"But you can write crappy code in any language (including 'spaghetti classes')"
I feel your pain: much of today's "enterprise"-level code is indeed made up of 'spaghetti classes' with lots of "global" class scoped variables referenced throughout the whole big class methods...
that term is a winner, man!:)
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Not everyone who uses a computer is a moronic follower of the games industry. Some people actually use it for doing useful work rather than spending their lifes blasting things up at 60FPS. Such people do not need DX10 whatsoever.
Are we really this stupid to actually believe just because a 2 year old infant sees another 2 year old driving that it'll actually be able to repeat the feat? That it'll get its pops keyring, find the right key, open the car door, enter the main seat, sit down, turn on the car, reach the accelerator with its tiny feet etc?
"Had the Civil War taken a different course, the eventual standard railroad gauge used throughout North America might well have been different than the current one."
How much different: 3 horse butts large? 4?
I really doubt it would be much larger or thinner than the standard 2 horse butts from ancient times. The account may not be terribly accurate, but it's not wrong.
"Technology advances. Things change. New releases are let out, and people buy them because they are better."
Sure, people will buy better hardware when the time and money asks for it. It's not like I should upgrade my graphics card every 6 months just because the manufacturer put out new stuff that is capable of a few more million polygons per second...
I find the usual 5 year console cycle for hardware technology just right. There's actual effort from software makers to get optimizations out of the aging hardware that simply doesn't happen in the PC World. I can spend money on software rather than annoying and conflicting hardware updates...
"I really want to know why anyone cares what anyone else is using for their computers? It does not matter and does not affect me so why should I care"
I care for what other people use everytime someone sends me a.doc or.wmv file for me to read on my Linux, rather than in some open file formats like ODF or OGG... or drivers for Linux being solely ignored for not being part of the larger 90%+ market...
It's like being sitted next to a smoker: you'll inhale cancerous smoke whether you want it or not.
"A RELEASED VERSION of software and someone who will fix his problems..."...*for free*, you forgot to mention. If someone would solve all my problems for free, i'd be the luckiest guy in the whole world.:)
nah! doesn't work like that in free software: it's not one guy with the obligation to build houses for free for other people to live; it's more like everyone building a huge patchy house for everyone to live in.
Sadly, i have to agree. From 8 onwards, it's been downhill. I guess the focus on hyperrealistic 3D graphics, the decline of the ATB system in favor of "innovative" dumbness and more human-like plots and characters truly hurt the series. The departure of Nobuo Uematsu and the original creator of the series also smell bad...
I enjoyed it a lot more when characters were hyperdeformed beings trying to save the world in a viscerally FANTASY setting, with superb soundtrack accompaning your adventures, plain and simple.
Re:Implementations (lack of)
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Yes, emacs is keyboard driven and mouse support is there just to get newbies into the bandwagon. From there on, they'd better do it emacs-way: via keyboard.
If you like the notepad-way, you should try the PLT-Scheme environment, which is good enough and with many visual and mouse features. Only for scheme, though...
Right. My perfect Lisp one be one with Scheme syntax and semantics, CL's performance, Java's libraries and perhaps a little less parenthesis.
Right now, that would be Haskell, except the library isn't anywhere as big as Java's. yet.
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you were doing just fine, but then:
"Also, Emacs sucks, and it's the best IDE there is for Lisp. I know some people are mouse-impaired and live for and by the keyboard, but we Starcraft players know better, we must use both very fast."
Emacs doesn't suck if you know it well and use it the way it's supposed to be used. And an IDE is not a game, nor a programmable text editor with handy programming features is a full IDE.
Re:Genuine question about perl vs ruby
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I'm actually more interested in what will happen one Perl6 is finally released and brings a much needed syntax reform and performance boost to Perl. Perl will finally get over being just a shell language of sorts to become a true programming language as well as being a shell language of sorts for those who want it to.
I enjoy very much Ruby's syntatic clarity + its many Perlisms. But Perl6 is likely to surpass or match Ruby's features and charm, so it'll be an interesting fight.
Right now, i'd say Ruby's main features against Perl are true named function parameters (rather than Perl implicit parameter list and stupid manual binding) and true classes rather than a much verbose prototype building. And much important clearer syntax overall, of course.
"VB is programming for people who don't really want to program."
Well, they better do want to program, because that's what they'll be doing most by going for the "ease" of VB: writing patches and more patches to correct bugs, doing excessive maintanence due to lots of improper, parameterless copy-pasting code and lots of rewrites from scratch once the whole thing eventually collapses under its own weight...
that, or hire real programmers with real tools from the get-go...
Re:VB already gets the respect it deserves...
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"VB is a language where you clearly see the difference between a rookie programmer and a pro."
Holly crap! There are pros programming in VB?! I always thought they moved on to better tools once they got past the beginner stuff, like Logo, VB etc...
they are just hosts, they don't die from it. Although there's a similar disease for monkeys, it isn't by the same virus that affects humans so drastically.
