I'm sure that git with it's very powerfull backend has way for improving way someone works, but I'm not convinced by this example. IMO it shows again that usability of git is far from perfect. For example in bzr to accomplish this task you can:
1. (same)
2. (same)
3. put all changes that you are not interested in on shelve: `bzr shelve` (or qshelve if you want QT gui)
4. Run full test suite
5. If 4. fails keep editing
6. If 4. pass `bzr commit` (or `bzr ci`), and to revert shelving use `bzr unshelve`
You need to remember 6+ git command to accomplish this tasks, and only 3 with bzr. Moreover there is symmetry in bzr (fe: shelve - unshelve, commit - uncommit) that is no present in git.
Thank you so much for that.
If I just started doing something I compared myself to professionals, if my work started to look good compared to them I started comparing myself with best people in profession I knew about, and if I could not find anyone better then I would start comparing myself against imaginary ideal.
I knew it was bad for my self esteem but I thought that it will make me achieve more.
Thanks for showing me a reason why being so critical about myself is not needed.
AFAIK Starcraft and Quake 3 are over decade old and still played. I assume that this days their player base is far smaller than in early days, but they still have tournaments. However they probably did not bring a lot of money for producer in later years because everyone who wanted them already bought them. Quake live if pivot to free to play model but I have no info about its profits.
I've never seen QWERTZ keyboard in Poland and I live there. Typewriters indeed were using this layout, but not many people use them to program.
"practically all computers (except custom-made, e.g., in public sector and some Apple computers) use standard US layout (commonly called Polish programmers layout, in Polish: polski programisty) with Polish letters accessed through AltGr (AltGr-Z giving “Ż” and AltGr-X giving “Ź”)."
http://keyboard-layout.info/#Polish
Are web technologies on the phone really the best way to empower users? Sure Firefox and Linux are open source(and I love them for that), but what about online apps? User does not have any control over the web page. If web page changes or disappears he can do nothing(and it can happen with no warning). Storing local copy of webpage may not be possible(because huge part of app may be on server side). Even proprietary desktop apps are better[1] because they do not change on each startup and you could always try to reverse engineer them. Web app also can store user data on server giving him no way to recover and it gives more spoofing opportunities.
Sure we can try to teach users about to choose open source web pages, or pages that can work in offline mode, but unfortunately most web pages does not fit these categories.
I'm impressed by what Firefox OS managed to achieve using web technologies, but I posted this as a warning that users may chain themselves to some proprietary webapp even stronger than to native one. Hopefully Firefox Os will force more webapps to provide offline mode.
[1] Of course DRM tries to take away this advantage from desktop apps.
What about me-too comments? Are they also thousand times better than writing nothing? Is it different because of scale?
IMO biggest value of Me-too products are in their (even slight) differences from existing ones. For entrepreneur they obviously give him experience and may bring him money but from consumer point of view gains are smaller. Me-too products increase competition(making monopoly or stagnation less likely and bringing prices down), but straight up clones have same (relatively small) cost as me-too comments: decreasing signal to noise ratio.
Well lets check result of their methodology with other data.
For example for Slashdot. Geeknet provides very different data http://geek.net/our-network/slashdot/
Linked article suggest almost 50% in age 35-54 but geeknet stats says it's only 5%. I cannot find it now but someone wrote that about 1/4 or 1/3 of slashdot audience are female which again differs from result in article.
I looks like that either US audience is very different from global(although it seems unlikely on US centric site like Slashdot) or methodology of linked article indeed is far from perfect. Obviously I checked only one site from article and there are other possibilities (like geeknet lying or having bad methodology itself), but I would take pingdom report with a big grain of salt.
Personally for longer page browsing I pivot my screen vertically, zoom and scroll to make content fit my screen. It may not be fastest way but gets job done. It works better on Google plus then on some other pages(were some toolbars obfuscates content on zoomed page, or which get to wide for screen). On non pivoted screen I usually have browser only on left halve on the screen and do it same way. There may be some plugin that would fit you more though.
In the beginning I too wanted to write that I don't agree with this split. Then I come to conclusion that he met far more programmers then I so he probably knows better.
Anyway I'm not sure were to put myself on this axis. My behavior changes depending on other variables(what consequences would bug have/how many times code is going to be executed etc).
FE: critical part of commercial software (like money calculation) would be written in a way that would try to make it obvious that there are no errors, in language with type checking with unit tests and if possible even with mathematical proof of correctness. With code review and QA thrown at it afterwards. To sum up very conservative(and costly) approach.
