Yes, but my newest creation will soon replace the fallable human police officers. Here, let me just switch it on, so that you can see:
"Please put down your weapon! - You have 20 seconds to comply!" "You now have 15 seconds to comply!" "You now have 5 seconds to comply! 4...3...2...1..."
Look at you, Laura. A pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal god?
In my talons I shape clay, crafting lifeforms as I please. Around me is a burgeoning empire of clay. From my thrown room, lines of power careen into the skies of Earth. My whims will become lightening bolts, which will devastate the mounds of Humanity. Out of the chaos, they will run and whimper, praying to me to end their tedious anarchy. I am drunk with this vision; GOD(dess), THE TITLE SUITS ME WELL!"
Or use a language that has a seat belt and air bags. I personally wouldn't buy a car without them.
I can't get to the article, I don't understand the responses that say, "Garbage collection and type safety won't stop all security holes, so let's keep programming in C".
Why not use good design *and* program in a language that is going to automatically eliminate 50% of your possible mistakes.
There you go ruining a perfectly good troll with a legitimate response. Well, maybe it will knock some sense into whoever modded my post "off topic".
I haven't used lua yet, but I've heard good things about it. Most importantly, you've realized that language design is hard, and creating your own language from scratch is often the wrong idea.
Autodetect hardware? A technical support nightmare. It's hard enough getting your game installed and working on the variety of hardware out there in the world, and thats with the operating system in place as an abstration layer between you and the different systems.
You don't want to be responsible for getting the Operating System to install as well. Madness!
I certainly agree about the difference between book smarts and application of theory to the real world.
I just don't see any justification for your belief that this somehow applies more to Indian tech workers than it does to us -- pretty much what you say yourself in your last paragraph.
As for not doing it for the love.. the slash dot story on the Indian Linux users group was eye opening to me. These guys are just like us. They're big geeks!
I couldn't agree more. I've met some of the programmers you describe: Contractors from India that were clearly *way* over their heads.
My objection was simply to the idea of the code monkey -- it didn't jibe with my experience. Believe me, I've met more than a few Americans that got hired for jobs they had no business being in.
Spoken like someone who has never used version control. Just because he's all on his lonesome isn't a good reason to miss out on all the fun:
With version control I can see the last three times I changed a specific file. I can show the diffs for my latest change at the touch of a button. I can keep seperate branches for release 1.2 and release 2.0. I can merge the bug fixes I apply to version 1.2 into 2.0.
It takes a while to understand the benefits of version control, but once you do, you'll use it for all your development, solo or otherwise.
Until you got to the part about code monkeys. What makes you think that American workers are smarter than Indian workers? I've met plenty of Indians that are very smart and better educated than I am.
Other than that, you've hit most of the major bases. It's easier working locally (face-face communication and time zones), Indian prices will rise as more outsourcing occurs, and we share a common culture that is bound to make communication more effective.
I'm also surprised that this isn't on the main page of Slashdot. When reading the previous article on the discovery, there was a lot of "let's wait for confirmation" messages. Now we have it and it seems an appropriate time to get excited
I'm sorry. We prefer to keep the main page of slashdot for unconfirmed loony perpetual motion devices.
No, as the anonymous poster points out, last year C++ won first and second place. OCaml did win in the lightning round (the contest lasts 3 days, the lightning round judges entries submitted on the first day).
Last year, for the first time, they let you run your code on your own hardware, and simply submit the results. The winner ran his simple C++ algorithm on a farm of dual processor machines, and managed to brute force his way into first place.
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I'm sure you're right. In pursuit of a similar time saving conciseness I'm going to start dropping all my variable names down to a single letter.
adventure games
This implies that you can't have bad luck, academic politics, and an inability to get funding in your pursuit of a degree. Sounds shaky to me.
Ahhahah.. Can't you mozilla people come up with your own names? There's already an FTP server using this one:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/fireftp/
Maybe "ThunderBeaver"
Yes, but my newest creation will soon replace the fallable human police officers. Here, let me just switch it on, so that you can see:
"Please put down your weapon! - You have 20 seconds to comply!"
"You now have 15 seconds to comply!"
"You now have 5 seconds to comply! 4...3...2...1..."
Aaaaaggggglumph!
Just rename yours to "Firebird"
That's a catchy name!
Yea, but it's hard to beat main-lining heroin for a really good buzz to calorie ratio.
Look at you, Laura. A pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal god?
In my talons I shape clay,
crafting lifeforms as I please.
Around me is a burgeoning empire of clay.
