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“We are treating the Mac as a tier-1 platform so all of our future games will release simultaneously on Windows, Mac and the Xbox 360,” Cook said. “Updates for the Mac will be available simultaneously with the Windows updates. Furthermore, Mac and Windows players will be part of the same multiplayer universe, sharing servers, lobbies and so forth. We fully support a heterogeneous mix of servers and clients. The first Mac Steam client will be the new generation currently in beta testing on Windows.”

What a great news from Steam, the awesome gaming platform.

I've been contemplating for quite some time whether to install a Windows OS or not, just to give Steam a try. It's coming to Mac soon, time to actually exploit my MacBook Pro graphic processing power.

Also remember that someone who points out a problem early is a troublemaker; someone who fixes a problem at the last minute is a hero.

Useful tips there.

Instead of designing beautiful data-structures and elegant algorithms, we’re looking up the EnterpriseFactoryBeanMaker class in the 3,456-page Bumper Tome Of Horrible Stupid Classes (Special Grimoire Edition), because we can’t remember which of the arguments to the createEnterpriseBeanBuilderFactory() method tells it to make the public static pure virtual destructor be a volatile final abstract interface factory decorator.

That, my friend, is the real world, corporate-driven, programming. Take it or leave it.

Shortly after birth, Kim began to display extraordinary intellectual ability. He began speaking at 6 months, could converse fluently by age 1, and was able to read Japanese, Korean, German, and English by his third birthday. On November 2, 1967, at age 4, he solved an advanced stochastic differential equation. Later, on Japanese television, he demonstrated his proficiency in Chinese, Spanish, Vietnamese, German, English, Japanese, and Korean. Even in early childhood, he began to write poetry and was an exceptional painter.

Who said IQ is not important?

Any time - any time - you type any remotely incorrect command, the interpreter creatively resolves it into "rm -rf /" and wipes your hard drive.

A typo, and BOOM, game over.

As he waddled, he thought, I put my foot here, I put my foot there, I put my foot here, I put my foot there.

Sad story. But, I do like the above description of how a duck's brain works. Click through the above link to read the whole thing.

programmers are a special case. Because not only will they tell you how wrong you are, but they’ll also tell you how stupid and idiotic you are, and they’ll mathematically prove it, and you should never program again, and you should be fired, you moron. Their attacks are all-out personal insults on your intelligence, but much better written and argued than most internet commenters.

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