A new manager came in who systematically replaced over half of the team with people from his last company. I went from having the best performance review on the team with one manager to somehow having the worst performance review on the team with the new manager.
It all worked out for the best though. I've been happily self employed since then. Teaching C++, speaking at conferences and running my YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/l...
I've been thinking a lot about how programming used to be fun lately so I decided to start showing some of those old fun things in some YouTube videos: https://youtu.be/pvxPknoVmzs
Hmm... each function call has its own stack, but individual scripts do not. The scripting engine itself is quite self contained (no singletons of any kind), so you could instantiate multiple engines, but that would get heavy handed...
I'll think about it and see what the possibilities are.
I may as well take the opportunity to mention a FOSS programming language I have been working on that is designed to enable the merging of the speed of C++ with the flexibility of a scripting language. It is a scripting language designed for embedding in your C++ application, and it makes it trivial to your C++ classes/objects/functions to the scripting language. It's called ChaiScript, we've been working on it for about 6 months now and have made several releases.
ChaiScript works with your existing C++ code and doesn't require you to rewrite your application, like moving to a whole other language would.
Plenty of people are talking about the Nokia Internet Tablet series, but I actually have one for sale right now. It's a great device, but not quite what I was looking for. I now own an Acer Aspire One.
Seems like the perfect opportunity to mention the flash based adventure game engine I've been working on. The idea is to revolutionize the webcomic and make it interactive. It's open source, uses actionscript/php/drupal to allow you to build your mini adventure game in drupal and share it on your site.
Source is hosted at google code. Pinheads: the first game written for it and 2nd place in the "Creativity" catagory in this year's Chistian Developer's Network Speedgame contest. Covered City: A weekly updated mini scifi adventure game, currently on episode 2 (episodes 3 and 4 are already produced, but not public).
Oh yeah, and anyone is free to create an account at http://game.emptycrate.com/ and make your own adventure game.
If you don't like C++, you probably just don't understand it. Yes, it's a complex language. However, if you use RAII (a fundamental tenant of C++) you will not. leak. memory. ever. Same arguments about C++ are used over and over again by people who don't grok the language. Is it the end-all be-all language? No. But it is darn good at what it does (performance minded system level code) with almost none of the problems C has (memory leaks and weak typing).
Completely off topic to your post, but answering your sig:
Who the f*** decided that sentences on the Internet shall no longer be formatted with two spaces after a period?!
I had this explained to me in the mid '90's by someone who was involved in printing. With variable width fonts, you are no longer supposed to use two spaces, the typeface is supposed to leave an adequate gap. Two spaces is left over from the days of typewriters.
I'm not sure what techniques the developer is using as the um, "article" is a little light on details (unless I missed something) But the concept of Active Objects (a trivialized way of using threads) has been around for a while with generic implementations of them becoming more mainstream rapidly. In the past week there as been much discussion about active objects and "futures" on the boost mailing list and it is likely that both will become part of boost shortly. To put it simply, an active object is an object which has its own threaded message queue, so it is asynchronous from the rest of the system and a future is a return value from an asynchronous method call, a "future" value. These techniques are quite reasonable today because of concepts like fibers and the NPTL.
And of course, a shameless plug for my active objects implementation (bsd style license). Actually, that page also does a decent job of demonstrating the concepts.
I was recently threatened with a law suit from a fairly large company because of an unfavorable review I posted on my website. I received a letter promising a similar lawsuit if I did not take the review down. I complied and replaced the review with an article lamenting the loss of Free Speech. I received another letter stating that that would not do and I must remove the entire comment.
I will shortly make it my personal goal (probably after the current US election cycle) to get anti-SLAPPlaw(s) passed in Colorado so that others do not have to deal with this same nonsense.
I've installed Gentoo several times now and have never had a problem when I FOLLOW the DIRECTIONS. I've known two other people, one professional Linux developer who could not get it installed because he refused to follow the directions step by step and another, the VP of marketing at my company, who installed it easily after following the directions.
Seems odd that Novell would "Fire Back." Unix Shell, where I host my server, has had no end of troubles with Xen. Personally, I have been mostly stable, and the Xen technology is an awesome thing. However, the message on the front page of Unix Shell "Due to lack of Datacenter space, unixshell# has suspended ordering until further notice" is not entirely accurate. If you read the forums, they are waiting until Xen is stable enough to be able to deploy further accounts.
I just realized that all this neat gas & energy saving technology that America now needs will accomplish one thing: empowering the SUV. I just heard a report on the radio (but cannot confirm it with an internet article) that the ratio between 4 6 & 8 cylinder vehicles is staying the same even as gas prices go up. That means the average American does not care about fuel prices.
If all the Americans who do care buy super fuel effecient cars that will keep the price of gas in check and empower the owners of the gas guzzling SUV's.
