Actually replying with the boring answer would be a smart move, they look for honesty, so saying you check slashdot for news is a fine answer. I've gotten jobs where I was less qualified than other applicants (I happen to know some of them), but being honest and not dicking around landed me the jobs.
Don't know where you are from, but here it would be illegal to ousting people in public for cheating in school, what will happen here is all your exams get voided for the year. Second time it happens you get thrown out.
The lose money on the printer and earn it all on cartridges. How big do you think the chances are for them to make an open standard and thus lower their income?
Not only that, but in my experience the fraps hook can have huge impact on your framerate. On top of that the motherboards are running different chipsets, simple stuff like drivers for onboard sound cards can have a huge impact on the processing power if they are written poorly. They really aren't testing anything when they don't have a uniform rig to do so.
I thought the US had abolished slavery. Why on earth does anyone put up with that??? Is the job market really that bad?
I can accept a few days of overtime pending product launch, but if a company expected me to me available like that I would tell them to go f*** themselves.
Most MS formats if not all are free to use on any OS in the EU (you have to download the OSS implementation of it, but its not protected by license or patents)
Ive managed to screw up just about any linux distro out there, one thing I've found is Ubuntu is by far the easiest to get my system up and running from again. Whenever I screwed up my gentoo it was hours of trying to chroot my way back in or when it failed days of recompiling. With ubuntu I just pop in the installer let it work its magic and add my 20 or so needed applications - only takes a couple of hours.
Well crashing the car did give them maximum exposure imo. I mean, instant youtube, going to flash around all the usual linky sites and even got a short mention on the channels showing it - more exposure than anything ending under top 10 (and not crashing) I think.
One major reason for this (for me at least) is the problem of keeping up to date. Most windows programs have a habit of phoning home to se if theres any update available. First theres security problems with this, I don't want my programs to talk to anything unles I asked it to. Then theres the problem of hogging the line, if you got 10 programs (100s?) trying to see if they should update themself you line and cpu will be saturated everytime you boot your computer, a central way of doing updates will mitigate this problem.
Also theres the problem with software that doesn't have an autoupdate feature, you have to look up any changes in the software yourself, which can be quite tedious.
Not only do you have to design your code around it, you also need to make sure that every single library you link against is thread safe and that is quite hard to do.
I don't see the big deal. Putting the controller on the internet makes sense, just like you put ATMs and bank transactions on it. It's not like theres a big red button when you connect to it that says "Commence meltdown". Nuclear reactors might have software to set some of the controls, but they definitely have hardware fall back that can overrule the software decision.
One should never ever count on software to handle emergency shutdown of anything - you simply cannot risk having the emergency shutdown waiting to be scheduled on a processor.
One should remember, enterprise and small time companies are no longer as easy to distinguish as it used to be. One of my friends run a low budget hosting company and suffers under problems like those others have described, ig. how do you know who is who when you don't have a budget to know your customers.
I on the other hand have worked for a company where hosted sites payed upwards of $50.000 for the site and $500+ for hosting per month, we knew our customers and never had to consider such problems.
Both my friends company and the one I worked for had about the same number of people employed but we cater to different crowds - who is enterprise and who is small time?
We believe that having to rewrite code that is already available, for any reason (Apart from "I can do this better", of course), is a criminal waste of resources.
Ironically this makes you just as big a zealot as the rest of the crowd. Rewriting code is a good way to figure out how something works, just look at the myriad of login scripts made in PHP or forums, if everyone went with BB and PEAR not many new programmers would be out there.
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Why is it people write some stupid abbreviation and then type it out afterwards? Why not just type it?
Whatever it is mods are smoking, I want in on it! How can GP be modded insightful and my parent funny? Autodidact programmers are a bloody disaster!
Actually replying with the boring answer would be a smart move, they look for honesty, so saying you check slashdot for news is a fine answer. I've gotten jobs where I was less qualified than other applicants (I happen to know some of them), but being honest and not dicking around landed me the jobs.
