I spent over 13 years in Game Development, with Paradigm Entertainment, Ensemble Studios, Microsoft then my own company. Looking back, it was a terrible career decision. It was non-stop death marches, many co-workers had ridiculous egos, by the time you shipped, you hated the game. I should write a book.
I would not recommend anyone game development as a career to anyone. The budgets required for a triple A title can only be financed by corporations, and they expect you to live at work. It is a lifestyle.
If you do go into game development, go to work for Microsoft so there is lateral mobility.
When was a Truce negotiated? There wasn't one. Crowdstrike is the group that handled the DNC server investigation when the FBI was not allowed to look. The propaganda machine is in full swing.
The hits on our servers are still consistently coming from China and there has been no slow down.
We heard these exact same people complain about other languages in the 1980s. They complained about Lisp, then Scheme, then Haskell. No one is forcing them to use them, and no one is forcing them to use Python.
A General Purpose AI is a pipe dream that will not ever come to fruition, no matter what language you are using. Deep Learning is stuck again because there is no fundamental theory of learning. We have no idea how we learn.
Neuroscience will probably discover that learning is a very biological trait, not one that can be copied or simulated in discrete mechanical systems.
Agile encourages no accountability, over run project costs, and no invented here syndrome. There is a serious disconnect between executive management and technology teams. Agile fosters politically charged environments and and the biggest cry babies climb to the top.
Capitalism works when Government doesn't create or enforce monopolies. We need to end the patent system and bust up companies like Google. Companies can be too large. This is what drives people to socialism, they have no other choice. Socialism is as awful as it gets. No where does it work.
"Oh but it does in the Scandinavian Countries. "
No, it doesn't. Have you been there lately? Try getting a flu shot. LMAO.
Be very wary of Cloudflare. This company wants all of your DNS traffic, had Mozilla build it into their web browser under the guise of DNS privacy, now we have TLS 1.3, which they have been pushing hard.
There is something in TLS 1.3 that benefits Cloudflare and it will be a matter of time before we know.
This increased speed they claim is relative, the "less hacks" from older ciphers is easily dealt with, but the finger print that is in the messages is alarming.
CNBC is not credible source. Most of the internet is no credible.
Blah, blah, blah.
I'm fine with the Tarriffs, sucks that CaseLabs is going under, but to blame tariffs is stupid. Their overpriced product obviously isn't superior to its competitors, such as Apevia, which is made in the USA.
This literally was the most idiotic article I've read in sometime. No wonder the author wrote it anonymously. Apparently CS majors are mathematicians, yea, well, I guess he hasn't seen the part where an undergraduate is no longer required to take the mathematics that was once required.
I went into a company that had written close to 50,000 lines of code to solve a simple over-time calculation. It was extremely moronic. Their "best developers" from India with CS degrees had written it. All 22 of them. They complained to me their billing was always wrong and would never balance. That part of the code base was a disaster that I wouldn't wish upon anyone.
Four simple piece-wise mathematical functions I derived and implemented in about 30 lines of code fixed all of it and replaced 50,000 lines of debauchery in about a day. To boot, I created a proof. There is no telling how much they spent on this stupid issue, but having one person trained correctly could have saved everyone a lot of time and money.
I immediately returned to visualization systems, and asked not to be involved in those types of projects again. Amazing how management was dumb founded. I quit a year later. They ended up on f*cked company, then I started my own company.
My belief, there isn't enough math taught in a CS degree now, let alone any other degree. When you're faced with a real problem, the mathematical tools escape most today. Pattern identification can only be taught through rigorous mathematics.
My recommendation, don't listen to CIO's. Fire the CIO and get a competent COO.
People have become lazy, entitled, and now believe the tools that built civilization are unnecessary. This is a real problem that unfortunately mathematics can't fix.
There were none taken. How can they be missing?
I assume you believe China is our friend. It is amazing to watch people that lost an election, willing to destroy the country over a minor incident. Russia hardly did anything. The spent $5 million dollars total, yet Russia did expose corruption at the highest levels of the DNC.
Oh well, such is life.
When do we get to look into the voting irregularities in many Democratic states, like California?
Tough on crime politicians are fine. It is the politicians that want to destroy your liberties are the ones you want not to vote for. There is a huge list of Democrats and Republicans that don't belong in office.
At least Trump is trying to destroy this disgusting mess in Washington.
Any politician that supports this legislation, make them pay dearly. That may mean you have to break ranks with your Democrat colleagues. Trump supporters already hate the established Republicans, time Democrats do the same on their side, without electing Communists.