Personally, I traded my Toyota Tacoma (which is one of the most fuel effecient trucks available) for a Hyundai Elantra, and am glad I did it.
I just released Milestone 3 of my open source Crate Game Engine today. Currently the engine supports multiplayer text adventure games. To my knowledge it is the only multiplayer text adventure engine out there. Note, this is NOT like a MUD, it is for multiple players sitting at one computer.
In my case text adventures are a stepping stone on the way to graphical adventures, but I plan to support both for the life of the engine.
My hypothesis: Sun on the server side, Apple on the client side, and small offerings from companies like Be, or Amiga, or other nontraditional platforms. (NeXT?)
I find this highly unlikely since NeXT was founded by Steve Jobs, who would have likely never been ousted from Apple if they had not faced such stiff competition from Microsoft. Which also means that the recent innovation from Apple (spurned by Job's return) such as the iMac and ipod may not have happened...
What bothers me every time this comes up is 100's of people saying "the bush administration says to hell with all the alzheimer's patients." The simple fact is that ADULT stem cell research has yeilded MANY beneficial results, like this one piece of recent news. Or this about bone marrow derived stem cells. Or this about turning SKIN cells into BRAIN CELLS for alzheimers patients! Why does the news media at large ignore this huge potential and only focus on how the pro-life movement "want's to end stem cell research altogether" ?
As someone who has a decent amount of woodworking experience, I can say DO NOT follow this guys advice of wearing gloves when working with table saws, routers, etc. If the glove gets caught in a machine (and proceeds to pull your hand in) you are going to be in a whole lot more pain than a little one stitch nick with a table saw.
#1 Rule: Always were safety glasses #2 Rule: NEVER wear things that can get caught in the machine, neck ties, necklaces, GLOVES. Some people even take off thier wedding rings.
My wife got a M.S. from Virginia Tech in Math and was required to submit her master's paper in LaTeX. She used lyx for some of the writing but did the rest by hand. So, I know some schools (at least in 2001) required you to learn it.
Personally, I would use Koffice if I needed to create LaTeX papers. The creator of Klyx (a KDE version of lyx) was one of the core developers on the KWord team, and Klyx was abandoned to support work on Kword. If you know a thing or two about LaTeX you start to notice that KWord feels very "LaTeX like." You can still save documents as LaTeX.
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A new manager came in who systematically replaced over half of the team with people from his last company. I went from having the best performance review on the team with one manager to somehow having the worst performance review on the team with the new manager.
It all worked out for the best though. I've been happily self employed since then. Teaching C++, speaking at conferences and running my YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/l...
I wouldn't be so sure about that.
In ~2nd grade my brother exposed me to programming with doing simple character animations in TI 99/4A BASIC.
I actually just two weeks ago recreated that experience for the first time in 21 years and posted it to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I've been thinking a lot about how programming used to be fun lately so I decided to start showing some of those old fun things in some YouTube videos: https://youtu.be/pvxPknoVmzs
Hmm... each function call has its own stack, but individual scripts do not. The scripting engine itself is quite self contained (no singletons of any kind), so you could instantiate multiple engines, but that would get heavy handed...
I'll think about it and see what the possibilities are.
I've created this discourse topic to discuss the options http://discourse.chaiscript.co... feel free to chime in.
http://chaiscript.com/
Been working on it for over 5 years now. Stable and easy to use scripting for your C++ application.
I've felt that same little death when reading the Google C++ coding standards doc. I've said it before and I'll say it again: Nobody Understands C++.
-Jason
I may as well take the opportunity to mention a FOSS programming language I have been working on that is designed to enable the merging of the speed of C++ with the flexibility of a scripting language. It is a scripting language designed for embedding in your C++ application, and it makes it trivial to your C++ classes/objects/functions to the scripting language. It's called ChaiScript, we've been working on it for about 6 months now and have made several releases.
ChaiScript works with your existing C++ code and doesn't require you to rewrite your application, like moving to a whole other language would.
Plenty of people are talking about the Nokia Internet Tablet series, but I actually have one for sale right now. It's a great device, but not quite what I was looking for. I now own an Acer Aspire One.
Seems like the perfect opportunity to mention the flash based adventure game engine I've been working on. The idea is to revolutionize the webcomic and make it interactive. It's open source, uses actionscript/php/drupal to allow you to build your mini adventure game in drupal and share it on your site.
Source is hosted at google code.
Pinheads: the first game written for it and 2nd place in the "Creativity" catagory in this year's Chistian Developer's Network Speedgame contest.
Covered City: A weekly updated mini scifi adventure game, currently on episode 2 (episodes 3 and 4 are already produced, but not public).
Oh yeah, and anyone is free to create an account at http://game.emptycrate.com/ and make your own adventure game.
Yawn.
