Comments on: The long dark tea time of the computer programmer https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2012/01/the-long-dark-tea-time-of-the-computer-programmer/ Extract tables from PDFs and scrape the web Thu, 14 Jul 2016 16:12:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6 By: Clive.nl Retro Computer Collectors « Just Clive Jive https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2012/01/the-long-dark-tea-time-of-the-computer-programmer/#comment-744 Mon, 26 Mar 2012 18:21:59 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758216075#comment-744 […] The long dark tea time of the computer programmer (scraperwiki.com) […]

]]> By: Jason Chown https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2012/01/the-long-dark-tea-time-of-the-computer-programmer/#comment-743 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:31:49 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758216075#comment-743 I think Douglas Adams already pointed out the incomputability of making a good cup of tea!

Seriously though: Games development is in some respects actually much harder (and requires much deeper understanding) than robotics. In a game you would have to model the physics of the fluid in the cup (using Navier-Stokes equations) as well as program a virtual robot that is able to do what your physical robot would do…

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