I'd Rather Have A Search Engine Or

It's A Good Thing Doom 3 Is Selling Very Well.

The Idea That I Can Be Presented With A Problem, Set Out To Logically Solve It With The Tools At Hand, And Wind Up With A Program That Could Not Be Legally Used Because Someone Else Followed The Same Logical Steps Some Years Ago And Filed For A Patent On It Is Horrifying.

Some Cynical People Think That Every Activity Must Revolve Around The Mighty Dollar, And That Anyone Saying Otherwise Is Just Attempting To Delude The Public. I Will Probably Never Be Able To Convice Them That That Isn't Always The Case, But I Do Have The Satisfaction Of Knowing That I Live In A Less Dingy World Than They Do.

In The Information Age, The Barriers [to Entry Into Programming] Just Aren't There. The Barriers Are Self Imposed. If You Want To Set Off And Go Develop Some Grand New Thing, You Don't Need Millions Of Dollars Of Capitalization. You Need Enough Pizza And Diet Coke To Stick In Your Refrigerator, A Cheap Pc To Work On, And The Dedication To Go Through With It. We Slept On Floors. We Waded Across Rivers.

If You Aren't Sure Which Way To Do Something, Do It Both Ways And See Which Works Better.