johnl87

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by johnl87 14y ago
That's exactly what they did. That's what SOC means. Basically instead of having to have a separate chip on the board for the radio, it's within the processor. Of course the board still needs an antenna, but this is just another step toward
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by johnl87 14y ago
Finally someone actually works in the cg industry replies. +1 to this. No one really uses fixed function stuff these days, everything is shaders and vertex and index buffers. There are no fixed function hardware units, everything in the gra
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by johnl87 14y ago
Debugging is not fun when your program is leaking memory and you're not sure why, and existing code tools don't tell you why. Especially if you're writing drivers. Sure, stepping through python code might be fun, but not low level c/c++ cod
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by johnl87 16y ago
This video kind of makes you wonder if people are really saying these things cause they mean it or if they are just being watched and have to act a certain way to reap the benefits of being a firm party supporter. Benefits like living in Py
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by johnl87 16y ago
Little known fact...the only reason the brace is on the same line as the function declaration is because K&R just wanted to save space in the code listings.
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by johnl87 16y ago
I kind of stopped reading at the 50 dudes in 5 years part. She pretty much lost all credibility at that sentence.
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by johnl87 16y ago
I'm a computer science major and I've interned at an animation company as a technical director. We were outsourced for a certain AAA game that is coming out in 2011 (can't say what companies cause it would probably breach the NDA.) I spent
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by johnl87 16y ago
What is sad that all the cool hardcore C programming jobs are going oversees - unless you're a computer engineer and deal with hardware. Everyone is looking for php, ajax, python, etc, basically C-based type-less languages which anyone comp
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by johnl87 16y ago
um, they did release an expansion...
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by johnl87 16y ago
Everyone is talking about how much they practice their scales in their "daily practice." If it's a chore to you and has no practical application, don't waste your time, play something you like. The only reason I know a few minor and major s
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by johnl87 16y ago
When I was in japan I worked on two organic farms for about a month total. I did it through the wwoof program which is available all over the world. It was a great time. Even though the work was really tiring on some days I still felt happy
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by johnl87 16y ago
Dropping out of school, esp. high school is a bad idea. First of all, no one will take a high school aged kid seriously. Second of all it would seriously hurt their chances of getting into college (regardless of what people say about colleg
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by johnl87 16y ago
I like the feeling when a script executes and does what would take me 10 hours to do, in 2 seconds.
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by johnl87 16y ago
I don't think what language you use to code an app really makes a difference in how killer your app is. Also this makes no sense because I'm pretty sure apple developers use objective-c, c and c++ to code their apps (look at their job descr
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by johnl87 16y ago
This is just my personal experience with friends who had add. My previous 2 roommates at two different places were taking ADD pills. Somehow after their pills ran out they kept complaining how they're not gonna be able to do their homework,
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by johnl87 16y ago
I regret studying CS. I would have rather gone for CE and learned more in depth about how the computer works. It seems like all the computer engineers at my school are really good coders too, and they understand the hardware better. Opens u
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by johnl87 16y ago
I don't know about keyboard mappings. I'd rather press F10 to step through code rather than apple key + Shift + P or whatever it is. I'd also rather press F5 to debug than apple key + enter. I also like that tab in visual studio tabs lines
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by johnl87 16y ago
When I first started interning at this company, I always wondered why people were doing stupid things in code and I would fix it to be cleaner and the program would break. Then I would realize there's a reason it was done in this stupid rou
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by johnl87 16y ago
The problem is that everyone doing demoscene stuff got jobs and is getting paid for it now. Look at crysis, etc. No one cares about programming dick waving contests anymore, it's all about who can get a job at Microsoft. If it doesn't benef
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by johnl87 16y ago
Not every number is an integer. Could be a char or a short too. The sizes of those depends on the platform and if it's signed or unsigned.
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by johnl87 16y ago
The author treats a "hacker" as some kind of sub-human species and write an article on owning a "hacker" that reads as if it was a book on owning a dog or something. Hacker != Lack of social skills. "Insults skills of other workers, doesn't
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by johnl87 16y ago
You go to a bar to socialize. Alcohol is a social lubricant. If you only want to drink, go to the deli, buy some beers, and drink at home.
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by johnl87 16y ago
I really don't see the authors point and completely disagree with him. Computers were originally used by people to get work done. It's why they were invented in the first place. And the only way to get work done was to know how to write a p
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by johnl87 16y ago
that almost sounds like a challenge
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by johnl87 17y ago
You're selling that as if it were so hard to get experience and get paid at the same time. I know this won't be popular, but Microsoft pays interns more than most people get paid hourly.
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by johnl87 17y ago
This is what happens when you expect people to work for you for free.