Are you kidding me? I hated re-learning what I already knew in lectures. The only ones I enjoyed were where there was actual new stuff.. which was usually in the second half of a semester, when I'd already stopped attending the lectures and instead just read the online lecture notes.
I've learned way more just reading books, magazines and web pages than I ever did at University.
All these free online courses recently have been first year material, ie very broad and not very deep at all. You'd be better off just finding the textbook in a library and spend an afternoon reading the chapters you're interested in.
That would be CmdrTaco. He's probably off doing something more productive, like snorting cocaine from a hooker's buttcrack while coding up a new website.
Yes - helping other people is "an impossible slippery slope" indeed! Someone might actually start caring more about people than their profit margin! That must horrify you, as someone who's opinion of a product is based on who is paying you right now.
If you think JQuery overcomplicates things, maybe you're using it wrong?
The whole idea of having to put browser-dependent fixes into my JavaScript was what turned me off of doing any fancy UI stuff for a long time. I first looked at it around 2002 and was sickened by the whole incompatible browser DOM mess such that I didn't look again for years. Having all that crap hidden away behind JQuery helps to make it almost like "normal" programming again. Though even then there are still things that IE messes up..
If you feel that JQuery is making things less readable, why not wrap the JQuery stuff in your own functions? That's what I did for the AJAX functionality that I've built up.
It's not a mental disorder, nor is it incurable. It just takes brainwashing to remove it, as it takes to instil it (or any other basic worldview). I used to be religious and was taught that being gay was wrong. I think finding our that my brother was gay helped me along the path to stop believing all that crap.
I don't have a massive problem with piracy either. In fact I perhaps would have switched to piracy exclusively by now if Spotify weren't more convenient. The record labels have been amazingly hypocritical in their attitude towards copyright, and their treatment of artists.
But "because you'll never stop some people being douchebags" is the worst argument against copyright I've heard.
I was thinking you'd accept unpaid work if it was a massive company.. I don't know why you would accept that for being at a small company though. Hour-for-hour I got paid about 40% of what I do now when I was a student.
Is there a variety of "many" that doesn't mean "not all"?
Yes. It's called "many". It means "a large number". You could say for example "Many humans live in the Solar system", even though none have ever lived outside of it.
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If he meant that, he's even more of an idiot than he first appeared. That's the sort of thing that makes the news, big time.
Have you considered reading to the end of comments before posting?
Of course it is. 99.999% of new tech is.
Are you kidding me? I hated re-learning what I already knew in lectures. The only ones I enjoyed were where there was actual new stuff.. which was usually in the second half of a semester, when I'd already stopped attending the lectures and instead just read the online lecture notes.
I've learned way more just reading books, magazines and web pages than I ever did at University.
All these free online courses recently have been first year material, ie very broad and not very deep at all. You'd be better off just finding the textbook in a library and spend an afternoon reading the chapters you're interested in.
Does SCE plan to introduce anything like XBLIG any time soon?
You mean like this?
TrololololoLOL
That would be CmdrTaco. He's probably off doing something more productive, like snorting cocaine from a hooker's buttcrack while coding up a new website.
Yes. Though it would be piloted from the plane, with only occasional questions to/commands from the ground, same as with a human pilot.
Yes - helping other people is "an impossible slippery slope" indeed! Someone might actually start caring more about people than their profit margin! That must horrify you, as someone who's opinion of a product is based on who is paying you right now.
Hurrrrr you guys reed no ges marketing ploy you tell me do things I don't derp
Why not? Most new games these days are just existing gameplay with shiny new graphics.
People pay lots of money for decent quality chess boards and the like, when really scraps of paper will do. Aesthetics matter to some people.
I don't mind paying for extra content in free to play games, but when full price games charge for extras, I simple say "fuck that".
Pfft. Quake Guy did it first.
If you think JQuery overcomplicates things, maybe you're using it wrong?
The whole idea of having to put browser-dependent fixes into my JavaScript was what turned me off of doing any fancy UI stuff for a long time. I first looked at it around 2002 and was sickened by the whole incompatible browser DOM mess such that I didn't look again for years. Having all that crap hidden away behind JQuery helps to make it almost like "normal" programming again. Though even then there are still things that IE messes up..
If you feel that JQuery is making things less readable, why not wrap the JQuery stuff in your own functions? That's what I did for the AJAX functionality that I've built up.
It's not a mental disorder, nor is it incurable. It just takes brainwashing to remove it, as it takes to instil it (or any other basic worldview). I used to be religious and was taught that being gay was wrong. I think finding our that my brother was gay helped me along the path to stop believing all that crap.
Oh, I see. Apparently it's called "Perlude" now.
Haha :) Work smarter, not harder!
PS.. it's spelled laziness.
the human race should never forget the immensely awful things that we are capable of. To do so dooms us to repeat it.
FTFY.
Does this mean you classify every other form of life on Earth as "human" too? WTF.
And why do you talk as if Panspermia has been proven?
Not sure that I should have been modded insightful, as saying something is impossible is the same as proving a negative.. so yeah. Ahem.
I don't have a massive problem with piracy either. In fact I perhaps would have switched to piracy exclusively by now if Spotify weren't more convenient. The record labels have been amazingly hypocritical in their attitude towards copyright, and their treatment of artists.
But "because you'll never stop some people being douchebags" is the worst argument against copyright I've heard.
Absurd things happen all the time. Perhaps you mean "impossible"?
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+1, exactly what I was thinking. "You'll never stop it, so why even try?". It's a ludicrous way of thinking.
Let's stop protecting all our crops from pests and thieves and see how that turns out.
Let's just accept that people are going to die in road accidents and ignore all traffic laws.
Let's just accept that the Universe is going to implode one day, and nuke the planet right now.
I was thinking you'd accept unpaid work if it was a massive company.. I don't know why you would accept that for being at a small company though. Hour-for-hour I got paid about 40% of what I do now when I was a student.
Is there a variety of "many" that doesn't mean "not all"?
Yes. It's called "many". It means "a large number". You could say for example "Many humans live in the Solar system", even though none have ever lived outside of it.