https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/06/15/whaddaya-mean-you-...
"Now, let’s review some microeconomics. In a free market, it is almost axiomatic that the market always clears. That’s a technical term that means that when somebody tries to sell something, if they are willing to accept the market price, they will be able to sell it, and when somebody wants to buy something, if they are willing to pay the market price, they will be able to buy it. It’s just a matter of both sides accepting the market price."
No, there's a shortage of software people who are firstly willing to work for the £30K you seem to think is reasonable and secondly (implied by the pay on offer) willing to put up with being treated as if they are a junior, unskilled office worker.
Which is why those with any ambition become contractors and consultants, or leave the county...
https://github.com/gama-platform/gama/releases
wonder what HASH will add to this kind of thing?
GAMA is great -- and we're big fans of the team! They've done an awesome job raising the profile, and improving perceptions, of ABM/MAS-type modeling.
We're approaching things in a rather different manner, with a specific view to decreasing the time and complexity involved in building real-world (versus toy) models. We'll be drip-feeding invites (and more info) in the coming days.
Real programmers never retire. They just lose their bits.
Joel is a real programmer.
sources: https://github.com/magicshifter/MS3000
You can solder a long strip of LED's (we had up to 500) and address the whole thing over a handy Wifi interface .. the MS3000 provides its own web-based programming/config interface too.
We added an Arpeggiator, and MIDI too (rtpMIDI as well as hard MIDI), because why not, and this means you can sync the LED strip to your drum machine with ease, Joel .. ;)
(EDIT: douchebaggery--)
But "Everything Joels' trying to do with LED's, we already did with the MagicShifter" can read very negatively. Don't underestimate the joy of doing something yourself and making it happen.
Such as me making a version of "Simon" in an Altoids can: https://blog.jgc.org/2012/05/simonoids-its-simon-in-altoids-...
FastLED + the OctoWS or YvesBazin's controllers make much more sense for his project.
Plus, we support tons of different stationary modes. The POV stuff is fun for the pocket MagicShifter user...
Anyway, just wanted to let folks know this project is out there, and Joel is re-covering territory we've already well and truly explored. Plus, check out the new stuff on http://hackerspaceshop.com/
How does one program patterns for such cases? Does the Web UI help at all with that (if not, there's other projects that handle that way better)? … Quite possible it's a good choice, but the docs I found wouldn't tell me so.
Also, the MagicShifter can support thousands of LED's .. we even left the pads open on the PCB so you can easily solder your own strips on...
