January 23, 2007 – 12:54 am
Here’s the basic problem: you’re writing a text editor. Stop doing that. It’s 2007. … Writing a great text editor is insanely difficult. There is a certain class of software that sounds easy but is actually insanely difficult. I call it “garden path software.” If I ever start a software company, I’ll name it “Garden [...]
January 22, 2007 – 1:34 am
When you’re writing a novel you’re working at the most extreme limit of your
capabilities. What you’re doing is beyond logic, so far out at the limits of what you can do
that there’s no hope of your having a short and manageable simulation of the process by
which to figure out what you’re [...]
January 21, 2007 – 4:19 pm
I think I’m getting to a point where I need to do some personal rebalancing. There are some things that I tell myself I’d rather I was doing besides working in the day and playing World of Warcraft at night. Some of them include:
Exploring San Francisco, the South Bay, and other interesting areas [...]
January 12, 2007 – 11:01 am
“We define everything that is on the phone,” he said. “You don’t want your phone to be like a PC. The last thing you want is to have loaded three apps on your phone and then you go to make a call and it doesn’t work anymore. These are more like iPods than they are [...]
January 2, 2007 – 7:53 pm
Free game idea I’ll probably never implement, and would hate to maintain if I ever did:
Yendor’s Other World (or, YoW) – a cross between IdleRPG / ProgressQuest and the Auction Houses from World of Warcraft. The market is the game, the roleplaying is just the background. Characters quest while you’re busy in the [...]
