Yah, I started coding on a ti 99 when I was like 5 years old. We got our code in magazines and just copied it. I would also make print rockets. It wasn't until I was twelve until I learned the power of the if statement, and from there, I've been coding ever since. I don't get why its so hard to land a job though. Everyone says software engineering is in demand, but I can't begin my career and I graduated from Carnegie Mellon University. Its okay, the world of Indie development doesn't require any company to believe in your abilities to publisj product.
If they can determine when a programmer is drunk, odds are the quality of their code is bad... for that individual programmer. Programming skill is so varied that I'd take a drunk quality programmer over sober riff raff.
Ideally, I only code 2-4 hours a day and then exercise a bunch. The rest in between lets you strategically think about your software's architecture so it is stable across updates. Thinking takes more than a couple minutes if you're doing significant projects, so you might as well go for long walks.
Nintendo had to go the road of gimmicks to sell gaming systems since they no longer have the horsepower of xbox,pc,playstation.
They should take their nintendo ip, and make sequels for pc, android and ipad... What would be super cool is if nintendo helped apple make an official joystick for the ipad... Then we could make games with great controls for mobile.
Don't underplay how valuable the Internet is for education! For the extra education alone, the internet would be vital in places where people might not get a great primary education. If you could buy everyone on earth an encyclopedia set, we'd do it. Well the Internet is much more valuable than that thousands of times over.
I beat nightmare mode in 1&2, it took a lot of saves. It also was at like 5fps on my old computer for doom2. Also I made a null modem to play with my buddy before the internet.
Its like bringing a breathalizer to a bar. People don't make sure they're safe before they go drive, they compete to see who can get the highest blood alcohol level.
Video games make you have to make decisions in a short amount of time. This makes you better to think on your feet. There's a lot to be said for the good video games provide compared to just being a passive watcher of tv. And the communication factor of a phone(heh) provides for more socialization with the people you know.
What I am basically saying is if you take a gap year or two, also study online and be ready for your courses. I think we're here for Moocs, but maybe employers might not understand an all mooc educated person.
Moocs are the present and future. College today is only needed by people who aren't active learners. If you can't figure out how to learn on the Internet, by all means go to a university. But everything but lab work can be found on the Internet today. When I was in highschool, the only way I could learn more was by reading encyclopedias or teaching myself how to code. Today with youtube and moocs, it is all online now. Universities are behind the times.
100% ads is the future. Come watch our advertisements and we'll let you compete in game show apps for 30% of our ad revenue. This sounds like a joke, but it is a viable business model. The trick is knowing when a real person is watching the ads and not just a bot.
If you want to fund AI, just assemble a team that knows their stuff. AI isn't as mysterious as it sounds. You just need good vision recognition to know your environment and then do goal oriented tasks on obects in the enviornment. www.botcraft.biz
Having information available to the masses is a good thing. It is like we have a giant library. If your media is really worth money, giving it to the masses is like adding trillions into the economy all at once. You just need new business models to create stuff. I'm looking in the direction of kickstarter.
You're spot on. I've played more video games than most and loved the arcades. These new phone games have annoying input compared to the joystick and buttons!!! I made a game for Android and web (www.ThroneAndCrown.com) and its redeeming quality is that you can plug a keyboard and maybe a joystick in. I'm developing for both mobile and PC, but I prefer the PC because you can make a game allow for an xbox 360 joystick. Mobile has the market, but the limiting constraints of input, latency, screen size, and processing power mean your game will be more limited than a PC or console game.
Socialism looks good on paper. All men are equals working together except a few men who lead them and distribute the goods. But in practice, the leader people start power tripping wanting more and more power. And then they become afraid of the people rallying against them, so they crack down on political dissenters at first sight. Then by doing this, they become a more hated villian, and feel the need to oppress their people more. Socialism on paper looks good, but in history, it hasn't panned out well.
Some people have discussed taxing the gains gotten from automation and giving out a universal basic income to cover the fact less of the population is working. Since 1998 there is 5% less of the population working jobs in the US from the department of labor statistics. Universal basic income has many problems. The first of which is that it is less than you'd expect to live on. The next of which is that it encourages mass immigration. Just like how corporations flee to a country that has the lowest tax rates. People who hear they can live a sustainable life apart from working hard for less money in their country... Everyone would want to live in a country giving out money which wouldn't bode well for sustainability or the population. I'm on the fence on universal basic income, but it has to overcome these problems and probably more.
The ability to invest in yourself so you can produce more is good. I like the free spirit of working in what business you want. Capitalism doesn't have as much waste as another system where everyone gets rationing they may or may not want. Where Capitalism falls short is if you can't get a job at all or can't start your own business. There is no sympathy for those who can't do well. There is no cushion for rock bottom other than hopefully a supportive family. Fix that while also having people still want to work dirty jobs, and you're on to something.
