Even major discoveries and inventions can have multiple people hitting that eureka point at the same time. When you lower the bar down to "minor inventions and discoveries", a lot more people can potentially invent this thing. Think power law. When you lower the bar even more to the point that almost any craftsman competent in his field could independantly come up with your patent on his own, you should only be covered by property rights and copyright. Think 1-click. It would be like a grocery store patenting self-service checkout - I've been pumping my own fucking gas for years!
"Almost all programming is an excercise in caching" -Terje Mathisen
Caching is always, ALWAYS obvious. Load balancing implementations can range from obvious to genius, though, depending on what you are load balancing. I highly doubt that Burst has anything non-obvious given the problem domain. Networking? NO LOAD BALANCING GOING ON THERE EVER. NOPE. Really, being first to market with a product does not necessitate invention taking place.
For a non-trivial application, it is very often impossible to create a configuration GUI that is as clear, capable, and useable as the text config file it is meant to replace/hide.
Bullshit. All you're doing is mapping screens to a data structure, same as any gui app. The complexity of the gui will stem from how complex and machine-parsable the config file is. Thing is, writing a 100% complete GUI is just time consuming as hell compared to adding an option to a config file. This is why GUIs that only cover 75% are so common. That, and engineers generally suck at gui design.
The only config file that can't have a gui is sendmail.cf, because sendmail.cf looks like an ancient Babylonian dialect of perl encoded in utf32 viewed with cat. The gui would end up looking like a Hieronymus Bosch triptych.
On a side note, it has been my experience that people who rely on GUIs to configure non-trivial apps never seem to have a good idea what's actually going on. They simply try something and if that doesn't work, they try something else. People who've actually invested the effort to learn how to modify the config file generally know exactly what change is required to get the desired change in behavior.
GUIs lower the bar because being easier and, ideally, quicker than modifying a config file are their raison d'être. Your point is a tautology: "The people who know how to configure the app are better than the people who do not". Thank you, Socrates, for pointing that one out. Guess what! The people who don't know what they are doing gravitate towards the gui because less prequisite knowledge is required to get things going. The people who do know what they are doing can use either the config file or the gui, and it is just a matter of preference at that point.
Me? I gravitate towards the config files due to ssh being a fantastic low-calorie way to get at a remote server.
>Your attempt at logic is laughable. Making ad hominem attacks because you encounter one of many game theories that fit reality, is rather sad.
An ad hominem is an attack where the fact presented is irrelevant to the argument. You being insane is as relevant as it is apparant.
>>If you can only find enjoyment in watching a bar fill, you will never enjoy anything that isn't a bar filling. Your bar is empty. > >Logical contradiction...
No, that was a tautology, which happens to be the exact opposite of a contradiction. You are fucking insane; you can't even glean any sort of coherent insight within the minute scope of a single sentence. This tautology threw the ridiculous underpinnings of your thesis into sharp relief, or so I had hoped.
>...followed by an empty metaphor.
No, it was me telling you that you were totally wrong after reducing your restated argument to atoms. With style.
>When people are unable to grasp a concept but convinced their point of view is correct, this often is the kind of nonsensical statements tossed around.
I am making perfect sense I am grasping all the concepts I am holding all the cards, and I am possessed of all the keys The attack was not ad hominem The logic, it was not faulty The bon mot was deftly dealt, though you were beneath its skyward aim You have made no sense at all You are crazy. Bat shit insane
If you can only find enjoyment in watching a bar fill, you will never enjoy an RPG./restated
If you can only find enjoyment in watching a bar fill, you will never enjoy anything that isn't a bar filling. Your bar is empty. Your straw man is a paper tiger.
Listen, we can put an evil Devil's face on the browser, along with flashing neon lights and big signs that say "WARNING: This site is suspicious", and a gloved hand that comes out of the monitor and slaps the user silly...
Why in God's name haven't we, then? I could leave the devil mask and glove at home for a change.
I dont see any evidence of your viewpoint that WoW is not an MMORPG. I'd love to hear why you think that. I contend WoW is definitely an RPG. I contend Oblivion/Planescape/Nethack etc are not RPGs.
Because you are insane.
MMORPGs usually include a number of competitive ladders. This is native to the current genre. The fact that you can completely fill a bar (reach top level, get the best item, etc) is an indicator of a true RPG... The ladder teaches mechanics, but it ends. Once you reach the top of a ladder you are FORCED to role play. You have to explore and define what is fun for you and how you prefer to relate to other people.
No you don't. You stop playing because there is nothing left to do, or you create another character. Less than 1% of the population has the maximum setup in any MMO anyhow, because the highest level items are generally very, very difficult to get. When I hit 60 with my rogue, I stopped playing because I was not interesting in raiding MC with 50 other people allthefuckingtime. The treadmill doesn't usually stop, it just gets steeper and steeper until only the 24/7 no-job morlocks have the time and motivation to climb it.
