You start to care once you multiply those 2% across millions of users. Any savings at such basic level are multiplied by how often the resource is used. So no you don't care about this for your CRUD web application, but wikipedia saving 2% bandwidth translates in one less datacenter required which means thousands of dollars.
My bet is that HL3 will be the first source2 game and it will have full VR support and be sold in bundles. headset (insert witty name here) + steam machine + hl3. Steam after all was (practically) launched with hl2.
Well technically the data science part is what you do after the data reconfiguration, but most people just use some kind of tool for doing that, so it is also very boring (you have to learn the tool and configure it to your data format).
Didn't they basically said: "Screw your hardware, we are now Intel x86. Throw your PowerPCs in the trash" a couple years ago? I wonder how long it will take before you change the x86 to ARM?
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90% of what a data science expert do is what people like to call data-juijitso (data reconfiguration). Which basically means getting data out of your RMDBs, SAP, Twitter, Facebook, random text (.csv, etc) file dumps, random Excel/Word Files and legacy databases and into some place you can actually generate conclusions from (like inside a HDFS Hadoop cluster). Plus during this process you need to normalize all your data so you can apply the same algorithm no matter where the data came from.
All this means is that you will spend countless hours trying to connect to the client legacy stuff and then countless hours trying to get the data out (without impacting production systems!), so you can then spend countless hours formatting this data around to be able to spend countless hours trying to get this data into your Big Data(tm) solution so you can finally run some algorithms and create results. Now multiply all that by the number of different kinds of databases the client has and you get the idea.
As an IT professional you really do not want to work in this field. No organization keep its data in a clean uniform way, data scientist is like an IT janitor.
Data structures (and associated algorithms) is the most vital part of a programmers learning. If you had a good data structures course (and coursework) you are set for life.
And also data structures should be taught in a language with POINTERS (C or Pascal are the usual picks). I don't care if you are teaching a 10 year old, if you don't teach pointers you might as well be teaching Basic.
You don't need to go VERY deep into the subject, B-trees and such are probably overkill for your aims. But the kids need to learn how to make a double-linked list, basic hash tables and binary trees with one hand tied to their backs. You can get this kind of curriculum over with about a year. The ones that get left behind should be terminated, they will not make it as programmers.
If that sounds too harsh for you, you might consider giving a class for web designers (as in, no programming, only HTML/CSS and image editing tools, maybe some templating engine). A good designer is worth his weight in gold.
Well I did not notice any slowdowns on my core i5 laptop, but it does crash somewhat often (once a week, I just run the command to restart cinnamon and comes back to life with all my stuff still open, so no big deal). But someone else mentioned the battery life loss and while I haven't tested against other window managers I did notice my battery draining somewhat fast.
While I agree with you, the end result of all this mess can be quite good. There are many great web applications that have very good UI, even with the limitations of the DOM and CSS.
In the end this mess produces what the users want. Hopefully soon the specs will add support something else besides the DOM on the browsers so the devs can also get what they want.
Also of note is that Javascript is not such an abysmal language. It has many little annoying things, but it has support for some very cool stuff. The problem lies in using Javascript to manipulate the DOM.
Are MIT-like licenses hurting more than helping the free software movement? While I agree that GPL is better for the end user, the existence of MIT-like licenses did increase the adoption of open source software by a large amount. But the way that some big players in the field play with open source licenses discuss me (like android and its closed-source ASOP).
Without the right amount of culture (a computer and incentive to try and create stuff with it) while still in infancy you most likely won't have a person that: A: Wants to program for a living. B: Is good at it.
The same is true for many other areas, electrical engineers that dismantle radios as kids for example.
So it is not enough to try to get high school kids into STEM bachelors, you need to have the right culture while growing up to make a good professional. That is one (of many) reasons why woman are underrepresented in STEM fields, they are not encouraged at a young age to do this type of activity.
Really, the IDE Fx (replace x with 1 to 12) key is not a build tool. You can have the ide call your build tool, but you need to have a proper build tool. Be it make, imake, ant, maven,.sh script,.bat script, just have a properly maintained and documented build process for gods sake.
I agree with your points, the hunting lodges take way too much space, but early on you have space to spare. And it is better to buy the tools rather than make them.
Up until now I was placing the storage barn and stocking piles in the center of my town, my next game I will move those out of the town and next to the producing areas once I can afford a market. You know if food/good producers put stuff directly on the market if it is closer than the storage barn?
