now work out how it's going to be made, who'll do the work and how long it will take. If that number is "too long" then go somewhere f*cking else because this one is doomed to failure.
Dave
"Go after" the United States government. Right. Gets you in all sorts of trouble that does.
At the end of the war do you think anyone is really going to be fucked? Is there necessarily going to be an end to the war (hint: you poor bastards aren't coming out of Iraq for a while).
Sorry man, get real. These bastards are not for defence.
Dave
Dude,
You made a weapon. Something that will kill someone. About time to accept what you've done, don't you think?
Dave
Soo... the guy is going to take a year long vacation and then Google might know what job they're giving him?
No, his job for the next year is to *not* evangelise Microsoft. Past that, god knows. Perhaps more of the same.
Dave
Tools, maybe. Marketing? Yes.
I bitched about it at the time (i.e. late 90's) and I'm happy to have managed to avoid it ever since. XML and SOAP, the whole f'king shebang. Inefficient shite. There's nothing wrong with binary formats at all - file systems appear to survive, for instance.
To a certain extent I can see the point. I like XML-RPC and can see that if you want to ask a webserver to do something from a piece of code, it's basically OK. It's not a particularly big improvement over doing a semi-tortuous HTTP POST, but it's OK. The performance is dogshit, but then it's not something you do all that often.
But big distributed apps based on SOAP?
OK. I'll stop.
ObAOL: Me Too!
Dave
"Thank god for that, the PS3 is starting to look halfway reasonable again".
Dave
I agree, if it wasn't for your comment I wouldn't have seen it otherwise. Blah blah commentary on the gradual decline of slashdot. If it'd had the word Linux in it, it would have been modded to the sky, of course.
Dave
He means SugarCRM. It's an OSS Salesforce-a-like.
We deployed it at 3.5.1 (about six months ago) and it has improved significantly since then. Overall I guess it's OK but still has a way to go, particularly on the documentation front. Reliability has been good in a kinda "we haven't lost any data" fashion. Performance is shoddy, but we're running it on a fairly slow box. Quicker than Salesforce though. The source is a bit scary and while there is a SOAP API the documentation (again) is shite.
BTW, you can export from Salesforce in any one of a dozen ways so I wouldn't get tense about that.
Sugar themselves are a bit weird. It took a while to be able to buy support queries ($95 a pop or $295 for five, IIRC), the organisation being set up a bit *too* focussed on upselling to Sugar pro or whatever it's called. They seem to be an organisation that learns, however, and hopefully people like me ringing up and trying to give them money for support queries will change their tune fairly quickly.
With any luck it turns into a big OSS success story.
Dave
I agree, with one exception. On development+gateway boxes it's good to be able to do ssh -Y as root so you can start ethereal as root and see WTF is going on with the network. If you ssh in as yourself the su over to root you lose the X11 tunnel for reasons I don't have the time to investigate.
If there's a cunning/easy way around this, I'm all ears!
Dave
Hitler lost the war because the Russians threw flesh at him. The second world war was won by the sacrifice of millions of young Russian men and it pisses me off that people forget this. Fucking Americans only got interested when someone blew up a holiday resort.
Oh! Sorry, keep thinking this is fark.
Dave
Exactly what piece of open source sofware have you found that has really well writen documention?
wxWidgets, mysql, php
The first three that come to mind.
Dave
No! I saw the one played on a 12 string (but have lost the URL, sorry).
Nice, thanks.
Dave
I thought this was one of the few things we "knew" about the revolution? Nintendo have been quite open about not joining the 360/PS3 horsepower bandwagon, and also quite open about not giving a toss about HD. Between that, the prospect of downloadable titles, significant efforts to make it friendlier to non gamers (hey, I *like* the controller) and Nintendo's history of being the best at producing cheaply it looks like they may be going to make really quite a bit of coin this time around.
Coin? Ha! B'ding! B'ding! B'ding!
Dave