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> Media is also far less complex. How do I know if my video is correct? I simply play it. If there any errors, they are all possible to detect in the minutes it
by vilya 16y ago
> Media is also far less complex. How do I know if my video is correct? I simply play it. If there any errors, they are all possible to detect in the minutes it takes to play the video.
There's actually a level of complexity to video well beyond what you imply. For example, making sure the colours appear the same when you watch something on your laptop screen and when you watch it in the cinema requires a lot of care and attention - and no small amount of science. Also not all video edits are realtime - some things require a lot of processing, which can take just as much time as compiling a decent sized app.
- Tamerlin 16y agoYeah, anyone who thinks that media is less complex or less demanding than programming should spend a day doing some visual effects work for a live action movie (try creating a virtual character sometime) or talk to the guy I'm working with to do my photo finishing. The reality is that it's far, far more demanding than programming, especially with modern languages. With proper up-front design effort, programming is easy. The catch is that the up-front design requires engineering skills and is actually challenging, and most of today's programmers skip that and dive right into programming... leading to the vast mountains of crap we have today. (Look at amazon's codebase sometime. It's such an atrocity that it drives people out of the industry.)