From my thrown room,
lines of power careen into the skies of Earth.
My whims will become lightening bolts,
which will devastate the mounds of Humanity.
Out of the chaos, they will run and whimper,
praying to me to end their tedious anarchy.
I am drunk with this vision;
GOD(dess), THE TITLE SUITS ME WELL!"
Why?
So they can deal with a lot more bullshit in their lives!
By offering free shell accounts, they give spammers a base to work from.
By offering free shell accounts, people can coordinate their DDOS attacks from their box.
By offereing free shell accounts, they can deal with people running high bandwith gaming servers that choke off their networks.
Now, I wonder why it's hard to find people giving out free shell accounts with compilers?
So true. Trust slash dot to beat the subtlety out of any attempt at humor.
Oh! And check those buffers!!!
Or use a language that has a seat belt and air bags. I personally wouldn't buy a car without them.
I can't get to the article, I don't understand the responses that say, "Garbage collection and type safety won't stop all security holes, so let's keep programming in C".
Why not use good design *and* program in a language that is going to automatically eliminate 50% of your possible mistakes.
It's a little know fact that movies and the games that are based on them draw Karma from the same limited pool.
That means that if the movie is really, really good, there just isn't enough juice left to make a good game.
Luckily for the programmers on Riddick, they found that the pool had been strangely untouched when they got to it.
There you go ruining a perfectly good troll with a legitimate response. Well, maybe it will knock some sense into whoever modded my post "off topic".
I haven't used lua yet, but I've heard good things about it. Most importantly, you've realized that language design is hard, and creating your own language from scratch is often the wrong idea.
It might be time to replace Vim's macro langague with a more widespread, general purpose language. Lisp anyone?
You're right.. I think more like 2 grand total. I bought much of it used.
Don't forget Scuba Diving!
I spent at least a grand on my scuba gear.
So far I've only sepent about $500 on my climbing stuff.
Doh.
Autodetect hardware? A technical support nightmare. It's hard enough getting your game installed and working on the variety of hardware out there in the world, and thats with the operating system in place as an abstration layer between you and the different systems.
You don't want to be responsible for getting the Operating System to install as well. Madness!
I certainly agree about the difference between book smarts and application of theory to the real world.
I just don't see any justification for your belief that this somehow applies more to Indian tech workers than it does to us -- pretty much what you say yourself in your last paragraph.
As for not doing it for the love.. the slash dot story on the Indian Linux users group was eye opening to me. These guys are just like us. They're big geeks!
Good point. I have only met Indians who have come to America, and I know that "Brain Drain" has been a problem for their country.
However, I suspect that now that there is a viable technology market in India, we'll see fewer of the best and the brightest Indians coming here.
I couldn't agree more. I've met some of the programmers you describe: Contractors from India that were clearly *way* over their heads.
My objection was simply to the idea of the code monkey -- it didn't jibe with my experience. Believe me, I've met more than a few Americans that got hired for jobs they had no business being in.
Spoken like someone who has never used version control. Just because he's all on his lonesome isn't a good reason to miss out on all the fun:
With version control I can see the last three times I changed a specific file. I can show the diffs for my latest change at the touch of a button. I can keep seperate branches for release 1.2 and release 2.0. I can merge the bug fixes I apply to version 1.2 into 2.0.
It takes a while to understand the benefits of version control, but once you do, you'll use it for all your development, solo or otherwise.
Excellent comment.
Until you got to the part about code monkeys. What makes you think that American workers are smarter than Indian workers? I've met plenty of Indians that are very smart and better educated than I am.
Other than that, you've hit most of the major bases. It's easier working locally (face-face communication and time zones), Indian prices will rise as more outsourcing occurs, and we share a common culture that is bound to make communication more effective.
Work it, boys and girls!
I'm also surprised that this isn't on the main page of Slashdot. When reading the previous article on the discovery, there was a lot of "let's wait for confirmation" messages. Now we have it and it seems an appropriate time to get excited
I'm sorry. We prefer to keep the main page of slashdot for unconfirmed loony perpetual motion devices.
No, as the anonymous poster points out, last year C++ won first and second place. OCaml did win in the lightning round (the contest lasts 3 days, the lightning round judges entries submitted on the first day).
Last year, for the first time, they let you run your code on your own hardware, and simply submit the results. The winner ran his simple C++ algorithm on a farm of dual processor machines, and managed to brute force his way into first place.
Thank you!
Hard to believe anyone who actually runs a business would think about moving hosting providers over something this trivial.
Real businesses have much bigger fish to fry.