In a single player game, there is no redefinition outside of the game mechanics.
This means nothing. You are insane.
Reaching the end of storyline content is a variation of Dungeon Siege.
This also means nothing. You are still insane.
If you run around your house in a cape and hat, you aren't role playing with your dog, you are crazy. Roleplaying is acting, emulating, and relating to other people.
No, roleplaying is playing a role. If a nerd speaketh in ye olde tongue alone in the forest (LIGHTNING BOLT!), he is still roleplaying. You are insane.
If fun is watching a bar fill, you probably dont like RPGs. If fun is ONLY discovering how a mob fight works, you probably dont like RPGs. If you can create a personality that exists outside of your character's hairstyle and armor color...(or that's part of it), you are an RP gamer.
"All scaffolding does is create dead simple create/read/update functionality in a controller for a model."
Yes I know. That's why I asked why its even in rails at all, much less featured in videos.
No, according to your post, you didn't. You said "WTF is it supposed to do?", which I then answered. Were you dropped on your head as a child? Repeatedly?
"This is moderately useful at the beginning of a project where it saves you time writing bootstrap code"
No, its not. I can already add/update/delete/view things in the database, how do you think I created the database to begin with? This is what I mean. The only thing you can use scaffolding for is to be like a really crappy database admin tool. But you already need a database admin tool anyways, so what's the point of scaffolding?
I just told you what it is and why its there, and you ask me a second time. What is wrong with you? How can I force this knowledge into the dense region of space that is your head when you cannot even make sense of the written word? Wait, I know!
Second attempt, fortissimo: A WEB FORM IS FASTER. IT ALSO VALIDATES. MANUALLY INSERTING, VIEWING, AND EDITING COMPLEX DATA VIA SQL IS IRRITATING FOR MOST.
It is neither prominent nor hyped. There was one example video that I can think of in which scaffolding was prominently featured, and now it seems to be the most mentioned topic by everyone who aren't familiar with the framework. All scaffolding does is create dead simple create/read/update functionality in a controller for a model. This is moderately useful at the beginning of a project where it saves you time writing bootstrap code, and not at all useful towards the middle/end when everything is already written. HENCE THE NAME, PEOPLE.
OH MY GOD SOMEBODY IS CALLING ME A FOOL BECAUSE I SAY INCREDIBLY FOOLISH THINGS! HE MUST BE A TROLL!
Do you even know what a troll is? I can't be a troll by virtue of my genuine belief that you are an idiot. Trolls just start fights to get attention, whereas I start fights because seeing such pap get modded to +5 makes me angry at the world. Had you actually read my post, you might have noticed this, what with the antitheses and all. I swear, you are what happens when an educational system stops training rhetoric and dialectic.
This was not a moral question, this was a classification question. Saying "that's subjective" then sticking your fingers in your ears and shouting "LA LA LA LA LA!" is the biggest logical cop out you can make.
And yours is possibly the least. The granparent is full of shit, and the moderators are lapping it up like caviar. There is no such thing as life? THEN WHY IS THERE A WORD FOR IT? Life is a thing-state-process that has been observed for as long as there has been the apparatus to observe. The concept is older than we are, and the word is well defined.
The debate stems from from the fact that virii form and process differ greatly from pro- and eukaryotes. They are dead simple. In fact, they are inanimate simple. Virii are a corner case. Dismissing the word-definition-classification of life entirely due to it being a human semiotic unit is worse than Godwinning. You might as well shout "EVERYTHING IS SUBJECTIVE SO I CAN'T BE WRONG, AND WRONG IS A MEANINGLESS CONCEPT!".
Donny: Are they gonna hurt us, Walter? Walter Sobchak: No, Donny. These men are cowards. Nihilist: Okay. So we take ze money you haf on you, und ve calls it eefen. Walter Sobchak: Fuck you.
On the other end of the karma stream are cheap hits. Hiding and sniping are no-nos; Taninami wants to encourage players to always fight fair, and shoot each other from the front. The system can detect when a player shoots someone from behind, and will send a warning. If a player is camping, again with the warning; if the player persists, he will show up on the radar. Taninami is fascinated that even with this disadvantage, still some players persist at misbehaving.
This is what happens when you hand game design over to a shitty player. WAHHHH STOP AWPING. Sickening.
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Who the fuck connects processors to one another with a ribbon cable? UNIVAC? This tech is meant to replace things at the bus level.
No. Everybody got it, and everybody is now looking at you like you're an idiot.
Who the fuck limits outbound connections on their home network?
Even major discoveries and inventions can have multiple people hitting that eureka point at the same time. When you lower the bar down to "minor inventions and discoveries", a lot more people can potentially invent this thing. Think power law. When you lower the bar even more to the point that almost any craftsman competent in his field could independantly come up with your patent on his own, you should only be covered by property rights and copyright. Think 1-click. It would be like a grocery store patenting self-service checkout - I've been pumping my own fucking gas for years!
