May 25th, 2012 at 8:58PM
Complication is What Happens When You Try to Solve a Problem You Don't Understand

There have been many times in my life when I wish somebody would have said this to me.

The best way to manage complication is to avoid creating it in the first place. If you find yourself in a mindless change → pray → run loop, you don’t understand your code well enough to be editing it. Stop what you’re doing, actually get up and walk away from the keyboard, think about what you’re trying to do, and don’t come back to the keyboard until you understand exactly what you’re doing and how to do it. Obviously there’s some slack here for debugging, but it’s not controversial to say that you shouldn’t change code you don’t understand, even — especially? — when it’s your own.
April 18th, 2012 at 2:19PM
Ramblings in Valve Time | Valve

I love the culture at Valve, but it seems to me that you cannot simple move an existing organization into that style of management. You need to start your company with that in mind and hire people who you know will work well in that environment from day one.

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March 6th, 2012 at 9:10AM
most people are comfortable being who they are and where they are. It’s us crazy dreamers who are unmoored, and who always seek out secondary worlds — Raph’s Website » Is immersion a core game virtue?
March 1st, 2012 at 8:00AM
Stuff

Having recently moved house, and noticed that five months later there are over a dozen unopened boxes in the store room that I obviously don’t need, this article struck home for me in a big way.

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February 29th, 2012 at 9:12AM
the now freshly minted manager begins to understand that life as a lead is an endless list of little things that collectively keep you busy, but, in aggregate, don’t feel much like progress —

More than anything else I have read, this sums up my feelings about the last several years of my working life.

http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2012/02/29/a_precious_hour.html
February 11th, 2012 at 7:00AM
All I want is a world where we can give a game as much time as we’d give a good book. The author should do their best to capture us from the first sentence, of course. But as an audience, I’d like us all to look at the remaining 2.5” of the book and go not “ugh, stuff”, but “yay, art! — http://mrgan.tumblr.com/post/17399747880/no-such-thing-as-a-quick-adventure
February 6th, 2012 at 9:24PM
→ Jeff Atwood leaves Stack Exchange

from Marco.org
January 30th, 2012 at 9:49AM
Espresso Field Guide  via Coffee Nate.

Espresso Field Guide 

via Coffee Nate.

January 23rd, 2012 at 6:39AM
Sustainable

from xkcd.com
January 13th, 2012 at 4:16PM
The Word of Notch: Coding skill and the decline of stagnation

notch:

I am a decent programmer. I know a decent amount of computer science theory, I can type correct code fairly easy. I don’t let my classes expand too much. But I still struggle some with math, and I have a tendency to have too many cross-dependencies in my code.

I used to think I was an awesome…
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