If you don't like C++, you probably just don't understand it. Yes, it's a complex language. However, if you use RAII (a fundamental tenant of C++) you will not. leak. memory. ever. Same arguments about C++ are used over and over again by people who don't grok the language. Is it the end-all be-all language? No. But it is darn good at what it does (performance minded system level code) with almost none of the problems C has (memory leaks and weak typing).
I had this explained to me in the mid '90's by someone who was involved in printing. With variable width fonts, you are no longer supposed to use two spaces, the typeface is supposed to leave an adequate gap. Two spaces is left over from the days of typewriters.
Hate to reply to my own message but the shameless plug should be http://source.emptycrate.com/projects/activeobject s/... I didn't check my url's closely enough.
I'm not sure what techniques the developer is using as the um, "article" is a little light on details (unless I missed something) But the concept of Active Objects (a trivialized way of using threads) has been around for a while with generic implementations of them becoming more mainstream rapidly. In the past week there as been much discussion about active objects and "futures" on the boost mailing list and it is likely that both will become part of boost shortly. To put it simply, an active object is an object which has its own threaded message queue, so it is asynchronous from the rest of the system and a future is a return value from an asynchronous method call, a "future" value. These techniques are quite reasonable today because of concepts like fibers and the NPTL.
And of course, a shameless plug for my active objects implementation (bsd style license). Actually, that page also does a decent job of demonstrating the concepts.
I was recently threatened with a law suit from a fairly large company because of an unfavorable review I posted on my website. I received a letter promising a similar lawsuit if I did not take the review down. I complied and replaced the review with an article lamenting the loss of Free Speech. I received another letter stating that that would not do and I must remove the entire comment.
This is the resulting page: http://blog.emptycrate.com/teamnational
I will shortly make it my personal goal (probably after the current US election cycle) to get anti-SLAPP law(s) passed in Colorado so that others do not have to deal with this same nonsense.
I've installed Gentoo several times now and have never had a problem when I FOLLOW the DIRECTIONS. I've known two other people, one professional Linux developer who could not get it installed because he refused to follow the directions step by step and another, the VP of marketing at my company, who installed it easily after following the directions.
It's really not complicated, just tedious.
Seems odd that Novell would "Fire Back." Unix Shell, where I host my server, has had no end of troubles with Xen. Personally, I have been mostly stable, and the Xen technology is an awesome thing. However, the message on the front page of Unix Shell "Due to lack of Datacenter space, unixshell# has suspended ordering until further notice" is not entirely accurate. If you read the forums, they are waiting until Xen is stable enough to be able to deploy further accounts.
I just realized that all this neat gas & energy saving technology that America now needs will accomplish one thing: empowering the SUV. I just heard a report on the radio (but cannot confirm it with an internet article) that the ratio between 4 6 & 8 cylinder vehicles is staying the same even as gas prices go up. That means the average American does not care about fuel prices.
If all the Americans who do care buy super fuel effecient cars that will keep the price of gas in check and empower the owners of the gas guzzling SUV's.
Personally, I traded my Toyota Tacoma (which is one of the most fuel effecient trucks available) for a Hyundai Elantra, and am glad I did it.
I just released Milestone 3 of my open source Crate Game Engine today. Currently the engine supports multiplayer text adventure games. To my knowledge it is the only multiplayer text adventure engine out there. Note, this is NOT like a MUD, it is for multiple players sitting at one computer.
In my case text adventures are a stepping stone on the way to graphical adventures, but I plan to support both for the life of the engine.
And most importantly, we may not have had Pixar.
What bothers me every time this comes up is 100's of people saying "the bush administration says to hell with all the alzheimer's patients." The simple fact is that ADULT stem cell research has yeilded MANY beneficial results, like this one piece of recent news. Or this about bone marrow derived stem cells. Or this about turning SKIN cells into BRAIN CELLS for alzheimers patients! Why does the news media at large ignore this huge potential and only focus on how the pro-life movement "want's to end stem cell research altogether" ?
As someone who has a decent amount of woodworking experience, I can say DO NOT follow this guys advice of wearing gloves when working with table saws, routers, etc. If the glove gets caught in a machine (and proceeds to pull your hand in) you are going to be in a whole lot more pain than a little one stitch nick with a table saw.
#1 Rule: Always were safety glasses
#2 Rule: NEVER wear things that can get caught in the machine, neck ties, necklaces, GLOVES. Some people even take off thier wedding rings.
My wife got a M.S. from Virginia Tech in Math and was required to submit her master's paper in LaTeX. She used lyx for some of the writing but did the rest by hand. So, I know some schools (at least in 2001) required you to learn it.
Personally, I would use Koffice if I needed to create LaTeX papers. The creator of Klyx (a KDE version of lyx) was one of the core developers on the KWord team, and Klyx was abandoned to support work on Kword. If you know a thing or two about LaTeX you start to notice that KWord feels very "LaTeX like." You can still save documents as LaTeX.
My 2 cents.
don't you mean slashdotties?