Linkdump

[FlashbackOwl]

Nochmal zum Minecraft Lego :D
http://techinsidenews.de/2011/12/06/min ... %E2%84%A2/

Schon 6300 Supporter oO

[Chromanoid]

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/ThierryB ... ements.php Our Android Games' Revenues From Advertisements
by Thierry Brochart

[Jonathan]

Vortrag über Gentechnik:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOmwB_tUx5E

Klar, der Typ redet etwas flapsig und wird wohl übertreiben, aber irgendwie klingt es doch sehr schlüssig. Politik scheint wirklcih nicht zu funktionieren.

[Chromanoid]

http://chrome.supergiantgames.com/ Spiele Bastion in Chrome

[Chromanoid]

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/3911 ... G_Game.php

"So clearly, the indie game channel on the Xbox is a waste of time from any sort of commercial POV."

ist für mich jetzt keine überraschung, aber dennoch eine weitere warnung für alle glücksritter :)

[Tejio]

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ ... 00043.html

oder auf deutsch

http://www.bitloeffel.de/DOC/joelonsoft ... st_de.html

[Chromanoid]

http://www.eiswuxe.de/looking-back-my-r ... developer/
hoffnungmachender artikel über das selbtständig werden als spieleentwickler :) ich glaube der autor sollte einigen zfx'lern bzw. developianern bekannt sein.
(via TIGForums)

[Chromanoid]

http://www.junauza.com/2010/12/top-50-p ... -time.html (schon älter aber ist mir gerade hier vor die Flinte geraten)

50. "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning."
- Rick Cook

49. "Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material."
- Alan Kay.

48. "Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen."
- Edward V Berard

47. "They don't make bugs like Bunny anymore."
- Olav Mjelde.

46. "A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant."
- Alan J. Perlis.

45. "A C program is like a fast dance on a newly waxed dance floor by people carrying razors."
- Waldi Ravens.

44. "I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone."
- Bjarne Stroustrup

43. “Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.”
- Eric S. Raymond

42. “Don’t worry if it doesn’t work right. If everything did, you’d be out of a job.”
- Mosher’s Law of Software Engineering

41. “I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn’t show up in a Unix directory listing.”
- Oktal

40. “Fine, Java MIGHT be a good example of what a programming language should be like. But Java applications are good examples of what applications SHOULDN’T be like.”
- pixadel

39. “Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline.”
- Bill Clinton

38. "The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should therefore be regarded as a criminal offense."
- E.W. Dijkstra

37. "In the one and only true way. The object-oriented version of 'Spaghetti code' is, of course, 'Lasagna code'. (Too many layers)."
- Roberto Waltman.

36. "FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed — it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer."
- Alan J. Perlis.

35. “For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.”
- Bill Bryson

34. "In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt."
- Blair P. Houghton.

33. "When someone says: 'I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done', give him a lollipop."
- Alan J. Perlis

32. "The evolution of languages: FORTRAN is a non-typed language. C is a weakly typed language. Ada is a strongly typed language. C++ is a strongly hyped language."
- Ron Sercely

31. "Good design adds value faster than it adds cost."
- Thomas C. Gale

30. "Python's a drop-in replacement for BASIC in the sense that Optimus Prime is a drop-in replacement for a truck."
- Cory Dodt

29. "Talk is cheap. Show me the code."
- Linus Torvalds

28. "Perfection [in design] is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

27. "C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success."
- Dennis M. Ritchie.

26. "In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they’re not."
- Yoggi Berra

25. “You can’t have great software without a great team, and most software teams behave like dysfunctional families.”
- Jim McCarthy

24. "PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil, perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals."
- Jon Ribbens

23. "Programming is like kicking yourself in the face, sooner or later your nose will bleed."
- Kyle Woodbury

22. "Perl – The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption."
- Keith Bostic

21. "It is easier to port a shell than a shell script."
- Larry Wall

20. "I invented the term 'Object-Oriented', and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind."
- Alan Kay

19. "Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry"
- Ted Nelson

18. “The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity, speed, ingenuity of design, or problem-solving ability.”
- Randall E. Stross

17. “If McDonalds were run like a software company, one out of every hundred Big Macs would give you food poisoning, and the response would be, ‘We’re sorry, here’s a coupon for two more.’ “
- Mark Minasi

16. "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."
- Donald E. Knuth.

15. "Computer system analysis is like child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success."
- Tom DeMarco

14. "I don't care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine!"
- Vidiu Platon.

13. "Sometimes it pays to stay in bed on Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debugging Monday's code."
- Christopher Thompson

12. "Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight."
- Bill Gates

11. "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it."
- Brian W. Kernighan.

