In the New Regime, any developer incapable of producing a simple fucking sort function so that "100" does not appear in a list before "20" (because the former starts with a one) will be shot.
Sorry, that's cruel.
Hung from the neck until dead, and the rotting corpse left as a warning to his (it's almost always his) peers not to do Stupid Shit.
Which reminds me, the chief complaint I've read about the PS2 is that it's a bitch to develop for.
Mind you, don't remember reading a translated version of this sentiment from Japanese developers. It's just the lazy, Visual Basic using American half-wits who can't stand the idea of actually earning their overinflated salaries by actually working, rather than making calls to the libraries.
Yep, good mood is long gone.
(Is it ironic that for a simple sort, where they should make a call to the library, the idjits will write the thing from scratch and fuck it up, but for a complex task which would require some thought and effort, they demand that the libraries take care of it? Or have I had too much Red Bull this morning?)
Anyone who pays more attention to such things -- sorry, can't take hardcore gamers seriously, partially because they refer to themselves as hardcore gamers -- seen any examples of the folks at Square, or one of the other Japanese houses, complaining about the wicked intricacy of the PS2? Guess that'd include Sega at this point.
You know, it's weird. I disagree with Jason on some things -- the man has a LameCube, ferchrissakes -- yet we can have a perfectly civil conversation as long as we avoid that topic.
[note to tourists: That last bit? That's the Message.]
Update: Yes, I could write the rant about dumb-ass developers and their shitty sort functions so that only dumb-ass (but arcane jargon-speaking) developers could understand it. But you know what though?
I've noticed a reverse correlation between how intelligent someone tries to come across and how intelligent they actually are. Dumb mother fuckers gots something to prove, so they use this inflated, pretentious writing style; I'll refrain from linking any blogs as examples, because I'm nice like that.
I ain't got shit to prove to nobody, so I use an informal style and lots and lots of profanity. I'm sure this turns some people off, and they ignore the content because they're obsessed with the superficial language used.
But you know what though?
Not giving a rat's ass about people who make decisions like that, and actually happier if they go the fuck away complaining about the ignorant Negro who can't even write properly.
Oddly, this applies to RL as well. . .
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