One of the peculiar distinctions of Jack Vance’s writing is that he vomits obscure words onto the page as if he’d just eaten a dictionary that severely disagreed with him. Sometimes he seems to be parodying his characters – but other times he happily does it for himself. To be […]
Monthly Archives: April 2012
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I feel sorry for Toshiba; they make good products, but their marketing seems to belong to a much smaller, poorer company. Take this advert, from April 2012, when Apple is already far along with shifting their whole laptop lineup to “ultra thin” MacBook airs (rumour suggests the non-thin models will […]
Hume just posted his Lessons Learned from the warmup for Ludum Dare 23 (48 hours to write a game from scratch – starts this weekend!) – and his positive experience using an Entity System. In his epic comment (sparked by a different Adam – not me, honest), is this gem: […]
This is from 4 years ago, courtesy of Steve Yegge. I just came across it by accident, it’s wonderfully well written, but one bit caught my attention in particular: “First, you can’t tell interviewers what’s important. Not at any company. Not unless they’re specifically asking you for advice.” Wait – […]
… It removes one of the most valuable features of OS X for laptop owners: OS x lion WILL NOT recharge a plugged-in iPhone when the lid is closed (after 10 seconds of pretending to charge – just long enough to fool you – Apple cuts the power) At conferences, […]
No link provided, but should be easy to find the studio email HR address: “Hi All, I’m looking for a QA person to join us at Zoe Mode. I need someone with experience as I need QA for multiple titles of different genres. A sense of rhythm will help. Please […]
Almost a year after Apple’s disastrous “force consumers to download Lion, instead of installing from DVD”, apparently it still doesn’t work. It’s hard to recommend OS X to anyone after this experience. UPDATE 2: Apple’s “download a file from the internet” code is so bad it’s causing the MacBook to […]
Third Reich vs. Game of Thrones … one of the best Downfall mashups I’ve seen (particularly like the timing on “Headless”) http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&v=1kLSYTHQbm4&NR=1
“Disruption” used to be mentioned frequently as the thing that every company wanted to be (urged on by investors). But what is it, really? I’ve met lots of people who believe it’s “a fancy word for ‘innovation'” – but if that’s all, it would be pretty pointless and vapid. This […]
Thanks to Mike Leahy for spotting this: http://blog.gemserk.com/2012/02/02/how-we-use-box2d-with-artemis/ …a short blog post (with code) on how a team is integrating Box2D (a very well known open source physics lib) with Artemis (a java implementation of Entity Systems which starts from the same point as my Entity Systems posts, but fleshes […]