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Comment Pick the Right Tool for the Job (Score 1) 247

by Rezell on Monday August 06, 2012 @03:48AM (#40892663) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Jump Back Into Programming?

As an employed programmer that does everything from reading hardware schematics and writing C, to writing server code in C#, and finally writing all our build scripts in Python so they will be cross platform... I suggest learning Python as a way of getting back into things. I work in a variety of environments, embedded/linux/windows, and I had to make certain concessions in my code to account for the OS running the scripts, but Python was very easy to pick up and create useful things. I've managed developers who are very particular about whatever domain they're comfortable in, but if I can get the windows guys to install Python 2.x I'm golden. Always use the best tool for the job, while Python is great, I don't use it to build my .NET projects. MSBuild is better suited for that, no matter how clunky and painful it may be. This post is a bit muddy, so I mean to say if you're writing anything for your own personal improvement, use Python. Once you get your bearings, you may have to adapt and learn something else. Programmers are craftsmen, we should be skilled enough to work with whatever tools we're given.

Sony Gets Nasty With PSBreak Buyers 246

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday October 20, 2010 @05:38AM from the give-it-a-rest dept.

YokimaSun writes "The war between hackers and Sony over the PlayStation 3 has now taken an even more sinister turn, with Sony going after not just shops but actual buyers of the PSBreak dongle, threatening them with fines of many thousands of Euros and forcing them to sign cease-and-desist letters. It seems Sony will use any means necessary to thwart both homebrew and piracy on the PS3."

Comment Re:F/OSS! (Score 1) 565

by Rezell on Monday August 02, 2010 @08:52AM (#33109500) Attached to: How Can an Old-School Coder Regain His Chops?

I agree! As an embedded programmer, ASM/C/C++ are languages I code with every day. Possibly worth noting: I am 30 years old and started with Visual Basic. Just because something is *newer* doesn't necessarily make the old languages less valuable.

Proton Beams Sent Around the LHC 115

Posted by kdawson on Friday November 20, 2009 @04:40PM from the going-in-circles dept.

feldhaus writes "The BBC reports that the first beams for over one year have been successfully sent around the complete circumference of the Large Hadron Collider. Engineers do not yet have a stable circulating beam but they hope to by 0600 GMT on Saturday."

When Does Gore Get In the Way of Gameplay? 141

Posted by Soulskill on Friday May 22, 2009 @06:06AM from the when-i-need-to-break-out-the-windex dept.

Wired is running a story inspired by the level of gore in the recent Wolverine game that wonders: how much is too much? It mentions a study we discussed in February which indicated that violence tended to interest gamers less than other characteristics. "... the longer you play a 'twitch' action game, the less you notice the cultural content — the gushing blood, the shrieks of agony. You're too busy focusing on the gameplay. I noticed this with Wolverine. For the first hour, I found the deranged bloodshed both shocking and exciting; it made me feel like I 'was' Logan, the grunting, killing-machine character from Marvel Comics' X-Men universe. But as I became more expert, the cultural shell of the game boiled away. In a sort of staring-into-the-cascading-numbers-of-the-Matrix way, I found myself looking past the visible aspects of the game and savoring the underlying, invisible mechanics of play. ... The game became pure physics and algorithms: Vectors, speed and collision detection. The gore had become mostly irrelevant."

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