The chemical name for my DNA sequence is so long that if you wrote it in 12 point characters it'd stretch all the way around the world. The only reason it's not in Wikipedia is that the web browser balked when I tried to type it in.
There are lots of streets I can't walk down. I have no right to walk down countless streets because they are privately owned and say "KEEP OUT". I'm happy to comply because it seems to me that the world is a better place with property rights in it. It also seems to me that the world is a better place without parents educating their kids with GTA. We can't stop inept parents having kids but we can control access to GTA. Seems like a worthwhile sacrifice to me.
It's curious that you've left the word Genie untranslated from German because it gives the sentence interesting connotations in English. I imagine Carmack sitting in a brass lamp from time to time popping up in a cloud of smoke to grant us all a cool new algorithm before being sucked back in again.
Doom 3 has some of the poorest gameplay of any game I've seen in recent years and yet the expensive effects not only sold the game, they sold expensive PCs so people could play the game. The people who wrote the game got the satisfaction of knowing that their renderer kicks ass, and they made money out of the sales. With motivation like that, who needs to write a game that's "fun"? Next you'll be saying that movies have to have a good story!
This is funny: a paper. I like the "Dijkstra is holy" bit.
Did you really struggle against old habits? Many programmers I know, who were brought up on BASIC, turned out to be the strongest zealots for other types of programming and weren't held back by some extra knowledge about gotos at all.
Well it's my fucking life that's at risk when I walk down the streets in my neighborhood because the local parents failed to educate their children that the way to make money isn't relieving their neighbors of it at gunpoint. As long as the parents are failing to do this you can scream all you like that "it's up to the parents". I'm just going to ignore your complete and utter disconnection from reality.
This was evidently not understood by the author that wrote --in 1977-- in the preface of a technical report that "even the standard symbols used for logical connectives have been avoided for the sake of clarity". The occurrence of that sentence suggests that the author's misunderstanding is not confined to him alone.
He he! Dijkstra purports to know better than this author what is clearer to this author! That's typical of the arrogance of some computer scientists. But it's not like I don't sympathize with Dijkstra. If you know how to use formal notation you are so much better off than someone who doesn't because it is so powerful. However, in the industry I work in (graphics) I work with artists who need to perform complex sequences of technical operations on data all the time. Anything that looks like technical notation scares them off. Even something as simple as an expression in a hypothetical scripting language like new_image=blur(translate(image,10,10)), whose meaning is patently obvious to you (I guess) and I, scares artists because it looks...well...technical. They'd rather have something like:
load image
translate it 10 pixels in x and 10 pixels in y
blur it
save image
which is closer to English (hmmm...and Applescript come to think of it) even though it's clearly cumbersome if you need to combine multiple images together. (I was already having this discussion this morning before reading the/. story.)
One wonders about someone who has gone an entire lifetime without noticing that other people are writing free, even if English isn't their first language. Especially on/. where freedom seems to be the rallying call. I can't imagine what that must be like. Similar to failing to lift your eyes to the heavens every night of your life to notice that the sky is mostly black. Something like that anyway. Maybe they've only just learned some English and/. was their first foray into the realm of English communications.
Just curious...how much work was adding hires code? I have a couple of PalmOS games that I started updating for hires. Unlike every other OS I've ever used, modifying PalmOS code for different resolutions actually takes a significant amount of work. Eventually I gave up, the amount of knowledge I would have to clutter my brain with seemed to be bigger than the benefit I would get.
So is that an axiom then? That what Dijkstra said 30 years ago is true. I certainly don't see any arguments building up to your conclusion.
I seem to remember Dijkstra saying that people educated with gotos were irreperably impaired and couldn't write good code and yet there is a generation of successful coders out there who grew up with BASIC and yet had no problem pushing the boundaries with more sophisticated programming styles as fashions changed.
How do assert "should never be much above 200" in C/C++? I guess you could use assert(!(x>200+MUCH)) but how much is MUCH?
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Imperative code is code that the computer has to execute. As opposed to elective code that the computer will execute only if you ask nicely, and even then it's allowed to make up excuses like "Segmentation Fault" to avoid pulling its finger out.
Tell me. If this thing can surf the web do you think you can make it work like a computer? Could you, say, program the PSP? Wow! Just think, people could write their own programs. Hell, maybe you could even write games for it. Imagine that, games on a pocket sized device!
I wish someone would realise that babies ultimately replicate and ban those too. Can't stand the awful noisy things and to think that in a generation's time they'll make even more of themselves...I shudder to think about it!
I wonder if what you say is true. I've never heard anyone say "I read science fiction because I saw [insert favorite Spielberg movie]" although I know many people who have seen Spielberg movies because they were already readers of science fiction.
...are excellent film makers but they've brought shame on science fiction by making "science fiction movie" synonymous with "action movie with dinosaurs and aliens 'n' stuff". Maybe someone should reserve some spaces in the Hall of Fame for film makers who actually make their audiences think as much as a well written science fiction novel or short story.
(Note: I love Harryhausen's movies (I have the 3 DVD Sinbad set for a start) and one or two of Spielberg's. My gripe is only with which Hall of Fame they're being placed in.)
