PlastikMissle - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Can money be returned if a project is unfinishe (Score 1) 192

by PlastikMissle on Monday May 07, 2012 @07:32PM (#39921839) Attached to: How Long Before the Kickstarter Bubble Bursts?

"Well, duh... What do you care if I find that it's interesting to do so?" That's a fine sentiment for a hobby project. But for a project with an expected deliverable within a set time frame most of the time pragmatism beats idealism.

Comment Re:Development environment (Score 5, Informative) 530

by PlastikMissle on Sunday May 06, 2012 @07:21PM (#39911057) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Language Should a Former Coder Dig Into?

Yes. C# (VB.NET and C++ as well) has the free Visual Studio Express from Microsoft. While it doesn't officially support Python, it does become a very good Python IDE by using the equally free (and unimaginatively named) Python Tools for Visual Studio.

Comment Re:Isn't Mono dead? (Score 1) 351

by PlastikMissle on Tuesday May 01, 2012 @06:45PM (#39862615) Attached to: Android Ported To C#

From the README file: "XobotOS is a Xamarin research project that explored porting Android 4.0 from Java/Dalvik to C# to explore the performance and memory footprint benefits of C#."

Comment Re:Isn't Mono dead? (Score 1) 351

by PlastikMissle on Tuesday May 01, 2012 @06:34PM (#39862527) Attached to: Android Ported To C#

Mono is dead? Since when?

Submission + - White House Threatens To Veto CISPA (forbes.com)

Submitted by Sparrowvsrevolution on Wednesday April 25, 2012 @06:44PM

Sparrowvsrevolution writes: Looks like CISPA may be headed the way of SOPA. Despite some proposed amendments to the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, the White House issued a statement Wednesday threatening to veto the bill if it's passed by Congress. The president’s advisors now say they fear the bill’s vague language would allow too much of users’ private information to be leaked to the government while still not going far enough to offer real defenses against digital attacks. "Cybersecurity and privacy are not mutually exclusive," the statement says.

Comment Re:On the subject of comparison... (Score 1) 611

by PlastikMissle on Tuesday April 24, 2012 @08:47PM (#39789967) Attached to: C/C++ Back On Top of the Programming Heap?

Look again. VB and VB.NET are separate entries,

Comment VB.NET? (Score 1) 611

by PlastikMissle on Tuesday April 24, 2012 @03:01PM (#39785829) Attached to: C/C++ Back On Top of the Programming Heap?

Am I the only one surprised at the sudden spike in VB.NET's standings? http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/paperinfo/tpci/Visual_Basic__NET.html Don't get me wrong, I love VB.NET and would probably be working on it today if my employer didn't prefer C#, but that spike baffles me,

Comment Re:Bullshit (Score 2) 738

by PlastikMissle on Monday April 23, 2012 @05:18PM (#39776037) Attached to: Software Engineering Is a Dead-End Career, Says Bloomberg

I do hope you mean COBOL? But I gotta admit, COBALT is an awesome name for a language :)

Submission + - 7 Programming Myths (infoworld.com) 1

Submitted by

snydeq

on Monday April 23, 2012 @01:32PM

snydeq writes: "InfoWorld's Neil McAllister offers up seven myths of modern programming practices, noting that while programming tools have gotten sharper, software development remains rife with misconceptions on productivity, code efficiency, offshoring, and more. 'Even among people as logical and rational as software developers, you should never underestimate the power of myth. Some programmers will believe what they choose to believe against all better judgment,' McAllister wrties. 'The real shame is that, in many cases, our elders pointed out our errors years ago, if only we would pay attention. Here are just a few examples of modern-day programming myths, many of which are actually new takes on age-old fallacies.'"

Submission + - Inside the Playstation Studio SDK (gamefromscratch.com)

Submitted by Serapth on Monday April 23, 2012 @10:35AM

Serapth writes: Sony recently released the PlayStation Studio SDK to open beta. Using PSS people are able to write games for various PlayStation certified devices in a C#/Mono based environment. This post takes a look at what's included in the SDK, which is surprisingly quite a bit.

Comment Game Designer? (Score 1) 423

by PlastikMissle on Saturday April 21, 2012 @02:12AM (#39754099) Attached to: If You Resell Your Used Games, the Terrorists Win

Wait a minute. Game Designer? Here's the original article Browne wrote. Read his bio at the very bottom. The guy is a friggin' exec. No wonder he's bitching about lost sales to used games, how else is he going to explain his company's lack luster performance?

Submission + - Gabriel Knight creator's new game project gains traction! (kotaku.com)

Submitted by joseph_austin on Friday April 20, 2012 @09:41PM

joseph_austin writes: This article explains newly divulged information about the new project by Jane Jensen, creator of the Gabriel Knight series. The Kickstarter behind this is well on the way to being funded, but if it doubles its mark then Jane Jensen has promised a second game. (Note: I'm not affiliated with Pinkerton Road, but I am a backer. Hope this peaks some interest if anyone hasn't heard of the project.)

Comment Re:Ressurected again and again (Score 3, Insightful) 91

by PlastikMissle on Thursday April 19, 2012 @01:40PM (#39735911) Attached to: Leisure Suit Larry Comes Again (Video)

Yeah, but that one didn't have Al Lowe's participation or blessing. He had nothing to do with any LL game after Love for Sail.

Comment Re:Old Timers Ressurected? (Score 1) 91

by PlastikMissle on Thursday April 19, 2012 @01:39PM (#39735889) Attached to: Leisure Suit Larry Comes Again (Video)

That baker shop haunted my dreams. I was *sure* there were treasures galore inside. Got arrested way too many times trying to get in. Even accidentally killed my character with a lock pick trying to get that damn "gone fishing" door to open.

Submission + - Worrying and Intelligence: Scientists Find Link - ABC News (go.com)

Submitted by jbwt12 on Wednesday April 18, 2012 @12:31PM

jbwt12 writes: New research suggests that there is an evolutionary link between our tendency to worry and our intelligence, regarded as our most important evolutionary advancement.

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