Aga

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by Aga 15y ago
This does not apply in general. A lot of things in the Japanese society are done in old, even arcane ways just because they always have been done like that. The society is not built on bowing before change but on to reach some kind of harmo
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by Aga 15y ago
Hard to agree here. In my experience waterfall and agile projects fail for completely different reasons. Waterfall projects fail when they are too rigid and try to define everything beforehand without leaving any space for iteration. The re
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by Aga 15y ago
You make an important point. However I think there is value in thinking about the "right people" also in fixed organizations, especially larger ones. If you have tens or hundreds of developers, you will have various kinds of tasks. Some peo
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by Aga 15y ago
I have to disagree here, as Japanese culture is generally quite strict about rules and processes. An average japanese company is very far from what you would even dream to call agile. Rules and conventions about face-time, not being able to
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by Aga 15y ago
While I agree with the main points of the post, I'd like to defend learning proper tools. Even if a good text editor like vi won't make you a great programmer, it most definately will make you a better programmer! First, you'll be more effe
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by Aga 15y ago
This reminds me of the good old time when trackers like Scream Tracker 3 and Impulse Tracker were the hot thing! They too were programmed by writing sequential "code". This felt more natural and easier to use than most GUIs of that time.
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by Aga 15y ago
I'd position pd not against low-level stuff but as a complementary to them, just as Matlab. It is easier to prototype new ideas and algorithms in an environment with higher abstraction level. After you know what you want, HC-implementation
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by Aga 15y ago
Hackers wanting to get their hands dirty with audio processing might be interested in the Pure Data programming environment: http://puredata.info/
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by Aga 15y ago
Luckily, the wonderful Readability can be used for these situations: https://www.readability.com/
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by Aga 16y ago
Forth could be interesting to look at. It does offer a quite different perspective to programming.