#46185 - MrD - Tue Jun 21, 2005 2:11 pm
Anybody feel like taking part in a silly quick survey? ^_^
Writing wise, are you left or right handed, and would you consider yourself more of a coder than artist/musician?
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#46202 - Kyoufu Kawa - Tue Jun 21, 2005 5:54 pm
Lefty, and even though I like to draw, I consider myself a coder.
#46203 - Dwedit - Tue Jun 21, 2005 6:08 pm
What would non-coders be doing on a site called "GBADEV"?
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#46212 - tepples - Tue Jun 21, 2005 7:05 pm
| Dwedit wrote: |
| What would non-coders be doing on a site called "GBADEV"? |
Tasks related to GBA software development other than coding include art, music, testing, etc.
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#46219 - Touchstone - Tue Jun 21, 2005 8:48 pm
MrD, how come left-handed coder is the first alternative? I'm a bit curious.
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#46221 - Xtreme984 - Tue Jun 21, 2005 9:22 pm
maybe because he's a left-handed coder himself (I'm one of those as well, allthough I use my right hand alot too for things other than writing.)
#46233 - strager - Wed Jun 22, 2005 1:34 am
| Touchstone wrote: |
| MrD, how come left-handed coder is the first alternative? I'm a bit curious. |
He's just normal, although there are some reasons (if you want some) on why this would be valid:
- It's in alphabetical order: L, R.
- Ever heard of the controls "left right up down"?
- Becuase there are not as many Left-handed coders.
- You bothered asking.
I wouldn't be surprised that if he posted with them in the other order, you would post that silly little question regardless.
And me, I am a righthanded coder.
#46235 - MrD - Wed Jun 22, 2005 3:08 am
All of strager's reasons are valid! (But it's mostly because 'right, left' doesn't roll off the tongue as easy as 'left, right')
And yeah, I'm left handed. :)
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#46242 - tepples - Wed Jun 22, 2005 4:42 am
| strager wrote: |
- Ever heard of the controls "left right up down"?
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No, but I have heard of left down up right, which has been the standard arrow order since the ADM3A terminal (see image) and continuing through the 'vi' editor and Dance Dance Revolution music game.
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#46244 - Dwedit - Wed Jun 22, 2005 5:23 am
If you are Sega however, the mice/cat data in chu chu rocket is stored as Right, Down, Left, Up.
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#46246 - sgeos - Wed Jun 22, 2005 5:51 am
| Dwedit wrote: |
| If you are Sega however, the mice/cat data in chu chu rocket is stored as Right, Down, Left, Up. |
CCW from right. Right handed (coder).
-Brendan
#46247 - gauauu - Wed Jun 22, 2005 6:16 am
| tepples wrote: |
| ....and continuing through the 'vi' editor and Dance Dance Revolution music game. |
Holy crap, I never noticed that....
I think it's because my fingers know the vi keys, but my brain doesn't....I had to stare at the keyboard and pretend like I was using vi to see if you were right. :)
Anyway, so is this survey some sort of idea about left-handedness and creativity?
And what if, for the purposes of this web site, we are more of a coder, but spend just as much of our time making music? .....ok, enough of my stupid questions.
#46293 - Quirky - Wed Jun 22, 2005 8:01 pm
| gauauu wrote: |
I had to stare at the keyboard and pretend like I was using vi to see if you were right. :)
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"j looks a bit like a down arrow" is how I remember it, the rest fits in then, but I had to look at the keyboard too.
#46367 - Touchstone - Thu Jun 23, 2005 7:03 pm
| strager wrote: |
| I wouldn't be surprised that if he posted with them in the other order, you would post that silly little question regardless. |
What's so silly about my question?
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#46707 - sgeos - Wed Jun 29, 2005 7:08 am
Is about 25% of the population at large left handed?
-Brendan
#46731 - sajiimori - Wed Jun 29, 2005 6:42 pm
I think it's closer to 10%, but I would expect that value to be higher among programmers.
#46764 - gauauu - Thu Jun 30, 2005 6:55 am
really?
The left-handed people I've known are more artistic (in the traditional sense) than engineering/scientific minded.
They're the ones that are musicians/painters/etc.
#46793 - Miked0801 - Thu Jun 30, 2005 6:31 pm
| Quote: |
They're the ones that are musicians/painters/etc.
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Hmmm. I've personally noticed that about 90% of the coders I work with are muscially inclined - left or right handed. It seems the part of the brain that allows logical programming also responds well to musical patterns.
#46858 - gauauu - Fri Jul 01, 2005 10:32 am
I've heard of studies being done about that....that the musical part of the brain and the mathematical are really linked.
So I guess another interesting survey question would be: are you musically inclined?
I'm always listening to music, and quite often making it. (guitar, bass, drums, flute, accordian, etc....problem is I just can't sing).
So I guess I fit that survey sample. :)
#46865 - FourScience - Fri Jul 01, 2005 1:52 pm
Perhaps based on the nature of our backgrounds and interests, we know more "creative" people to begin with. Results will also vary by culture.
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#46906 - tepples - Fri Jul 01, 2005 10:55 pm
Except some mathematical people have used combinatorics to figure out that composing music without risking an infringement lawsuit is next to impossible.
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#46912 - FourScience - Fri Jul 01, 2005 11:15 pm
Hahahaha! That really makes me laugh.
I partly wish I was left-handed, it always seems that many hockey players are lefties. Of course, some righties will hold their sticks like lefties.
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#46918 - tepples - Sat Jul 02, 2005 2:24 am
| FourScience wrote: |
Hahahaha! That really makes me laugh. |
So if you think it's ridiculous, then how should one compose a musical work without running the risk of having to fund a protracted legal defense (or defence)?
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#46924 - FourScience - Sat Jul 02, 2005 4:00 am
| tepples wrote: |
| FourScience wrote: |
Hahahaha! That really makes me laugh. |
So if you think it's ridiculous, then how should one compose a musical work without running the risk of having to fund a protracted legal defense (or defence)? |
No, the article itself isn't ridiculous, but the reality it is professing. A lot of things are really screwed up with IP laws these days, and I'm just laughing at how fubar things are.
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#47037 - gauauu - Mon Jul 04, 2005 6:00 am
That reminds me of this one, [url=http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1='6,368,227'.WKU.&OS=PN/6,368,227&RS=PN/6,368,227]The guy who patented swinging sideways on a swingset[/url]
It's getting pretty sad nowadays.
#47112 - sgeos - Tue Jul 05, 2005 9:56 am
| gauauu wrote: |
I've heard of studies being done about that....that the musical part of the brain and the mathematical are really linked.
So I guess another interesting survey question would be: are you musically inclined? |
Music is logorithmic. Music theory is all math. I'd like to break out some books on music theory one of theses days and write some music driven by and RNG, but I haven't taken the time just yet... any recommendations for books on music theory?
-Brendan
#47172 - gauauu - Wed Jul 06, 2005 3:10 am
Most textbooks I've seen spend way too much time on a specific aspect of music theory, instead of starting with a good foundation and then building and explaining stuff from there.
Even classes that I've taken mix a lot of cruft in with it....
So I don't have good advice for a place to learn.