Gazoo101

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)

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.

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.

I think, ideally, companies should compensate candidates, but I don't see that as a likely outcome either.

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.

I've made sure to more explicitly motivate the intent of switching to Wordpress being to reduce custom code and on-going maintenance, in the article.

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.

Where exactly in the article am I complaining about being charged for having someone manage my backend?

Granted, changing the CSS is straight-forward, but not necessarily for everyone switching to Wordpress.

And unless I'm missing something, doesn't injecting PHP either require a plug-in or actively building on to a wordpress component?

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.

Happy to ping you with them if you're still keen.

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.

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.

While I'd probably argue that it is still more difficult to conceptualize, the statement we're discussing is presented as broad and general. I'd call it far less misleading if it said something like:

There is a common myth in software development that parallel programming *has* to be hard.

Is parallel programming hard? Without any further details or specifics, yes it is. It is far harder to conceptualize code instructions executing simultaneously, than one-at-a-time in a sequential order.

Better late than never :E

One statement that fell outside of my agreement was him balking at how people leaving Reddit could cause it to crash. Fewer people should mean less load :O

That position reminds of me of the Simpsons episode where Homer runs for mayor. At a debate, Homer's opponent shows up late because someone cut his car's break lines, and Homer goes - "Well then you should have been here early!"

Any sufficiently large irregular site activity will cause issues. The people who are 'leaving' aren't being inactive. They're either disabling accounts, or disabling sub-reddits, all of which causes activity on the servers. It's absolutely to be expected that outages occur.

An approximate time axis at the bottom would also be helpful as a lot is left to be assumed by the reader.