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erikbc

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erikbc··on “What Went Right and What Went Wrong”: Analysis of 155 Postmortems from Gamedev
"Let's not pretend that banging out something in Cg is PhD-level shit."

Almost everything you implement in CG is "PhD-level shit". Implementing techniques from SIGGRAPH papers in your game engine are usually non-trivial. Game engines/games are some of the most complex systems in software engineering, the complexity can't be compared to web apps at all.

erikbc··on Jeroo: educational IDE for novice programmers (2008)
Fine. But when I commented it was not clear that it was a historical post; and the value of the post - and intentions of the poster - are still not clear.
erikbc··on Jeroo: educational IDE for novice programmers (2008)
Wtf... What year are we in? Did you post this as a joke?
erikbc··on Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake
Because it's not.
erikbc··on For gifted children, being intelligent can have dark implications (2015)
But, can you capitalize?