John Carmack, the primary developer of Doom and Quake at id Software, posted some great comments on his recent experiments with cellphone game development in Java. My favorite?
there is something deeply wrong when text editing on a 3.6 ghz processor is anything but instantaneous.
That’s quote of the month material.
Edward Tufte's print world is filled with stunningly beautiful visualizations. Even seemingly mundane things like visualizations of Ruby, Java, and JavaScript grammars can be beautiful. But they're static. They don't move. They're not interactive. That's where Ben comes in. If
In the spirit of Java Lava Lamp build monitoring: A few months ago, on April 1 2004 to be precise, I posted an article on eXtreme Feedback. The article was on a relatively serious subject: “How do you get your team to pay attention to the software/project status and
I got into an interesting discussion today about that recently published report, Comparing Microsoft .NET and IBM WebSphere/J2EE. If you haven’t read it, there’s a summary at eWeek, but I definitely recommend downloading the full report for the details. If you’re too busy to do either
I was intrigued when I saw a cryptic reference to “the lackluster RegEx performance in .NET 1.1” on Don Park’s blog. Don referred me to this page, which displays some really crazy benchmark results from a Java regex test class – calling C#’s regex support “20 times slower
We are at an unprecedented point in American history, and I'm concerned we may lose sight of the American Dream.
With a 13 billion year head start on evolution, why haven’t any other forms of life in the universe contacted us by now? (Arrival is a fantastic movie. Watch it, but don’t stop there – read the Story of Your Life novella it was based on for so much
If you haven’t been able to keep up with my blistering pace of one blog post per year, I don’t blame you. There’s a lot going on right now. It’s a busy time. But let’s pause and take a moment to celebrate that Elon Musk
It’s my honor to announce that John Carmack and I have initiated a friendly bet of $10,000* to the 501(c)(3) charity of the winner’s choice: By January 1st, 2030, completely autonomous self-driving cars meeting SAE J3016 level 5 will be commercially available for passenger use