If we think about others more than ourselves, we should be helping defeat the two great problems of wold hunger and malaria. Every little bit we can help does help for immediate and lasting change. World hunger in itself could be defeated in a generation if enough of us helped. Even something as simple as eating your boring leftovers so you eat out and save money can help out some. The main idea is to forgo the luxuries that you don't need to help more.
Now if humanity destroys itself, aliens can find out about our civilization preserved on whatever format that won't have bit rot. They're preserving it in a format without bit rot, right?
I tell parents that they should be very sensitive to their kids. A lot of people can't get even an okay job in this economy designed to overwork and underpay. Let your kids stay with you. Encourage them to continue education for free online. Don't charge them rent. Don't discourage them.
There is a political movement to paint a whole generation as lazy and self centered instead of manning up and realizing stuff is broke and unfair in society. For people who have it don't consider it a luck or a blessing, but want to pat themselves on the back for their hard work. Well hard work doesn't always even get you a single chance in life.
cclesiastes 9:11 I realized another thing, that in this world fast runners do not always win the races, and the brave do not always win the battles. The wise do not always earn a living, intelligent people do not always get rich, and capable people do not always rise to high positions. Bad luck happens to everyone.
Spot on. imo the golden age of console gaming ended with nes/snes/genesis. Then we had the dark days of 3d where no one knew how to do a 3d game for years with bad polygons and wonky camera angles.
I once got a virus from an immitation poker site link. I didn't download an executable. All I did was click a link to what I thought was a popular poker site on one of the top hits. If I recall correctly, firefox crashed and then I had to reinstall windows. Since then, I browse the web on windows as little as possible.
You already know the use of computer notes. Let me tell you why a two tiered standard desk is good. Put the keyboard and college ruled notebook to the off hand. Put five notebooks on the top layer. Write notes in the notebook to the side of the keyboard. Once it is full, swap it with a notebook on top the desk that has the most outdated info. To me, this is a wise programming tactic. I forget easy, but with this, I don't lose focus because all the latest things I was working on is there in plain sight.
Oracle likes to boast about Java being installed on so many devices. And people use Java to make Android software. You'd think they'd be thanking Google instead of trying to mug them.
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Maybe its a smug beaurocrat capthca. Alternatively to entering captchas, you should be able to use a two cent micro transaction through google wallet.
Yah, I started coding on a ti 99 when I was like 5 years old. We got our code in magazines and just copied it. I would also make print rockets. It wasn't until I was twelve until I learned the power of the if statement, and from there, I've been coding ever since. I don't get why its so hard to land a job though. Everyone says software engineering is in demand, but I can't begin my career and I graduated from Carnegie Mellon University. Its okay, the world of Indie development doesn't require any company to believe in your abilities to publisj product.
If they can determine when a programmer is drunk, odds are the quality of their code is bad... for that individual programmer. Programming skill is so varied that I'd take a drunk quality programmer over sober riff raff.
Ideally, I only code 2-4 hours a day and then exercise a bunch. The rest in between lets you strategically think about your software's architecture so it is stable across updates. Thinking takes more than a couple minutes if you're doing significant projects, so you might as well go for long walks.
Nintendo had to go the road of gimmicks to sell gaming systems since they no longer have the horsepower of xbox,pc,playstation. They should take their nintendo ip, and make sequels for pc, android and ipad... What would be super cool is if nintendo helped apple make an official joystick for the ipad... Then we could make games with great controls for mobile.
Don't underplay how valuable the Internet is for education! For the extra education alone, the internet would be vital in places where people might not get a great primary education. If you could buy everyone on earth an encyclopedia set, we'd do it. Well the Internet is much more valuable than that thousands of times over.
I beat nightmare mode in 1&2, it took a lot of saves. It also was at like 5fps on my old computer for doom2. Also I made a null modem to play with my buddy before the internet.
In the 80s and 90s, Apple was in all the schools with donated computers. Seemed to work out pretty well for them.
Its like bringing a breathalizer to a bar. People don't make sure they're safe before they go drive, they compete to see who can get the highest blood alcohol level.
Video games make you have to make decisions in a short amount of time. This makes you better to think on your feet. There's a lot to be said for the good video games provide compared to just being a passive watcher of tv. And the communication factor of a phone(heh) provides for more socialization with the people you know.
What I am basically saying is if you take a gap year or two, also study online and be ready for your courses. I think we're here for Moocs, but maybe employers might not understand an all mooc educated person.
Moocs are the present and future. College today is only needed by people who aren't active learners. If you can't figure out how to learn on the Internet, by all means go to a university. But everything but lab work can be found on the Internet today. When I was in highschool, the only way I could learn more was by reading encyclopedias or teaching myself how to code. Today with youtube and moocs, it is all online now. Universities are behind the times.
