I have really tried to learn game development. I am a relatively experienced programmer so I picked up OpenGL and with in three months I was writing useful "applications" but no games, that's because games are more than code. I can show case some great demos; I can model a shape with triangles, skin it with a texture, give it a good shading, put it all in a display list and have it run an optimum speed. But I can't write pacman to save my life. I have no artistic talent.
The other thing I found out was that game programmers in general are very specialized to games programming and have no knowledge of other domains. I met some competent game hackers who have never used a unix variant, or who have never writen code in anything other than C++ who don't know of the freely available tools. Most game programmers seem too narrow in their knowledge of programming. I once shared an array implementation of a binary search tree with a few hackers on IRC and they had no clue what it was supposed to do. Those same guys are comfortable implementing a BSP if needed be.
Culture wise I found game developers too young and naive to work with, and I later found out that graphics programming was not my cup of tea and I much prefer writing shell-code.
"dead tree" expresses regret over printing something that is available for reading electronically. I personally feel terrible regret when I print something unnecessarily, and even more so when I fuckup a printing job and need to redo it.
Bullshit. I troll a lot of times, always as Anonymous Coward, but that's only because I feel like being silly. Don't take it personal; I am usually an upright man and good member of society; I have a job, a girl-friend, education, etc. The reason I troll is because so many people take themselves seriously around here. Plus the group-think is too goddamn obvious. There are people whoring their websites, free ipods, their blogs. There are people just feeding their egos. There are people who just want to feel welcomed and accept, thus go on and repeat to repeat the same slogans as everyone and make the same obvious points.
I troll because I don't relate to the audiance of slashdot. You're all being silly, but the trolls at least don't want mod points and don't feel like conforming.
Trolls are not here to annoy you, trolls are annoyed by you.
You know, I've never understood the mad rush to see a given film the instant it's released.
I guess you have no friends then? Movies are just more than entertainment, it's a way to connect with people. My girlfriend would've killed me if we didn't see "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" on its opening night, because, oh, all her friends were talking about it the next day. You can't just sit on your hands and wait for a movie to come out; your friends will see it, talk to you about it and spoil it for you.
Staying home and watching a movie is fine, but there is something magical about gathering a bunch of people on a Sunday evening, making calls, meeting at a certain place, and going all together to see a movie; couples, siblings, friends, roommates, etc.
It's the same with drinking; we all have fridges full of beer, and I myself have a well-stocked bar, but still, we go out all together and drink expensive beer at a bar so we can feel good together. It's a small price we pay for being human, not everything needs to be well planned and executed.
Unless your superiors at work are of the bondage and discipline persuasion, you don't need to touch C++. This is 2005 and powerful languages are everywhere. You can get strong or weak typing, static or dynamic, near perfect code optimization. First class functions, objects, exceptions and contunuations. Full extensible refelective systems. Full access to C libraries. Portability. and more stuff than you will ever know what to do with.
Just open your eyes and see the possibilities; Choose Common Lisp, Scheme, Standard ML, Ocaml, Haskell. If you must have C syntax, see what Python offers you, Pike too.
Almost everything is better than C++, and some of the above mentioned langauges have implementations which target the Java platform; all the benefits Sun has preached for so long, available on a REAL programming language. Even Java is better than C++ and runs circles around it. If performance is your thing, you can find some Schemes which run at competitive speed, plus they come with full denotation and/or operational semantics, sometimes just a page long, so you can see what the language ACTUALLY does without reading hundreds of Standard pages.
If you still monkeying around with C++, out of your own free will, you have my full sympathy. Break free my friend, and win back your time and peace of mind./me off his rocker.
What's the point of better architectures when Apple is moving to the brain-fucked x86 ISA? It's hard to be enthusiastic about computing when you know the beast just got a new lease on life.
> I have found myself that during the winter I can navigate around in > complete darkness without bumping into things because I "sense" them about > half an inch before I'd bump into them. It's not a sixth sense - it's that > the static in the air makes the hair on my exposed legs stand up...
What kind of guy exposes his legs in winter? some women are foolish enough to wear skirts in winter, but those are brainwashed to "look good" and nobody cares about them. But why would a man, a creature whose lower limps have no aesthetic appeal, bare his legs?
Slashdot Mirror
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil" - Hoare
That was Knuth, actually.
I have really tried to learn game development. I am a relatively experienced programmer so I picked up OpenGL and with in three months I was writing useful "applications" but no games, that's because games are more than code. I can show case some great demos; I can model a shape with triangles, skin it with a texture, give it a good shading, put it all in a display list and have it run an optimum speed. But I can't write pacman to save my life. I have no artistic talent.
