So it's pretty clear that Ruby is a pretty good language to write web apps in. But I have a another think: Which languages works best for each problem domain? So far, I've gotten C/C++/Javascript/Java/C# sorted but the rest I'm kinda fuzzy about. I'm trying to sort these out regardless of architectural constraints. (Like IIS requiring VBscript or JScript) Feel free to flame if you think this list is totally off.
C: Good for device drivers and very small embedded work.
C++: Good for most embedded work, fast plugin work (ala Maya and Photoshop). Lots of UI architectures (now with KDE xplatform, could be a good UI option but definitately not RAD)
Java: Fast servlets. Fast cross platform UI??
Javascript: clientsize webpages (duh!)
C#: Same as Java (fixes some of Java's problems though...), Will be default for windows UI development soon
Python: More robust servlets
Ruby: More robust servlets, weakly typed language makes for great RAD, it's where Javascript wants to go. Maybe UI option?
Effile: ?? no idea what functional languages are good for...
Haskill: ?? no idea
Lisp: I personally hate trying to think in it's reverse polish notation schemes. So no idea...
3D Window manager + Head/Eye Tracking + Angeoscopic display == Next Killer app.
Think about it: If you can tilt your head and make the windows rotate to face you, it qould make browsing MUCH faster. Also having windows forshorten means that you can keep track of much more apps at once... Also, Angiscopic displays will make 3D WMs really pop!
Of course anything which is created without complete pratical purpose is art -> you have to be creative to make it so it is defined to be art.
But I think that good art isn't designed by committee. If there isn't one person with a perfect vision of what he/she wants to express, the game becomes shitty, shitty art. Game design by committee sucks but is inevetable if there isn't one strong designer leading the way. I think you usually wind up with a gory (but graphically impressive) mess of a game.
What were the best designed games you have seen with a great beginning, action, climax and ending? I've seen a lot of games with great beginnings and action but unfortunatly, the climaxes are usually not very good.:(
Which games have great climaxes?
Isn't better to be able to walk down a street and not have to worry about whether or not you're going to be mugged because a lot of those potential muggers are being raised out of the gutter by government subsistance programs?
Sure, they're inefficient as hell and you always hear about the occational crazy killing people half way on the other side of the country, but they DO HELP. In Berkeley, there is a lot of homeless people. I can walk around at night though pretty confident that no one is going to cap my ass. The homeless have little incentive to try to hurt me because a) there is always a homeless shelter they can go to, get food and a bed and b) the cops patrol the area a lot. That's where your taxes are going, my friend.
Wow, this is crazy.
After speading two long years studying US History in high school, I guess it finally paid off. I think that it's fasinating how the behavior of the nuev-rich of today are almost identical to the nuev-rich of the 1880s. Check this out: (from Matthew Josephson's excellent book, "The Robber Barons", p. 332)
"In New York, "natue's nobleman" all joined together in the frenzied contest of display and consuption. Mansions and chateaux of French, Gothic, Italian, Barocco, and Oriental style lined both sides of upper Fifth Ave. (in New York), while shining and jigsaw villas of huge dimensions rose above the habor of Newport. Railroad barons and mine-owners and oil magnates vied with each other in making town houses and country villas which were imitations of everything under the sun, and were filled with what-nots, old drapery, old armor, old Tubor chests and chairs, statuettes,... One would have a bedstand of craved oak and ebony, inlaid with gold, costing $200,000. Another would decorate his walls with enamel and gold at a cost of $65,000...."
The chapter goes on and on about the glories and excesses of the robber barons. Simply amazing!
Ok, this wasn't supposed to be a push for the book but I think that if you really want to know what Larry E. is going to build next once his home gets upscaled by his closest competitor, you should flip open a history book. If history is any indication, SF will have castles rising up along Pecific Heights in a couple of years.
Ben Schleimer
PS. I really think that these houses are a complete and utter waste of money. With the amount of money they are spending, I think they should hold random lotteries every month and make some complete and total stranger utterly happy.
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So it's pretty clear that Ruby is a pretty good language to write web apps in. But I have a another think: Which languages works best for each problem domain? So far, I've gotten C/C++/Javascript/Java/C# sorted but the rest I'm kinda fuzzy about. I'm trying to sort these out regardless of architectural constraints. (Like IIS requiring VBscript or JScript) Feel free to flame if you think this list is totally off.
