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I don't even think it's true anywhere. There's a laundry list of tricks you have to pull to get decent performance out of Unity, and it's a good engine.

A more truthful restatement might be something like, 80% of game engines can be reasonably fast, if you learn their quirks and optimize your game accordingly.
DX (DirectDraw+DirectSound+DirectNetwork) had support added for IDL - basically making an AX wrapper for DX native parts. However, MFC encompassed the entire message pump, which winforms just consume (unless additional code is added).

I do remember delivering an ATL-MFC COM component that had interop with .NET some time around 2000. It would have also had some additional OLE code too, but at the copy+paste feature was removed sometime mid-project. If your code needed access to a keyboard, the screen, the network AND wanted to be able to use it as a library this was the only "sane" way to do it.

The overlap and confusion was insane, and it hasn't stopped.
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I am excited about the singe window mode. The multi window mode made GIMP quite un-intuitive to me until now.
“If you're even aware of that stuff then you're clearly not in Weebly's target market.”

How do you know that? How does that follow from what I wrote?

Maybe I am a web designer, or maybe I am a web-publishing consultant looking for good services to recommend to people asking about something affordable.

If Weebly cannot entice me enough to get me past their sign-up form, then I will not try their offering and I will not be able to recommend it to others either.

As for “complaining about a file extension”, see alanh’s comment.
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I first ran in to Gimp in what would have had to been the late 90's or early 00's, and ever since it's always befuddled me completely. I've always turned back to Photoshop, if slightly begrudgingly, because the productivity enhancements of a tool you really know far outweigh the price of it. These UI improvements seem to be a step in the right direction though.

I'd love to hear if anybody's done the Journey PS -> Gimp (for UI stuff, not photography), and if so how long it took and if it was worth it in the end?
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I also dislike the multi-window mode. I've been using scripts like gimpbox.py to get single window mode up until now (http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/09/gimpbox-gives-stable-vers...).
I still doubt that. IMO, cache lines are larger than the largest item a CPU can read because the probability that the extra data will be needed soon is high enough to offset the extra work needed to read that larger cache line and the (few) transistors needed to increase cache line size.

In some sense, large cache lines are just cheap ways to implement speculative reads.

See for example http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=255272 (pay walled, but the abstract is clear enough):

"A significant observation is that, although increasing line sizes can result in a higher hit ratio, it also considerably increases traffic to main memory, thereby degrading the performance."
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I submitted my hobby project Days Out Near Me a few weeks back. I've tried to take on a lot of the great feedback I've had and I've made a number of big improvements to how it works. The site's goal is to aggregate a lot of events & venues for days out into one searchable database. It now grabs data from National Trust, English Heritage, The Forestry Commission, Cadw, and National Museum Wales. I'm working on support for people to submit their own events/places (which is one of the primary goals of the site).

I'd really like some more feedback and advice from people; what I've had so far has been great but I want as much as possible to help me improve the application and provide a great service to users. This is the first personal project I've launched and I'd be incredibly grateful for any/all feedback.
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I built the MVP of BugMuncher (http://bugmuncher.com) In 2 weeks worth of evenings (I was still working for 'the man' at the time).

Total time was 30 - 40 hours, so I could have done it in a weekend, but it would have been a hell of a weekend :)

I tend to take the term 'weekend project' with a pinch of salt, and usually interpret it as meaning something just built fast, and usually in spare time.
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I actually got a lot of benefit out of seriously cutting back my reading a couple of years ago. I found that rather than coming up with my own arguments and using examples from what I'd read to support them, I was just citing arguments from various books I'd read. It wasn't that I'd lost the capacity for original thought, but my mental habits had changed from trying to come up with something on my own to purely synthesizing and citing material I'd read elsewhere.

Some more extreme but shorter versions of this that I've tried include putting myself in an environment with no words for a few days, and spending a day blindfolded.
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"If a huge number of other smart and experienced people have been convinced by one of them ... well I'd go with that guy"

This will answer the question, "who is best at arguing their point". It does not reliably answer, "whose point is correct?"
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I am a Vienna-based programmer and am looking at job adverts regularly. I fully agree with what you have written, sometimes I feel they mus be joking. There is no appreciation for hackers and what they are worth.
Take this advert for example: http://derstandard.at/anzeiger/derjob/d/155533/c-senior-soft...
5 years experience in C++ and only 2,500 EUR gross? Seriously?
Are ad agencies anything like 'The Pitch'?
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I think it's better to read a broken translation than a broken original source. That is: go to a foreign language site of your choice, then translate it into broken english.
In my experience, from what I see in Brazil, entry-level programmers with no professional experience are paid much more than the equivalent in other professions. And, even after years of "training" in college, they will need a year of two of actual on-the-job training before they start adding enough value to justify their cost. In short, a company that hires fresh-out-of-college programmers is making an investment in them.
There's another way of looking at this. Do you want to work with smart colleagues and good management? Work for a company that pays you & the other developers well. It'll be much more enjoyable to go to work each day.
"What I don't understand, is why Google never attempted to enter new markets with different business models"

Google has always been attempting to enter new markets, but the new attempts amounted to a lot of moderately useful utilities, some questionably useful toys and curiosities, and a lot of misses. Mostly, the attempts seemed like random offshoots -- the products of a company that was supremely dominant in its position, flush with cash, and free to experiment in any way it so chose.

