Last week was crazy. I spent most of it at GDC, the largest annual event in the videogame industry. As I mentioned in a previous post, I went to GDC to both compete in the Student Finalist Showcase (10 games …More
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Buglist Haiku
August 9, 2006
At most code shops, reports for known bugs are filed and kept in massive databases. At my job, known bugs are are scribbled on little cards and described using Haiku. I thought I would share my top 3. I Spatial …More
ASSERT(this->GetCurrentMission() != MISSION_DESTROY_HUMANITY);
August 23, 2005
Depending on who you ask, super-intelligent machines are either a laughable pipedream or an inexorably approaching certainty. Considering the amazing number of computers that go mad in sci-fi movies, its strange that programmers have never anticipated or built countermeasures to …More
Chess is a Storm Against Man
May 8, 2005
On the Romance of Regicide: The Turk, Kasparov, and Deep Blue “Chess is beautiful enough to waste your life for,” the oft-quoted aphorism of Dutch Grandmaster Hans Rees, most succinctly describes the human obsession with the ancient game of kings. …More
