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by fat0wl 12y ago
agreed it involves a more active part of your brain in a way -- but i also think it suffers seriously diminishing returns. even if it involves stimulating puzzles you are still marching through a virtual "to do" list. in a way it
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by fat0wl 12y ago
yep, a common copout/rationalization for programmers is that videogames etc. are "educational" because your mind starts digesting tech i am a professional programmer, and see programming time as productive because it is akin
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by fat0wl 12y ago
yep it is messy like that even at corps, but thankfully once you deliver on a few good projects & show you are reliable they will often let you rip up a codebase & re-format the project as you'd like (perhaps while phasing out
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by fat0wl 12y ago
yea i think this is the point that shadeless's comment misses. it's not like there is no talent in the world at large, but businesses have a hard enough time deciphering talent when they have 2 in-house developers and can read the
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by fat0wl 12y ago
eh yeah but it doesn't hurt to have an admin GUI and a ton of default stack config done for you, that's all I mean. WebSphere is like a 1-click install for a massive stack. The open source community seems to like DropWizard, Websp
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by fat0wl 12y ago
true it may be that the situation is to blame since they are only doing this special Heroku add-on interface to pander to its clients. but yea bad situation indeed
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by fat0wl 12y ago
I think the clarification "watwut" makes is fitting -- it's not like it's complete perfection in every situation, but I use WebSphere 8.0 running a ton of apps written in a pretty wide variety of techs (Portal, Commerce,
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by fat0wl 12y ago
...in the myopic startup world. I work for an enterprise doing WebSphere & I'm scared to see it go one day actually -- will be cool if it cheapens to the point where it is equivalent to an open source tech but I think its the prop
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by fat0wl 12y ago
i've been kinda slaggin them off forever on this. they pretty much make money off how inefficient RoR is plus a bunch of vendor lock-in. I switched to Java and work for enterprise now so we have our own servers but for the next hobby p
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by fat0wl 12y ago
Yeah I may help out a non-profit team but nothing like this. When you work for a company teacher/student relationships are somewhat natural, its part of what the company is paying for (senior devs should mentor juniors). Even then ther
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by fat0wl 12y ago
yeahhhh i mean i guess part of the "guilt" i was expressing is a regret that I was too young/inexperienced to be able to contribute and I too just handed money over to Max/MSP when they were still on version 4, which IIR
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by fat0wl 12y ago
And I should point out that I personally feel kinda guilty... I met Miller Puckette and he was so enthusiastic about PureData and how much more the community could grow. I realize the biggest reason Max is thriving is because of marketing a
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by fat0wl 12y ago
yea want to try it but i'm stuck on max 5... max upgrades are more expensive than they're worth & now its splitting into multiple products (max4live,gen) so i'm kindof on an every other generation plan unfortunately. espe
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by fat0wl 12y ago
& max/msp even included js but it operated at control rate, not audio, so you couldn't write synths directly as js
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by fat0wl 12y ago
ah yah for some reason mine showed a blank file & couldnt expand projects. refreshed & its good, this is a pretty awesome project
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by fat0wl 12y ago
which controls are usable? everything i click just gives me an annoying "gimme $$" popup, haven't actually found a function that works
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by fat0wl 12y ago
Yep. I work at a big company that uses WebSphere products & they're pretty rock solid. My only issue is a personal one (that I more like to pick and choose my own stack) so there are free technologies more amenable to that. But as
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by fat0wl 12y ago
I did end up skimming a few more sections to see if it picked up & it was still all hollow, common sense stuff eventually descending into predatory gamification/addiction tactics. I know there are a lot of burgeoning startup types
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by fat0wl 12y ago
ha yea i read the first few sections & they were so hollow i had to come check the comments too -- good UX is not putting a bunch of filler in your opening 10 paragraphs. Only thing thats been said so far is that "3-click rule&quot
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by fat0wl 12y ago
you (& bitL as well) make some fair points but I actually (maybe because I'm newer to Java?) have quite a different experience with it. The XML setup seems minimal now (sure it's all there but most stuff is now handled with re
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by fat0wl 12y ago
yup. I think this is the reason so much eCommerce software is Java (& I'm sure there is a bunch of C# but that's not my thing). Java moves like a glacier but damn is it ever stable, and for those who wish to be "cutting e
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by fat0wl 12y ago
i think only people who still code RoR tend to see it as the center of the universe. others may appreciate its influence but can see that a lot of what it offered is just a convenient packaging of what is available in other languages, prese
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by fat0wl 12y ago
Yea it is pretty much this & the things listed in the article -- I turned down an RoR gig to work in Java enterprise package software stuff. I look around me and see lots of poor implementations happening. When I can write and take owne
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by fat0wl 12y ago
There is an add-on for Firebug too ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/css-usage/ ) -- I use it a big corp. Basically if there is some wild huge monolithic css file I'll cut a new one for
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by fat0wl 12y ago
Yah exactly -- you can seed the file yourself but just have this as a backup in case your PC/laptop/whatever is turned off. Slower, but at least its there. Once it is seeded beyond a couple initial users it's a moot point any
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by fat0wl 12y ago
heh yeah i don't really have performance benchmarks but i went React over Angular -- I've found the style to be a little odd (passing bound handler functions through descendants to update a state param in the grandparent class?
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by fat0wl 12y ago
Eh I really strongly disagree with this common criticism -- "huge overcomplex etc etc". Basically if you use a tool suite properly designed for your development area, you basically need to know how to setup your project/IDE i
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by fat0wl 12y ago
yeh i was wondering that too... but that's what I like about React actually. A simple skin for complex views on top of a server-side language (Java/Clojure for me). It makes more sense to me since I don't want my entire site
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by fat0wl 13y ago
heh but isn't it also the reverse as well? it's an insult laid at Java insinuating that it is not nearly as lean/simple/modern. That's the feeling these flamewar phrasings leave me with anyway. I left Ruby for the J
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by fat0wl 13y ago
hey, apple fanboys pay heavy upcharges for all their "not PC" devices & for that they earn the privilege of shaping the marketing vocabulary landscape XD

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