100% ads is the future. Come watch our advertisements and we'll let you compete in game show apps for 30% of our ad revenue. This sounds like a joke, but it is a viable business model. The trick is knowing when a real person is watching the ads and not just a bot.
If you want to fund AI, just assemble a team that knows their stuff. AI isn't as mysterious as it sounds. You just need good vision recognition to know your environment and then do goal oriented tasks on obects in the enviornment. www.botcraft.biz
Having information available to the masses is a good thing. It is like we have a giant library. If your media is really worth money, giving it to the masses is like adding trillions into the economy all at once. You just need new business models to create stuff. I'm looking in the direction of kickstarter.
You're spot on. I've played more video games than most and loved the arcades. These new phone games have annoying input compared to the joystick and buttons!!! I made a game for Android and web (www.ThroneAndCrown.com) and its redeeming quality is that you can plug a keyboard and maybe a joystick in. I'm developing for both mobile and PC, but I prefer the PC because you can make a game allow for an xbox 360 joystick. Mobile has the market, but the limiting constraints of input, latency, screen size, and processing power mean your game will be more limited than a PC or console game.
Socialism looks good on paper. All men are equals working together except a few men who lead them and distribute the goods. But in practice, the leader people start power tripping wanting more and more power. And then they become afraid of the people rallying against them, so they crack down on political dissenters at first sight. Then by doing this, they become a more hated villian, and feel the need to oppress their people more. Socialism on paper looks good, but in history, it hasn't panned out well. Some people have discussed taxing the gains gotten from automation and giving out a universal basic income to cover the fact less of the population is working. Since 1998 there is 5% less of the population working jobs in the US from the department of labor statistics. Universal basic income has many problems. The first of which is that it is less than you'd expect to live on. The next of which is that it encourages mass immigration. Just like how corporations flee to a country that has the lowest tax rates. People who hear they can live a sustainable life apart from working hard for less money in their country... Everyone would want to live in a country giving out money which wouldn't bode well for sustainability or the population. I'm on the fence on universal basic income, but it has to overcome these problems and probably more.
The ability to invest in yourself so you can produce more is good. I like the free spirit of working in what business you want. Capitalism doesn't have as much waste as another system where everyone gets rationing they may or may not want. Where Capitalism falls short is if you can't get a job at all or can't start your own business. There is no sympathy for those who can't do well. There is no cushion for rock bottom other than hopefully a supportive family. Fix that while also having people still want to work dirty jobs, and you're on to something.
If we think about others more than ourselves, we should be helping defeat the two great problems of wold hunger and malaria. Every little bit we can help does help for immediate and lasting change. World hunger in itself could be defeated in a generation if enough of us helped. Even something as simple as eating your boring leftovers so you eat out and save money can help out some. The main idea is to forgo the luxuries that you don't need to help more.
Now if humanity destroys itself, aliens can find out about our civilization preserved on whatever format that won't have bit rot. They're preserving it in a format without bit rot, right?
I tell parents that they should be very sensitive to their kids. A lot of people can't get even an okay job in this economy designed to overwork and underpay. Let your kids stay with you. Encourage them to continue education for free online. Don't charge them rent. Don't discourage them.
There is a political movement to paint a whole generation as lazy and self centered instead of manning up and realizing stuff is broke and unfair in society. For people who have it don't consider it a luck or a blessing, but want to pat themselves on the back for their hard work. Well hard work doesn't always even get you a single chance in life.
cclesiastes 9:11 I realized another thing, that in this world fast runners do not always win the races, and the brave do not always win the battles. The wise do not always earn a living, intelligent people do not always get rich, and capable people do not always rise to high positions. Bad luck happens to everyone.
Spot on. imo the golden age of console gaming ended with nes/snes/genesis. Then we had the dark days of 3d where no one knew how to do a 3d game for years with bad polygons and wonky camera angles.
I once got a virus from an immitation poker site link. I didn't download an executable. All I did was click a link to what I thought was a popular poker site on one of the top hits. If I recall correctly, firefox crashed and then I had to reinstall windows. Since then, I browse the web on windows as little as possible.
You already know the use of computer notes. Let me tell you why a two tiered standard desk is good. Put the keyboard and college ruled notebook to the off hand. Put five notebooks on the top layer. Write notes in the notebook to the side of the keyboard. Once it is full, swap it with a notebook on top the desk that has the most outdated info. To me, this is a wise programming tactic. I forget easy, but with this, I don't lose focus because all the latest things I was working on is there in plain sight.
Oracle likes to boast about Java being installed on so many devices. And people use Java to make Android software. You'd think they'd be thanking Google instead of trying to mug them.