A live-performance software with a focus on creating 'musically connected visuals'. Currently, the biggest connectivity is probably tightly tied lyric visualizations. Some recent examples:
With someone like Alex Jones, the statement 'I heard him apologize for it' is pretty much meaningless as he demonstrably changes his stance constantly to fit the most useful minute-to-minute narrative for himself.
You basically need to look at the long-term complete picture of how he characterizes his role (I'd suggest https://knowledgefight.com/ as a great source for this) in relation to Sandy Hook.
I cannot recall a specific instance of him apologizing, but I'm convinced he has at one point or another done so. But the number of times he's minimized, ignored, mischaracterized or outright lied about his involvement and impact on the Sandy Hook victims far, far, (FAR) outweighs the actual times he's ever admitted fault and/or apologized.
Without knowing the exact expectations of the people the author spoke to, I'd imagine lots of the misconceptions are on-point.
One personal exception for me was how university (not college) prepared me for my future in software engineering. The courses I took quite often involved group projects of 2-3 people completing work cooperatively. Undoubtedly this was - by far - one of the best and closest to real-work experiences I had during my earlier education.
Compromise, discussion, division of labor, and a healthy bit of experience with individuals who'd prefer to be part of the project credits but ideally do as little of the work as possible.
There's a case to be made to shorten the task time I agree, but as noted in the article, when considering the amount of prep-time needed to pass a Codility test, these platforms already expect this amount of investment for applicants - not that that's ideal either.
I think, ideally, companies should compensate candidates, but I don't see that as a likely outcome either.
> My point (and I think the points of others responding to you) is that parallel programming is not always hard.
Sure, and even more people commenting appear to be of the mind that it is generally hard.
> That's also what the author is saying.
It's not what author is explicitly saying in the statement I'm addressing if you re-read my original comment. There, the author isn't saying that it's not always hard, they're implying that it 'in general' isn't hard.
From your arguments, it would seem you think anything that actually runs in parallel (regardless of whether it programmed as such) can be considered 'parallel programming' and from that perspective, sure, it is super easy. But with that kind of reasoning, you can argue that anyone who only knows how to drive cars with automatic gears is actually a gear-shifting expert and shifting gears is really easy, because it happens automatically for them.
Appreciate the link. I agree that CSS has come a long way. Not sure I agree this carousel covers 99% of the use cases, if that's what you meant?
Regardless, my motivation was to implement as little as possible, as the whole motivation to switch to Wordpress was to not minimize what I'd have to build. I will make a note to detail that better in the future. Appreciate the candor.
I'm talking about using native Wordpress functionality on a managed service. Yes, Wordpress is customizable of course, but the goal was to consider the functionality provided in its basic form without payment, and which features required payment.
Granted, changing the CSS is straight-forward, but not necessarily for everyone switching to Wordpress.
I'll grant you the sticky, the font, and heck, I'll even toss in the latest 3 blog posts too, but how in the heck is a gallery lightbox anywhere near 4 lines of CSS and two lines of PHP?
And unless I'm missing something, doesn't injecting PHP either require a plug-in or actively building on to a wordpress component?
I wonder if 'hostile' is the right word, but I certainly agree that very functional things felt oddly missing. It is definitely super subjective as to what's 'very functional' and part of a basic package, but I'd definitely prefer an entry level cost and then have a more expanded base version of Wordpress.
Good advice. For me, I found that I would on occasion just have large blocks of time away from my site, meaning any sufficiently complex contextual understanding to maintain it withered away. Hence my move to Wordpress which I plan to detail next.
I find Wordpress on the whole incredibly useful and the functionality it does offer is great, not complex.
My issue is with the omission of what I perceive to be some basic and universally useful features. What's basic is - of course - subjective, and you're welcome to disagree.
As noted in my article, I share your preference with a basic paid tier just to get in the door.
A fair point - I had the intention of publishing them all together and got distracted. I thought I'd share the post here, as I now actually do have all the parts lined up and will have them ready within the next 2 weeks.
Do you manage the Wordpress blog installation yourself?
As part 2 will detail, the whole purpose of switching to Wordpress was to reduce the work load of building/maintaining the site. I fully agree, Wordpress is swimming in tutorials, docs, and sometimes guides disguised as advertisements for a paid theme.
Re. changing fonts - My actual first thought was 'Surely I just need to find the settings in WP that let's me change the theme's font', and my experience was that Wordpress did not 'natively' support this.
The author's article generally focuses on C (and possibly descendant languages), but the phrase I am critical of, does not. Furthermore, I explicitly consider a very broad selection of programming languages (many not C-derived) in my opinion. The author's phrasing, I'd argue, paints the entire concept of parallel programming as not hard.
There's some irony to the fact that you re-interpret my opinion as being very specific to C and (indirectly) posit that - in that specific case - parallel programming is hard, and then yourself go on to select a very specific case where parallel programming is not hard, because some matrix operations are independent.
I agree that there are languages that are explicitly built to make parallel programming easy. But in general, and not just related to c or c descendant languages, parallel programming is hard.
A live-performance software with a focus on creating 'musically connected visuals'. Currently, the biggest connectivity is probably tightly tied lyric visualizations. Some recent examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRHLzuUBz5o - She Wants Revenge - I don't want to fall in love
or if you prefer Mashups:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_Xq8Dh4NEw - The Lovemakers – Shake That 50 Cent (50 Cent vs. The Lovemakers)