I was thinking more of Bush or the North Korean dictator of the day or any other dumbasses... it's a shame millions will suffer until one of them die or chage place with another dumbass...
Battletoads, Wizards & Warriors, Snake Rattle and Roll, Solar Jetman, RC Pro A.M., DKC, Goldeneye, Banjo & Kazooie, Conker's Bad Fur Day... so many great games! R.I.P....
Come to think of it, i like biochemical weapons a lot more than nukes: this way, we can wipe our shitty selves out of this world while still maintaining it intact, since other life forms don't really give a shit to Ebola, AIDS or other dumb monkey weapons...
"The open-sourcing of Java will have no effect whatsoever on Java's slow decline in favor of dynamic languages (Ruby, Python) and C#"
I can certainly understand the appeal of ruby or python to write clear code. But the author then pulls a C# out of nowhere and places it in the same bag! Does he even know C# the language is almost an exact copy of Java the language plus a few Delphi touches?
"even with a Logical statement the 'If' in an 'If Then' statement still implies that we don't know 'if' A exists."
but it doesn't matter: if A is true, then B follows. That is: we can be sure published printed work survived IF original manuscripts survived. It doesn't matter if A is false, because the focus of our content is B. That is, A being false doesn't disprove B, that would require instead: if NOT A then B...
but anyway, we know A is true and B follows naturally...
"[After all, if some of the documents are kept in Museums an private libraries etc, they'd have to have some form of proof that the person being paid had gone to the museum or private library.]"
The problem with all these "original source research" is that after many centuries of exposure, things begin to deteriorate. Thankfully, we're living full Information Era, when it's very cheap to both copy and reproduce stuff.
This means that next time, instead of having to physically going to some Vienna library and getting their sweaty hands on a Mozart original, researchers just click on a web link and have a copy of a faithful scan of said document. Much better for everyone...
And just as OCR technology today converts scans from books into formatted ASCII text, i'm hoping OCR will evolve to acomodate translations from musical score scans into MusicXML notation ready to either go MIDI or printed...
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Better than "The Island" movie, I guess. :)
"But you can write crappy code in any language (including 'spaghetti classes')"
:)
I feel your pain: much of today's "enterprise"-level code is indeed made up of 'spaghetti classes' with lots of "global" class scoped variables referenced throughout the whole big class methods...
that term is a winner, man!
Not everyone who uses a computer is a moronic follower of the games industry. Some people actually use it for doing useful work rather than spending their lifes blasting things up at 60FPS. Such people do not need DX10 whatsoever.
Are we really this stupid to actually believe just because a 2 year old infant sees another 2 year old driving that it'll actually be able to repeat the feat? That it'll get its pops keyring, find the right key, open the car door, enter the main seat, sit down, turn on the car, reach the accelerator with its tiny feet etc?
are we this fucking insane?
"Notice how few religions cater to the intelligent."
I heard the intelligent follow the Sacred Path of Enlightnement brought by believing in the Holy Scientific Method.
from the article:
"Had the Civil War taken a different course, the eventual standard railroad gauge used throughout North America might well have been different than the current one."
How much different: 3 horse butts large? 4?
I really doubt it would be much larger or thinner than the standard 2 horse butts from ancient times. The account may not be terribly accurate, but it's not wrong.
does the technology by any chance use any quantum devices? ;)
"Islam has become increasingly a religion of the poor and ill educated"
EVERY religion begins by catering to the poor and ill educated. When it becomes mainstream, the wealthy ones also start following.
ignorance is bliss
"Technology advances. Things change. New releases are let out, and people buy them because they are better."
Sure, people will buy better hardware when the time and money asks for it. It's not like I should upgrade my graphics card every 6 months just because the manufacturer put out new stuff that is capable of a few more million polygons per second...
I find the usual 5 year console cycle for hardware technology just right. There's actual effort from software makers to get optimizations out of the aging hardware that simply doesn't happen in the PC World. I can spend money on software rather than annoying and conflicting hardware updates...
"I really want to know why anyone cares what anyone else is using for their computers? It does not matter and does not affect me so why should I care"
.doc or .wmv file for me to read on my Linux, rather than in some open file formats like ODF or OGG... or drivers for Linux being solely ignored for not being part of the larger 90%+ market...
I care for what other people use everytime someone sends me a
It's like being sitted next to a smoker: you'll inhale cancerous smoke whether you want it or not.
"A RELEASED VERSION of software and someone who will fix his problems..." ...*for free*, you forgot to mention. If someone would solve all my problems for free, i'd be the luckiest guy in the whole world. :)
nah! doesn't work like that in free software: it's not one guy with the obligation to build houses for free for other people to live; it's more like everyone building a huge patchy house for everyone to live in.
