MVC type 2 (I think thats how the current mainstream version of the MVC pattern is refered to) is a pretty darn specific implementation of a separation of concern.
If you have a presentation layer, a backend layer, and something to mediate between the two, that COULD be MVC, it could be MVP, it could be MVVP, or countless other patterns. And thats just for web and thick clients. In the graphic world you have plenty of other patterns.
I guess something on the scale of League of Legends probably has something. Games Guild Wars2 have interesting things like being able to hot patch without restarting servers (which is trivial for web servers or even databases, but for systems with persistent connections you need to do a bit of magic...but even then not that much).
But that is still nothing compared to what retail manufacturing (actually having to deal with real physical thing... When you code can break non-standard machines permanently in ways you can't just google for), or finance (some of the big banks are a decade or more ahead in term of data stores and analytics).
Game innovations are generally incremental. New rendering algorithm for this or that, new compression this, new network that. Nothing revolutionary.
Once a game makes a billion dollar out of a single algorithm, wake me up.
Its like -everything- with competition. You don't need something specific, what you need is X + 1 where X is the person you're competing against. If everyone is willing to pay 600k for this 1 bedroom apartment falling apart, well, then its gonna get sold for 650k, or 700k, or 800k, or whatever there is only 1 person willing to pay for at a given time.
Same deal here: if everyone is willing to go through college to flip burgers, then you'll need a masters or a phd to flip burgers. When everyone is willing to do a phd to flip burgers, you'll need a phd and 3 years of experience to flip burgers.
honestly, Steam will probably be running longer than the 360 will before it breaks down. Assuming no or poor backward compatibility in the next gen console, to play the game forever you'll have to make a DIY-type console eventually, as we're not talking SNES level quality of hardware here.
For Steam, the way its going it will be purring long after that, and the day it stops purring, all we'll have to do is hack the games up...quite a bit more convenient than having to hack hardware up.
I still buy most of my games physically because I like collecting them (not to resell, but for myself...principle of the thing), but anything I don't care for the physical copy I much rather have the digital one.
Its not a full blown application development system, but it makes for a fine front end environment for a backend system (not a raw database, but something output by some system in a format the spreadsheet can consume).
A decent example is using Excel as a front end for an OLAP. Of course, when doing that you can just use.NET and call it a day.
Well, the Surface Pro is technically a normal lap-top with a tablet form factor. Its not a tablet at all, so it will sacrifice some of real tablet's advantages to be able to get the typical wintel hardware/software in. Fans are then kind of expected.
I'm an android fan (nexus 4 baby!), but iOS definately has its points. A few less bugs and quirks, and pretty much 99% of mobile apps are available for it. Android is missing a few, especially in the gaming department where even if one is available, it may not be available for your phone (and often its just not there at all...)
huh? i have a transformer prime and my wife has an infinity, and both of them balance properly. Its slightly top heavy but not enough to make it fall over. I use it in my lap all the time, and its sitting on my desk as a kind of third screen the rest of the time...never had issues with it tipping over.
Huh? Even in the blackhole of the dot com crash I was still getting paid enough while interning to pay for an ok-ish living. It wasn't luxury by any mean, but it was a full salary.
And the dot com crash is long behind us...so its not surprising.
Making buildings more efficient is where its at. I live in an apartment building (relevent because you can't cover enough of it with panels and stuff to supply everyone since we're stacked up).
I'm in boston, and while it doesn't get THAT cold at all, until about 5-10 (and even then) i don't need to turn on the heat at all to keep it at a 74~ all night inside. Now of course, that's because my neighbors are heating, and the building itself is...but in an average similar building you still need to heat. Not here. If i was to keep the windows open (as I do when its loud outside), i need the a/c on during winter. Now of course that's a luxury and i could easily do without.
Its crazy how much energy we waste, even with new homes, when they're not build properly.
Thats the worse system. Then people come in sick just so they can have longer vacations.
Where i work (in Boston too, woo!), sick days are simply not tracked as long as its not obvious you're abusing them, and even then the "official" rule is really lax (you only need a note after 7 business days, and again, only if people suspect you're abusing....and you can work from home at which point that doesn't even count as sick days...)
