Tamerlin

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by Tamerlin 16y ago
On top of that, it's an observation based on past and repeated history. Apple has a long track record of stabbing its own 3rd party developers in the back -- witness 64-bit Photoshop CS4, and what Apple had to do with it. I know CS5 is no
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
I don't think the two are related quite so closely. The idea isn't to do everything alone. The idea behind the walkabout is indeed to find yourself -- and when you return, you are accepted into society as a member. It's a coming of age ritu
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
IMO you're being too nice to Eclipse. By comparison, take a look at Blender3D. It's a 22MB download, though you need a Python interpreter, which is also not all that large. Eclipse is impressively bloated, but that's about the most positive
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Yeah, 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
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Thanks for those links. It's rather entertaining to see that a pretty good tech site is going to great lengths to make a case for both platforms being basically crap. And it's a strong case. :)
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
"If Apple switched to AMD processors, most of their computers would now be afflicted by a performance deficit in addition to the existing "Apple tax"." Apple could potentially transition parts of its line to AMD processors, without complete
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
"Not for long. Mobile Google has turned Trivial Pursuit into a typing competition." I hope you're right. "I'd also question the use of the phrase modern culture here." You make a good point. It reminds me of the Aborgine's navigation techni
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
I think this is just a difference in terminology -- I don't think of this as memorizing, but rather as learning. When I think of memorizing, I think of someone going through a pile of flash cards or something and repeating them over and ove
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
After repeated interactions with the biochem profs at JHU, I think that in their case, it wasn't temporary. Maybe it was due to spending so much time standing in front of a blackboard that it just stayed reduced... and they had slaves... er
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
"Programming on the other hand... code is either 0% correct or 100% correct. Anything less than 100% correct is broken." I don't think that's even remotely close to accurate. Spend a day looking at the Daily WTF, and consider that the Daily
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
In modern culture, that rote memorization is what passes for "smart" now. Memorizing facts is always a waste of time. The biophysics professor that I worked for in college had that attitude. He studied protein structure, but rather than w
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Disaster sounds like a better word.
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
That's very true, and sadly it's also true that most of the time, the people choosing the purported elite are the least qualified to do so.
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
"Sidenote but I'm thankful to Matz for creating a language that makes disciplined programmers able to create highly maintainable code bases" I agree with that. The "disciplined programmers" part is, however, the reason that I think that Rub
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Visible examples of this in practice are actually legion. One such is in nature photography, a passion of mine. Back when I was a total newbie, another photographer shared an image during a class on photography. His photograph had, in addit
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
I think you're right, it does seem like a cultural thing. If you find something that's easy for you, you can choose to either stick with that one thing, or you can push your comfort zone and grow. Most americans these days are trained early
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
I suspect that Apple's heading down the same road as XNA, because XNA enables a developer to build WPF applications that can run on Windows, XBox, and Zune; presumably also on the latest Windows Mobile as well. I wouldn't be a bit surprised
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
He's probably advocating that for the same reason that EA and Amazon prefer junior developers: they're more willing to tolerate being treated like slaves than seniors.
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
So have I. In fact, most of the "can't do" folks in their 20's and 30's that I've had to deal with were failing to solve easy problems. My peers and I had encountered these in the past, we had solved them, and didn't care to waste time tryi
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
I agree, that's good advice -- it's what Sun should have done with Java instead of pushing the least common denominator UI libraries, which lead to a host of lousy UI's that worked equally poorly on every supported platform. :)
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
They had a lot of help ruining SGI from... SGI. The reason that I suggest that MS ran SoftImage poorly is that under MS, Soft generated negative revenue, even though it was profitable before MS bought it. I have a feeling that it didn't bec
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
I remember learning about the difference between static and dynamic friction.... so the fact that the force required to move two static objects exceeded what the coefficient of friction wasn't surprising. Have people forgotten this? Or is t
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
MS managed the fruits of the SoftImage acquisition pretty poorly. It had a lot of potential, particularly since MS could have parlayed it into a part of the premiere games development platform, but they bobbled it pretty badly and ended up
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Apple's also not really a software company. Still, even if you ONLY look at Apple's software revenues, I suspect that Apple would turn out to be more diversified than Google. :)
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
If you invent something that by itself has no commercial value whatsoever, but could make someone else's idea either viable or more profitable (maybe it makes their widget easier to build?), then you're basically saying that your invention
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
That's even worse than the CS student (she had a bachelor's degree in CS, and was in the final year of her master's degree program in CS)... she actually attempted to delete an object in C++ by calling its destructor directly. Needless to s
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
I suspect that you're right about the weather, this would probably be a be a place with a lot of storms. On the other hand, if there's both sufficient water AND enough air for life as we know it on our planet's surface (excluding the extrem
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
You're ahead of Seattle. I came here from DC, and wow what a step backward. As it turns out, we had a trolley-based mass transit system until GM and Ford (and Exxon?) bought it up and dismantled it. (No joke.) When I lived in Sterling, it w
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
These tend to be the same folks who deny that it's broken, leading to piles and piles of steaming code that make adding new features and fixing problems exceedingly difficult. They routinely turn simple, six-week projects into six-month dea
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Oops. I lost track of product names frequently, especially since there are so many ;) You're probably also right about the reason for starting out with a PPC based system. I'd heard about a similarly sized offer for Be, as well as JLG's ref

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