News about Microsoft can get conflicting, on one day you get a massive push for right stuff like open source and other good practices, and then you get stuff like this that sounds like the Microsoft of old.
I am wondering, how many divisions exist within Microsoft? I mean divisions capable of giving such conflictive news. I can't help but feel a part (probably formed of younger staff or management) is trying to do the right thing while other part (probably formed of old-school people from the times of anti-trust) is adhering to their old self. If this were to be the case, I hope the former ends up having more control of the company, really. I kinda hate to have to hate Microsoft at this point.
Well, the way I name functions, it's usually "ship_calculate_arrival_time" (in a "component,action" fashion, so they sort alphabetically as well), but point taken.
...way to go, Slashdot, making my comment example being cut abruptly. Anyway, it was meant to specify the format in order, element by element, and that stuff.
I often hear that the proper approach is to document WHY you did something. I am not a coding guru or even have formal studies on that field, I am really just a hobbyist, so anyone here has a few good valid examples of a "why"? I'd like to comment stuff properly. So far I use non-shortened descriptive names for variables, functions and types, but I don't use that many comments. For example when parsing tokens in a string I write stuff like "//The format is ", but even so I feel the code is doing a better job at explaining it than I do. As I went with the lengthy names, I have less problems getting lost on my own code, but I feel I am misbehaving. I blame my lack of formal education in coding, but would like to have some quality standards nevertheless.
I am Spanish, and I love the US. Got a lot of friends from there, and I find them to be really good people in general terms.
The "people in charge", however, is something else entirely. But the same can be said of most countries. The worst of the worst is always governing over others.
Problem is, I am biased because I know people from the US...people who doesn't will possibly misunderstand government as people, and that's why we have wars and stuff like that in our world.
Internet ads are not like advertisement you see in TV or anywhere else. Instead of using smart, clever, easy-to-remember or catchy advertisement, it's usually a simple image or very intrusive pieces of code that put said images in front of you. Those ads barely follow basic marketing guidelines, and offer nothing to catch my interest. Hence, I block them, unless want to support that site (most sites I visit daily, actually, but that's not relevant to this post) TV ads and derivatives usually depend on catchy tunes, imagery and cleverness*. Nothing you can find in internet ads.
Also, I am mostly influenced by ads when I go buy groceries. Internet ads will never advertise something I can go grab at my local market, or something I feel compelled to try, even less something I can obtain with pocket change. I am not buying a 200â+ service or item just because a rectangle with pictures asked me to click on it (or worse, interrupt or bother me).
Not to mention, that Google, famous ad provider we all know and love, with all their datamining efforts, scanning email and searches for keywords, and all that fancy stuff, in order to provide ads, still fails to see I am not interested on random dating sites or buying server space. All these years and Google still fails to see I am only interested in videogames, cooking and free software. Not even once I saw an advertisement related to those 3 things from Google. Or considering 80% of my twitter followers are Japanese (I don't know why either), and Google surely has the tools and data to know that, how about offering a freaking translation suite or dictionary? You know, something I might find useful, instead of renting servers or shady dating sites.
*Yeah, I know there are dumb as f*ck TV ads everywhere, but you surely remember a few funny or good ads from any period in time. If you remember, they succeeded.
Hell yeah Binding of Isaac, that's a little gem in there. It's one of those rare games that is terribly...err...."tasteless", but you don't care because it's loads of fun.
You know, the conclusions from the recent UDS is that Unity will have customization options finally (they wanted to focus on making it work first), and that the Dash will be dramatically changed to a less zany approach. I don't think the Unity bashing is justified.
Why didn't you just install a replacement instead? Oh well, it's your time. But if you know how to install two different distros, I don't see why you can't just install another DE in a fraction of the time.
I am wondering how much of the Unity bashing is actually real.
I don't disagree with your post, however, many good programmers start out as "shitty" programmers. That's simply because not everyone has the background or know-how to get into a "code mentality" right away, and asking stupid questions is a good way to learn (specially if you realize that your question was, indeed, stupid). I don't think reputation points and badges are worth anything though, but that's me. Still, you can see a incredible amount of really good, informative and "stimulating"** answers posted to not-so-smart questions.
**Stimulating as in some kind of answer that makes you want to try alternate ways to reach your goal. the kind of thing that makes you fire up your IDE/text editor to hack, right away.
I wanted to mod you insightful but I already posted so...
Well, recent developments in the software world have made Javascript kind of an ubiquitous language. You can find a lot of apps that can be scripted using JS nowadays, not just web browsers.
Also, StackOverflow is a damn good place to ask questions, I can see why people would prefer to books or mailing lists and forums. Forums leave too many questions unanswered, mailing lists can be terribly slow, and books aren't free (nor available worldwide).
