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Today's programmer is not such innovative as past's
Posted 15 September 2012 - 08:38 AM
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Posted 15 September 2012 - 08:55 AM
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Re: Today's programmer is not such innovative as past's
Posted 15 September 2012 - 09:34 AM
aloneprogrammer, on 15 September 2012 - 11:38 AM, said:
I have a set of colored magic markers that I've discovered will do just that, does that count?
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Posted 15 September 2012 - 09:44 AM
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aloneprogrammer, on 15 September 2012 - 11:38 AM, said:
You make the monitor from scratch - without using any existing technology. I'll get started on this creating new colors bit.
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Re: Today's programmer is not such innovative as past's
Posted 15 September 2012 - 10:46 AM
BenignDesign, on 15 September 2012 - 10:44 AM, said:
aloneprogrammer, on 15 September 2012 - 11:38 AM, said:
You make the monitor from scratch - without using any existing technology. I'll get started on this creating new colors bit.
Geez. That is some project. I guess he is right. I wouldn't know where to start, when it comes to creating new colors.
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Re: Today's programmer is not such innovative as past's
Posted 15 September 2012 - 01:57 PM
The number one tip I've been told by all the coding professionals is DO NOT reinvent the wheel when you don't need to.
This post has been edited by Ticon: 15 September 2012 - 01:57 PM
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Re: Today's programmer is not such innovative as past's
Posted 15 September 2012 - 05:16 PM
Ticon, on 15 September 2012 - 01:57 PM, said:
Could you imagine if we DID reinvent the wheel every time we needed to make something? Not only would costs go up on practically everything (pretty much stopping any "real" technological revolution that we went through), the time it would take to trouble shoot and debug the most trivial things would extend the development time exponentially. I dont care how good of a programmer you are, we've all screwed up developing simple things like linked lists, I can only imagine how bad it would get when the scale gets larger.
We could all pretty much kiss our fancy phones and laptops good bye, it just wouldnt be worth it to have individual designs for everything, and forget optimizing operating systems for every piece of hardware from the ground up. Id rather be amish than deal with technology that required that kind of development process.
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Posted 15 September 2012 - 09:00 PM
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fuck, OP sounds like the biggest culprit of them all!
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Posted 15 September 2012 - 10:07 PM
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Posted 15 September 2012 - 11:39 PM
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Posted 16 September 2012 - 12:02 AM
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Posted 16 September 2012 - 12:57 AM
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Posted 16 September 2012 - 02:37 AM
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Posted 16 September 2012 - 06:13 AM
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To a user of a computer, innovation is a GUI or usability paradigm that makes their lives easier. Language doesn't matter. The user doesn't care if you are flipping flags for a machine interrupt or drawing on an HTML5 canvas.
Programmers use the tools that are appropriate to the task. If you're working on chips, you might play with machine code, but you're probably using assembly. If you're writing a device driver, you might work in assembly, but you'll use C if you can get away with it.
If you're working in a browser environment and try to use C; you're an idiot.
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Posted 16 September 2012 - 07:19 AM