as mentioned in the Halo: Reach GDC talk

“My elegant solution broke down... It relied on the unrealistic promise of all clients being able to run the physics in the same way and at the same rates.” ?!

“Maybe gamification is what you do when your busy work isn't compelling enough on its own for people to enjoy themselves.”

i've been using this and it's totally nice

vaguely logo-like language for programming crop circle designs

“[P]arallel, grid based computing looks like it should be hard but it's coming, it has significant advantages once you can get your head round it and as long as the tools are good it might actually turn out to be a better way to program.”

"Reading this, I couldn't help but mentally substitute 'Ajax' with 'Really Shitty'."

"[T]he barrier to entry to being an acknowledged contributing member to the Perl community is higher than that in many other languages."

...or just programming laymen

Time to have read this again.

;_;

computer programming aptitude and skill

book pages are supposedly redesigned

"Because I can try 1,000 times a second, I can give immediate feedback on whether I have a good enough image or not, so the user doesn't, like, take a picture, hold her breath for four seconds, have the software go 'WRONG,' try adjusting the book, take an

New ternary operator looks like Perl's postfix conditionals: "expression if condition else expression;" generators become coroutines; genericized hashlib module; pysqlite now included; weirdly useless behavior for quit() and exit() called as functions?