sparaig wrote: >--- 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). >> >> > >You're a fan of Larry Constantine, I take it? > >http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/- >/0130601233/qid=1123832167/sr=1-5/ref=sr_1_5/102-1826055-9923345? >v=glance&s=books > > > > > Yup, I used to read his articles and attended one of his talks.
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