If you're sick and dare step a foot in the office (if you're just sniffling, you can work from home instead of spreading it, even if you feel mostly ok, you're still contagious), you will get asked to go back.
If everyone you work with stays home when they have a light cough and running nose, you won't have it that much (unless you have kids).
Also, you having a light cough and running nose (assuming its a cold and not allergies), is still the same darn cold virus. If -I- get it from you, I'm out and coughing bloods for 2 weeks because of some chronic throat issues I have (nothing dangerous to my life, but it hurts like a bitch, and I can't get any work done, even from home, while i'm coughing my brain out).
So the threshold is drawn at "contagious disease, if you know thats what you have". Sure, it won't be 100%, people will make mistakes, often its contagious before you feel sick so you'll get SOME people sick no matter what, but a lot less, so people at your office aren't sick a month per year.
Why go through all that trouble though? Sure, its easy, but its a heck of a lot easier to just get a normal job and do the same with all the benefits of being salaried (paid time off, insurance, blah blah).
Wake me up when its "easy to break a million" that way.
I'm in boston, have no degree, and generally get offers within 2-4 days of starting to look for job. Last time, I got something like 5 offer in 5 interviews, in about 4 days, all 6 figures.
One of my friend was a designer who decided to learn C# in his spare time...eventually got the bite for programming, decided to go look for junior positions. He was able to get several offers in about 2 weeks for double his salary as a junior designer.
Alien 2 was it for me. I had seen pretty much everything there was to see, sex wise, by the time i was 9, starting when I was 7, without my parents knowing (some of my friends were stealing some pretty hardcore VHS tapes from their parents when they were out and the baby sitters left early...). That wasn't a big deal.
Alien 2 though, I saw on cable TV when I was...I think 9 or 10. That freaked me out for years. Obviously both kinds of movies are not rated for young kids, but the later no one had issues with me watching, while the former...oh boy! (That wasn't even in the US btw)
Click the search button. Dont enter anything, just click it once. By default the search on both the tile screen and the desktop screen will show you all your applications in alphabetical order. Alternatively, right click the tile screen and click All Apps to do the same thing.
A -lot- of companies (especially big one) allow telecommute. Its just less common for them to allow 100% (or 90%) telecommute, because sometimes being able to talk face to face is faster than setting up the damn teleconferencing and webcams everytime.
There's still plenty that will allow 100% telecommute....but then salary follows, because those positions are extremely easy to fill. You can just outsource those (massive firm based outsourcing generally gives bad result, but if you pick your offshore ressources the same way you pick local ones, with real interviews and stuff, you can find good ones at a fraction of the price).
The market for north american remote worker (outside of Montreal and Halifax) is very small, because its generally pointless.
No one pays list price for Microsoft products. Its all about negotiating with your reseller (or Microsoft itself, depending who you deal with).
If you're small, you can buy 2 licenses of windows server for 10 bucks over the price of 1.
If you're big (real big), you can have a bundle of everything under the sun for 20 bucks per user instead of multiple hundreds or thousand.
Those aren't numbers I made up, they're from real situations where I had to deal with microsoft licensing. I'm sure raising their base price affects some of their customers, but if you tell your reseller "Give me the old price or else", you'll get the old price.
Putting hard numbers is kind of pointless. I'm going to go on a limb and assume most people reading this are either north american or european...
If you live in Montreal, you can make 75k (USD equivalent), have 4 kids, send them to college, and while its not gonna be fun by any mean, everyone will be fed, you'll be able to send them all to daycare, and in the end they'll all have the option of getting whatever degree they want.
If you live in Boston, NYC or London, make 75k, have 2 kids, you can probably make it? Their highschool may have a few more thugs than you'd like, your apartment's landlord probably won't give a damn about you..money's gonna be tight.
If you live in Tokyo. Lets just not.
Cost of living is just too different to give out blanket numbers.