And of course popularity would influence things. When I just started learning C, it was "the hot thing" to make games with, at least from an outsider's perspective, or it was the language other people recommended when you announced your intentions. I assume C# and Javascript are the most mentioned and/or recommended in their respective use fields, which leads to more people wanting to know it, which leads to more questions asked.
Actually, my personal case with C was just that. I would have loved some of that formal training though, but there are enough resources to actually do as you say with web languages. Just the contents (and useful links) in StackOverflow can help you getting a lot of insight on C and its tricky trickiness.
I agree. Most C questions are about pointers or tricky data structures done the C way, and since there are already plenty of answers for those topics, it's redundant to ask them again. The site even tries to show similar questions when you start asking, so there's often no reason to repeat such questions.
I think C is a very straightforward language once you know its quirks, so I feel the article makes sense. Also the whole webapp fad surely contributes to Javascript having a lot of questions.
Really? I always thought developing in Linux was way easier, and I am no software engineer. The few times I tried to compile Win32 binaries I found it painful and slow...
Seriously, just with Geany and a few packages and I am ready to go. That takes like 3 minutes during a Linux install.
Then again I am a C/Lua/SDL/GL guy, maybe that's why.
The topic of food that is readily available, has shelf life, and is designed to give energy boosts -and don't taste like metal scraps. Nothing lowers morale like not eating well- is very interesting. I wonder if there are more articles giving more details on the process, pros and cons of proposed rations, and their energy values.
I hope it's not a military secret or something like that, though.
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I'd vote you funny for that. Although I am a happy KDE user with the unity features added on top.
Whoa, I didn't expect that. Some can argue it's unnecessary and that stuff, but I have a classic controller and it's damn good to use with my computer. (I actually use it more with it than my Wii......).
What is that "barrier" for ext3, btw?
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"Forcing"? It's just the default, you can change it to whatever you want, as always.
It's like saying they are forcing Telepathy, but I swear I have Pidgin running here. And Synaptic instead of the Software Center.
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News about Microsoft can get conflicting, on one day you get a massive push for right stuff like open source and other good practices, and then you get stuff like this that sounds like the Microsoft of old.
I am wondering, how many divisions exist within Microsoft? I mean divisions capable of giving such conflictive news. I can't help but feel a part (probably formed of younger staff or management) is trying to do the right thing while other part (probably formed of old-school people from the times of anti-trust) is adhering to their old self. If this were to be the case, I hope the former ends up having more control of the company, really. I kinda hate to have to hate Microsoft at this point.
Well, the way I name functions, it's usually "ship_calculate_arrival_time" (in a "component,action" fashion, so they sort alphabetically as well), but point taken.
...way to go, Slashdot, making my comment example being cut abruptly. Anyway, it was meant to specify the format in order, element by element, and that stuff.
I often hear that the proper approach is to document WHY you did something.
I am not a coding guru or even have formal studies on that field, I am really just a hobbyist, so anyone here has a few good valid examples of a "why"? I'd like to comment stuff properly.
So far I use non-shortened descriptive names for variables, functions and types, but I don't use that many comments. For example when parsing tokens in a string I write stuff like "//The format is ", but even so I feel the code is doing a better job at explaining it than I do.
As I went with the lengthy names, I have less problems getting lost on my own code, but I feel I am misbehaving. I blame my lack of formal education in coding, but would like to have some quality standards nevertheless.
I am Spanish, and I love the US. Got a lot of friends from there, and I find them to be really good people in general terms.
The "people in charge", however, is something else entirely. But the same can be said of most countries. The worst of the worst is always governing over others.
Problem is, I am biased because I know people from the US...people who doesn't will possibly misunderstand government as people, and that's why we have wars and stuff like that in our world.
You should run a theatre. I'd go.
You don't like KDE's tiling support, or you don't know about it?
I kind of giggled at the lab's name(on TFA's video). I don't see enough parentheses on it though.
Internet ads are not like advertisement you see in TV or anywhere else. Instead of using smart, clever, easy-to-remember or catchy advertisement, it's usually a simple image or very intrusive pieces of code that put said images in front of you.
Those ads barely follow basic marketing guidelines, and offer nothing to catch my interest. Hence, I block them, unless want to support that site (most sites I visit daily, actually, but that's not relevant to this post)
TV ads and derivatives usually depend on catchy tunes, imagery and cleverness*. Nothing you can find in internet ads.
Also, I am mostly influenced by ads when I go buy groceries. Internet ads will never advertise something I can go grab at my local market, or something I feel compelled to try, even less something I can obtain with pocket change. I am not buying a 200â+ service or item just because a rectangle with pictures asked me to click on it (or worse, interrupt or bother me).
