I still use Reaktor by Native Instruments. It's been on the market since like '96 or something and it's ugly and clumsy as hell but it still sounds way better than anything else...
"However, if a reviewer comes back with significant comments on the code I sent out"...
This is what I see day in day out: we have a lot of tooling for the reviewing process but don't seem to have any or very little tooling for the design/discussion phase _before_ someone starts implementing...
It's nice that there's some reasonable research going on and this stuff will probably help build some solid systems... but do you really have to call it "Cure" and "Antidote"? Think of what you are implying with those names...
It has this thick smell of academia arrogance all over it which I always find deeply disturbing. I think what these types of projects need the most is humility.
Please reconsider how you present yourself and your work...
This is especially poisonous in computer science and research and I see it every single day. I think it's because we don't share a global system that sort of guarantees the same general settings for everybody.
The older sciences basically try to reverse engineer the physical system that is our universe but we in CS just build anything we think is cool and then write a paper about it.
Therefore reproducability in CS is at all time low. Nobody reconstructs any experiment. But everybody thinks he's the next Lamport, or the next <insert famous CS guy>.
We deceive ourselves into thinking that what we're doing is science (and then convince everyone around us) when in reality all we do is emulate progress by busy waiting and burning resources.
First of all: I think this is a very cool idea.
It's like a generalised Pokedex!
Imagine you could just take a foto of something with your phone and ask the Index what it is, how cool's that? :D
So yeah, I get why people are connecting this with wikipedia but to me that's not the point. Wikipedia is a knowledge base of important stuff people want to seriously look up.
With the pokedex I can just snapshot some sneakers the guy next to me wears on the tube and get the some infos and maybe personal opinions.
It's way more silly and informal but thats what you get when you can add ANYthing.
Think about it, I could add my old Gameboy and have people share their memories and good ol' stories about "back in the day". You could even add your old dog and if somebody asks the index about your dog it will say "That's Dave's dog" xD
This "thing" is way more personal, individual, informal than Wikipedia.
Wikipedia is as steril as an OR, with sharp knowledge like a scalpel.
This is just things. Simple, but I can definitely see a trajectory where we end up thinking: how did people live without it? :D
I guess we as programmers should seriously think about the future of our craft.
If, for example, we feel we are basically using the same building blocks over and over again, we should seriously think about organizing libraries and code snippets and questions asking for such snippets in an organized way and provide ways to transpile 1 solution in different languages etc..
We should not accept the current state of our craft as final and rather think about how to improve in general.
If for instance something like StackOverflow has become the Wikipedia of Code then let's think hard about how to make into a full blown tool, with all the features and semantics we need.
It was a nice project the way it started and grew but it doesn't have to stay like that forever!
Hi,
I'm a CS student in Europe and about to finish my MSc.
I haven't got a clue about what to expect salary wise once I leave university.
Looking at the spreadsheet I noticed, that all the jobs in the US easily make twice the money then the european ones.
Since according to Google 1$ is about 0.9€, if you make 100k in the US this should roughly translate to 80-90k €.
Now I do get that in the US you have to take care of all kinds of insurances yourself, but it can't possibly be as much as double the salary or am I wrong?
So if someone could roughly sketch the huge salary difference that would be great.
Am I right in taking from this that markov chains don't necessarily adjust to history?
So in the example, if a "sunny day" state has a chance of 0.9 to stay in that state and a 0.1 chance of transitioning to rainy day and I already had 5 sunny days, the 6th day would still have a 0.1 chance to be a rainy day?
Maybe it's my inexperience but I feel like you guys are missing the point. Who in the world writes C Code like that? Seriously. Without any safety checks whatsoever?
That's just ludicrous.
And now everybody wants to change to a different language where idiot code can't do much harm...
Why not write real quality code instead?
Because "it's so fricking hard" ?? Did you see the FIX to the "bug", it's a simple "if ()"...
Well, well... Oculus did get a lot of hate for the facebook aquisition but HOLY COW, Abrash and Carmack in the same company again definitely raises my spirits.
Maybe the money FB brought wasn't so bad afterall...
I was going to write the longest comment this site has ever seen, explaining every single bit that's wrong with this idea but I decided to rather keep it short:
>>>> This is the most stupidest idea I have ever come across. <<<<
It's very nature is wrong on so many levels that my head starts to hurt, seriously.
And to offer people, who never got the current system taught well and who have been waiting for something else that would presumably make their lives easier,
a sort of "easy-way-out" solution, rather than attacking the real problem at hand,
is so cheap and just so wrong that I feel sorry for all seconds spend thinking on this bullshit rather than on how to improve the overall teaching/teachers quality.
Forget this crap. Teach the current system the way it's supposed to be teached, learn it the way it's supposed the learned and the reward will be lifelong priceless knowledge and skill.