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boblol123 | 16 years ago | on: Tetris in Haskell

Sorry, I missed that sentence, yes you're right. I read the bit to the right of the blog and the blog title which give the impression that he was experienced with Haskell.

boblol123 | 16 years ago | on: Tetris in Haskell

This is a blog about functional languages, so this man obviously knows a lot about Haskell but still required help for a game that would be prettymuch a hello world for someone in almost any other language.

I know nothing of your abilities, even so, if haskell is the only language you know well, I'd be impressed if you could make the game as fast as me or most ppl here.

boblol123 | 16 years ago | on: Tetris in Haskell

He says its taken him a week to do it and has had to ask lots of people for help. So I'd say its much harder than in a language like C#. I could (and so could most other people here) make tetris in 1-2 days without help.

boblol123 | 16 years ago | on: UK's new ID card hacked within minutes

If terrorists have already taken down the network, what's the point of an ID card or any of the billions spent on increasing our "safety"....?

On that subject, has anyone done the numbers on the number of people that would be saved by putting the same money spent on anti-terror bullshit into the NHS vs the number of people saved from terrorism?

boblol123 | 16 years ago | on: The Myth Of Outsourcing

Try writing the software for a piece of hardware that is still being developed without everyone in the same place. it would be hell!

Language barriers, misunderstandings, the fact some things are just plain difficult to express, slow turn arounds, having incomplete specs and expressing which parts are subject to change, maintainability after delivery, accountability and international law, the need for regular contact between hardware and software guys, points of contact - if things go dark in russia, how can i get in contact? Config issues- the software doesn't work on my pc...licensing issues, source code availability and ownership, ability and cost of making mods to the code years later, unknown skill/professionalism of offshore programmers, etc etc. But hey, it could be cheaper...right?

boblol123 | 16 years ago | on: Should biologists study computer science?

Haha, you have the opposite opinion of me, but you also pretty-much have the exact opposite experiences too. Maybe we both know a lot in our "main" subjects and think of all the underlying knowledge/related material is required to be useful, but in reality you can just pick up the knowledge you need on its own without any background knowledge on how it all works, you'll be confused when that stuff in mentioned or brought up, but if you stay in your niche you'll be fine.

boblol123 | 16 years ago | on: Should biologists study computer science?

A computer scientist can effectively analyse large volumes of biological data, I'm not convinced a biologist could do the same because there is just so much computer science related to visualisation, graphics programming and data modelling and their prerequisites.

A person who did 1/2 and 1/2 would likely not have enough knowledge or experience to do either the biology or cs side particularly well.

Not to mention, there are very few people I know who are good at both biology and cs.

boblol123 | 16 years ago | on: To all who Think Themselves a Programmer

I don't understand, they don't care about cs principals, rather they want a 'ninja' who is able to write obscure code in languages people rarely use and is hard to understand.

WHY would anyone want this?

boblol123 | 17 years ago | on: Microsoft's Anti-Mac Ads Are Starting To Work

I wouldn't call it a long history, and as much as an ad is ironic or funny, it is there to sell you something, it's just pretending not to be to get your attention and making you want to watch it. I find it worrying that people would spend $1000s on the basis of watching a funny anecdotal ad.

boblol123 | 17 years ago | on: Microsoft's Anti-Mac Ads Are Starting To Work

The fact that people do say 'ooh! new apple ads' is pathetic.Why would anyone care? it's an ad, if you have the product you don't need to see the ad, it only serves to stroke your ego and confirm your choice (which is an insecure thing to do). If you don't have the product why would you search for the ad rather than any actual information?

boblol123 | 17 years ago | on: Planarity - a game with planar graphs

Take the vertex whose vertices cross the biggest number of other vertices and move it. Repeat until nothing crosses. I remember this problem in maths ages ago, there is a way to know if you can't untangle something- look up the water gas electricity problem
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