Not to mention, that Google, famous ad provider we all know and love, with all their datamining efforts, scanning email and searches for keywords, and all that fancy stuff, in order to provide ads, still fails to see I am not interested on random dating sites or buying server space. All these years and Google still fails to see I am only interested in videogames, cooking and free software. Not even once I saw an advertisement related to those 3 things from Google.
Or considering 80% of my twitter followers are Japanese (I don't know why either), and Google surely has the tools and data to know that, how about offering a freaking translation suite or dictionary? You know, something I might find useful, instead of renting servers or shady dating sites.
*Yeah, I know there are dumb as f*ck TV ads everywhere, but you surely remember a few funny or good ads from any period in time. If you remember, they succeeded.
Hell yeah Binding of Isaac, that's a little gem in there. It's one of those rare games that is terribly...err...."tasteless", but you don't care because it's loads of fun.
You forget there is a thing called "personal preferences". Just because it's new and shiny it doesn't mean you NEED to adopt it.
Yes, I am a KDE user.
You know, the conclusions from the recent UDS is that Unity will have customization options finally (they wanted to focus on making it work first), and that the Dash will be dramatically changed to a less zany approach. I don't think the Unity bashing is justified.
Damnit I just posted so I can't mod you up as you deserve.
Why didn't you just install a replacement instead? Oh well, it's your time. But if you know how to install two different distros, I don't see why you can't just install another DE in a fraction of the time.
I am wondering how much of the Unity bashing is actually real.
I don't disagree with your post, however, many good programmers start out as "shitty" programmers.
That's simply because not everyone has the background or know-how to get into a "code mentality" right away, and asking stupid questions is a good way to learn (specially if you realize that your question was, indeed, stupid).
I don't think reputation points and badges are worth anything though, but that's me. Still, you can see a incredible amount of really good, informative and "stimulating"** answers posted to not-so-smart questions.
**Stimulating as in some kind of answer that makes you want to try alternate ways to reach your goal. the kind of thing that makes you fire up your IDE/text editor to hack, right away.
I wanted to mod you insightful but I already posted so...
Well, recent developments in the software world have made Javascript kind of an ubiquitous language. You can find a lot of apps that can be scripted using JS nowadays, not just web browsers.
Also, StackOverflow is a damn good place to ask questions, I can see why people would prefer to books or mailing lists and forums. Forums leave too many questions unanswered, mailing lists can be terribly slow, and books aren't free (nor available worldwide).
And of course popularity would influence things. When I just started learning C, it was "the hot thing" to make games with, at least from an outsider's perspective, or it was the language other people recommended when you announced your intentions. I assume C# and Javascript are the most mentioned and/or recommended in their respective use fields, which leads to more people wanting to know it, which leads to more questions asked.
Actually, my personal case with C was just that. I would have loved some of that formal training though, but there are enough resources to actually do as you say with web languages. Just the contents (and useful links) in StackOverflow can help you getting a lot of insight on C and its tricky trickiness.
I agree. Most C questions are about pointers or tricky data structures done the C way, and since there are already plenty of answers for those topics, it's redundant to ask them again. The site even tries to show similar questions when you start asking, so there's often no reason to repeat such questions.
I think C is a very straightforward language once you know its quirks, so I feel the article makes sense. Also the whole webapp fad surely contributes to Javascript having a lot of questions.
Really? I always thought developing in Linux was way easier, and I am no software engineer. The few times I tried to compile Win32 binaries I found it painful and slow...
Seriously, just with Geany and a few packages and I am ready to go. That takes like 3 minutes during a Linux install.
Then again I am a C/Lua/SDL/GL guy, maybe that's why.
This was pretty informative.
The topic of food that is readily available, has shelf life, and is designed to give energy boosts -and don't taste like metal scraps. Nothing lowers morale like not eating well- is very interesting. I wonder if there are more articles giving more details on the process, pros and cons of proposed rations, and their energy values.
I hope it's not a military secret or something like that, though.
I'd vote you funny for that. Although I am a happy KDE user with the unity features added on top.
Whoa, I didn't expect that.
Some can argue it's unnecessary and that stuff, but I have a classic controller and it's damn good to use with my computer. (I actually use it more with it than my Wii......).
What is that "barrier" for ext3, btw?
"Forcing"? It's just the default, you can change it to whatever you want, as always.
It's like saying they are forcing Telepathy, but I swear I have Pidgin running here. And Synaptic instead of the Software Center.
Under 15? No, it's the opposite. I have burned out the songs that I did find stimulating in the past.
But what I'd like is the "world's most stimulant" music (or sound sequence). Or the "world's best coding companion" tune.