w1ntermute

6 jaar geledendiscuss

It’s just another example of the “participation culture” that modern parenting and social media have made commonplace. Who needs to do anything real when you can just upvote or retweet? You get the same sort of participation trophy that you’ve been taught to aim for since childhood.

w1ntermute

11 jaar geledendiscuss

> I don't want to make a little bit of money every day. I want to make a fuck ton of money all at once.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzAdXyPYKQo&t=15

w1ntermute

14 jaar geledendiscuss

> He's obviously not so terrible if he created this thing that has people so up in arms.

Oh please, double standards like this disgust me. Microsoft had shit slung at it for years on end by the tech community because IE was terrible and held back innovation on the web, but no one claimed that IE is "not so terrible" just because everyone cared about it.

The difference with Gruber is that he's a darling of the tech community because he's Apple-anointed nobility. But as a programmer, in my eyes (and in the eyes of any other objective observers) he's absolute shit.

w1ntermute

14 jaar geledendiscuss

I don't see how the other guy getting lucky hurts the OP. He was able to improve his team at Sun by getting rid of the guy, and that guy ultimately got rich anyway.

w1ntermute

14 jaar geledendiscuss

> There was a guy at Sun whom I helped manage out of the organization, he landed a job at a start up that two months later got bought with a full vesting of everyone. He walked away with several million dollars. It took a lot of thinking about that series of events to let it sit in my head without pissing me off.

Why did that piss you off? Sounds like it was a win-win situation for you and that guy.

w1ntermute

14 jaar geledendiscuss

Doesn't matter if there are exceptions. When there are so many job opportunities out there for developers, why take the risk?

w1ntermute

14 jaar geledendiscuss

It means that their mentality is significantly different from other game companies, which means that generalizations of gaming companies drawn from their work culture are much more tenuous.

w1ntermute

14 jaar geledendiscuss

Doesn't it say in Valve's handbook (the one released earlier this year) that it doesn't actually consider itself to be a gaming company?

w1ntermute

14 jaar geledendiscuss

Any developer with half a brain should know that the game industry should be avoided like the plague. Long working hours, abusive management, racism (the Kixeye debacle), the issues just go on and on.

Take patio11's advice and go into B2B, you'll make money hand over fist with much more manageable working hours.

w1ntermute

14 jaar geledendiscuss

> Top bar is all Apple.

Not sure what you mean by "top bar", but there's a Windows 8 Review above the fold.

Also, remember that the Zynga story is "From Polygon" (Polygon is The Verge's sister gaming site), so it wouldn't be at the top regardless.

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