"Almost all programming is an excercise in caching" -Terje Mathisen
Caching is always, ALWAYS obvious. Load balancing implementations can range from obvious to genius, though, depending on what you are load balancing. I highly doubt that Burst has anything non-obvious given the problem domain. Networking? NO LOAD BALANCING GOING ON THERE EVER. NOPE. Really, being first to market with a product does not necessitate invention taking place.
Fired.
Who invented Morse code over wireless?
Fucking Marconi. The art, she does not get much more prior.
My hunter's Quel'Serrar is way better
The EB At the End of the Universe. On sale Octember eleventeenth!
And when you head to Molten Core, it sets you on fire for added ambiance.
For a non-trivial application, it is very often impossible to create a configuration GUI that is as clear, capable, and useable as the text config file it is meant to replace/hide.
Bullshit. All you're doing is mapping screens to a data structure, same as any gui app. The complexity of the gui will stem from how complex and machine-parsable the config file is. Thing is, writing a 100% complete GUI is just time consuming as hell compared to adding an option to a config file. This is why GUIs that only cover 75% are so common. That, and engineers generally suck at gui design.
The only config file that can't have a gui is sendmail.cf, because sendmail.cf looks like an ancient Babylonian dialect of perl encoded in utf32 viewed with cat. The gui would end up looking like a Hieronymus Bosch triptych.
On a side note, it has been my experience that people who rely on GUIs to configure non-trivial apps never seem to have a good idea what's actually going on. They simply try something and if that doesn't work, they try something else. People who've actually invested the effort to learn how to modify the config file generally know exactly what change is required to get the desired change in behavior.
GUIs lower the bar because being easier and, ideally, quicker than modifying a config file are their raison d'être. Your point is a tautology: "The people who know how to configure the app are better than the people who do not". Thank you, Socrates, for pointing that one out. Guess what! The people who don't know what they are doing gravitate towards the gui because less prequisite knowledge is required to get things going. The people who do know what they are doing can use either the config file or the gui, and it is just a matter of preference at that point.
Me? I gravitate towards the config files due to ssh being a fantastic low-calorie way to get at a remote server.
Why the hell isn't this a "front page" article? I mean, holy shit, that's amazing!
This is why I usually don't read the comments section of apple articles here. Too many goddamn fucking retards.
Many Bothans died to bring us this article.
>Your attempt at logic is laughable. Making ad hominem attacks because you encounter one of many game theories that fit reality, is rather sad.
An ad hominem is an attack where the fact presented is irrelevant to the argument. You being insane is as relevant as it is apparant.
>>If you can only find enjoyment in watching a bar fill, you will never enjoy anything that isn't a bar filling. Your bar is empty.
>
>Logical contradiction...
No, that was a tautology, which happens to be the exact opposite of a contradiction. You are fucking insane; you can't even glean any sort of coherent insight within the minute scope of a single sentence. This tautology threw the ridiculous underpinnings of your thesis into sharp relief, or so I had hoped.
>...followed by an empty metaphor.
No, it was me telling you that you were totally wrong after reducing your restated argument to atoms. With style.
>When people are unable to grasp a concept but convinced their point of view is correct, this often is the kind of nonsensical statements tossed around.
I am making perfect sense
I am grasping all the concepts
I am holding all the cards, and I am possessed of all the keys
The attack was not ad hominem
The logic, it was not faulty
The bon mot was deftly dealt, though you were beneath its skyward aim
You have made no sense at all
You are crazy. Bat shit insane
If you can only find enjoyment in watching a bar fill, you will never enjoy an RPG. /restated
If you can only find enjoyment in watching a bar fill, you will never enjoy anything that isn't a bar filling. Your bar is empty. Your straw man is a paper tiger.
You are insane.
Listen, we can put an evil Devil's face on the browser, along with flashing neon lights and big signs that say "WARNING: This site is suspicious", and a gloved hand that comes out of the monitor and slaps the user silly...
Why in God's name haven't we, then? I could leave the devil mask and glove at home for a change.
Yeah, and when you get to the top of the Tower, Stephen King appears, unzips his fly, and pisses all over you.
MODS: This is not a troll. This actually happens at the end of the series.
I dont see any evidence of your viewpoint that WoW is not an MMORPG. I'd love to hear why you think that. I contend WoW is definitely an RPG. I contend Oblivion/Planescape/Nethack etc are not RPGs.
Because you are insane.
MMORPGs usually include a number of competitive ladders. This is native to the current genre. The fact that you can completely fill a bar (reach top level, get the best item, etc) is an indicator of a true RPG... The ladder teaches mechanics, but it ends. Once you reach the top of a ladder you are FORCED to role play. You have to explore and define what is fun for you and how you prefer to relate to other people.