On the other hand my holiday photos got completely different treatment. Short python script, that would batch their HDR process in a way specific for their content and with a lot of dependencies to my current desktop setup, without any unit tests(script thrown up few temporary files making it easy for manual debug, had backup of my photos in case script ate them). The only conservative thing that I could think of in this setup was that I made it concurrent to use 4 cores because it was only one line change and 4time speed up in lengthy process was worth it.
Can someone suggest were on liberal-conservative axis am I?
I would agree that it may be better if they showed result for lowest FPS (instead of average) and on weaker system(were difference would matter far more). They probably tested on powerful developer workstation because it was the machine that they already program on.
Yes but Carmack also said that he now prefers D3D[1] and that difference between OpenGl and D3d does not really matter: "It’s interesting how little of the technology cares what API you’re using and what generation of the technology you’re on. You’ve got a small handful of files that care about what API they’re on, and millions of lines of code that are agnostic to the platform that they’re on." [2]
Well good version of OpenGl 5.0 would be very welcome(even without complete rewrite), but history shows that ARB(Architectural Review Board) likes to shoot itself in foot[1]. Design by committee usually takes a lot of time, so rewrite would probably take forever given number of legacy OpenGL Cad applications.
Small nitpick: OpenGL would be catching up with Direct3d not with DirectX(which includes parts like input or sound that AFAIK are out of scope for OpenGL)
By "do the encryption for you" do you mean that they should encrypt on what you send them on their side? I'm afraid that gains you nothing. Not only they control encryption method, they also have unencrypted data and your key. Encryption must occur on client side to give you safety, and I would argue against using JavaScript to do it(after all website can be updated without your knowledge, and it is not practical to review site code each time you load it).
Well I did not buy AAA games that I wanted to play that were windows only(like Portal 2[1]), but I would bought them if they are ported to Linux, so I would argue that they will expand their user base(a little). I must admit that in case of some games were to good to miss and I played them on wine(like Witcher 2 - my excuse is that it was DRM free and different enough that it was worth rewarding even when there were no Linux version).
edit: [1] - I mean games with no native Linux version(Portal 2 have also Mac version)
It's unfortunate that I was right http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3889127
If they use white list approach for their DRM it is not surprising that they flagged wine, but keeping in mind it is permanent ban and there is no way to play D3 offline, and that they refused to give refunds there are reasons to be angry at them. Fortunately personally I did not "bought" d3 because i don't like renting games(and requiring constant connection to server makes it renting).
I also found it surprising that it is apparently possible to modify client to teleport, move faster, and see data that is not allowed by standard client[1]. One would thought that after they went such a lengths to make it online only (making even map generation on server side) they would not trust a client. But apparently not.
[1] http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5978861022?page=1
"These programs may increase movement speed or teleport heroes from one place to another beyond what is allowed by game design. It also includes any programs that obtain information from the game that is not normally available to the regular player"
Well personally I'm quite happy with my life. For my helping other live better lives* is meaningful(but if everyone had same purpose it would be uncomfortably circular).
I found it interesting that ChrisNorstrom can be happy when he reminds himself that he does not matter. Either I misunderstood something or there is a way to be happy even about that.
*happier/longer/leading to total higher number of happy people in the future etc(Although obviously my success in this goals is very limited)
Well even though I agree that what we do is "worthless, useless, meaningless, purposeless" in universe scale it does not make me happy. I can be happy by thinking for example that universe defaults to not-existence (since most of it is empty/dead/not alive) and I'm lucky enough to experience life(even for short time), but I'm rather being happy despite worthlessness of my life rather than thanks to it. Could you explain your thought process that led do you to happiness from being meaningless?
I don't think that linked table supports equation. It should be possible to add them. You don't have to look further than google docs that it is possible. I did write excel like language in the past and it was quite simple. Obviously there is performance hit when comparing js to native, but it should be fast enough. Sorry but I cannot give you my code because it was written as my job, but as I said writing something like that should not be a big challenge.
1. (same)
2. (same)
3. put all changes that you are not interested in on shelve: `bzr shelve` (or qshelve if you want QT gui)
4. Run full test suite
5. If 4. fails keep editing
6. If 4. pass `bzr commit` (or `bzr ci`), and to revert shelving use `bzr unshelve`
You need to remember 6+ git command to accomplish this tasks, and only 3 with bzr. Moreover there is symmetry in bzr (fe: shelve - unshelve, commit - uncommit) that is no present in git.
edit: formatting