I think it matters a lot. Here is my thoughts about typing speed:
- Speed is good, but think first, program second. - If you can get what is in your head down into your editor faster, you will get quicker feedback on your code. You can then try out more stuff in a shorter timespan. - Not all of your code will be rocket science. A lot of code is and will be boilerplate code and the faster you get to get it down and out of the way the better. - If you don't have quick editor speed you probably don't know your editor and you end up doing stuff you should not have done. (your editor should) - You should document your code, maybe on a concept level (on an wiki or something similar). Then you need to write and if you don't type fast you'll use forever on this.
I've spent a lot of time on a LP mud, and it was there I really learned the craft of coding. The coding environment is really a good way of becoming a good, thorough and paranoid programmer.
- Everyone can call your code, and use your items/code in ways you never intended. - You can use others code to do fun stuff. - You can make stuff that would be almost impossible to do in a graphical world. The written word is a very powerful:) - LPC is object oriented and every item in the mud is also an object. (The room, the monster, the player, the drink, the sword, aso) - The coding environment is a simulated unix environment with all the regular unix like commands. - The environment is 100% dynamic where you as a creator (wizard) can load up new items, test and toy with them in the same environment as the players. You are though not supposed to interact with the gameplay though.
The mud I played on was connect.vikingmud.org 2001. The mud is still up with some players still finding the free gameplay fun. The game is pretty much hack & slash if you have played it for a while, but there is plenty of quests to solve too.
I have some areas there and a guild in play - Body Snatchers - where you play entities that take over game monsters to go kill with them.
This discussion comes up over and over again. Stallman's point is that you should try and make money off the software you write. Make them pay you write FLOSS - your work should be worth a lot of money to them.
This can be done - I work as a consultant, and my company has had a couple of projects where the software eveloped was released under GPL, and the customer was very pleased with that.
>... I don't know about the rest of you, but I never, ever eat in really >expensive restaurants. As good as the food may be, it's simply not worth the >additional cost. Which is why I'll be getting a Wii and not the PS3.
Have you tried? You might be suprised of how good food really can be. (I'm talking Michelin Guide Stars type restaurants here)
Knubo
>Why don't advertisers track *sales* that come in >through google as a separate channel from the rest >of the web? Then, google gets a percentage of the >stuff that's actually sold. I think that's fair, >and it would do away with fraud altogether.
That would require that the people selling stuff report their true sales to Google. With pay per click ads Google have some sort of control.
I that were to work, I would think that Google would have to perform the money transfer, or some other 3. party company that Google would get reports from, and we as a customer would trust also.
KEB
Where I live (Norway) the price of a desent playable PC is approx 10k NOK (~ $1000). As I buy this PC, I spend lots of time getting the latest drivers for all my "things" in my PC (if it at all work), and then I spend more time tuning everything. (I hate that). And after 4 years I must spend at least that amount, as my PC has become obsolete for new games. I've tried that and I'm fed up with it...
Compare that to a game console. I paid 2500 NOK for it (I bought it early, now it is more like 1400 NOK with games). It's way cheaper than the PC I refer to. Sure it runs on somewhat lower resolution and PC games might be superior now, but it's 1/4 the price, and the quality of the games are normally better - you can't have patch hell like on PC.
And the games I buy anyways - I honor the peoples work and wouldn't do otherwise, so there isn't any money to save there either.
Call me lazy or crazy, but I prefer my PS2 to any PC for gaming.
I recomend Lind Hop (swing dancing) - if there are a club teaching it in your neighbourhood, try it out! And you'd be suprised how many engineers that dance LH:-) And in particular if you live in San Fransisco - When I visited Java One some years back, the first guy I sat down and ate lunch with was a LH-dancer. He said that "half of the CS people in SF danced LH".
he lives alone? Some thing for laptops. Who needs 17" to carry around? You only need a screen that big in the office/home, and there, you could connect the laptop to a decent LCD monitor.
One word - dual monitor. Once you have tried it, you cannot live without it. The bigger laptop screen, the better. I use my laptop screen as my secondary screen at work, and my 19" as my primary. (I only wish I could have more screens!:)
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I think it matters a lot. Here is my thoughts about typing speed:
- Speed is good, but think first, program second.