As I mentioned in a previous comment, it's very easy in hindsight to blame Google for having essentially rested on its laurels, squandering its lead and its position. And it's very easy to claim that certain threats (i.e., Facebook) were "always" obvious. They weren't. There were certainly some critical junctures at which Google should have focused its efforts on expansion in one or two directions. But Google was making attempts at expansion -- just not the right ones.

Harvard's Clayton Christensen famously described this situation as "The Innovator's Dilemma." There is a well-documented and almost axiomatic pattern, throughout history, of innovative companies rising to the top and then failing to predict who or what would eventually disrupt them. (If disruption were easily predictable, after all, it wouldn't be disruptive).

http://www.amazon.com/The-Innovators-Dilemma-Revolutionary-B...

It's worth checking out.
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most companies don't know how to value the contributions of software developers. i'm not actually sure they know how to value the contributions of most employees, period, except for salespeople. However as a dev, I'm biased some. I do think the potential for high value contributions, and the ability to avoid even costlier mistakes, is higher in the IT/dev dept vs other corporate departments.

Several years ago I was offered $60k at a company as a developer. I was coming to them with, at that point, 12 years of web development (backend, php, etc). I pointed out that $60k was not something I thought was reasonable for what I was bringing. "This is what everyone starts at here," was the reply, and I learned that was their starting salary for 'just out of college' devs. They hadn't hired any senior-level devs before (but had dozens of devs), and didn't even know how to put a value on the skills one brought to the table.

I've learned they've since changed their policies some, but that policy actually did a lot of damage to their rep in the local scene, and it was hard for them to get good devs for a while. The few I knew who were really good generally didn't start there, or started, then left after a bit. But... because I knew people there, I learned about their internal stuff. I was (sort of) shocked at how many basic dev mistakes they made, which ended up costing them extreme time/money to fix months or years later. These were rather elementary mistakes in most cases - I'd made them 10 years earlier myself in some cases.

How does one put a value on the savings experienced devs bring to a company, in terms of simply not making bone-headed decisions which cost a lot to fix later on? This is not saying I'm perfect - of course I'd make some mistakes. But mine would be harder to detect ;)

Lastly, somewhat relatedly, devs just coming out of school are almost never taught a few basic skills which are nearly universally required - how to break down a project in to smaller parts, debugging techniques (how to think about debugging, not particular tools), testing (including how to think about making code testable the first time), and version control concepts (again, not a particular tool, but the importance of version control). I'm seeing devs come out of school with degrees who have never heard of git/svn/cvs, nor understand why they need version control ("it's just me on a project").
That is not so easy to do if the differences can be as huge as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scope_(computer_science)#Lexica....

It becomes a nightmare if your are trying to transmogrify code that itself already transmogrifies code. Such code will make assumptions about how the lisp it runs on behaves.
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"No, that's bullshit."

What about you talking? Maybe you need read dictionary definitions of words bull and shit. Pay copyright rent for this words, and stop trolling us.
Looks pretty -- but the great thing about man is that it runs right there within the terminal. Switching to a GUI browser is a big mode shift and comes with all sorts of distraction. Using a terminal browser like links is probably pretty clunky.
Would you object if I tried to implement this? Seems like a fun weekend project.
> Performance is not a feature!

100% disagree. We develop Construct 2 (http://www.scirra.com) which is an HTML5 game engine and we take every care to make the engine as well performing as possible.

An example:

We've written about Garbage Collection in JS:
http://www.scirra.com/blog/76/how-to-write-low-garbage-real-...

Garbage collection pauses can make games unplayable for HTML5 games and some of our competitors engines suffer from GC pauses which their user bases complain about.

Games made with our engine don't suffer from GC pauses as much because we've taken care to make Construct 2 as well performing as possible, this is a good feature of our engine.
Note that this is an old revision of the test.
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Why people assume that parameters are independent?

If most black woman that sent their photos are fat and people don't rate fat woman high then the black women will be rated low not because of the race but because being black woman and being fat woman is correlated in the sample data.

Owner of such sites have large sample of some data and they assume that large equals representative and they go on slicing their data by different parameters not controlling for anything and making statements that are only technically true with respect to their data but strongly misleading in many ways.
Wake up, people: Are you serious? You want highly specialized people with actual skills, and expect them to be OK with that comparable low payment? If the same person sits down and starts creating his own software, he will probably earn much more one year later by himself already.

Probably not. Most programmers don't have any idea what software sells and how to sell it.
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> Sorry, my mistake.