No you don't. You stop playing because there is nothing left to do, or you create another character. Less than 1% of the population has the maximum setup in any MMO anyhow, because the highest level items are generally very, very difficult to get. When I hit 60 with my rogue, I stopped playing because I was not interesting in raiding MC with 50 other people allthefuckingtime. The treadmill doesn't usually stop, it just gets steeper and steeper until only the 24/7 no-job morlocks have the time and motivation to climb it.
In a single player game, there is no redefinition outside of the game mechanics.
This means nothing. You are insane.
Reaching the end of storyline content is a variation of Dungeon Siege.
This also means nothing. You are still insane.
If you run around your house in a cape and hat, you aren't role playing with your dog, you are crazy. Roleplaying is acting, emulating, and relating to other people.
No, roleplaying is playing a role. If a nerd speaketh in ye olde tongue alone in the forest (LIGHTNING BOLT!), he is still roleplaying. You are insane.
If fun is watching a bar fill, you probably dont like RPGs. If fun is ONLY discovering how a mob fight works, you probably dont like RPGs. If you can create a personality that exists outside of your character's hairstyle and armor color...(or that's part of it), you are an RP gamer.
So, if you play a role, you are roleplaying? Wow!
"All scaffolding does is create dead simple create/read/update functionality in a controller for a model."
Yes I know. That's why I asked why its even in rails at all, much less featured in videos.
No, according to your post, you didn't. You said "WTF is it supposed to do?", which I then answered. Were you dropped on your head as a child? Repeatedly?
"This is moderately useful at the beginning of a project where it saves you time writing bootstrap code"
No, its not. I can already add/update/delete/view things in the database, how do you think I created the database to begin with? This is what I mean. The only thing you can use scaffolding for is to be like a really crappy database admin tool. But you already need a database admin tool anyways, so what's the point of scaffolding?
I just told you what it is and why its there, and you ask me a second time. What is wrong with you? How can I force this knowledge into the dense region of space that is your head when you cannot even make sense of the written word? Wait, I know!
Second attempt, fortissimo: A WEB FORM IS FASTER. IT ALSO VALIDATES. MANUALLY INSERTING, VIEWING, AND EDITING COMPLEX DATA VIA SQL IS IRRITATING FOR MOST.
It is neither prominent nor hyped. There was one example video that I can think of in which scaffolding was prominently featured, and now it seems to be the most mentioned topic by everyone who aren't familiar with the framework. All scaffolding does is create dead simple create/read/update functionality in a controller for a model. This is moderately useful at the beginning of a project where it saves you time writing bootstrap code, and not at all useful towards the middle/end when everything is already written. HENCE THE NAME, PEOPLE.
OH MY GOD SOMEBODY IS CALLING ME A FOOL BECAUSE I SAY INCREDIBLY FOOLISH THINGS! HE MUST BE A TROLL!
Do you even know what a troll is? I can't be a troll by virtue of my genuine belief that you are an idiot. Trolls just start fights to get attention, whereas I start fights because seeing such pap get modded to +5 makes me angry at the world. Had you actually read my post, you might have noticed this, what with the antitheses and all. I swear, you are what happens when an educational system stops training rhetoric and dialectic.
This was not a moral question, this was a classification question. Saying "that's subjective" then sticking your fingers in your ears and shouting "LA LA LA LA LA!" is the biggest logical cop out you can make.
And yours is possibly the least. The granparent is full of shit, and the moderators are lapping it up like caviar. There is no such thing as life? THEN WHY IS THERE A WORD FOR IT? Life is a thing-state-process that has been observed for as long as there has been the apparatus to observe. The concept is older than we are, and the word is well defined.
The debate stems from from the fact that virii form and process differ greatly from pro- and eukaryotes. They are dead simple. In fact, they are inanimate simple. Virii are a corner case. Dismissing the word-definition-classification of life entirely due to it being a human semiotic unit is worse than Godwinning. You might as well shout "EVERYTHING IS SUBJECTIVE SO I CAN'T BE WRONG, AND WRONG IS A MEANINGLESS CONCEPT!".
Donny: Are they gonna hurt us, Walter?
Walter Sobchak: No, Donny. These men are cowards.
Nihilist: Okay. So we take ze money you haf on you, und ve calls it eefen.
Walter Sobchak: Fuck you.
On the other end of the karma stream are cheap hits. Hiding and sniping are no-nos; Taninami wants to encourage players to always fight fair, and shoot each other from the front. The system can detect when a player shoots someone from behind, and will send a warning. If a player is camping, again with the warning; if the player persists, he will show up on the radar. Taninami is fascinated that even with this disadvantage, still some players persist at misbehaving.
This is what happens when you hand game design over to a shitty player. WAHHHH STOP AWPING. Sickening.