Actually i enjoy programming in a lot of languages and, as problably most who programmed for a while, the problem is seldom the language (otherwise you chose the wrong for the job).
But it always get's ugly when it comes to debugging. You're in a bad mood anyway (it's a bug - probably your bug - and it will cost you, very probably, even more time than programming the whole f**king function).
No matter which language, after a while you start hating your debugger. You're programming 3D and have a problem with vectors - all u see variables with some numbers. You're programming a database and the results don't fit.. all you see are variables with wrong result. Etc...
It's always like your car broke down and you get messages like iron content of bumper 100%, mass of bumper 1.4, foo.ineedtorenamethis 1.5...
And then you gotta dig through the dirt:(
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No more high tech job so i leave bad industrie writing haiku now
The trick is that he is just a copy - not really evil. He only fights if you do. All you have to do is putting down your sword and stop fighting. Btw, this did cost me a lot of lifes to figure out, i mean who thinks of peace in a fighter game?
As far as i understood this is the computer power needed to run a perfect universe-simulation. But like most programmers do know, it's often possible to get programmes running on lower hardware, without the users noticing it. Think for example of 3D-grafics... those solid looking rocks in games ain't that solid after all, but as long as the clipping is good enough you won't see a difference.
An interesting calculation could be how much computer power would be needed to fool humans? Multiply the number of inputs a brain can handle by the number of humans and you get the amount of data which has to be consistent at any given moment. Generating this data will still need more power than my PC has to offer, but it could be a lot cheaper than simulating a whole universe.
And to save even some more processing time an evil programming genius might even implement a human.ForgetWhatYouNoticed() function which get's triggered each time when a human object seems to be puzzled by inconsistent universe behaviour... i'd probably do so anyway for debugging purposes:).
So you think the gcc is all which was used from the GNU-Projekt? Hmm... probably because gcc has this irritating g in it's name. You were really making a point for Stallman's approach here imho:)
Most people didn't get the msg that playing around with nuclear power might be dangerous in the last century even thought they saw the effects of it. They won't probably get it ever reading some signs. Guess life will learn it the hard way... the one who survive the next 10000 years will be the creatures who can cope with it. They'll enjoy radioactivity like we do enjoy sunbathing... not really healthy but you get this nice color from it.
But maybe i'm just to pessimistic about human intelligence...
Same thing around here in Germany. I changed my last job about 2 years ago. No University degrees... all i had where 3 years C++ (that's been the killer skill those days) and about 10 years general programming experience (mostly c). Within one month i had more offers to choose from than i'd ever imagined, including 3(!) companies which tried to convince me to sign a contract at the first time i met them. Btw. all i did was sending a message to a job newsgroup!
It's now once more a month since i lost my job (company f**ked up). I've written several resumes, put my profile on some job-sites and asked a lot around... but nada - no positive responses. Yeah - I expected it to be harder to get a new job this time, but not that hard. Maybe i should learn SAP stuff... that's the only thing where you still have the choice which company you want to join (hehe, not yet - too boring stuff for my taste).
Well, at least i could use the month to get a little bit familiar with java, so for a while being jobless ain't the worst thing. But i sure hope the tide in the it-job-market will turn around once more!
Beeing an awfully rich investor i really didn't have the time to read through the whole article, but sending realtime video with an old modem sounds incredible! Damn, even some big companies are investing already into it and i didn't hear anything from him so far. I want to be part of the next big thing... how can i get this man to allow me to invest in his company?
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Actually i enjoy programming in a lot of languages and, as problably most who programmed for a while, the problem is seldom the language (otherwise you chose the wrong for the job).
:(
But it always get's ugly when it comes to debugging. You're in a bad mood anyway (it's a bug - probably your bug - and it will cost you, very probably, even more time than programming the whole f**king function).
No matter which language, after a while you start hating your debugger. You're programming 3D and have a problem with vectors - all u see variables with some numbers. You're programming a database and the results don't fit.. all you see are variables with wrong result. Etc...
It's always like your car broke down and you get messages like iron content of bumper 100%, mass of bumper 1.4, foo.ineedtorenamethis 1.5...
And then you gotta dig through the dirt
No more high tech job
so i leave bad industrie
writing haiku now
The trick is that he is just a copy - not really evil. He only fights if you do. All you have to do is putting down your sword and stop fighting. Btw, this did cost me a lot of lifes to figure out, i mean who thinks of peace in a fighter game?
As far as i understood this is the computer power needed to run a perfect universe-simulation. But like most programmers do know, it's often possible to get programmes running on lower hardware, without the users noticing it. Think for example of 3D-grafics... those solid looking rocks in games ain't that solid after all, but as long as the clipping is good enough you won't see a difference.
... i'd probably do so anyway for debugging purposes :).
An interesting calculation could be how much computer power would be needed to fool humans? Multiply the number of inputs a brain can handle by the number of humans and you get the amount of data which has to be consistent at any given moment. Generating this data will still need more power than my PC has to offer, but it could be a lot cheaper than simulating a whole universe.
And to save even some more processing time an evil programming genius might even implement a human.ForgetWhatYouNoticed() function which get's triggered each time when a human object seems to be puzzled by inconsistent universe behaviour
So you think the gcc is all which was used from the GNU-Projekt? Hmm... probably because gcc has this irritating g in it's name. You were really making a point for Stallman's approach here imho :)
Most people didn't get the msg that playing around with nuclear power might be dangerous in the last century even thought they saw the effects of it. They won't probably get it ever reading some signs. Guess life will learn it the hard way... the one who survive the next 10000 years will be the creatures who can cope with it. They'll enjoy radioactivity like we do enjoy sunbathing... not really healthy but you get this nice color from it.
But maybe i'm just to pessimistic about human intelligence...
Same thing around here in Germany. I changed my last job about 2 years ago. No University degrees... all i had where 3 years C++ (that's been the killer skill those days) and about 10 years general programming experience (mostly c). Within one month i had more offers to choose from than i'd ever imagined, including 3(!) companies which tried to convince me to sign a contract at the first time i met them. Btw. all i did was sending a message to a job newsgroup!
It's now once more a month since i lost my job (company f**ked up). I've written several resumes, put my profile on some job-sites and asked a lot around... but nada - no positive responses. Yeah - I expected it to be harder to get a new job this time, but not that hard. Maybe i should learn SAP stuff... that's the only thing where you still have the choice which company you want to join (hehe, not yet - too boring stuff for my taste).
Well, at least i could use the month to get a little bit familiar with java, so for a while being jobless ain't the worst thing. But i sure hope the tide in the it-job-market will turn around once more!
Beeing an awfully rich investor i really didn't have the time to read through the whole article, but sending realtime video with an old modem sounds incredible! Damn, even some big companies are investing already into it and i didn't hear anything from him so far. I want to be part of the next big thing... how can i get this man to allow me to invest in his company?
... those great movie hackers will find it out anyway, just a few seconds before your evil plans will succeed. That's why hollywood rules this world :)