3rd lane referred to as the suicide lane.
If you live on the bottom left, that's the top lane. If you live on the top right, that's the bottom lane.
3rd lane referred to as the suicide lane.
I was unfortunate enough to begin with Java, and while I can't stand the way it is taught (SUBCLASS EVERYTHING!), the worst part was how hard it made learning C for my classmates.
I'd be in favor of teaching programming basics in LOLCODE.
XML tbh is just too much work to do well considering I think it is far too heavy for 95% of the stuff you probably want to do.
This is something I could take seriously if you were suggesting that the replacement was S-Expressions.
I think the new Torment is supposed to be like that. With, like, 'this is where you go when you die' instead of 'toilet', but who can tell the difference?
...With all the help a console is with no keyboard.
(No, I do get that Win8's touch keyboard is great, but I think you may have meant 'mouse')
And then you have what Mozilla and Epic have been working on, getting Unreal Engine 4 to run in JS and WebGL...
This industry is wonderful. I'm always told how much trouble people have finding jobs, but I don't think they usually mean 'you have to wait 6 months, and then you will get calls all the time.'
Now, I have a master plan for helping to fix this apparent problem in my country: teach everyone programming in school.
'No!' you say, 'We don't need more noobs! Not everyone can do programming!'
...Which is exactly my point. Think of all the bad software that will be produced that we can all get hired to rewrite! It might really increase our value as people who can do it right.
In essence, as things worth posting on this site increase, the value of people who can see what's wrong, post it here, and do it right increases.
My posts are better than yours, and so are the languages I use.
Then use Nemerle?
EDIT: On reading this tutorial, I have come to realize that I really want to use this language. Marking a class as serializeable with an attribute can actually apply the macro to it at compile time...
Man, I wish I'd gotten this level of training. For me, it went something like this:
Contracting for random recruiters is somewhat fun so far, really. I just wish I'd worked for a company that bothers training people before those first two.
No, see, I don't mind if they stretch the viewport or at least lock the cursor to the game area. But what actually happens is that if my friend moves the cursor to the edge of his screen, its in the black area on mine. The black area that should not exist. If they wanted to lock the whole thing to a 16:9 region of the screen, that would also be fine. What they actually do is completely wrong.
Sanity checks are used to determine how terrified you are of eldritch horrors, and how much SAN you permanently lose.
If it was just the UI scaling, I could understand. But the UI scales fine. The game just doesn't render at wider than 16:9.
Its really quite interesting how much difficulty it seems to cause game developers.
My friend plays a lot of Heroes of Newerth, and I often watch his matches in Mentor mode so that I can mock him. If I set the graphics mode to DirectX, settings go much higher and anti-aliasing works. However, if I click on the other screen, it freaks out and minimizes. If, however, I set it to OpenGL (and thereby have more aliasing... sigh) alt-tabbing works great.
Seriously, they have two substantially different behaviors in the same game! The only game I've seen that gets it completely right is Civ5.
But the best part about HoN is that my left monitor is 2560x1080, and the game is rendered no wider than 16:9! So, what does this mean? Black bars around the game on the left and right, but the UI is still rendered in those areas, and my observation of my friend's mouse movements shows them very far away from where he actually clicks. This isn't even a complicated problem... (Note that I'm not just complaining uselessly, I do go ahead and drop my res so that this issue doesn't happen, but still...)
Hmm, true, FirefoxOS doesn't support C#.
Come now, I already invoked @blakeyrat! I know you're impatient, but don't you think once is enough?
(Yes. I know.)
I love C#, but even I don't think that.
The .NET language I most want to learn is Nemerle, but I'll probably learn Lisp before then. Sadly, the CLR does not offer an object system on par with that of one of the oldest languages, to the point where you cannot port CLOS to .NET.
Ah well, Nemerle is probably close enough.
Just having tail-recursion optimization is huge, since most C# devs are terrified of recursion for the stack's sake.
Well, Java also has generics that really just there to automate casting between some type and Object, so this seems like nothing surprising.
We have things a bit better over in the .NET world, @blakeyrat and me.
Oddly, that's the one thing that still works for me.
A while back, Microsoft decided to write a Youtube app. Google took it down for violating their API's rules. Essentially, unless you are Google, you can only write a Youtube app in pure html5. They'll only enforce it if you're Microsoft, of course, and there are many clones which work. Really, you don't even need an app for it, but it's rather horrifying. It wouldn't even be that bad, but they'd had an older app which was allowed, and they asked Google how they could improve it. The one made with Google's advice is the one they blocked...
I haven't launched the Google Search app in months, but pressing the back button in it closes the app. It's the only app Google has published to the WP store.
Are you still on regular WP8? It seems to be a bit better in 8.1+.
My favorite Chrome is Sleipnir. It's named after a horse with too many legs.
Well, that may have to do with the fact that Google hates Microsoft. Even Apple doesn't hate Microsoft, or at least not to such extremes. They refuse to release any of their services on Windows Phone, and block any attempts by Microsoft to do it for them. Then there's the wonderful thing they did with Chrome, where they threatened lawsuit until Microsoft relaxed Windows Store app rules for browsers and then flaunted it by embedding ChromeOS (with it's own desktop) in the app.
Don't be evil, they said...
As the son of a teacher, I can tell you that you really know nothing. Parents only have to think you've hurt their child to put you under pressure. You might be able to brush them off, but they'll escalate up the chain and lie more. In the US, they can sue you for things you'd consider harmless.