One other thought, if they're so worried about the Russians hacking our elections, why the hell would they want to cripple encryption?
This all doesn't sound right. Alarm bells should be going off for everyone.
Remember when all of those people screamed we should give up our firearms. They're screaming we need to give up our privacy and all other rights as well.
Republicans and Democrats are a danger to all of us.
Hopefully Trump will destroy the deep state before they destroy him.
I won't ever buy another EA game. BF1 was terrible, Battle Front 1 & 2 are terrible and they over charged for those terrible games. EA has turned to political correctness and the idealism of globalism. So long EA.
When do they close the data centers that are helping the NSA spy on Americans? We will spy on you and destroy you, but the military isn't allowed to help.
Google is a stupid company. They could careless about their investors, they would let another country invade, in fact, probably help them all in the name of empowering women. This company is headed down the drain and I would recommend shorting their stock. This isn't going to last.
As a former Microsoft developer, I can tell you, this is a really bad idea. Microsoft internally has one of the best revision control systems I've ever used (Source Depot), so we know they won't use it, but they will control how source code is managed and he who controls the keys to the repository also controls the builds.
I vote really, really bad idea. Start moving your projects back to SourceForge.
He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. ~Nietzsche
Comey has some real problems. No matter your political affiliation, it is best for the country Comey and others like him are not in leadership positions. The FBI has become the enemy of the people and they are in denial over it.
I was waiting for this CPU, but I might as well make the migration to AMD now if I'm having to buy a new motherboard. Intel needs to get their act together, their pissing their customers off.
Honestly, I rather code in Rust than C.
Yes, a lot of coding *is* about the language, and the eco system of tools and libraries in that "platform", that is e.g. why Java is so widely successful. As a language It is just a simpler C++ but with VM and libraries and tools it is far beyond everything else.
E.g. I never would code in VB... (regardless of old or.Net), it makes me eye cancer and brain cancer same time.
I rather take the bullet and code in Lisp/Scheme... and get lost in the labyrinth of braces...
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I spent over 13 years in Game Development, with Paradigm Entertainment, Ensemble Studios, Microsoft then my own company. Looking back, it was a terrible career decision. It was non-stop death marches, many co-workers had ridiculous egos, by the time you shipped, you hated the game. I should write a book. I would not recommend anyone game development as a career to anyone. The budgets required for a triple A title can only be financed by corporations, and they expect you to live at work. It is a lifestyle. If you do go into game development, go to work for Microsoft so there is lateral mobility.
When was a Truce negotiated? There wasn't one. Crowdstrike is the group that handled the DNC server investigation when the FBI was not allowed to look. The propaganda machine is in full swing. The hits on our servers are still consistently coming from China and there has been no slow down.
We heard these exact same people complain about other languages in the 1980s. They complained about Lisp, then Scheme, then Haskell. No one is forcing them to use them, and no one is forcing them to use Python. A General Purpose AI is a pipe dream that will not ever come to fruition, no matter what language you are using. Deep Learning is stuck again because there is no fundamental theory of learning. We have no idea how we learn. Neuroscience will probably discover that learning is a very biological trait, not one that can be copied or simulated in discrete mechanical systems.
What we need is less Facebook, less Google, less Amazon.
Agreed.
Agile encourages no accountability, over run project costs, and no invented here syndrome. There is a serious disconnect between executive management and technology teams. Agile fosters politically charged environments and and the biggest cry babies climb to the top.
Capitalism works when Government doesn't create or enforce monopolies. We need to end the patent system and bust up companies like Google. Companies can be too large. This is what drives people to socialism, they have no other choice. Socialism is as awful as it gets. No where does it work. "Oh but it does in the Scandinavian Countries. " No, it doesn't. Have you been there lately? Try getting a flu shot. LMAO.
Be very wary of Cloudflare. This company wants all of your DNS traffic, had Mozilla build it into their web browser under the guise of DNS privacy, now we have TLS 1.3, which they have been pushing hard. There is something in TLS 1.3 that benefits Cloudflare and it will be a matter of time before we know. This increased speed they claim is relative, the "less hacks" from older ciphers is easily dealt with, but the finger print that is in the messages is alarming.
We did quite well back then. IMHO it was a lot more fun. I really miss the 80's.
CNBC is not credible source. Most of the internet is no credible. Blah, blah, blah. I'm fine with the Tarriffs, sucks that CaseLabs is going under, but to blame tariffs is stupid. Their overpriced product obviously isn't superior to its competitors, such as Apevia, which is made in the USA.