I found out that Wool Cloths are the best thing ever to trade. Sheep are cheap and produce a lot of wool. My last game I had 3 tailors working full time making Wool Clothing. Sheep pastures takes less space than hunting lodges, even accounting the tailors, require fewer workers and also produce food. Also they require square spacing rather than circular like forresters.
Also I don't even bother with wood houses, go straight for stone ones. It is easier to grow slowly in the beginning of the game. In the long run the logs/workhours you save from chopping firewood adds up.
It is very rare that I get a merchant that sells stone though, stone is by far the hardest thing to get in this game. Also I wish the merchants were more consistent. I was at a point that I could afford buying food rather than making it myself, but the food merchants rarely came to town, when they did came they had HUGE stocks of food. You know if more trading posts bring more merchants?
One thing I did learn the hard way was that you really need to prepare before accepting nomads into your village. They will eat all your food. Do you know how long the offer to take in nomads stay on the town hall before disappearing?
One thing I am not very sure about is cemeteries, is it worth building them? they take way too much space and stone.
People (real people, not devs or power users) hate microsoft because they can't get the stuff done on their pcs. They (used to) get blue screens all the time. They can't get their scanner to work because they don't know what a 'driver' is. They blame hardware problems on the OS (blue screen again). They can't get the photos out of their phones and send them through an email. They don't understand the concept of file and folders so they can never find the word documents they make. They don't understand backup and they lose all their data
THESE are the things that annoy people and if you compare to mobile OSs you will see that most of that stuff is just not a problem on the mobile world. Mobile OSs don't even come with a file manager!
If Mac OS was the dominant OS for that kind of people it would probably generate the same amount of hate.
I was too young to remember, but how did Mac OS and other operating systems compared to windows 95 when it came out? Maybe if apple had went with a cheaper box they could have swallowed the market.
Thanks for the tips! I used your suggestion about housing in my last game and I ended up overcrowded with people I couldn't feed or keep warm. Placing too many houses is a bad idea too.
I place all my houses next to my stocking pile and storage barn, should I spread the houses around? Are the workers smart enough to work close to their homes? Should I spread stocking piles and storage barns around too?
You need to place hunting houses in open fields and the leather is quite useful early because hide coats save you firewood and can be sold for 15 each at the trader.
Another thing, do I need two cattle/chicken/sheep for they to procreate? I once bought a single cow and then it died and the pasture never got back. I also read that the herbalist needs to be place around "old trees", so cutting them down with a forrester might not be a good idea if you place herbalist next to the gatherer like me.
My settlement usually fails before I can afford to buy seeds so I never get to place farms. I'm on my third try.
Yeah I have also ran into that problem, but only after you saying it to me I realized it. I thought the game was just bugged and not showing a notification when my citizens died.
Another problem I am having is having my builders and laborers do the stuff I need. Sometimes it seems my builders just stand around doing nothing and the laborers don't cut down the stuff I order them to. I'm still unsure if I need to manually clear the site of a building to have a builder build it or if the builder does it automatically.
Once it took years for my builders to remove a single road. The increase priority tool did not work.
Two tips: build a school early and do not build a hospital if your health bar is high. Fishing is the best source of food at the start of the game and you should separate some virgin forest (you can clear stone and iron though) close to your base to place a gatherer and herbalist, those two help a lot with the health bar. Also try to get some sheeps and tree seeds as soon as you can order stuff from merchants.
How does this compare with other competitive activities? Without a reference point there is no basis for any assumption.
My (totally non-scientific) guess is that this is just a consequence of how the genders are raised. Boys are usually encouraged to take sports and play with cars while woman are encouraged to play with dolls and play instruments. This favors boys to have a more obsessive drive to master a subject, be it sports, science, or competitive videogames.
While I agree the land based parts of the game are lackluster (specially the tailing missions) compared with the naval adventures I have to say that a full game with only the sailing and naval battle part would feel very repetitive after a while. The alternating gameplay made me see it through the end while a lot of other (good) big games make me lose interest around 3/4 of the main storyline.
Banished just came out on steam and I bought it. It is a mixture of sim city with stronghold ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S... ) with WoW-style spreadsheet min-maxing.
It's like raiding in WoW but single player and without the raiding. I haven't played enough to say it is a must have, but it is one of those games that is worth playing just to master all its complexities.
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You start to care once you multiply those 2% across millions of users. Any savings at such basic level are multiplied by how often the resource is used. So no you don't care about this for your CRUD web application, but wikipedia saving 2% bandwidth translates in one less datacenter required which means thousands of dollars.
