(I'm guessing this new wave of earth-wrecking stupidity is why Steven has downgraded his estimate - Idiocracy has never looked more like a documentary).
People (bosses) insisted on porting arcade games just to get recognizable names on the cartridge boxes. Programmers hated doing it so the result was mostly crapware.
Wasn't Pacman, Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong jr, Mario bros., and galaga all on atari also.The atari came out in the 70s and the nes in the 80s so the games look much better on nes but they were still a lot of the same games.
They had the same names on the boxes but they weren't comparable on screen. Not even close.
Based on your username I expect that you're of the same generation I am, and that the original Nintendo Entertainment System came out right about the time you were old enough to pay attention to video games.
What do they say about assuming?
I was in my 20s when the NES came out, been playing games a long time by then.
I've experienced the same thing where the instructor wanted everything to be an object
Making everything an object is good - when you're writing a program with 1,000,000 lines of code.
YOUR failure is in confusing "Hello, world" with real programming.
And when folks want to get into a pissing contest about their language of choice, I say "let's go down to the assembly and see, shall we?"
I'd like to see you write a maintainable 1,000,000 lines of code in assembly language.
C++ is currently the best balance of most programming worlds and isn't as 'bloated' as 1990s C programmers love to claim. One of the mantras of C++ design was "you don't pay for what you don't use!"
Mr. Assembly Language needs to sit down and disassemble some C++ code, methinks. He might learn something.
What on Earth are they stuffing into their apps to make them balloon in size so quickly?
'Frameworks'.
People want to program in Python via a Javascript bytecode interpreter and HTML5 graphics interface that layers on top of the host device's own sandboxed bytecode interpreter in the web browser.
They also want a library with every possible multimedia and database access function and an access layer for the advertising/payment framework.
All of that just so they can show a picture of a cat.
How much did the binaries grow? Because if you added a gigabyte of video to your 300MB app, I just don't care.
Probably a lot. These days people are quite happy to add a 500Mb 'framework' to an app just because they need to load a JPG file and can't be bothered to use libjpg.
(worse... they probably don't know libjpg exists, they just add the framework-du-jour because it's there).
Our "hello world" programs were a couple of megabytes. Geeze!
1995 called and wants it's anti-C++ rant back.
The problem isn't the programming language. The problem is that everybody forgot how to write a string to the console with a single OS function call instead of installing a 500Mb "framework" just to call that same function for them.
The fact that they still use Einstein's name in clickbait headlines is tribute to his genius.
When he said "there is no hope of observing this phenomenon directly" he probably meant "there is no hope of us observing this phenomenon directly", not "there is no hope of ever observing this phenomenon directly"
People observed the sun bending light in 1919 - well inside Einstein's lifetime.
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...and it's still causing bugs like this one.
The most important new car announcement in decades and what did we get?
20 pages of people arguing over km vs. miles, that's what.
Only if you choose furlongs per fortnight in the speedometer's configuration menu.
Luckily for us Linus is still banning std::vector/std::string and forcing everybody to use malloc() instead.
Idiot.
Don't worry. Trump is going over there personally to straighten things out.
Then Trump.
(I'm guessing this new wave of earth-wrecking stupidity is why Steven has downgraded his estimate - Idiocracy has never looked more like a documentary).
Visual Studio Code is pretty damned good.
No it fucking isn't.
Yay, rather than celebrate the advance of science for all mankind, we can whine, moan and troll about politics.
That's just his defense mechanism. It kicks in whenever China is better than the USA at something.
Scientists should stick to the facts, and avoid becoming policy advocates.
The policy advocates just voted for Trump because they believe the celebrities are scientists.
...and it was part of the problem.
People (bosses) insisted on porting arcade games just to get recognizable names on the cartridge boxes. Programmers hated doing it so the result was mostly crapware.
Wasn't Pacman, Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong jr, Mario bros., and galaga all on atari also.The atari came out in the 70s and the nes in the 80s so the games look much better on nes but they were still a lot of the same games.
They had the same names on the boxes but they weren't comparable on screen. Not even close.
Based on your username I expect that you're of the same generation I am, and that the original Nintendo Entertainment System came out right about the time you were old enough to pay attention to video games.
What do they say about assuming?
I was in my 20s when the NES came out, been playing games a long time by then.
The games were lame then; they wouldn't survive beyond a five minute "OMG, I can't believe I once played this" session today.
Pretty much this. Nostalgia is one thing, reality will be another.
Nintendo's NES Classic Edition, which turned out to be surprisingly popular
Big difference: NES games were an order of magnitude better than Atari 2600 games.
Launching a 2600 emulator in a box will be a huge flop. Most of the games were shovelware if we're honest.
I've experienced the same thing where the instructor wanted everything to be an object
Making everything an object is good - when you're writing a program with 1,000,000 lines of code.
YOUR failure is in confusing "Hello, world" with real programming.
And when folks want to get into a pissing contest about their language of choice, I say "let's go down to the assembly and see, shall we?"
I'd like to see you write a maintainable 1,000,000 lines of code in assembly language.
C++ is currently the best balance of most programming worlds and isn't as 'bloated' as 1990s C programmers love to claim. One of the mantras of C++ design was "you don't pay for what you don't use!"
Mr. Assembly Language needs to sit down and disassemble some C++ code, methinks. He might learn something.
What on Earth are they stuffing into their apps to make them balloon in size so quickly?
'Frameworks'.
People want to program in Python via a Javascript bytecode interpreter and HTML5 graphics interface that layers on top of the host device's own sandboxed bytecode interpreter in the web browser.
They also want a library with every possible multimedia and database access function and an access layer for the advertising/payment framework.
All of that just so they can show a picture of a cat.
How much did the binaries grow? Because if you added a gigabyte of video to your 300MB app, I just don't care.
Probably a lot. These days people are quite happy to add a 500Mb 'framework' to an app just because they need to load a JPG file and can't be bothered to use libjpg.
(worse ... they probably don't know libjpg exists, they just add the framework-du-jour because it's there).
Our "hello world" programs were a couple of megabytes. Geeze!
1995 called and wants it's anti-C++ rant back.
The problem isn't the programming language. The problem is that everybody forgot how to write a string to the console with a single OS function call instead of installing a 500Mb "framework" just to call that same function for them.
1.4Gb for a video player app?
(facepalm)
...and please don't try to make the car as thin as possible, OK?
Me? I'd have said it was the Trump Euphoria starting to wear off.
It'll happen.
We also don't care about the ever-growing list of company logos they put at the start of movies.
Just start the movie, already. I don't give a flying fuck if it was made by Warner or MGM or whatever.
The fact that they still use Einstein's name in clickbait headlines is tribute to his genius.
When he said "there is no hope of observing this phenomenon directly" he probably meant "there is no hope of us observing this phenomenon directly", not "there is no hope of ever observing this phenomenon directly"
People observed the sun bending light in 1919 - well inside Einstein's lifetime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It will be slightly less. Toddlers aren't worth spying on.
A 9V battery is "a huge power charge" and AAA batteries aren't?
Somebody needs to open up a 9V battery and look inside. What do you think is in there?