I can't believe no one has mentioned Android. It's the highest selling os today. Its driving phones, tablets, settops, consoles and laptops already. With the arm architecture slowly getting more powerful (64bit quad-core) and things like nvidia licencing its gpu it's not long till we'll see it on desktops. The android play store allows you to purchase a game and play it on all your devices with (in theory) quality scaled to the device's capabilities. Apple will be to Android what it was to Windows; a distant second.
If you don't do the maths you will probably will never miss it and spend your time happily programming away, perhaps even revelling in your awesome coding skilz when you solve some hardcore problem with bucketloads of code.
But when some poor programmer with some maths later looks at your tangled mess they will probably say 'OMG what is this mess... this should be a simple stats problem'.
Maths gives you a bunch of powerful solutions to common problems that you will otherwise waste your time obliviously re-inventing badly.
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I can't believe no one has mentioned Android. It's the highest selling os today. Its driving phones, tablets, settops, consoles and laptops already. With the arm architecture slowly getting more powerful (64bit quad-core) and things like nvidia licencing its gpu it's not long till we'll see it on desktops. The android play store allows you to purchase a game and play it on all your devices with (in theory) quality scaled to the device's capabilities. Apple will be to Android what it was to Windows; a distant second.
If you don't do the maths you will probably will never miss it and spend your time happily programming away, perhaps even revelling in your awesome coding skilz when you solve some hardcore problem with bucketloads of code. But when some poor programmer with some maths later looks at your tangled mess they will probably say 'OMG what is this mess... this should be a simple stats problem'. Maths gives you a bunch of powerful solutions to common problems that you will otherwise waste your time obliviously re-inventing badly.