As a programmer, I typically find these "programming games" quickly overly constraining. A poor choice of expressiveness, and an inability to develop sophisticated control describes the vast majority from space chem to carnage heart to ogre.
Where's my text editor?
I can last a little while on games where I can actually program reasonably properly, but this leaves me cold as well because there's no practical value. If i was writing practical code, I'd be happier.
window+r doesn't work all that reliably when i'm remoting my mouse from synergy and remote desktoping from there. Which I do, because at any time I have to test code on any of aroudn 9 platforms, including flavors of linux, windows, osx, and unixes.
So I, a dyed-in-the-wool keyboard and CLI user, find that window-R is terrible and use start-run.
That's exactly what dosbox (http://www.dosbox.com/) does.
Yeah, it has some dynamic translation stuff to do faster emulation in some circumstances, but that's an implementation detail. It needs to emulate the older x86 instruction set limitations in many circumstances.
He's *interested* in the predicted result that they will follow a flat economic behavior while increasing in density, but the observation and prediction is that they will increase in density.
Well.. moore's law is specifically about transitor density, specifically the rate of its increase per time. So a slowdown in that increase is in fact an end to the law in that the "law" predicted a specific rate that would no longer be met.
Nah, don't have it anymore, that was in 1999 or so. It wasn't a quality environment either, just enough to do the exercises.
However, my point is python has most of the dynamicism that lisp wants already. You don't need a translation system or environment or set of convenience items, you can already just write code that way when it's needed.
Sure you don't have the flexibility of lisp macros, but you have pretty much everything else.
When I worked through the Little Lisper, doing all of the exercises, I started out trying to use Guile, but I quickly had to give up.
There was no debugger. The error messages were extremely low quality. Handling of syntax errors was abysmal Runtime problems produced inscrutable behavior.
I tried another Lisp environment after that, but had similar, but reduced problems.
Then I just implemented all my lisp in python. I created functions to do all the needed lisp things although i did not spell them as unrecognizaly bin all cases.
The result was I had all the recursion power, and could do all the things that the lisp mental model was suggesting to do, but I had top flight error messages, excellent syntax, rich runtime support, and a quality debugger (though I didn't need it). I learned some things about programming from working the lisp solutions to problems, but I also learned that using lisp/scheme for practical problems wasn't worth it.
While dictionaries are not prescriptive, assuming they are accurately descriptive is a pretty valid starting point. Deviation from this requires clear explanation of conext and why, which you have not really provided.
Beyond sort of vague namecalling, do you have a contribution?
But it also has the problem of being almost purpose-built to enable fraud, combined with the assumption that the system will be designed with perfect security, since it was explicitly designed to oeprate without oversight.
Generally speaking, police culture is corrupt, and has been for generations. The question is just to what extent it's taken. Are they murderers for hire? or just take money to not report crimes? or do they just take free gives as effective bribes to cover some areas better than others?
Police corruption at all levels is a problem, low level corruption is a smaller problem than enormous misdeeds like what is seen here. But that the enitre culture has this diesease is a good reason to not trust police. It's not paranoia, and it's not based on nothing. It's a well documented phenomenon, and no amount of apologies for the institution will fix it.
Looking at the price for CO2 cost is a lot more accurate than some might think. There's some research which shows that costs closely track energy used in production, and that in turn should closely track CO2.
Sure, some things deviate, like the priciest wine vs the cheapest, but for things like pens, cars, computers, where pricing pressure exists (even for most luxury cars!) it seems to mostly hold.
Most games are bad. Most gamers have certain things they don't like about some games. The end result is buying games reandomly often results in a sub-par experience.
Buying 1 dollar games randomly and getting sub-par experiences sometimes is not so bad.
Buying 60 dollar games randomly and getting sub-par experiences sucks.
The blockbuster games are full of problems, just like the one dollar games. They offer some kinds of experiences the one dollar games don't, but the risk is so much higher to the buyer, that I can't see both of these continuing in their current form.
Either (many? most? of) the dollar app makers are going to come to the conclusion that their model is not really profitable, or the 60 dollar game makers are going to be forced to lower their price point. That is, the ones who don't have a gold plated reputation for always kicking out winners.
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As a programmer, I typically find these "programming games" quickly overly constraining. A poor choice of expressiveness, and an inability to develop sophisticated control describes the vast majority from space chem to carnage heart to ogre.
Where's my text editor?
I can last a little while on games where I can actually program reasonably properly, but this leaves me cold as well because there's no practical value. If i was writing practical code, I'd be happier.
window+r doesn't work all that reliably when i'm remoting my mouse from synergy and remote desktoping from there. Which I do, because at any time I have to test code on any of aroudn 9 platforms, including flavors of linux, windows, osx, and unixes.
So I, a dyed-in-the-wool keyboard and CLI user, find that window-R is terrible and use start-run.
That's exactly what dosbox (http://www.dosbox.com/) does.
Yeah, it has some dynamic translation stuff to do faster emulation in some circumstances, but that's an implementation detail. It needs to emulate the older x86 instruction set limitations in many circumstances.