Most rewarding to some, maybe most....absolutely not all. I personally highly dislike kids, and everyone around me knows it. The reasons aren't important, whats important is that since it is known that I hate kids, a lot of people will tell me things they wouldn't say out loud..generally out of shame.
While i fully believe the VAST majority of the population loves their kids more than anything, a small, but significant percentage are just not meant for it (I've read a few studies that say about 10%....plus or minus a bit depending on gender. Don't know if those numbers are true...doesn't matter). The amount of people who'll say things like "This was the best thing that ever happened to me!!!" in public, then turn around and whisper in my hear they wish it had never happened, is almost scary. Then there's also the people who just were not ready when they got them, or the most commons: got kids with the wrong person (more common among people who get kids when they're young).
After all, the only thing constant about human nature, is that its inconsistent:)
Follow the money trail. Do you see why Banks avoid storing data in Cloud
Err? All of the top investment banks have massive projects to move some of their less sensitive infrastructures (and in some cases even sensitive stuff) in the cloud. The biggest hurdle is legal compliance. If you're a big investment firm and you want to, let say, using Google Apps for your emails, you need to strike a deal with Google to make sure the way its all stored can be audited and is in compliance with the 6 bazillion laws to protect against insider trading and money laundering.
If it wasn't for that, they'd be flipping Cloud stuff all over the place.
Disclaimer: I worked on projects to move infrastructure to Google Apps and Microsoft Azure for one of the biggest US investment bank.
If it wasn't for wallstreet and the constant need for "growth" quarter after quarter, I wonder how long it would be before Microsoft considers the cost of doing business in the EU to be too high to be worth it.
They were convicted of abusing a monopoly and have to pay for it, but the market is completely different today than it was back then. And as much as it would make some people here happy, is a market with just Apple, Linux and Google best for customers? In world that's quickly becoming a phone/tablet world, Microsoft won't have a majority marketshare for very long, and the barrier for entry is incredibly high for another player to replace them...
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MVC type 2 (I think thats how the current mainstream version of the MVC pattern is refered to) is a pretty darn specific implementation of a separation of concern.
If you have a presentation layer, a backend layer, and something to mediate between the two, that COULD be MVC, it could be MVP, it could be MVVP, or countless other patterns. And thats just for web and thick clients. In the graphic world you have plenty of other patterns.
I guess something on the scale of League of Legends probably has something. Games Guild Wars2 have interesting things like being able to hot patch without restarting servers (which is trivial for web servers or even databases, but for systems with persistent connections you need to do a bit of magic...but even then not that much).
But that is still nothing compared to what retail manufacturing (actually having to deal with real physical thing... When you code can break non-standard machines permanently in ways you can't just google for), or finance (some of the big banks are a decade or more ahead in term of data stores and analytics).
Game innovations are generally incremental. New rendering algorithm for this or that, new compression this, new network that. Nothing revolutionary.
Once a game makes a billion dollar out of a single algorithm, wake me up.
not being a nexus, it won't get updates very quickly at all if history is anything to go by. Thats a bigger problem.
Its like -everything- with competition. You don't need something specific, what you need is X + 1 where X is the person you're competing against. If everyone is willing to pay 600k for this 1 bedroom apartment falling apart, well, then its gonna get sold for 650k, or 700k, or 800k, or whatever there is only 1 person willing to pay for at a given time.
Same deal here: if everyone is willing to go through college to flip burgers, then you'll need a masters or a phd to flip burgers. When everyone is willing to do a phd to flip burgers, you'll need a phd and 3 years of experience to flip burgers.
honestly, Steam will probably be running longer than the 360 will before it breaks down. Assuming no or poor backward compatibility in the next gen console, to play the game forever you'll have to make a DIY-type console eventually, as we're not talking SNES level quality of hardware here.
For Steam, the way its going it will be purring long after that, and the day it stops purring, all we'll have to do is hack the games up...quite a bit more convenient than having to hack hardware up.
I still buy most of my games physically because I like collecting them (not to resell, but for myself...principle of the thing), but anything I don't care for the physical copy I much rather have the digital one.
jquery is a javascript library, but almost everything its doing is DOM manipulation, and I beleive the DOM part of it is part of the rendering engine?