The other thing I found out was that game programmers in general are very specialized to games programming and have no knowledge of other domains. I met some competent game hackers who have never used a unix variant, or who have never writen code in anything other than C++ who don't know of the freely available tools. Most game programmers seem too narrow in their knowledge of programming. I once shared an array implementation of a binary search tree with a few hackers on IRC and they had no clue what it was supposed to do. Those same guys are comfortable implementing a BSP if needed be.
Culture wise I found game developers too young and naive to work with, and I later found out that graphics programming was not my cup of tea and I much prefer writing shell-code.
"dead tree" expresses regret over printing something that is available for reading electronically. I personally feel terrible regret when I print something unnecessarily, and even more so when I fuckup a printing job and need to redo it.
Wow, why did that get posted "anonymously"? I meant to click "no karma bonus" not "anonymous".
Bush nominates John Bolton to take up that Supreme Court gig part-time.
Mean while old-man Rehnquist is still around.
You mean Lex/Flex. Yacc is a parser generator, Lex is a scanner generator. Two different things.
Bullshit. I troll a lot of times, always as Anonymous Coward, but that's only because I feel like being silly. Don't take it personal; I am usually an upright man and good member of society; I have a job, a girl-friend, education, etc. The reason I troll is because so many people take themselves seriously around here. Plus the group-think is too goddamn obvious. There are people whoring their websites, free ipods, their blogs. There are people just feeding their egos. There are people who just want to feel welcomed and accept, thus go on and repeat to repeat the same slogans as everyone and make the same obvious points.
I troll because I don't relate to the audiance of slashdot. You're all being silly, but the trolls at least don't want mod points and don't feel like conforming.
Trolls are not here to annoy you, trolls are annoyed by you.
Thank You.
Sinserve; Wise Troll.
To the slashdoter?
You know, I've never understood the mad rush to see a given film the instant it's released.
I guess you have no friends then? Movies are just more than entertainment, it's a way to connect with people. My girlfriend would've killed me if we didn't see "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" on its opening night, because, oh, all her friends were talking about it the next day. You can't just sit on your hands and wait for a movie to come out; your friends will see it, talk to you about it and spoil it for you.
Staying home and watching a movie is fine, but there is something magical about gathering a bunch of people on a Sunday evening, making calls, meeting at a certain place, and going all together to see a movie; couples, siblings, friends, roommates, etc.
It's the same with drinking; we all have fridges full of beer, and I myself have a well-stocked bar, but still, we go out all together and drink expensive beer at a bar so we can feel good together. It's a small price we pay for being human, not everything needs to be well planned and executed.
You made it man, you fucking lucky sunnofabitch. Microsoft wants to compete with your work, that's a badge of honor man, you're made now.
he could use main/system and be ANSI compatible :-)
Unless your superiors at work are of the bondage and discipline persuasion, you don't need to touch C++. This is 2005 and powerful languages are everywhere. You can get strong or weak typing, static or dynamic, near perfect code optimization. First class functions, objects, exceptions and contunuations. Full extensible refelective systems. Full access to C libraries. Portability. and more stuff than you will ever know what to do with.
/me off his rocker.
Just open your eyes and see the possibilities; Choose Common Lisp, Scheme, Standard ML, Ocaml, Haskell. If you must have C syntax, see what Python offers you, Pike too.
Almost everything is better than C++, and some of the above mentioned langauges have implementations which target the Java platform; all the benefits Sun has preached for so long, available on a REAL programming language. Even Java is better than C++ and runs circles around it. If performance is your thing, you can find some Schemes which run at competitive speed, plus they come with full denotation and/or operational semantics, sometimes just a page long, so you can see what the language ACTUALLY does without reading hundreds of Standard pages.
If you still monkeying around with C++, out of your own free will, you have my full sympathy. Break free my friend, and win back your time and peace of mind.
What's the point of better architectures when Apple is moving to the brain-fucked x86 ISA? It's hard to be enthusiastic about computing when you know the beast just got a new lease on life.
/me pours himself another bitter one
bug off, Russ Nelson rocks, OK.
How 'bout:
"Eddie lives somewhere in time"
one of the cool guys being Bobby Fisher, world's leading anit-semite and amateur chess player.
dude, you don't need to link to that quote on slashdot.
You can say
1: they that can give up
2: ???
3: neither liberty nor safety.
and we will get it just fine.
Great, now when the bitter thieves are out after serving their sentence, they know who to gut from throat to groin.
scsh, life on continuation ...
Carl from ATHF? is that YOU?
nice catch :-)
> I have found myself that during the winter I can navigate around in ...
> complete darkness without bumping into things because I "sense" them about
> half an inch before I'd bump into them. It's not a sixth sense - it's that
> the static in the air makes the hair on my exposed legs stand up
What kind of guy exposes his legs in winter? some women are foolish enough to wear
skirts in winter, but those are brainwashed to "look good" and nobody cares about them.
But why would a man, a creature whose lower limps have no aesthetic appeal, bare his legs?
Movies? MP3s? comp.* anyone?