He's been playing cats against dogs for years. It's really a power pull he's playing between the two sides. One minute he'll be whispering in the dog's ear to get the cat, and the next, he'll be telling cats how to get the dogs.
It's genius really. He's positioned himself to be popular among both sides while getting them to compete with each other while ignoring him and look what happens while both the cats and dogs were looking the other way:
I would never bother to talk to otherwise, but occasionally there is something worth "liking" or chiming in on.
That sounds a bit narcissistic in relation to your group of friends. Of course many things "in relation to your friends" could be considered that, but this is very public. To me, it feels like two people standing in a grocer isle talking about a movie at the top of their lungs so everyone can hear them. Maybe a better analogy would be going to a party you were invited to and doing the same thing. The other patrons can choose to ignore it, but there's something inherent to the person doing the wall post or tweet that says to me: "They think their viewpoint is so important that everyone needs to hear it."
It doesn't matter how much you abstract. You are still designing the game for the lowest common denominator (ie: the phone) and making a half ass game on the other systems.
You begin by cutting some feature because it would take too much RAM or increase the download size. You then decide to reduce the graphics engine so there's less modification between versions... then it all goes downhill until you are making flash games for all three devices and everyone begins to complain about how there are no more high quality games.
Yeah, just like many publishers already do and they end up with half ass games.
I can't count the number of games that were "dumbed down" for the console (fewer skills on screen/overall because the controller has less buttons) or they completely ignore common conventions on the PC because they are console developers (Final Fantasy Online anyone?)
Or you can go the other way and develop a game for the PC then take out something essential like jumping because you have to assign the buttons to other tasks like switching weapons, etc.
And if they don't comply to every single nit? Is that a breach and thus lawsuit worthy? Seems like all MS would have to require that the implementation be able to link to some Windows API (say DirectX) and return a certain value then they can consider it a breach of DirectX patent licenses or some other API. It sounds like a loophole to me.
Gotcha... sorry I didn't catch that. From the example it looked as though you were referencing the (anonymous, though I named mine when I could have returned it directly) first class functions. My mistake.
As far as implicit typing, it can be a good thing in "each" loops, but I agree: It can be misunderstood very easily by a second developer with less knowledge on the requirements or scope of the code.
And you can think of it like easy pointers in C. Appending the () would execute the method, which would be fine if you were returning the name of another function. Example:
function gimme() {
function someFunc() {... }
return someFunc; } gimme()();// would actually run someFunc
Contrived as that is, there is a usefulness to it that you'd not see immediately if you were only formally trained in OO programming.
Of course he'll ignore it. It's a common troll lately posting only positive things on Microsoft articles and negative things on anything Google. He's resorted to creating new accounts and posting first post on these articles and dumping the account afterward:
One wonders if alternative OSes had better support for multiple monitors (sometimes it' can be a pain) if that study would have a different conclusion.
That's just the thing though. GP was envisioning a world where farmers would grow food because they wanted to, and only because they wanted to. He pictures a world where food is some sort of luxury and nobody has to pay for it. Both your post (and mine) require money as incentive to continue producing raw goods (wheat, corn, meats...) that are used to make the food, even if it is processed.
I'm not stating what I think you are assuming. Farmers are generally sole proprietors that sell their good to cooperatives (at least all the ones I've had the chance to talk to) There are farmers that pay specialized farmers to take off corn and such, but there are exceptions to every rule. Heck, my parents own farmland, but don't farm it. They have a local "company" (and I use that term loosely, because it's two brothers that started their own company) plant and harvest their farmland in exchange for a cut of the profit.
Speaking of food... why should the farmer have to work to provide something the world obviously needs to sustain itself while some punk can sit in his mom's basement eating his product and not provide something that the farmer needs? Is the farmer doing this out of his own good will? What incentive does he have to continue "going out in the fields" on a hot day to sweat his ass off to provide you food? (sure, they have A/C in those tractors now...so it may not be so bad... but those are long days) You think he enjoys cleaning up the cow barns or spreading that manure to fertilize the crop? (I can tell you, those pens are not air conditioned.)
That day may be coming (maybe, but I have my doubts), but pretending that it's here and money is worthless is a bit naive. How would you feel as a doctor treating some morbidly obese man who you know will be back (because it's free) and he didn't take your advice to lose some weight? Are you going to petition for a law making it illegal to be fat? Are you going to petition to limit what food people can eat? Where does it stop?
Slashdot Mirror
I'm not talking in bytes... just bits. ;)
You can get it on Amazon though: ;)
http://www.amazon.com/Harcos-Labratory-Nuclear-Uranium-Yellowcake/dp/B00380OEV0
http://www.amazon.com/Harcos-Labratory-Nuclear-Energy-Plutonium/dp/B00380MGJC
Still, I predict that someone will make a mock up and leave it in a public place. You know how people react to stray devices laying around.
He's been playing cats against dogs for years. It's really a power pull he's playing between the two sides. One minute he'll be whispering in the dog's ear to get the cat, and the next, he'll be telling cats how to get the dogs.
It's genius really. He's positioned himself to be popular among both sides while getting them to compete with each other while ignoring him and look what happens while both the cats and dogs were looking the other way:
Now he has an atomic bomb.
I would never bother to talk to otherwise, but occasionally there is something worth "liking" or chiming in on.
That sounds a bit narcissistic in relation to your group of friends. Of course many things "in relation to your friends" could be considered that, but this is very public. To me, it feels like two people standing in a grocer isle talking about a movie at the top of their lungs so everyone can hear them. Maybe a better analogy would be going to a party you were invited to and doing the same thing. The other patrons can choose to ignore it, but there's something inherent to the person doing the wall post or tweet that says to me: "They think their viewpoint is so important that everyone needs to hear it."
