--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Llundrub wrote: > > > > > > >Man dies after 50 hours of computer games > >A South Korean man who played computer games for 50 hours almost non-stop died of heart failure minutes after finishing his mammoth session in an Internet cafe, authorities said on Tuesday. > > > >http://g.msn.com/0MN2ET7/2? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8888579&&CM=EmailThis&CE=1 > >_____________________________ > > > > > > > Many particularly young computer game programmers treat the process of > making games like monks in monastery needing to show how macho they are > by spending an enormous chunk of their lives on the project. Herding > these young dweebs I often pissed them off my sending them home at the > end of the day as they didn't seem to realize that beyond a certain > point they were writing more bugs than decent code. Some managers > didn't do this and we got twenty something programmers suffering strokes > (or becoming alcoholics).
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