...if there were not other pressures in some societies that make male children inherently more desirable...
To some extent I agree. But what I describe would at least provide a corrective force the other way. In a sense this issue is something that has a stable equilibrium, we just don't know exactly where that equilibrium lies.
if we had more people like you - I would not have even had a chance to show the world what I was capable of.
And equally, by choosing to have a deaf child rather than a hearing child you would deprive a hearing child of the chance to show the world what they are capable of. Given that deaf children (as you readily admit) face greater challenges in achieving goals it seems that other things being equal, by choosing a hearing child rather than a deaf child I bring into the world that in all likelihood is going to have more to show that they are capable of.
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The chemical name for my DNA sequence is so long that if you wrote it in 12 point characters it'd stretch all the way around the world. The only reason it's not in Wikipedia is that the web browser balked when I tried to type it in.
There are lots of streets I can't walk down. I have no right to walk down countless streets because they are privately owned and say "KEEP OUT". I'm happy to comply because it seems to me that the world is a better place with property rights in it. It also seems to me that the world is a better place without parents educating their kids with GTA. We can't stop inept parents having kids but we can control access to GTA. Seems like a worthwhile sacrifice to me.
I don't remember having to choose between a flashlight and a weapon in Doom.
It's curious that you've left the word Genie untranslated from German because it gives the sentence interesting connotations in English. I imagine Carmack sitting in a brass lamp from time to time popping up in a cloud of smoke to grant us all a cool new algorithm before being sucked back in again.
Doom 3 has some of the poorest gameplay of any game I've seen in recent years and yet the expensive effects not only sold the game, they sold expensive PCs so people could play the game. The people who wrote the game got the satisfaction of knowing that their renderer kicks ass, and they made money out of the sales. With motivation like that, who needs to write a game that's "fun"? Next you'll be saying that movies have to have a good story!
Did you really struggle against old habits? Many programmers I know, who were brought up on BASIC, turned out to be the strongest zealots for other types of programming and weren't held back by some extra knowledge about gotos at all.
Well it's my fucking life that's at risk when I walk down the streets in my neighborhood because the local parents failed to educate their children that the way to make money isn't relieving their neighbors of it at gunpoint. As long as the parents are failing to do this you can scream all you like that "it's up to the parents". I'm just going to ignore your complete and utter disconnection from reality.
load image
translate it 10 pixels in x and 10 pixels in y
blur it
save image
which is closer to English (hmmm...and Applescript come to think of it) even though it's clearly cumbersome if you need to combine multiple images together. (I was already having this discussion this morning before reading the
One wonders about someone who has gone an entire lifetime without noticing that other people are writing free, even if English isn't their first language. Especially on /. where freedom seems to be the rallying call. I can't imagine what that must be like. Similar to failing to lift your eyes to the heavens every night of your life to notice that the sky is mostly black. Something like that anyway. Maybe they've only just learned some English and /. was their first foray into the realm of English communications.
Just curious...how much work was adding hires code? I have a couple of PalmOS games that I started updating for hires. Unlike every other OS I've ever used, modifying PalmOS code for different resolutions actually takes a significant amount of work. Eventually I gave up, the amount of knowledge I would have to clutter my brain with seemed to be bigger than the benefit I would get.
I seem to remember Dijkstra saying that people educated with gotos were irreperably impaired and couldn't write good code and yet there is a generation of successful coders out there who grew up with BASIC and yet had no problem pushing the boundaries with more sophisticated programming styles as fashions changed.
Maybe he could just tell us what does encourage improvement. Sending fan mail every time a story that isn't a dupe is posted?
...but do you plan to support the full resolution of devices like the T3?
But you're right about American DSL. My DSL connection hasn't even tried to wake me up in the morning. Not even once. I have to use an alarm clock.
How do assert "should never be much above 200" in C/C++? I guess you could use assert(!(x>200+MUCH)) but how much is MUCH?
Imperative code is code that the computer has to execute. As opposed to elective code that the computer will execute only if you ask nicely, and even then it's allowed to make up excuses like "Segmentation Fault" to avoid pulling its finger out.
I've never met him. Never even heard of him. And really...if someone lies, is this really newsworthy?
Tell me. If this thing can surf the web do you think you can make it work like a computer? Could you, say, program the PSP? Wow! Just think, people could write their own programs. Hell, maybe you could even write games for it. Imagine that, games on a pocket sized device!
Cafe are a Windows house. I don't know anything about Hybrid however.
I wish someone would realise that babies ultimately replicate and ban those too. Can't stand the awful noisy things and to think that in a generation's time they'll make even more of themselves...I shudder to think about it!
...The Orphanage who are a...dare I say it...Windows house.
I wonder if what you say is true. I've never heard anyone say "I read science fiction because I saw [insert favorite Spielberg movie]" although I know many people who have seen Spielberg movies because they were already readers of science fiction.
(Note: I love Harryhausen's movies (I have the 3 DVD Sinbad set for a start) and one or two of Spielberg's. My gripe is only with which Hall of Fame they're being placed in.)