C: Good for device drivers and very small embedded work.
C++: Good for most embedded work, fast plugin work (ala Maya and Photoshop). Lots of UI architectures
(now with KDE xplatform, could be a good UI option but definitately not RAD)
Java: Fast servlets. Fast cross platform UI??
Javascript: clientsize webpages (duh!)
C#: Same as Java (fixes some of Java's problems though...), Will be default for windows UI development soon
Python: More robust servlets
Ruby: More robust servlets, weakly typed language makes for great RAD, it's where Javascript wants to go. Maybe UI option?
Effile: ?? no idea what functional languages are good for...
Haskill: ?? no idea
Lisp: I personally hate trying to think in it's reverse polish notation schemes. So no idea...
What do you think?
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I think the skateboard concept is cool but really
should be electrical. It just makes more sense.
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeatur
I think this car is the real wave of the future.
The stats are unreal!!
Cheers,
Ben
At least some people are trying new car ideas instead of critizing or promoting out dated SUVs.
I think this idea is great (assuming the air tanks don't explode...)
Ben
PS. Funny how not one new innovative idea has come out of Detroit since the EV1. Fuck the big 3...
3D Window manager + Head/Eye Tracking + Angeoscopic display == Next Killer app.
Think about it:
If you can tilt your head and make the windows rotate to face you, it qould make browsing MUCH faster. Also having windows forshorten means that you can keep track of much more apps at once...
Also, Angiscopic displays will make 3D WMs really pop!
Ben
Of course anything which is created without complete pratical purpose is art -> you have to be creative to make it so it is defined to be art.
:(
But I think that good art isn't designed by committee. If there isn't one person with a perfect vision of what he/she wants to express, the game becomes shitty, shitty art. Game design by committee sucks but is inevetable if there isn't one strong designer leading the way. I think you usually wind up with a gory (but graphically impressive) mess of a game.
What were the best designed games you have seen with a great beginning, action, climax and ending? I've seen a lot of games with great beginnings and action but unfortunatly, the climaxes are usually not very good.
Which games have great climaxes?
Ben Schleimer
In the RTL performance paper,
the author says that both RTAI and RTL
have a worst-case performance of 17-19 us.
Is this good/bad/ok for real life applications?
Whats the performance of other RTOSs?
Thanks!!
Isn't better to be able to walk down a street and not have to worry about whether or not you're going to be mugged because a lot of those potential muggers are being raised out of the gutter by government subsistance programs?
Sure, they're inefficient as hell and you always hear about the occational crazy killing people half way on the other side of the country, but they DO HELP. In Berkeley, there is a lot of homeless people. I can walk around at night though pretty confident that no one is going to cap my ass. The homeless have little incentive to try to hurt me because a) there is always a homeless shelter they can go to, get food and a bed and b) the cops patrol the area a lot. That's where your taxes are going, my friend.
Cheers!
Ben
Wow, this is crazy.
... One would have a bedstand of craved oak and ebony, inlaid with gold, costing $200,000. Another would decorate his walls with enamel and gold at a cost of $65,000. ..."
After speading two long years studying US History in high school, I guess it finally paid off. I think that it's fasinating how the behavior of the nuev-rich of today are almost identical to the nuev-rich of the 1880s. Check this out: (from Matthew Josephson's excellent book, "The Robber Barons", p. 332)
"In New York, "natue's nobleman" all joined together in the frenzied contest of display and consuption. Mansions and chateaux of French, Gothic, Italian, Barocco, and Oriental style lined both sides of upper Fifth Ave. (in New York), while shining and jigsaw villas of huge dimensions rose above the habor of Newport. Railroad barons and mine-owners and oil magnates vied with each other in making town houses and country villas which were imitations of everything under the sun, and were filled with what-nots, old drapery, old armor, old Tubor chests and chairs, statuettes,
The chapter goes on and on about the glories and excesses of the robber barons. Simply amazing!
Ok, this wasn't supposed to be a push for the book but I think that if you really want to know what Larry E. is going to build next once his home gets upscaled by his closest competitor, you should flip open a history book. If history is any indication, SF will have castles rising up along Pecific Heights in a couple of years.
Ben Schleimer
PS. I really think that these houses are a complete and utter waste of money. With the amount of money they are spending, I think they should hold random lotteries every month and make some complete and total stranger utterly happy.