Basically yes.
My bet is that HL3 will be the first source2 game and it will have full VR support and be sold in bundles. headset (insert witty name here) + steam machine + hl3. Steam after all was (practically) launched with hl2.
Not what nintendo/sony/microsoft are doing.
Ok the Kinetic is pretty innovating, hopefully we will not see the same misapplication of the innovation here.
If by "obsolete perfectly good software" you mean "not recompile it to the new architecture" then you are right.
Well technically the data science part is what you do after the data reconfiguration, but most people just use some kind of tool for doing that, so it is also very boring (you have to learn the tool and configure it to your data format).
Didn't they basically said: "Screw your hardware, we are now Intel x86. Throw your PowerPCs in the trash" a couple years ago? I wonder how long it will take before you change the x86 to ARM?
90% of what a data science expert do is what people like to call data-juijitso (data reconfiguration). Which basically means getting data out of your RMDBs, SAP, Twitter, Facebook, random text (.csv, etc) file dumps, random Excel/Word Files and legacy databases and into some place you can actually generate conclusions from (like inside a HDFS Hadoop cluster). Plus during this process you need to normalize all your data so you can apply the same algorithm no matter where the data came from.
All this means is that you will spend countless hours trying to connect to the client legacy stuff and then countless hours trying to get the data out (without impacting production systems!), so you can then spend countless hours formatting this data around to be able to spend countless hours trying to get this data into your Big Data(tm) solution so you can finally run some algorithms and create results. Now multiply all that by the number of different kinds of databases the client has and you get the idea.
As an IT professional you really do not want to work in this field. No organization keep its data in a clean uniform way, data scientist is like an IT janitor.
Data structures (and associated algorithms) is the most vital part of a programmers learning. If you had a good data structures course (and coursework) you are set for life.
And also data structures should be taught in a language with POINTERS (C or Pascal are the usual picks). I don't care if you are teaching a 10 year old, if you don't teach pointers you might as well be teaching Basic.
You don't need to go VERY deep into the subject, B-trees and such are probably overkill for your aims. But the kids need to learn how to make a double-linked list, basic hash tables and binary trees with one hand tied to their backs. You can get this kind of curriculum over with about a year. The ones that get left behind should be terminated, they will not make it as programmers.
If that sounds too harsh for you, you might consider giving a class for web designers (as in, no programming, only HTML/CSS and image editing tools, maybe some templating engine). A good designer is worth his weight in gold.
Well I did not notice any slowdowns on my core i5 laptop, but it does crash somewhat often (once a week, I just run the command to restart cinnamon and comes back to life with all my stuff still open, so no big deal). But someone else mentioned the battery life loss and while I haven't tested against other window managers I did notice my battery draining somewhat fast.
You should give cinnamon a try, it is quite good.
While I agree with you, the end result of all this mess can be quite good. There are many great web applications that have very good UI, even with the limitations of the DOM and CSS.
In the end this mess produces what the users want. Hopefully soon the specs will add support something else besides the DOM on the browsers so the devs can also get what they want.
Also of note is that Javascript is not such an abysmal language. It has many little annoying things, but it has support for some very cool stuff. The problem lies in using Javascript to manipulate the DOM.
Are MIT-like licenses hurting more than helping the free software movement? While I agree that GPL is better for the end user, the existence of MIT-like licenses did increase the adoption of open source software by a large amount. But the way that some big players in the field play with open source licenses discuss me (like android and its closed-source ASOP).
But they key is to be passionate about it. You don't learn that in college.
Without the right amount of culture (a computer and incentive to try and create stuff with it) while still in infancy you most likely won't have a person that:
A: Wants to program for a living.
B: Is good at it.
The same is true for many other areas, electrical engineers that dismantle radios as kids for example.
So it is not enough to try to get high school kids into STEM bachelors, you need to have the right culture while growing up to make a good professional. That is one (of many) reasons why woman are underrepresented in STEM fields, they are not encouraged at a young age to do this type of activity.
Really, the IDE Fx (replace x with 1 to 12) key is not a build tool. You can have the ide call your build tool, but you need to have a proper build tool. Be it make, imake, ant, maven, .sh script, .bat script, just have a properly maintained and documented build process for gods sake.
I agree with your points, the hunting lodges take way too much space, but early on you have space to spare. And it is better to buy the tools rather than make them.