- If you can get what is in your head down into your editor faster, you will get quicker feedback on your code. You can then try out more stuff in a shorter timespan.
- Not all of your code will be rocket science. A lot of code is and will be boilerplate code and the faster you get to get it down and out of the way the better.
- If you don't have quick editor speed you probably don't know your editor and you end up doing stuff you should not have done. (your editor should)
- You should document your code, maybe on a concept level (on an wiki or something similar). Then you need to write and if you don't type fast you'll use forever on this.
Quite a large patch 230Mb.
Let's assume that all 17 000 000 phones needs to be updated, then this patch has made apple push around:
230 000 000 * 17 000 000 = 3.91 x 10^15 bytes
from their servers to fix it. I'm glad I do not get their bandwidth bill :)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22771301@N06/3240658463/
I've implemented checkers on a mud - though Tetris would be a challenge.
The bricks would fall only at the speed of 2 seconds or so though:)
Knubo
I've spent a lot of time on a LP mud, and it was there I really learned the craft of coding. The coding environment is really a good way of becoming a good, thorough and paranoid programmer.
- Everyone can call your code, and use your items/code in ways you never intended. :)
- You can use others code to do fun stuff.
- You can make stuff that would be almost impossible to do in a graphical world. The written word is a very powerful
- LPC is object oriented and every item in the mud is also an object. (The room, the monster, the player, the drink, the sword, aso)
- The coding environment is a simulated unix environment with all the regular unix like commands.
- The environment is 100% dynamic where you as a creator (wizard) can load up new items, test and toy with them in the same environment as the players. You are though not supposed to interact with the gameplay though.
The mud I played on was connect.vikingmud.org 2001. The mud is still up with some players still finding the free gameplay fun. The game is pretty much hack & slash if you have played it for a while, but there is plenty of quests to solve too.
I have some areas there and a guild in play - Body Snatchers - where you play entities that take over game monsters to go kill with them.
Knubo
Hi.
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They sell domain names and offers free dns services for registered customers.
They're located in Oslo, Norway and do all their hosting from there.
>But, of course, the linguistic-cognitive miracles still get spaghetti sauce all over the table at dinner. :)
:-)
On purpose!
They don't have to clean up - so I can understand they do not see the problem
This discussion comes up over and over again. Stallman's point is that you should try and make money off the software you write. Make them pay you write FLOSS - your work should be worth a lot of money to them.
This can be done - I work as a consultant, and my company has had a couple of projects where the software eveloped was released under GPL, and the customer was very pleased with that.
You could ofcourse just tap into an existing radio channel and stream that. Like Howard Stearn :-)
>... I don't know about the rest of you, but I never, ever eat in really >expensive restaurants. As good as the food may be, it's simply not worth the >additional cost. Which is why I'll be getting a Wii and not the PS3. Have you tried? You might be suprised of how good food really can be. (I'm talking Michelin Guide Stars type restaurants here) Knubo
>Why don't advertisers track *sales* that come in >through google as a separate channel from the rest >of the web? Then, google gets a percentage of the >stuff that's actually sold. I think that's fair, >and it would do away with fraud altogether. That would require that the people selling stuff report their true sales to Google. With pay per click ads Google have some sort of control. I that were to work, I would think that Google would have to perform the money transfer, or some other 3. party company that Google would get reports from, and we as a customer would trust also. KEB
Compare that to a game console. I paid 2500 NOK for it (I bought it early, now it is more like 1400 NOK with games). It's way cheaper than the PC I refer to. Sure it runs on somewhat lower resolution and PC games might be superior now, but it's 1/4 the price, and the quality of the games are normally better - you can't have patch hell like on PC.
And the games I buy anyways - I honor the peoples work and wouldn't do otherwise, so there isn't any money to save there either.
Call me lazy or crazy, but I prefer my PS2 to any PC for gaming.
KEB
It's because the artists submitting must make the motive look nice on XXL T-shirts :-)
Knubo
I recomend Lind Hop (swing dancing) - if there are a club teaching it in your neighbourhood, try it out! And you'd be suprised how many engineers that dance LH
And the added bonus is ofcourse:
- Females!
- Fun!
- Good excersize for hands - good for mouse-arm.
KEB