I'm a pretty avid gamer (PC mainly,) but I can't name one title that uses XNA. Of course, I won't ever buy an XBox, but that's a different matter.
I have three words for you:
Developers Developers Developers ;)
Also, Slashdot still has quite a few technically inclined people who make some very big decisions...
It doesn't matter how much you abstract. You are still designing the game for the lowest common denominator (ie: the phone) and making a half ass game on the other systems.
You begin by cutting some feature because it would take too much RAM or increase the download size. You then decide to reduce the graphics engine so there's less modification between versions... then it all goes downhill until you are making flash games for all three devices and everyone begins to complain about how there are no more high quality games.
Full House Poker
I kind of wish I had one of those when that show was out. I suppose you'd use it to poke your eyes out?
Yeah, just like many publishers already do and they end up with half ass games.
I can't count the number of games that were "dumbed down" for the console (fewer skills on screen/overall because the controller has less buttons) or they completely ignore common conventions on the PC because they are console developers (Final Fantasy Online anyone?)
Or you can go the other way and develop a game for the PC then take out something essential like jumping because you have to assign the buttons to other tasks like switching weapons, etc.
And if they don't comply to every single nit? Is that a breach and thus lawsuit worthy? Seems like all MS would have to require that the implementation be able to link to some Windows API (say DirectX) and return a certain value then they can consider it a breach of DirectX patent licenses or some other API. It sounds like a loophole to me.
Gotcha... sorry I didn't catch that. From the example it looked as though you were referencing the (anonymous, though I named mine when I could have returned it directly) first class functions. My mistake.
As far as implicit typing, it can be a good thing in "each" loops, but I agree: It can be misunderstood very easily by a second developer with less knowledge on the requirements or scope of the code.
Yeah, I pointed out some alternate accounts to the OP of this thread and I think it upset the machine so they need to bury me ASAP:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2057736&cid=35642308
It's not like it wasn't obvious.
Actually, in JavaScript it would be:
var c = SomeFunction; // no paranthesis
function SomeFunction() { ...
}
And you can think of it like easy pointers in C. Appending the () would execute the method, which would be fine if you were returning the name of another function. Example:
function gimme() { ... } // would actually run someFunc
function someFunc() {
return someFunc;
}
gimme()();
Contrived as that is, there is a usefulness to it that you'd not see immediately if you were only formally trained in OO programming.
Of course he'll ignore it. It's a common troll lately posting only positive things on Microsoft articles and negative things on anything Google. He's resorted to creating new accounts and posting first post on these articles and dumping the account afterward:
Here are some of the common accounts... I know there are more than just this though:
http://slashdot.org/~devxo
http://slashdot.org/~deviok
http://slashdot.org/~devozx
I don't know right now exactly what tech Microsoft has patented, but it's not in their best interest right now to destroy Mono.
Yeah, not right now. It's truly best for them to wait until their competitor is using it, then strike out with the patents. ;)
Japanese guys didn't watch enough of those nice japanese animes about humanity, insanity and technology
I'll have to remember to pull out the old Road Runner cartoons before doing anything worthwhile from now on.
You are not alone. I loved Firefly's concept... hated the execution.
Yeah, and in such reasoning you could say they missed the golden opportunity to say Microsoft bought 655,360 IPs (+11, 264)
To be fair, I was watching BBC America the other day and they were making out the iodine concentrations to be the apocalypse.
- If it can wait, just don't eat fresh food from the vicinity of the reactor. Half life of Iodine-131 is 8 days. So after two weeks ~75% is gone.
Also, fresh meat is pretty bad after 2 weeks so you shouldn't eat it. ;)
One wonders if alternative OSes had better support for multiple monitors (sometimes it' can be a pain) if that study would have a different conclusion.
Apparently part of it is using a less intrusive operating system as well:
the study came to the conclusion that it was pixels, not monitors that increased productivity
And people bicker at me about my desire to regain as many pixels as I can. (I'm looking at you Office, Windows 7 Aero, Organize and Address Bars...)
That's just the thing though. GP was envisioning a world where farmers would grow food because they wanted to, and only because they wanted to. He pictures a world where food is some sort of luxury and nobody has to pay for it. Both your post (and mine) require money as incentive to continue producing raw goods (wheat, corn, meats...) that are used to make the food, even if it is processed.
I'm not stating what I think you are assuming. Farmers are generally sole proprietors that sell their good to cooperatives (at least all the ones I've had the chance to talk to) There are farmers that pay specialized farmers to take off corn and such, but there are exceptions to every rule. Heck, my parents own farmland, but don't farm it. They have a local "company" (and I use that term loosely, because it's two brothers that started their own company) plant and harvest their farmland in exchange for a cut of the profit.
Speaking of food... why should the farmer have to work to provide something the world obviously needs to sustain itself while some punk can sit in his mom's basement eating his product and not provide something that the farmer needs? Is the farmer doing this out of his own good will? What incentive does he have to continue "going out in the fields" on a hot day to sweat his ass off to provide you food? (sure, they have A/C in those tractors now...so it may not be so bad... but those are long days) You think he enjoys cleaning up the cow barns or spreading that manure to fertilize the crop? (I can tell you, those pens are not air conditioned.)
That day may be coming (maybe, but I have my doubts), but pretending that it's here and money is worthless is a bit naive. How would you feel as a doctor treating some morbidly obese man who you know will be back (because it's free) and he didn't take your advice to lose some weight? Are you going to petition for a law making it illegal to be fat? Are you going to petition to limit what food people can eat? Where does it stop?