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The Cost Of Adding A Feature Isn't Just The Time It Takes To Code It. The Cost Also Includes The Addition Of An Obstacle To Future Expansion. ... The Trick Is To Pick The Features That Don't Fight Each Other.

I Really Think, If Anything, There Is More Evidence To Show That The Violent Games Reduce Aggression And Violence. There Have Actually Been Some Studies About That, That It's Cathartic. If You Go To Quakecon And You Walk By And You See The People There [and Compare That To] A Random Cross Section Of A College Campus, You're Probably Going To Find A More Peaceful Crowd Of People At The Gaming Convention. I Think It’s At Worst Neutral And Potentially Positive.

The Escalation Programmers Come From A Completely Different Background, And The Codebase Is All Stl This, Boost That, Fill-up-the-property List, Dispatch The Event, And Delegate That. I Had Been Harboring Some Suspicions That Our Big Codebases Might Benefit From The Application Of Some More Of The Various “modern” C++ Design Patterns, Despite Seeing Other Large Game Codebases Suffer Under Them. I Have Since Recanted That Suspicion.

Rocket Science Has Been Mythologized All Out Of Proportion To Its True Difficulty.

Focused, Hard Work Is The Real Key To Success. Keep Your Eyes On The Goal, And Just Keep Taking The Next Step Towards Completing It. If You Aren't Sure Which Way To Do Something, Do It Both Ways And See Which Works Better.