Sadly, i have to agree. From 8 onwards, it's been downhill. I guess the focus on hyperrealistic 3D graphics, the decline of the ATB system in favor of "innovative" dumbness and more human-like plots and characters truly hurt the series. The departure of Nobuo Uematsu and the original creator of the series also smell bad...
I enjoyed it a lot more when characters were hyperdeformed beings trying to save the world in a viscerally FANTASY setting, with superb soundtrack accompaning your adventures, plain and simple.
Yes, emacs is keyboard driven and mouse support is there just to get newbies into the bandwagon. From there on, they'd better do it emacs-way: via keyboard.
If you like the notepad-way, you should try the PLT-Scheme environment, which is good enough and with many visual and mouse features. Only for scheme, though...
"Scheme is not Common Lisp, though."
Right. My perfect Lisp one be one with Scheme syntax and semantics, CL's performance, Java's libraries and perhaps a little less parenthesis.
Right now, that would be Haskell, except the library isn't anywhere as big as Java's. yet.
you were doing just fine, but then:
"Also, Emacs sucks, and it's the best IDE there is for Lisp. I know some people are mouse-impaired and live for and by the keyboard, but we Starcraft players know better, we must use both very fast."
Emacs doesn't suck if you know it well and use it the way it's supposed to be used. And an IDE is not a game, nor a programmable text editor with handy programming features is a full IDE.
I'm actually more interested in what will happen one Perl6 is finally released and brings a much needed syntax reform and performance boost to Perl. Perl will finally get over being just a shell language of sorts to become a true programming language as well as being a shell language of sorts for those who want it to.
I enjoy very much Ruby's syntatic clarity + its many Perlisms. But Perl6 is likely to surpass or match Ruby's features and charm, so it'll be an interesting fight.
Right now, i'd say Ruby's main features against Perl are true named function parameters (rather than Perl implicit parameter list and stupid manual binding) and true classes rather than a much verbose prototype building. And much important clearer syntax overall, of course.
"VB is programming for people who don't really want to program."
Well, they better do want to program, because that's what they'll be doing most by going for the "ease" of VB: writing patches and more patches to correct bugs, doing excessive maintanence due to lots of improper, parameterless copy-pasting code and lots of rewrites from scratch once the whole thing eventually collapses under its own weight...
that, or hire real programmers with real tools from the get-go...
"VB is a language where you clearly see the difference between a rookie programmer and a pro."
Holly crap! There are pros programming in VB?! I always thought they moved on to better tools once they got past the beginner stuff, like Logo, VB etc...
they are just hosts, they don't die from it. Although there's a similar disease for monkeys, it isn't by the same virus that affects humans so drastically.
No, I like myself very much, thank you.
I was thinking more of Bush or the North Korean dictator of the day or any other dumbasses... it's a shame millions will suffer until one of them die or chage place with another dumbass...
Battletoads, Wizards & Warriors, Snake Rattle and Roll, Solar Jetman, RC Pro A.M., DKC, Goldeneye, Banjo & Kazooie, Conker's Bad Fur Day... so many great games! R.I.P....
fuck M$!
Come to think of it, i like biochemical weapons a lot more than nukes: this way, we can wipe our shitty selves out of this world while still maintaining it intact, since other life forms don't really give a shit to Ebola, AIDS or other dumb monkey weapons...
In case anyone is wondering what a negative index of refraction would look like, this is a very good start:
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http://www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm?id=8832
Examples (including avi's) rendered in Povray, the free raytracer. One of the authors is Chris Hormann, one of Povray's main code contributors.
"The open-sourcing of Java will have no effect whatsoever on Java's slow decline in favor of dynamic languages (Ruby, Python) and C#"
I can certainly understand the appeal of ruby or python to write clear code. But the author then pulls a C# out of nowhere and places it in the same bag! Does he even know C# the language is almost an exact copy of Java the language plus a few Delphi touches?
"even with a Logical statement the 'If' in an 'If Then' statement still implies that we don't know 'if' A exists."
but it doesn't matter: if A is true, then B follows. That is: we can be sure published printed work survived IF original manuscripts survived. It doesn't matter if A is false, because the focus of our content is B. That is, A being false doesn't disprove B, that would require instead: if NOT A then B...
but anyway, we know A is true and B follows naturally...
"[After all, if some of the documents are kept in Museums an private libraries etc, they'd have to have some form of proof that the person being paid had gone to the museum or private library.]"
The problem with all these "original source research" is that after many centuries of exposure, things begin to deteriorate. Thankfully, we're living full Information Era, when it's very cheap to both copy and reproduce stuff.
This means that next time, instead of having to physically going to some Vienna library and getting their sweaty hands on a Mozart original, researchers just click on a web link and have a copy of a faithful scan of said document. Much better for everyone...
And just as OCR technology today converts scans from books into formatted ASCII text, i'm hoping OCR will evolve to acomodate translations from musical score scans into MusicXML notation ready to either go MIDI or printed...