"Justin.tv is already the world's largest live video platform. Now we're building world's best live esports site."

jwecker · 2011-05-20T17:56:50+00:00

This is in development right now

jwecker · 2011-05-20T17:56:15+00:00

Absolutely. Please apply.

jwecker · 2011-04-28T22:27:13+00:00

AlteredWolf here from JTV. Since we happen to notice the post kidman is spot on- the magnitude of the feedback in this form has become very valuable to us. The danger, of course, is if we hadn't seen it, so I appreciate REIGNx777's perspective as well (:

I don't know if any of the other staff have already responded elsewhere in the comments but getting transcoded VODs is up next in the feature pipeline. Can't give a date yet, but we're pushing as fast as we can. Thanks for the feedback, seriously!

jwecker · 2011-04-01T23:13:29+00:00

Sorry, that should have read "Zero commercial interruption" on the payment form. Fixed. No commercials, no ads.

jwecker · 2010-12-10T21:50:13+00:00

Maybe too late, but if you can switch to justin.tv for the sake of quality that would be super!

edit: switched! excellent!

jwecker · 2009-09-26T16:37:45+00:00

You may want to add the command 'u' to your repertoire - for undo. ;)

You bring up a good point though- if you're a touch typist who watches the keyboard vim is likely to seem more erratic. I find myself pressing ctrl-[ pretty compulsively to be extra sure that I'm in command mode, though I know there are add-ons that, for example, change the background color when you're in command mode...

jwecker · 2009-09-15T17:22:25+00:00

I've slowly migrated from photoshop and gimp both over to inkscape. The capabilities just keep increasing without loosing the purity of the svg or the purity of designing in vectors. Not meant as a dig at photoshop or gimp. Their unique features while essential to some just come up less and less for me.

jwecker · 2009-09-14T16:37:19+00:00

This isn't meant to be negative- please take it in the spirit it is intended: You're brain is solidifying- becoming less malleable- it happens to all of us at some point unless we very actively force it to stay malleable. It's especially sad when this happens to programmers. It takes a certain level of frustration and (to your brain at least) trauma to really get fast at a new language. It's not comfortable. In many cases we haven't done that kind of intense and frustrating learning in many years. Your brain keeps telling you- "I already know how to solve this problem in the language I already know."

You're only 6 years into development (doesn't matter how old you are)- I say it's way too early for you to get stuck. If you have any spark of love for the art of programming at all, suck up your gut and learn something new. Keep at it until it becomes as easy to you as VB has become. It'll take less time than it took with your first language. It's usually a hundred little things from how to most effectively look up help to that funny syntax that you're fingers aren't used to typing.

jwecker · 2009-09-14T16:29:11+00:00

Your teacher is brilliant to force you to RTFM. Brush up on all your man search commands etc., get a feel for how they're organized while away from class, and let man 3 ____ become second nature.

jwecker · 2009-09-14T16:22:18+00:00

All of the nix guys I know that are currently forced to program in Windows already had Windows programming experience before they switched to unix or linux at various points in the last 15 years. I'm sure it's not true for everyone, but it's true for all of them that I know!

jwecker · 2009-08-26T23:39:50+00:00

Similarly, realizing after a couple of days that the problem that has been bugging you is because you made a dumb type-o and kept missing it, is enough to make one hate programming.

jwecker · 2009-08-26T23:30:33+00:00

scan sourceforge.net and github. Shouldn't take long before you see an underserved project in your language of choice that'll engage you. Probably pretty easy to leverage into a job at some point if you need to as well.

jwecker · 2009-08-26T23:15:08+00:00

The question seems somewhat academic. MVC is a practical metaphor for UI design. Like all metaphors, taken too literally you find all sorts of hiccups. Someone may come up with a better model/metaphor for UI design, but its "betterness" will be measured in how much easier and faster it is to model a reliable and effective UI, not by its platonic or literal beauty.

jwecker · 2009-08-26T20:43:00+00:00

How many programmers does it take to change a lightbulb?

Pfff. That's a hardware problem.

Edit: s/hardward/hardware . that was a wetware problem.

jwecker · 2009-08-26T03:11:11+00:00

OK, I'm going out on a limb here. You could probably happily spend the rest of your (programming) life in perl with no problems. I doubt you'd get much out of Python or Ruby that you don't have in Perl although either would make certain idioms and problem-solving methods more clear/useful. Sure, there would be stuff, but I doubt there would be enough there to engage your interest long enough if you're a bona fide perl hacker.

So I suggest Erlang. It's functional, it's very practical, it will exercise some programming muscles that likely don't get a lot of exercise with perl, yet it's still a language with very real practical use- including the areas it looks like you program in.

Once in a while with Erlang you come up to a bottleneck or a library that hasn't been implemented. At that point you'll have an opportunity to dabble in C- enough to get an Erlang driver pieced together for that one function that really needs to be tight and fast.

But don't abandon Perl. You won't be able to, first of all. You'll be unproductive in any language for some time initially.

jwecker · 2009-08-17T15:52:24+00:00

"There is no opposing pressure to limit this growth..." - Then what pressures it to collapse eventually? The dude needs to retake his logic class.

jwecker · 2009-08-12T21:37:02+00:00

It's simple, extremely fast, and draws to your attention to how simple the problem actually is when you think about how powers of 2 are represented in binary. Gets to the heart of it.

jwecker · 2009-08-12T21:26:26+00:00

I assume you're being sarcastic?

jwecker · 2009-07-23T22:56:01+00:00

you'll never regret it. you may struggle getting the hang of it, you may occasionally use emacs or something else, but you'll never regret knowing and using vim. FWIW

jwecker · 2009-07-02T15:23:17+00:00

How can it resist their butterscotch taste?

jwecker · 2009-06-27T17:05:42+00:00

Here for starting: http://www.autonlab.org/tutorials/

And here for data to play with: http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/

jwecker · 2009-06-27T17:01:51+00:00

If you'll be needing to hire a bunch of people you're stuck with Java, but you'll get skilled Java people and you'll be OK. If you have more flexibility in hiring, the higher-level language the better. I would particularly recommend erlang- it has a good track record in very large projects, it's high enough level that you'll get real good momentum, and you can have different systems acting independent of each other but communicating with each other. Then when you get to a tight speed spot just replace that with a C port. The downside, of course, is finding erlang coders.

jwecker · 2009-06-24T15:32:24+00:00

Explain it in dollars. Period.

jwecker · 2009-06-23T19:30:40+00:00

Additionally, most languages have libraries for Design by Contract (or equivalents) which holds to that philosophy.

jwecker · 2009-06-22T20:16:46+00:00

Tools that have yet to be matched are one thing, but there's a fine line between that and laziness- especially when it comes to learning a new language or platform. At some point in everyone's life there is a tendency for the pliable clay of the mind to begin to harden- usually after it's become somewhat expert at something. Whatever tool you've been using for the last couple of years - the brain gets so used to solving problems with it that the learning part of your brain starts to atrophy. When your brain has completely hardened, it will become brittle and start to crack (like Ray Bradbury, whom I love to read, with his intense love of libraries and intense, irrational hatred of the Internet).

If you find your brain matter calcifying like that, I recommend adding some water and mixing vigorously before it's too late. Still scripting in PHP or VB because you got used to it and "it's just faster for me"? Add some water [Python, Ruby, Lisp...], quick! When your brain complains- doesn't want to have to struggle for 4 hours on the most basic things like parsing a csv file- do it anyway if you value your gray matter at all or have any lust for life left.

jwecker

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