10. "People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on each other, like a wall of mini stones."
- Donald Knuth

9. “First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack.”
- George Carrette

8. “Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.”
- Larry Wall

7. “Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.”
- Alan Kay

6. “The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late.”
- Seymour Cray

5. “To iterate is human, to recurse divine.”
- L. Peter Deutsch

4. "On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament]: 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
- Charles Babbage

3. "Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program."
- Linus Torvalds

2. "Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live."
- Martin Golding

1. “There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.”
- C.A.R. Hoare

[Chromanoid]

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rindfleisc ... ungsgesetz Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz

[eXile]

Qualcomm shows horsepower of next-gen H.265 video

Nur, damit ihr schon mal H.265 als Nachfolger von H.264 auf eurem geistigen Radar habt. ;)

[Chromanoid]

hier noch ein netter Ressourcen Link, den ich bestimmt schon mal irgendwo hier gepostet habe:
http://www.pixelprospector.com/indie-resources/

[Chromanoid]

You Need A Marketing Story [Marketing] - What Games Are
[via TIGForums]

[Chromanoid]

Kleine Linkliste zu Karten, Geodaten und Geoinformationssystemen http://www.spieleprogrammierer.de/12-pr ... post222126

[Chromanoid]

Indie Exposure: This Time it's Personal http://aitchesongames.blogspot.de/2012/ ... sonal.html
[via Games Brief]

[Chromanoid]

Ein ganz besonderes Osterei zum Frühstück ;) http://www.ministryoftofu.com/2011/03/b ... -heritage/

[Chromanoid]

Exclusive: a behind-the-scenes look at Facebook release engineering http://arstechnica.com/business/news/20 ... eering.ars
[via High Scalability]

[Chromanoid]

Facebook to Buy Photo-Sharing Service Instagram for $1 Billion http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/0 ... instagram/
0_o

[Chromanoid]

C/C++ Low Level Curriculum von Alex Darby:
A Low Level Curriculum for C and C++
C / C++ Low Level Curriculum part 2: Data Types
C / C++ Low Level Curriculum Part 3: The Stack
C / C++ Low Level Curriculum: More Stack
C / C++ Low Level Curriculum Part 5: Even More Stack
C / C++ Low Level Curriculum Part 6: Conditionals
C/C++ low level curriculum: More conditionals
[via Gamasutra]

[Chromanoid]

Hybrid Procedural and Physics-based Animation in Overgrowth http://aigamedev.com/broadcasts/procedu ... vergrowth/
heute in ca. 6h. Nach Anmeldung (wahrscheinlich einmalig) kostenlos anschaubar.

[Chromanoid]

http://www.scribd.com/doc/89025069/Mike ... -Instagram bzw. http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/4/ ... agram.html
Instagram Architecture

sie auch http://zfx.info/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1929&p=29704#p29634
Facebook to Buy Photo-Sharing Service Instagram for $1 Billion

[Chromanoid]

Schon etwas älter, aber das hier fand ich besonders interessant:

Jitter - Add Entropy Back into Your System

• Hot word in their group all of the time. If your system doesn’t jitter then you get thundering herds. Distributed applications are really weather systems. Debugging them is as deterministic as predicting the weather. Jitter introduces more randomness because surprisingly, things tend to stack up.
• For example, cache expirations. For a popular video they cache things as best they can. The most popular video they might cache for 24 hours. If everything expires at one time then every machine will calculate the expiration at the same time. This creates a thundering herd.
• By jittering you are saying randomly expire between 18-30 hours. That prevents things from stacking up. They use this all over the place. Systems have a tendency to self synchronize as operations line up and try to destroy themselves. Fascinating to watch. You get slow disk system on one machine and everybody is waiting on a request so all of a sudden all these other requests on all these other machines are completely synchronized. This happens when you have many machines and you have many events. Each one actually removes entropy from the system so you have to add some back in.

aus 7 Years Of YouTube Scalability Lessons In 30 Minutes

[Chromanoid]

Treat Android as a first-class citizen... it'll pay off! http://tinyco.com/blog.php#revenue-comp ... gle-amazon

[CodingCat]

The real question is, are people going to spend time playing games or browse the internet or watch movies? [...] The reality is, anyone who plays a great game and has a great time is more likely to buy another game. Our biggest issue is that shitty games are much worse for us as an industry overall.
It’s not like you go ‘oh good that customer has dollars in their pocket, they can spend them on my game’. It’s more like they just aren’t going to buy games in general, or go do something else with their time, [if they play a game they don’t enjoy].

Bad games are industry's biggest problem

[anonym]

420k LOC, mehr als 40.000 Seiten Spezifikation, jeweils 1 Fehler in den letzten drei Versionen, 17 in den letzten 11, eine der vier Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Level 5 zertifizierten Einrichtungen (tatsächlich setzen sie den Benchmark) [Edit: Stand 1996]

They Write the Right Stuff: As the 120-ton space shuttle sits surrounded by almost 4 million pounds of rocket fuel, exhaling noxious fumes, visibly impatient to defy gravity, its on-board computers take command.

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/06/writestuff.html

[CodingCat]

Plink - Multiplayer Online Music Toy im Browser, unkompliziert und spaßig.

[Chromanoid]

Isnogud präsentiert ;)
Best Practices for Maximizing Revenue in Free-to-Play Games – Josh Burns from 6Waves
[via Betable Game Monetization Blog]

[CodingCat]

That Oracle vs Google judge who learned Java, to understand the case better? His middle name is Haskell! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Haskell_Alsup

[j.klugmann]

Haha!1

[Chromanoid]

[CodingCat]

Larrabee ist "zurück" in Form eines 50+-Core-Prozessors: Intel gives a name to its supercomputing chip with more than 50 brains

Multipliziert man die Zahl der Cores mit der Größe eines nVidia "Warps" / einer ATi "Wavefront", erhält man übrigens rein zufällig in etwa die "Core"-Zahl aktueller GPUs. ;)