I bet you couldn't identify a NP hard problem if it came up and ate all your CPU cycles.
So what you are saying is, if your userbase is large enough you get to disregard laws?
Don't know where you are from, but here it would be illegal to ousting people in public for cheating in school, what will happen here is all your exams get voided for the year. Second time it happens you get thrown out.
The lose money on the printer and earn it all on cartridges. How big do you think the chances are for them to make an open standard and thus lower their income?
Not only that, but in my experience the fraps hook can have huge impact on your framerate. On top of that the motherboards are running different chipsets, simple stuff like drivers for onboard sound cards can have a huge impact on the processing power if they are written poorly. They really aren't testing anything when they don't have a uniform rig to do so.
Holy crap!
I thought the US had abolished slavery. Why on earth does anyone put up with that??? Is the job market really that bad?
I can accept a few days of overtime pending product launch, but if a company expected me to me available like that I would tell them to go f*** themselves.
Flash is a resource hog, doing what he does would kill your computer.
Most MS formats if not all are free to use on any OS in the EU (you have to download the OSS implementation of it, but its not protected by license or patents)
I never EVER put my signature on a document I haven't read and fully understood.
They do, and it will be something like pack their suitcases with money and run for the hills.
A developer is also a user. No "users" use STL, developers do, so the users of STL is developers.
Remember to record it and put it on a site with some adds, gonna pay the wages for the kid :)
Ive managed to screw up just about any linux distro out there, one thing I've found is Ubuntu is by far the easiest to get my system up and running from again. Whenever I screwed up my gentoo it was hours of trying to chroot my way back in or when it failed days of recompiling. With ubuntu I just pop in the installer let it work its magic and add my 20 or so needed applications - only takes a couple of hours.
Well crashing the car did give them maximum exposure imo. I mean, instant youtube, going to flash around all the usual linky sites and even got a short mention on the channels showing it - more exposure than anything ending under top 10 (and not crashing) I think.
One major reason for this (for me at least) is the problem of keeping up to date. Most windows programs have a habit of phoning home to se if theres any update available. First theres security problems with this, I don't want my programs to talk to anything unles I asked it to. Then theres the problem of hogging the line, if you got 10 programs (100s?) trying to see if they should update themself you line and cpu will be saturated everytime you boot your computer, a central way of doing updates will mitigate this problem.
Also theres the problem with software that doesn't have an autoupdate feature, you have to look up any changes in the software yourself, which can be quite tedious.
Not only do you have to design your code around it, you also need to make sure that every single library you link against is thread safe and that is quite hard to do.
Me too, just went over it to see if the times perhaps lifted the story from the onion, but sadly it looks to be the real deal.
I don't see the big deal. Putting the controller on the internet makes sense, just like you put ATMs and bank transactions on it. It's not like theres a big red button when you connect to it that says "Commence meltdown". Nuclear reactors might have software to set some of the controls, but they definitely have hardware fall back that can overrule the software decision.
One should never ever count on software to handle emergency shutdown of anything - you simply cannot risk having the emergency shutdown waiting to be scheduled on a processor.
The trick they will use is keep humiliating the lawyers threatening to sue them. Worked very well so far.
One should remember, enterprise and small time companies are no longer as easy to distinguish as it used to be. One of my friends run a low budget hosting company and suffers under problems like those others have described, ig. how do you know who is who when you don't have a budget to know your customers.
I on the other hand have worked for a company where hosted sites payed upwards of $50.000 for the site and $500+ for hosting per month, we knew our customers and never had to consider such problems.
Both my friends company and the one I worked for had about the same number of people employed but we cater to different crowds - who is enterprise and who is small time?
Ironically this makes you just as big a zealot as the rest of the crowd. Rewriting code is a good way to figure out how something works, just look at the myriad of login scripts made in PHP or forums, if everyone went with BB and PEAR not many new programmers would be out there.
Future games will utilize more cores, one core for kinematics/animations, one for physics/collisions, one for AI and one to bind it all.