You're still wrong.
He's *interested* in the predicted result that they will follow a flat economic behavior while increasing in density, but the observation and prediction is that they will increase in density.
Well, you're wrong.
ftp://download.intel.com/museum/Moores_Law/Articles-Press_Releases/Gordon_Moore_1965_Article.pdf
There's some discussion of what the trend means for prices, but the core observation is clearly about the density.
Well.. moore's law is specifically about transitor density, specifically the rate of its increase per time. So a slowdown in that increase is in fact an end to the law in that the "law" predicted a specific rate that would no longer be met.
at its heart, jira is a bug tracker. That's what the design was more or less built around.
However, it's true that it can do a lot of other things reasonably well.
Unfortunately, it's also true that they keep making the UI slicker, but worse to actually use.
Nah, don't have it anymore, that was in 1999 or so. It wasn't a quality environment either, just enough to do the exercises.
However, my point is python has most of the dynamicism that lisp wants already. You don't need a translation system or environment or set of convenience items, you can already just write code that way when it's needed.
Sure you don't have the flexibility of lisp macros, but you have pretty much everything else.
When I worked through the Little Lisper, doing all of the exercises, I started out trying to use Guile, but I quickly had to give up.
There was no debugger.
The error messages were extremely low quality.
Handling of syntax errors was abysmal
Runtime problems produced inscrutable behavior.
I tried another Lisp environment after that, but had similar, but reduced problems.
Then I just implemented all my lisp in python. I created functions to do all the needed lisp things although i did not spell them as unrecognizaly bin all cases.
The result was I had all the recursion power, and could do all the things that the lisp mental model was suggesting to do, but I had top flight error messages, excellent syntax, rich runtime support, and a quality debugger (though I didn't need it). I learned some things about programming from working the lisp solutions to problems, but I also learned that using lisp/scheme for practical problems wasn't worth it.
While dictionaries are not prescriptive, assuming they are accurately descriptive is a pretty valid starting point. Deviation from this requires clear explanation of conext and why, which you have not really provided.
Beyond sort of vague namecalling, do you have a contribution?
You'd have to show that the photons couple, so that energy sapped from the radtion in one angle will affect the energy present along another angle.
Good luck.
Don't be intentionally misleading.
If you aren't, then you should stop participating in any debates because you cannot understand an analogy.
Nevermind that lots of people at CTY had those characteristics and didn't fit into the outdated and inaccurate depiction of nerds.
Yeah, it has that problem.
But it also has the problem of being almost purpose-built to enable fraud, combined with the assumption that the system will be designed with perfect security, since it was explicitly designed to oeprate without oversight.
What could ever go wrong?
alluded.
That is the word that you want. Eluded means to avoid or hide.
I think you just proved the point.
Minecraft isn't interesting. The people who play minecraft are interesting.
Generally speaking, police culture is corrupt, and has been for generations. The question is just to what extent it's taken. Are they murderers for hire? or just take money to not report crimes? or do they just take free gives as effective bribes to cover some areas better than others?
Police corruption at all levels is a problem, low level corruption is a smaller problem than enormous misdeeds like what is seen here. But that the enitre culture has this diesease is a good reason to not trust police. It's not paranoia, and it's not based on nothing. It's a well documented phenomenon, and no amount of apologies for the institution will fix it.
Looking at the price for CO2 cost is a lot more accurate than some might think. There's some research which shows that costs closely track energy used in production, and that in turn should closely track CO2.
Sure, some things deviate, like the priciest wine vs the cheapest, but for things like pens, cars, computers, where pricing pressure exists (even for most luxury cars!) it seems to mostly hold.
How about we stigmatize, culturally, independent thought, investigation, and critical anlysis.
Hmm. seems like some other folks were 60 years ahead of me.
True.
If only there was a way to get the operating system to intelligently keep data in memory if possible, but not in a constrained environment.
Oh wait, there is. It's called _files_.
Because IT is complex and hard, people flock to false simlpicity, aka fads.
All the programmers do it too.
For your own sanity, just accept that this happens, and find ways to best position yourself to survive/benefit.
Most games are bad. Most gamers have certain things they don't like about some games. The end result is buying games reandomly often results in a sub-par experience.
Buying 1 dollar games randomly and getting sub-par experiences sometimes is not so bad.
Buying 60 dollar games randomly and getting sub-par experiences sucks.
The blockbuster games are full of problems, just like the one dollar games. They offer some kinds of experiences the one dollar games don't, but the risk is so much higher to the buyer, that I can't see both of these continuing in their current form.
Either (many? most? of) the dollar app makers are going to come to the conclusion that their model is not really profitable, or the 60 dollar game makers are going to be forced to lower their price point. That is, the ones who don't have a gold plated reputation for always kicking out winners.
Story is very important for player involvement in a large variety of game styles.
Not all, and it affects some players more than others.
So basically "any study that disagrees with me is wrong".
And the other guy says the same thing.
I guess I just have to believe whatever I feel like then!
I disagree.
I believe there is a more common one.
5. I can get this one thing for free, yay!