I didn't look into it, but that would be how you could blame the rendering engine for affecting jquery.
Its not a full blown application development system, but it makes for a fine front end environment for a backend system (not a raw database, but something output by some system in a format the spreadsheet can consume).
A decent example is using Excel as a front end for an OLAP. Of course, when doing that you can just use .NET and call it a day.
Well, the Surface Pro is technically a normal lap-top with a tablet form factor. Its not a tablet at all, so it will sacrifice some of real tablet's advantages to be able to get the typical wintel hardware/software in. Fans are then kind of expected.
I'm an android fan (nexus 4 baby!), but iOS definately has its points. A few less bugs and quirks, and pretty much 99% of mobile apps are available for it. Android is missing a few, especially in the gaming department where even if one is available, it may not be available for your phone (and often its just not there at all...)
huh? i have a transformer prime and my wife has an infinity, and both of them balance properly. Its slightly top heavy but not enough to make it fall over. I use it in my lap all the time, and its sitting on my desk as a kind of third screen the rest of the time...never had issues with it tipping over.
Huh? Even in the blackhole of the dot com crash I was still getting paid enough while interning to pay for an ok-ish living. It wasn't luxury by any mean, but it was a full salary.
And the dot com crash is long behind us...so its not surprising.
Making buildings more efficient is where its at. I live in an apartment building (relevent because you can't cover enough of it with panels and stuff to supply everyone since we're stacked up).
I'm in boston, and while it doesn't get THAT cold at all, until about 5-10 (and even then) i don't need to turn on the heat at all to keep it at a 74~ all night inside. Now of course, that's because my neighbors are heating, and the building itself is...but in an average similar building you still need to heat. Not here. If i was to keep the windows open (as I do when its loud outside), i need the a/c on during winter. Now of course that's a luxury and i could easily do without.
Its crazy how much energy we waste, even with new homes, when they're not build properly.
Thats the worse system. Then people come in sick just so they can have longer vacations.
Where i work (in Boston too, woo!), sick days are simply not tracked as long as its not obvious you're abusing them, and even then the "official" rule is really lax (you only need a note after 7 business days, and again, only if people suspect you're abusing....and you can work from home at which point that doesn't even count as sick days...)
If you're sick and dare step a foot in the office (if you're just sniffling, you can work from home instead of spreading it, even if you feel mostly ok, you're still contagious), you will get asked to go back.
If everyone you work with stays home when they have a light cough and running nose, you won't have it that much (unless you have kids).
Also, you having a light cough and running nose (assuming its a cold and not allergies), is still the same darn cold virus. If -I- get it from you, I'm out and coughing bloods for 2 weeks because of some chronic throat issues I have (nothing dangerous to my life, but it hurts like a bitch, and I can't get any work done, even from home, while i'm coughing my brain out).
So the threshold is drawn at "contagious disease, if you know thats what you have". Sure, it won't be 100%, people will make mistakes, often its contagious before you feel sick so you'll get SOME people sick no matter what, but a lot less, so people at your office aren't sick a month per year.
Why go through all that trouble though? Sure, its easy, but its a heck of a lot easier to just get a normal job and do the same with all the benefits of being salaried (paid time off, insurance, blah blah).
Wake me up when its "easy to break a million" that way.
I'm in boston, have no degree, and generally get offers within 2-4 days of starting to look for job. Last time, I got something like 5 offer in 5 interviews, in about 4 days, all 6 figures.
One of my friend was a designer who decided to learn C# in his spare time...eventually got the bite for programming, decided to go look for junior positions. He was able to get several offers in about 2 weeks for double his salary as a junior designer.
Its just a matter of going where jobs are.
Alien 2 was it for me. I had seen pretty much everything there was to see, sex wise, by the time i was 9, starting when I was 7, without my parents knowing (some of my friends were stealing some pretty hardcore VHS tapes from their parents when they were out and the baby sitters left early...). That wasn't a big deal.
