Yeah I wanted a big mouse pad for my desk and the best I found was this kitchen mat from Walmart (should have looked online) so I covered the kitchen mat in duct tape
Lots of game equipment makers make these huge mouse pads it turns out. I liked the MLG design best without having to pick something game specific that would be irrelevant in 5 years.
How that groove bows back out looks uncomfortable to me where as the logitech it continues to curve around the back of the mouse. I dunno. I'd have to try it I guess :P
i remember even worse situation, in one Star Ocean game on snes, you could learn one skill that lowers amount of skill points required to learn other skills, but to max this skill you needed to be big level. So i never used any skill points until for big part of the game. and worst part is that if your level was too big, and your skill points overflowed 99 you lost them :)
@AlexM. See, that happened to me too... but since I took some of my spare Adderall, sleep continued to elude me until an hour before I had to get up for work.
I've seen that before, and I strongly agree. Give me just enough money to keep myself alive and fairly healthy, and I'll work like you wouldn't believe.
I think Linux is in the same boat as Windows Phone. It's a great system to be in but its not popular so people don't see the point in making apps for it. If people don't make apps for it people aren't going to switch and as such it won't get popular.
while I really enjoy using Linux, I have to admit on each installation there was at least something that did not work well
on any distribution that I've tried
a simple update via their manager on Fedora messed up my installation
one time on Ubuntu I was unable to keep a damn PDF reader open for more than ~15 minutes, it would crash automatically
same for audio players
reinstalling the OS fixed the issue
I've yet to try a newer version of Kubuntu, but the one I used to use wouldn't even allow for me to change the position of stuff on the desktop, they'd just go back to their original position
Xubuntu is amazing, but the dock used to annoy me a bit
I'm more an irc sort of guy, personally. ;) But yeah, a GUI web browser has pretty much become mandatory these days.
The browser's the only GUI program I use regularly, any more. Pretty much everything else runs in a terminal, for me. Apart from a calendar application we use for managing meeting requests, at work.
@TrevorPowell are there any similarities between it and OS X except for the UNIX roots? I noticed when making an OS X VM it's usually a good idea to choose BSD/FreeBSD preset.
Similarities between FreeBSD and OS X? Not much I've noticed. I gather that their kernels are related, but.. from userspace (in the terminal) they're like most modern *nixes; there's GNU tools, and some OS-specific admin tools..
students are only presented the MVC during the first year and can't think outside of it
design patterns are not overrated, they're patterns
after finding your own solutions, eventually, you will come to implement one of the already found patterns (if you somehow don't discover a unique one)
but because of ignorance, you'll still think they're overrated
making an object notify others of state change and saying "nah, observer pattern is soo overrated, look at my solution instead" is always funny
while thinking about separating responsibilities in my game one year ago, I invented three portions which I did not know then, but now I do, were actually a View, Model and Controller. I called the whole thing "Border Manager Architecture"
"IIRC, a solution is considered to be worthy of the pattern title if it's been used in at least 3 real world situations" - seems like a really weird reason/statement
@AlexM. exactly, the classes teach you "there's this pattern, and that one, and maybe this one. You must use exactly this one for this assignment, that one for the other..." and then those 3 patterns are the only ones they know think they have to use for everything
1) Learn three patterns and learn them well. 2) Yeah, you were supposed to learn some patterns in this class but whatevs, you can do what you want because they're not useful in all cases. 3) Here's a list of 2509098250982098 identified patterns. Learn all of them, I don't have the time to teach more than three.
1.a) Learn three patterns and use them for EVERYTHING - What usually happens 1.b) Learn three patterns and understand when and when not to use them - What should happen
I don't think you learn patterns well that way. When the solution is always given, all you learn is how to adapt a particular pattern to a particular problem. Give the students a problem and let them try to see which pattern works for that
@ToddersLegrande well, there are also graduates here in Romania who have no idea how to implement a linked list in C, but I wouldn't blame the colleges for it :P
"here's a problem. the solution is using pattern XY. figure out how to do that" vs "here's a problem. figure out how to solve the problem. here's a list of patterns that may or may not be helpful"
you know there's a hidden voice for the griffin riders in W3. I heard it, then they removed it in a patch though the sound file was still present in the .mpq
When you give the player a rare but powerful item which can only be used once but is never really required to proceed, most players will not use it at all, because they are waiting for the perfect moment. But even when this moment comes, they will still be reluctant to use it, because there might...
The client was about to launch a new product, so they needed their website very quick. After a few revisions of the design, they were happy. Then I got a phone call.
CLIENT: Look, we really like this new design, but also think it needs to be more spicy.
ME: Spicy? What do you mean?
CLIENT: You know, have some animation and such. It would look less boring.
ME: The deadline you’ve set is really strict. I don’t think I’ll find the time to work on animations.
CLIENT: Don’t worry, I’ve planned this up. My little one [13 years old son] knows some Flash and Blender. He has already drawn the c…
CLIENT: ”I was thinking that I could pay you in Groceries.”
ME: (Laughter) “You’re joking right?”
CLIENT: ”I don’t see what is so hilarious here sir.”
ME: ”I apologize, honestly sir, that is one of the most ridiculous methods of payment I have ever heard.”
CLIENT: ”Really? I think it is quite sane.”
ME: ”Well, are you talking about like a grocery store gift card?”
CLIENT: ”No, I just came into the wealth of $300 of carrots and $450 of potatoes.”
