Douglas' poetic description of the artvertiser code made me smile.
It's also interesting to see bricolage programming becoming a
recognised process of experimentation. People are writing papers about
it:
http://yaxu.org/writing/ppig.pdf
Also it's good to see the Julian and Damian publishing their source
code. Many times people who work with code seem ashamed to post the
source because it's not tidy/nice/(insert some subjective description
here), even if they agree with the open source software philosophy.
Part of what I like about the way the project is implemented is the
array of different tools that have been brought together. It's
inspiring stuff and the glue is a big part of what makes it so cool.
Rob
On 3/11/2010, at 3:27 AM, Julian Oliver wrote:
I wanted to mention also that I don't think that the trained
engineer and
inventive coder are at all mutually exclusive. Many of the solutions
Damian's
come up that improved my base code are not just structural
improvements but
creative solutions to very difficult problems. It's simply now a
much better
project (wait until you see our beautiful new UI!).
It's here that the hacker approach often hits a glass ceiling - at a
certain
point you need to do your homework to progress beyond the working
prototype
stage and deliver something great. You need to be both experienced and
creative in the context of the given engineering problem.
In the context of Machine Vision projects I often find myself
reading API
documentation, decomposing algorithms and making countless tests
while someone
like Damian is already surging onward with an actual
implementation.. thinking
it through in a future-proof way.
There are only a few programming contexts in which I feel that
capable..
Anyway, this isn't an interview. I'll EOF ;)
EOF
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