Alien 2 though, I saw on cable TV when I was...I think 9 or 10. That freaked me out for years. Obviously both kinds of movies are not rated for young kids, but the later no one had issues with me watching, while the former...oh boy! (That wasn't even in the US btw)
Click the search button. Dont enter anything, just click it once. By default the search on both the tile screen and the desktop screen will show you all your applications in alphabetical order. Alternatively, right click the tile screen and click All Apps to do the same thing.
A -lot- of companies (especially big one) allow telecommute. Its just less common for them to allow 100% (or 90%) telecommute, because sometimes being able to talk face to face is faster than setting up the damn teleconferencing and webcams everytime.
There's still plenty that will allow 100% telecommute....but then salary follows, because those positions are extremely easy to fill. You can just outsource those (massive firm based outsourcing generally gives bad result, but if you pick your offshore ressources the same way you pick local ones, with real interviews and stuff, you can find good ones at a fraction of the price).
The market for north american remote worker (outside of Montreal and Halifax) is very small, because its generally pointless.
No one pays list price for Microsoft products. Its all about negotiating with your reseller (or Microsoft itself, depending who you deal with).
If you're small, you can buy 2 licenses of windows server for 10 bucks over the price of 1.
If you're big (real big), you can have a bundle of everything under the sun for 20 bucks per user instead of multiple hundreds or thousand.
Those aren't numbers I made up, they're from real situations where I had to deal with microsoft licensing. I'm sure raising their base price affects some of their customers, but if you tell your reseller "Give me the old price or else", you'll get the old price.
Putting hard numbers is kind of pointless. I'm going to go on a limb and assume most people reading this are either north american or european...
If you live in Montreal, you can make 75k (USD equivalent), have 4 kids, send them to college, and while its not gonna be fun by any mean, everyone will be fed, you'll be able to send them all to daycare, and in the end they'll all have the option of getting whatever degree they want.
If you live in Boston, NYC or London, make 75k, have 2 kids, you can probably make it? Their highschool may have a few more thugs than you'd like, your apartment's landlord probably won't give a damn about you..money's gonna be tight.
If you live in Tokyo. Lets just not.
Cost of living is just too different to give out blanket numbers.
Most rewarding to some, maybe most....absolutely not all. I personally highly dislike kids, and everyone around me knows it. The reasons aren't important, whats important is that since it is known that I hate kids, a lot of people will tell me things they wouldn't say out loud..generally out of shame.
While i fully believe the VAST majority of the population loves their kids more than anything, a small, but significant percentage are just not meant for it (I've read a few studies that say about 10%....plus or minus a bit depending on gender. Don't know if those numbers are true...doesn't matter). The amount of people who'll say things like "This was the best thing that ever happened to me!!!" in public, then turn around and whisper in my hear they wish it had never happened, is almost scary. Then there's also the people who just were not ready when they got them, or the most commons: got kids with the wrong person (more common among people who get kids when they're young).
After all, the only thing constant about human nature, is that its inconsistent :)
Err? All of the top investment banks have massive projects to move some of their less sensitive infrastructures (and in some cases even sensitive stuff) in the cloud. The biggest hurdle is legal compliance. If you're a big investment firm and you want to, let say, using Google Apps for your emails, you need to strike a deal with Google to make sure the way its all stored can be audited and is in compliance with the 6 bazillion laws to protect against insider trading and money laundering.
If it wasn't for that, they'd be flipping Cloud stuff all over the place.
Disclaimer: I worked on projects to move infrastructure to Google Apps and Microsoft Azure for one of the biggest US investment bank.
If it wasn't for wallstreet and the constant need for "growth" quarter after quarter, I wonder how long it would be before Microsoft considers the cost of doing business in the EU to be too high to be worth it.
They were convicted of abusing a monopoly and have to pay for it, but the market is completely different today than it was back then. And as much as it would make some people here happy, is a market with just Apple, Linux and Google best for customers? In world that's quickly becoming a phone/tablet world, Microsoft won't have a majority marketshare for very long, and the barrier for entry is incredibly high for another player to replace them...
About as much singing and dancing and tinkerbell as you saw in The Avengers, I would guess :)