Honestly, it's dumb that you have to worry about this kind of thing. It really interferes with any faith you may have had in humanity. But it's true.
I'll actually call that one out.
You're saying he's afraid of only slightly unsafe things, but the things in question were never his fear. It was his job, should someone take issue with said only slightly unsafe things, that had him worried, and rightly so.
I love this post, because sadly there are real people like this.
There, that's one that makes sense! Good job attacking the content and not the person! Oh wait, did you imply that I never have put out any content? Hmm, maybe I spoke too soon.
Honestly, I'm enjoying reading this debate. But fighting off a weak opinion with "STOOOOOPIDDDD!!" just is not entertaining to read. Entertain me!
Oh look, "You believe this thing I don't but wouldn't fight very hard for it except against me personally because I'm being annoying." is being opposed by "Y U SO STUPID! again.
Man, you should run for president!
"Red-blooded" "conservatives" who are really Right-Wing Authoritarians looking for an Emperor of America to rule them with an iron fist
"Liberals" (to some, hyper-liberals) who lash out with their emotions and fears at anything they don't understand, yet refuse to actually learn something that carries them outside their warm, fuzzy cubbyhole
Wut.
Most conservatives in the US want a small government that exists to handle law and war, and nothing else. That's currently what 'right-wing' means. We also tend to believe that punishment for offenses works better than restricting ways to get there. We lock our doors, because we believe that people aren't all nice.
And we consider 'liberals' to be people who like Apple and rant about male supremacists. (and generally want to make more laws to ban guns so people become nicer, yet remove as many restrictions from drugs and sex as possible) They tend to believe that everyone can get along if they just try.
This actually makes sense if you think about it. In most other nations, a monarchy was the previous government (or still sort of is), so being conservative would mean having a single ruler, where the opposite is true here.
It's not even a matter of it being hugely dangerous. If one student does something mildly dangerous and ends up with so much as a tiny burn spot or a skinned knee, and has just the wrong sort of parents, suddenly as a teacher you have a rather serious problem. Something may be minor, but the parents will sue you for damaging their minor.
I especially liked hearing my classmates proudly proclaim, "Ha, I've never read a book in my life!"
Plenty would get it wrong even with one, due to order of operations and a cheap calculator.
I know a chemist working on his Ph.D, and from his explanations of what the undergrads are like, they don't get any better as they get older. Which is pretty terrifying when you're working with solvents.
My aunt always says that the perfect solution to idiocy is to remove all safety labels from everything ever and let the situation sort itself out.
Hey man, we discussed Freedom Planet for a while quite high up there. I call discrimination!
(while blatantly ignoring the "Other (please specify)")
Oh look, more "Anyone who disagrees with me is a moron" rather than "this is why disagreeing with me on this point makes no sense"
Neither does oppression or the wrongness of it have anything to do with numbers.
And yet, no matter how hard I try, I can't help agreeing that we all are. As if I needed more proof that I'm no different than anyone else!
Weren't you the one taking issue with oppression contests? While I agree that many stupid things are posted on the internet, categorizing all their authors as stupid is oppressing them. As a group.
If you mean, "That's what this place is like. Deal with it." then you must realize the issue: you are now advocating the continuation of the status quo. You don't seem to be arguing this point on the topic under discussion.
To be clear, I'm not specifically targeting you, though you have been party to this mess. It is quite obvious that this is happening everywhere in this thread. Outside this thread, it is on the rise on the internet in general, most clearly practiced by the sort of "feminists" who call other feminists misogynist for disagreeing with them on issues of journalistic integrity.
It does take two. That is absolutely true. But having two requires having at least one. Retracting all your civility because you perceive the same in your opponent just means that no recovery is now possible.
Here in the US, parents and teachers try to teach us this in school. It seems to wear off sometime around highschool, or whenever the nearest presidential election begins being televised.
What's this, more personal jabs?
Try actually saying something.
I'm not attacking anyone here. I just want to hear a real conversation. I have no qualms calling out posts that try to win arguments with personal attacks. This isn't about what you think, or what anyone else thinks about the topic in question. It's about respect. It's about equality. Argue. Please do. Just use real tactics, rather than playing on emotions.
The problem is, you're reinforcing an issue I have with so many people who think they're fighting for justice and equality.
We have one side saying, "I don't like this, but don't care too much. These surveys show that some people agree with me."
We have another side saying, "You are an evil homophobe who cannot speak without fallacy."
Accusing someone of something you find repulsive does not make it true. Yes, it will make people like your posts and agree with you, because you've applied the label of "bigot" to someone, and no one likes a bigot.
This is used so frequently, so violently lately that I have to call it out now every time I see it. The fact that you disagree with someone doesn't make them Hitler. Stop it.
They also have a shut-in crisis, where a large portion of young people stay in their rooms and are terrified of personal interaction. It's a weird place. The crossover is probably large.
The weird part is that ZUN won't copyright his characters, so there are indie spinoffs of 'official' indie games. Including my favorite fighter.
Ofc they do. But it's a different matter to promote a game for it. that can't happen if the games never get reported on anyway.
And I think bullethells, fighters, and castlevania clones. The stuff you mention is only the tip of the bad stuff, but there is good stuff too.
But they typically sell things in person at conventions, and don't have to rely on sleeping with journalists to market their games. They generally don't even market them. They have it better and worse at the same time.