At least you realize it's your mistake. After all, what is written can only mean one thing, and one thing only.

Maybe one day you'll learn about context, and history, and how that poem was not about the Nazi purges, but rather people not speaking up about them until it was too late. That you would equate that poem to the purges implies you miss the meaning, the point.

> and a hiccup encountered while installing an iPhone app.

But it's not. Again, you miss the point. People are saying this crosses some line. But that line was crossed years ago by Apple. People defended their actions then, while others decried it, and this exact point (and poem) was raised at the time. People dismissed the warning. They said things like this would never happen.

Now they are complaining about Apple crossing a line.

Finally, I want to introduce to you a literary concept called hyperbole. It is an exaggerated statement or claim not meant to be taken literally. So, while you want the poem I pasted to be about the holocaust, it isn't.
That's true - how about repeating the test with valid code that DOESN'T throw an exception.

- Edit -

Just tried it, it's not even close (on FF4):

tryCatch with undef - ~55,000

ifCheck with undef - ~2,000,000

tryCatch with Object - ~100,000,000

ifCheck with Object - ~2,000,000

So if an error is not thrown the try/catch expression is WAY faster.
You are right. But about that advert: Most people don't see that that's the minimum payment as demanded by the state. They actually pay more (and funnily, in that case, I know that company and they pay quite well and know to honor the skills of their developers). Kind of sad that recruiters in Austria haven't yet noticed that everybody thinks the minimum payment is not what people are interested in reading on there and confuse it with the actual payment.
I don't get it. A gray empty screen?
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Look at the latest revision: http://jsperf.com/try-catch-error-perf/16

Your "not surprising" result is only valid in Chrome and Opera. Other browsers are faster at try/catch.
All places: http://daysoutnearme.com/places seems to return results in a strange order - it's not alphabetical?

UI: Items with 'August' in their date make the panel break onto a newline

Items with an email could auto mailto: link the email http://daysoutnearme.com/events/simply-walk-2012-05-03

Print button on item: print preview opens with the body copy overlaying the map (print media query?)

Browsing around on the map doesn't reload pins for the area you browse to, they stay as the /hubs/city you selected

UI: All events http://daysoutnearme.com/events could use a lick of paint.

Bravo! Finding it hard to fault, hence the nitpick comments above. :)
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Nice that you like it. I, on the other hand, have always liked GIMP's multi-window interface. It works very well with multiple monitors.

But thankfully there's a choice between the two interface modes. The GIMP crew should have come up with that earlier.

But the interface change is not that significant compared to all the other new features (esp. >8bpp color).
You just ask people what they need and make it for them and they pay you. It's called freelancing. Almost no selling and absolutely no market research involved.
I'm in Vienna and work for a local startup in the mobile application development scene .. and yeah. Pay-rates are definitely not what they should be, here in Austria. I think it has a lot to do with the "Kollektiv-vertrag" prices being set too low by the government itself ..
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I'd be very happy to make 2200€. I'm in France, and I'm paid barely above minimum wage. Granted, I don't have a very high level of college education, but even so, I made more when I had a job in a factory a few years ago. And the job market here doesn't seem to be that competitive, unfortunately.
I agree. The minimum salary notation is just stupid, but in engineering it is used often times.
In Sales/PM/BizDev I mostly read "We pay 60,000 EUR or above" for jobs demanding 5 years of experience, which makes much more sense than the "2,500 EUR per month" in this advert.
Some context/perspective on the Austrian employment situation:

* Salaries are typically quoted per month, but there is a bonus of 2 months's salary paid per year, so yearly gross is 14 x monthly. The bonus is taxed at a lower marginal rate (6%, no social security contribution, IIRC, vs 37.5% lowest marginal rate).

* There is no fixed minimum wage in Austria. Instead, there is a collective bargaining system, which sets minimum salaries for each industry. Within each industry there are defined categories of jobs, education and levels of experience, along with minimum employment contract conditions and payment for each. This has some bizarre consequences, such that equivalent jobs (e.g. secretary) have different minimum wages in different industries.

* Employers are required to pay a lot of social security/tax on top of what the employees themselves pay. (just checked this: 21.83% social security, communal tax 3%, about 6% other "social" contributions according to http://www.gruendungswissen.at/gruendungswissen/blog-post/20... )

* Employees are almost impossible to fire. If that programmer ends up doing negative work, he's going to be on your books for a while.

I've never been anything but self-employed in Austria (we get screwed in entirely different ways) but culturally I think there is an expectation that you won't negotiate on your salary. This is further reinforced by the built-in graduated minimum pay: why permit the employee to negotiate a raise if they'll legally be due a raise anyway?
There may be a correlation, but it takes a lot more than good pay to foster an enjoyable company.
+1, which comes back to the low appreciation for hackers :-)
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Even freelancing isn't straightforward.

It's much more difficult to independently find a good stream of customers and well paying projects than it is to get a job or a contract.
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