Up until now I was placing the storage barn and stocking piles in the center of my town, my next game I will move those out of the town and next to the producing areas once I can afford a market. You know if food/good producers put stuff directly on the market if it is closer than the storage barn?
I found out that Wool Cloths are the best thing ever to trade. Sheep are cheap and produce a lot of wool. My last game I had 3 tailors working full time making Wool Clothing. Sheep pastures takes less space than hunting lodges, even accounting the tailors, require fewer workers and also produce food. Also they require square spacing rather than circular like forresters.
Also I don't even bother with wood houses, go straight for stone ones. It is easier to grow slowly in the beginning of the game. In the long run the logs/workhours you save from chopping firewood adds up.
It is very rare that I get a merchant that sells stone though, stone is by far the hardest thing to get in this game. Also I wish the merchants were more consistent. I was at a point that I could afford buying food rather than making it myself, but the food merchants rarely came to town, when they did came they had HUGE stocks of food. You know if more trading posts bring more merchants?
One thing I did learn the hard way was that you really need to prepare before accepting nomads into your village. They will eat all your food. Do you know how long the offer to take in nomads stay on the town hall before disappearing?
One thing I am not very sure about is cemeteries, is it worth building them? they take way too much space and stone.
People (real people, not devs or power users) hate microsoft because they can't get the stuff done on their pcs. They (used to) get blue screens all the time. They can't get their scanner to work because they don't know what a 'driver' is. They blame hardware problems on the OS (blue screen again). They can't get the photos out of their phones and send them through an email. They don't understand the concept of file and folders so they can never find the word documents they make. They don't understand backup and they lose all their data
THESE are the things that annoy people and if you compare to mobile OSs you will see that most of that stuff is just not a problem on the mobile world. Mobile OSs don't even come with a file manager!
If Mac OS was the dominant OS for that kind of people it would probably generate the same amount of hate.
I was too young to remember, but how did Mac OS and other operating systems compared to windows 95 when it came out? Maybe if apple had went with a cheaper box they could have swallowed the market.
Also IE only websites.
Thanks for the tips! I used your suggestion about housing in my last game and I ended up overcrowded with people I couldn't feed or keep warm. Placing too many houses is a bad idea too.
I place all my houses next to my stocking pile and storage barn, should I spread the houses around? Are the workers smart enough to work close to their homes? Should I spread stocking piles and storage barns around too?
You need to place hunting houses in open fields and the leather is quite useful early because hide coats save you firewood and can be sold for 15 each at the trader.
Another thing, do I need two cattle/chicken/sheep for they to procreate? I once bought a single cow and then it died and the pasture never got back. I also read that the herbalist needs to be place around "old trees", so cutting them down with a forrester might not be a good idea if you place herbalist next to the gatherer like me.
My settlement usually fails before I can afford to buy seeds so I never get to place farms. I'm on my third try.
Yeah I have also ran into that problem, but only after you saying it to me I realized it. I thought the game was just bugged and not showing a notification when my citizens died.
Another problem I am having is having my builders and laborers do the stuff I need. Sometimes it seems my builders just stand around doing nothing and the laborers don't cut down the stuff I order them to. I'm still unsure if I need to manually clear the site of a building to have a builder build it or if the builder does it automatically.
Once it took years for my builders to remove a single road. The increase priority tool did not work.
Two tips: build a school early and do not build a hospital if your health bar is high. Fishing is the best source of food at the start of the game and you should separate some virgin forest (you can clear stone and iron though) close to your base to place a gatherer and herbalist, those two help a lot with the health bar. Also try to get some sheeps and tree seeds as soon as you can order stuff from merchants.
How does this compare with other competitive activities? Without a reference point there is no basis for any assumption.
My (totally non-scientific) guess is that this is just a consequence of how the genders are raised. Boys are usually encouraged to take sports and play with cars while woman are encouraged to play with dolls and play instruments. This favors boys to have a more obsessive drive to master a subject, be it sports, science, or competitive videogames.
While I agree the land based parts of the game are lackluster (specially the tailing missions) compared with the naval adventures I have to say that a full game with only the sailing and naval battle part would feel very repetitive after a while. The alternating gameplay made me see it through the end while a lot of other (good) big games make me lose interest around 3/4 of the main storyline.
Banished just came out on steam and I bought it. It is a mixture of sim city with stronghold ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S... ) with WoW-style spreadsheet min-maxing.
It's like raiding in WoW but single player and without the raiding. I haven't played enough to say it is a must have, but it is one of those games that is worth playing just to master all its complexities.