I don't find it dumb at all, the concept of achievements is amazingly strong. Much stronger than anyone suspected until video games started offering them.
Kudos to Microsoft for being the first to offer this in a non video game computer environment. -- Cédric On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Richard Kennard < [email protected]> wrote: > So it seems no matter how dumb an idea, someone will try it! > > 3 years ago I posted this blog as a joke: > > http://blog.kennardconsulting.com/2008/12/new-features-in-eclipse-35.html > > Summary: Eclipse should have unlockable achievements just like many > PS3/XBox/Steam games. But now it appears that Microsoft have actually > gone and done it: > > http://channel9.msdn.com/achievements/visualstudio > > What do you think? Is this as silly as I thought it was? Or will it > usher in a new era of awesome 1337 programmers with mad skillz? > > As someone on Slashdot pointed out, however, "most of those > [Microsoft] achievements are just a funny take on amateur programmers" > like "Generate method stubs 9 times. You're a TDD bad ass!". At least > *mine* were hard to achieve "Write a program that actually uses the > strictfp keyword" :) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
