I think you need something more to differentiate the people you're picking. I think you need to look for people who've not only shown a high degree of competence, but also people who are actively seeking to better themselves or develop stand-out technology. Look for people who have their own projects and who aren't just sitting still waiting for a job to sweep them up.
I'm only 20 but I got offered a very generous job working on military simulation stuff. Sadly I had to decline it because I chose to do honours instead this year, but I know for a fact that I was the youngest to apply yet I was able to get the job due to how I differentiated myself. There are very capable people out there, you just need to know where to look and how to attract them. If you're interested in skilled graduates, try posting in university careers sites. Also talk to friends and co-workers who might know someone skilled. That's how I was referred to that job in particular.
Ofcourse you have the upperhand in career experience, so take this all with a grain of salt, it's just my experience. I'm just a Melbourne University student with a lot of crazy ideas.
How about the amazingly useful features they add such as auto-save? I've lost enough emails that I do not want to type again due to some unforseen reason, and this is just a godsend of a feature.
I have to say, on average for projects I've had the opportunity to view code for, C++ code is far easier to understand and grasp than the equivalent C code. You can instantly see the structuring of the code and how it correlates. Whereas often the equivalent code in C isn't as clear. Ofcourse this is usually a programmer problem more than anything, since I often see people less structured in their C usage.
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You can check out screenshots of the new graphical installer here.
Well GTK is under the LGPL which makes a big difference for commercial software vendors. This probably why GTK has (generally) proved more popular with commercial vendors. Ofcourse you can purchase a commercial license for Qt too, but that does add to your budget and I believe it's licensed on a per programmer basis, though I might be wrong there.
A good programmer knows how to program in more than one language. Saying that you're a C programmer and not willing to try out another platform simply because of the language it is written in is just a giant cop out. Often as a programmer you'll be forced to write things in languages you don't prefer, but these languages teach you more about how to write good flexible code in different paradigms and styles. Also there exists the gtkmm C++ bindings which are popular enough to be used by VMware and many other GTK/Gnome based projects.
It also seems to me like they shone a brighter light on the newer gameboy. Are the facades of the two different, or did they cheat a little with these pictures?
gtkPod is nice 'cause it works, but they really need to fix up the interface, it's ugly and barely usable. Aside from using Amarok, since I much prefer Muine, is there any better solutions?
Windows is a great OS for those people who don't have a significant amount of time to learn about open source alternatives such as Linux. You don't really think your grandmother wants to spend weeks learning how to read her email on Linux do you?
I would think my grandmother would have the most amount of time to learn such things. People are more open to alternatives than you think, and people like my grandmother who haven't been exposed to Windows all their life would be more flexible to change.
SDL would be a better fit for his game. It would make it a lot easier to port. And he must have the endian issues sorted out already having a Mac and a Windows port. That also brings a question. What flavour of Linux port are we talking? x86? x86-64? powerpc?
Well I just compared Comis Sans MS in OpenOffice to the font used on Penny Arcade. They have some similarities, but they seem to be different fonts, and in my opinion the PA one is definitely the better.
Seems like you should check out SCons. As far as I know, it takes care of all the gripes you have with Ant. The build scripts are in python, so you code in python right there. And SCons uses md5sums and does all the dependency checking for you.
More standards-compliant, but still flawed. Don't get me wrong, I love Firefox and KHTML, but there's still so many holes in their support for CSS and other standards. I hear KHTML is rapidly closing that gap though.
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I think you need something more to differentiate the people you're picking. I think you need to look for people who've not only shown a high degree of competence, but also people who are actively seeking to better themselves or develop stand-out technology. Look for people who have their own projects and who aren't just sitting still waiting for a job to sweep them up.
I'm only 20 but I got offered a very generous job working on military simulation stuff. Sadly I had to decline it because I chose to do honours instead this year, but I know for a fact that I was the youngest to apply yet I was able to get the job due to how I differentiated myself. There are very capable people out there, you just need to know where to look and how to attract them. If you're interested in skilled graduates, try posting in university careers sites. Also talk to friends and co-workers who might know someone skilled. That's how I was referred to that job in particular.
Ofcourse you have the upperhand in career experience, so take this all with a grain of salt, it's just my experience. I'm just a Melbourne University student with a lot of crazy ideas.
How about one board for each player, and using it for RTS games and such? Wanna move your troops? Easy.
Exactly, I believe they're called sequence, there's papers on it by Bjarne if you have a look around.
How about the amazingly useful features they add such as auto-save? I've lost enough emails that I do not want to type again due to some unforseen reason, and this is just a godsend of a feature.
That's not the fault of javascript, that's just the objects that have been exposed to it. Blame the browsers.
I have to say, on average for projects I've had the opportunity to view code for, C++ code is far easier to understand and grasp than the equivalent C code. You can instantly see the structuring of the code and how it correlates. Whereas often the equivalent code in C isn't as clear. Ofcourse this is usually a programmer problem more than anything, since I often see people less structured in their C usage.
You can check out screenshots of the new graphical installer here.
Well GTK is under the LGPL which makes a big difference for commercial software vendors. This probably why GTK has (generally) proved more popular with commercial vendors. Ofcourse you can purchase a commercial license for Qt too, but that does add to your budget and I believe it's licensed on a per programmer basis, though I might be wrong there.
What's with all the MS-defenders lately? Have chairs been flying through your windows?
A good programmer knows how to program in more than one language. Saying that you're a C programmer and not willing to try out another platform simply because of the language it is written in is just a giant cop out. Often as a programmer you'll be forced to write things in languages you don't prefer, but these languages teach you more about how to write good flexible code in different paradigms and styles. Also there exists the gtkmm C++ bindings which are popular enough to be used by VMware and many other GTK/Gnome based projects.
It also seems to me like they shone a brighter light on the newer gameboy. Are the facades of the two different, or did they cheat a little with these pictures?
The L4 microkernel architecture does seem quite impressive though.
gtkPod is nice 'cause it works, but they really need to fix up the interface, it's ugly and barely usable. Aside from using Amarok, since I much prefer Muine, is there any better solutions?
Check out this humorous little link I found on slashdot awhile ago.
SDL would be a better fit for his game. It would make it a lot easier to port. And he must have the endian issues sorted out already having a Mac and a Windows port. That also brings a question. What flavour of Linux port are we talking? x86? x86-64? powerpc?
Well I just compared Comis Sans MS in OpenOffice to the font used on Penny Arcade. They have some similarities, but they seem to be different fonts, and in my opinion the PA one is definitely the better.
Seems like you should check out SCons. As far as I know, it takes care of all the gripes you have with Ant. The build scripts are in python, so you code in python right there. And SCons uses md5sums and does all the dependency checking for you.
More standards-compliant, but still flawed. Don't get me wrong, I love Firefox and KHTML, but there's still so many holes in their support for CSS and other standards. I hear KHTML is rapidly closing that gap though.
Well if they're going to use them in everything including iPods, I'm pretty sure they could push enough volume for a discount.
Sounds like you need a new monitor, not a new OS.
I'd like to know that too, I was in the middle of reading it when it got pulled.
Errr, that doesn't work for binary data files, they have to converted to the native endian format at runtime.
It will be great when you can use one Linux install disc to install on both Mac and PC.