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Coding Help

over 8 years

I'm going to post here when I can't figure out certain aspects of Java. I don't know how many of you know the language well, but help will be appreciated as I go through this bootcamp.

Also an excuse for me to post a countdown until Doomsday.

cub

over 8 years

im using amd

and sorry to disappoint but general consensus outweighs you

deletedover 8 years

Sorry to disappoint but I don't even have adblock enabled and CNN loads faster here than on your machine, lmao. Photoshop starts in under 10 seconds and most of the filters are near instant. I'm not even running it 'natively' as I have to start it with Wine. This is on a computer with a Q6600 processor which isn't even remotely recent.

Also don't most 3D games have PhysX which is accelerated on Nvidia GPUs?

cub

over 8 years

photoshop does not work fine and even cached, with adblock, cnn.com takes 15 seconds to load

this computer can run 3d games
and before you point to gpu, physics are (generally) not managed in the graphics card

also heres an article

deletedover 8 years

Adobe Acrobat? Works fine, same with Photoshop. CNN loads in under 2 seconds.

This computer isn't even recent.

cub

over 8 years

have you been to just plain websites like cnn.com

how much money do you have to throw at somebody to make a page that loads in under a minute
and i don't think it's even the backend that's the problem here (as would generally make more sense), but rather awfully cluttering the client
and libs like jquery dont help, yet everyone uses them. jquery in particular will take something simple like iterating an array and quadruple the processing power needed to run it somehow

also, name programs besides microsoft products. how about adobe? runs well?

deletedover 8 years

cub says

eris says

For many areas performance isn't that relevant either, it's often cheaper just to toss more hardware at a problem then investing in programming hours to either rewrite in something with a better optimizing compiler or to do a bunch of micro optimizations.

the problem with this mindset is that it leaks into areas where performance is very relevant and you end up with all of these horribly broken projects as a result, like so many big company websites that lag you to hell and games that will overheat your computer but have no reason to

and the solution is always get a better computer, not write better code. you should always be conscious of how your code is being interpreted

I said many areas, gaming is atypical even in terms of desktop applications, much more performance critical. No one notices inefficiencies in the coding of Microsoft Excel so much.

You'll also find that the kind of crap you're seeing with badly written games or frontend applications has more to do with limited time constraints and business practices. At the end of it if you're not coding open source or your own projects you're coding for a company and at their mercy in terms of time to market and so on.

Whether or not that's an ideal situation isn't really relevant, it's just how it is.

cub

over 8 years

Private says

admin says

http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.04834

As a computer illiterate, I couldn't even make it past the first sentence.

"Deep neural networks have achieved impressive supervised classification performance in many tasks including:" translates to "AI is pretty good at:" in proper english

cub

over 8 years

admin says

don't worry too much

the world we're moving towards, computers will probably code themselves.

but will the code that codes itself be written well or will it produce mediocre code

AdrenalineMime

over 8 years

admin says

AdrenalineMime says

absurd

of course, it will also be one of the last things computers take from us in being able to do =)

i'll leave this article here for those of you who are computer literate to chew on http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.04834

i was actually referring to grossdude's advice on magic numbers. nice article though

Private

over 8 years

admin says

AdrenalineMime says

absurd

of course, it will also be one of the last things computers take from us in being able to do =)

i'll leave this article here for those of you who are computer literate to chew on http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.04834

As a computer illiterate, I couldn't even make it past the first sentence.

admin

over 8 years

AdrenalineMime says

absurd

of course, it will also be one of the last things computers take from us in being able to do =)

i'll leave this article here for those of you who are computer literate to chew on http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.04834

Giga

over 8 years

GrossDude says

Lol, who's programming in C++ in the 21st century. That poll is whack as hell.

I guess you could say that I'm the best.

GrossDude

over 8 years

Lol, who's programming in C++ in the 21st century. That poll is whack as hell.

AdrenalineMime

over 8 years

absurd

GrossDude

over 8 years

So called "magic numbers:" are bad. If you need to use a five, let's say. Just mamke a public final static Integer named FIVED and assign it a value of 5 and then use that.

GrossDude

over 8 years

Just use goto, togepi, Just use goto.

deletedover 8 years

Sonrio says

What if lucid is just a program programming itself

I think I speak for everyone when I say that it would make a ton of sense.

Sonrio

over 8 years

What if lucid is just a program programming itself

deletedover 8 years

*lights up joint after eating shrooms*

yes yes the code will code itself

admin

over 8 years

don't worry too much

the world we're moving towards, computers will probably code themselves.

AdrenalineMime

over 8 years

german

deletedover 8 years

what language should i take if i don't want to get hacked on epicmafia

cub

over 8 years

eris says

For many areas performance isn't that relevant either, it's often cheaper just to toss more hardware at a problem then investing in programming hours to either rewrite in something with a better optimizing compiler or to do a bunch of micro optimizations.

the problem with this mindset is that it leaks into areas where performance is very relevant and you end up with all of these horribly broken projects as a result, like so many big company websites that lag you to hell and games that will overheat your computer but have no reason to

and the solution is always get a better computer, not write better code. you should always be conscious of how your code is being interpreted

cub

over 8 years

Togepi says

I think Arcbell was ranting about a programmer taking optimization and putting that before readability and other basic functions of being a good programmer.

what's being implied here

deletedover 8 years

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