Proof that even non-profit turns evil.
This literally was the most idiotic article I've read in sometime. No wonder the author wrote it anonymously. Apparently CS majors are mathematicians, yea, well, I guess he hasn't seen the part where an undergraduate is no longer required to take the mathematics that was once required. I went into a company that had written close to 50,000 lines of code to solve a simple over-time calculation. It was extremely moronic. Their "best developers" from India with CS degrees had written it. All 22 of them. They complained to me their billing was always wrong and would never balance. That part of the code base was a disaster that I wouldn't wish upon anyone. Four simple piece-wise mathematical functions I derived and implemented in about 30 lines of code fixed all of it and replaced 50,000 lines of debauchery in about a day. To boot, I created a proof. There is no telling how much they spent on this stupid issue, but having one person trained correctly could have saved everyone a lot of time and money. I immediately returned to visualization systems, and asked not to be involved in those types of projects again. Amazing how management was dumb founded. I quit a year later. They ended up on f*cked company, then I started my own company. My belief, there isn't enough math taught in a CS degree now, let alone any other degree. When you're faced with a real problem, the mathematical tools escape most today. Pattern identification can only be taught through rigorous mathematics. My recommendation, don't listen to CIO's. Fire the CIO and get a competent COO. People have become lazy, entitled, and now believe the tools that built civilization are unnecessary. This is a real problem that unfortunately mathematics can't fix.
There were none taken. How can they be missing? I assume you believe China is our friend. It is amazing to watch people that lost an election, willing to destroy the country over a minor incident. Russia hardly did anything. The spent $5 million dollars total, yet Russia did expose corruption at the highest levels of the DNC. Oh well, such is life. When do we get to look into the voting irregularities in many Democratic states, like California?
How are you relating FOSTA with creating back door systems? Sex trafficking != privacy
Yep, the FBI is right. We need less secure encryption. Back doors need to exist.
Tough on crime politicians are fine. It is the politicians that want to destroy your liberties are the ones you want not to vote for. There is a huge list of Democrats and Republicans that don't belong in office. At least Trump is trying to destroy this disgusting mess in Washington. Any politician that supports this legislation, make them pay dearly. That may mean you have to break ranks with your Democrat colleagues. Trump supporters already hate the established Republicans, time Democrats do the same on their side, without electing Communists.
One other thought, if they're so worried about the Russians hacking our elections, why the hell would they want to cripple encryption? This all doesn't sound right. Alarm bells should be going off for everyone.
Remember when all of those people screamed we should give up our firearms. They're screaming we need to give up our privacy and all other rights as well. Republicans and Democrats are a danger to all of us. Hopefully Trump will destroy the deep state before they destroy him.
I won't ever buy another EA game. BF1 was terrible, Battle Front 1 & 2 are terrible and they over charged for those terrible games. EA has turned to political correctness and the idealism of globalism. So long EA.
When do they close the data centers that are helping the NSA spy on Americans? We will spy on you and destroy you, but the military isn't allowed to help. Google is a stupid company. They could careless about their investors, they would let another country invade, in fact, probably help them all in the name of empowering women. This company is headed down the drain and I would recommend shorting their stock. This isn't going to last.
As a former Microsoft developer, I can tell you, this is a really bad idea. Microsoft internally has one of the best revision control systems I've ever used (Source Depot), so we know they won't use it, but they will control how source code is managed and he who controls the keys to the repository also controls the builds. I vote really, really bad idea. Start moving your projects back to SourceForge.
I wonder how much personal data of Microsoft's customer has to be handed over in the deal.
He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. ~Nietzsche Comey has some real problems. No matter your political affiliation, it is best for the country Comey and others like him are not in leadership positions. The FBI has become the enemy of the people and they are in denial over it.
I was waiting for this CPU, but I might as well make the migration to AMD now if I'm having to buy a new motherboard. Intel needs to get their act together, their pissing their customers off.
If Rust is going to replace C on any project, I'm not going to work on the project, nor will I invest money in that project.
Honestly, I rather code in Rust than C. Yes, a lot of coding *is* about the language, and the eco system of tools and libraries in that "platform", that is e.g. why Java is so widely successful. As a language It is just a simpler C++ but with VM and libraries and tools it is far beyond everything else. E.g. I never would code in VB ... (regardless of old or .Net), it makes me eye cancer and brain cancer same time.
I rather take the bullet and code in Lisp/Scheme ... and get lost in the labyrinth of braces ...
I doubt you can code in either.