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Comment Re:HTML 5 Canvas tag (Score 1) 411

compared to alot of graphics standards, its actually reasonably terse. there are some herniations...like the dro pshadow image processing and composition. the animation is a little nasty too. but generally if you ignore the ugliness of w3 encapulation and html-style syntax, its not any worse than gl, rendering libraries, or X

Comment Re:Don't make the pair programming compulsory (Score 1) 302

but not if it has no value whatsoever.

i really dont understand this fad. criticising other people's code is important. talking about whats going on and the cleanest way to express it is important. having design discussions is important.

so do detailed code reviews.

i really dont need to smell every fart someone makes to work with them.

Comment another perspective (Score 1) 537

some programmers view programming as language design. the construction of abstractions
and their composition is really the same as defining a specialized version of the parent language
with the desired semantics.

if you really care about the topic learn broadly about languages. about how they handle
things like scoping, composition, interaction with the runtime, types, and static analysis.
i guarantee that you and your future employers will benefit

Comment answered your own question (Score 1) 195

congratulations for deciding you could use someone with experience to be around

go to the most challenging and difficult shop you can possibly. not a community college or a university.
someplace where they write compilers for toy languages over a weekend. can spend an hour talking about the
first 100 instructions after hard reset. someplace where they actually code instead of whinging about patterns

Comment not net neutrality (Score 3, Insightful) 442

its very different for a service to filter connections than a backbone. the real threat to end-to-end and neutrality
would be if transit providers start charging for traffic involving certain endpoints (which is how this discussion
got started)

endpoints can make whatever restrictions they like, even if they are as idiotic as trying to get access providers
to handle their sales and billing.

of course it would suck if i couldn't get internet access without also paying for some 'content plan', but thats a
different issue entirely

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