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“I see JavaScript as the modern equivalent of BASIC. ...because of its simplicity, it is a great language for learning fundamental programming concepts.”
So what's wrong with BASIC? It still exists...
They used Archimedes at CERN? Truly one of the greatest computers of all time.
That's why Danny Boyle did such a good job. If the British media had been in charge of the ceremony in could have very easily been a cringeworthy ordeal featuring a cast of z-list celebrities dancing about. The inclusion of Tim Berners-Lee and the NHS section were excellent ideas.
A picture here: http://i.imgur.com/bthc3.jpg
Excellent attention to detail by Danny Boyle. They could have had him on any old PC and 90% of the audience wouldn't have noticed.
a) Is "respect" really so important to you that you are willing to sacrifice a 25 year career? Surely if the pay is good and you enjoy that's all that matters.
b) By switching professions to a more "respected/cool" one do you not think you're just contributing to the problem of programmers not being taken seriously?
Don't look to Minecraft for an example of well written code, there are open source alternatives (Minetest in C++ springs to mind) that run rings around it. And Notch himself is well known for his inefficient magic-number and circular-reference ridden Java code. Although I can't attest to Jeb (who is now the lead dev)'s coding skill.
CS courses tend to explain what bit shifting is but not when you would use it.
For example you'll often see a lecturer drawing lots of 1s and 0s on a whiteboard to illustrate it but you're less likely to see a simple example Java program which uses shifting to get RGB values deconstructed.
Is the diagram to scale? That apparatus is huge!
The demo doesnt seem to work in Firefox
Then what happens when you inevitably need to work on a project that doesn't use ARC?
Meetings bloody meetings:
They're not doing that, making a genuine clone and undercutting the competition is 100% okay (unless you're one of those pesky PIPA-supporting types)
What these guys are doing is generally making a 20minute game such as pong and including a gallery of, say, Minecraft screenshots in the app. They then market the app in such a way that's designed to trick users into thinking they're purchasing Minecraft, when they're actually just purchasing a gallery of Minecraft screenshots.
Case in point: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/eclipsecraft/id492415390?mt=8
It's free, though... what's the problem?
They pulled "Temple Jump" because it received too much negative press coverage. However, "Eclipsecraft" and all the other scam games by "Top Best Adult Entertainment" are still available...
I think he may have coined a new term
>Brogrammers
>Similar to Angry Birds, this is a great world to explore physics.
Comparing Angry Birds (a physics-based game) to Minecraft (a game with... gravity) is a bit of a stretch.
As crap as Hotmail is, I found this pretty funny.
More due to their attitudes towards source code and supporting a new generation of developers (Notch pays lipservice to open source and claims to be an avid supporter of the Pirate Party and an opponent of IP law yet aggressively pursues any competition that resembles Minecraft in any way with legal threats)
In terms of actual code they're not even in the same league so I won't bother comparing anything Carmack's achieved with Notch's magic number and circular reference-ridden Java code.
I wish more people would look to John Carmack as their "developer hero" rather the likes of, say, Notch.
But without a "Like" button, how else will you communicate to the world that you cry every time you read the story?
Doesn't work with UK postcodes
>The latter would not put up with the work conditions
CERN has poor working conditions?
Go to Glasgow and see how "passive" your choice of sports team is :P
>It just occurred to me a main reason they chose "Don't be evil" as their slogan. The foundation of the company is a slippery slope
They came up with the "don't be evil" thing when they were young idealistic hipsters who just wanted to be different from the suit-wearing status quo. They had no idea of how big they would eventually become so it had nothing to do with reminding them of the "slipperly slope".
The moment large amounts of money becomes involved the whole "don't be evil" think goes out the window pretty fast.
My number didn't show up in the header but I think my data might be going through Blackberry, not o2.
That explains distrubuting abandonware, but what about recreating it/porting it to another platform and charging for it?
Thanks for considering colourblind people
Why are they all black and white?