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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.

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A large fraction of the flaws in software development are due to programmers not fully understanding all the possible states their code may execute in.

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Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later.

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The situation is so much better for programmers today - a cheap used PC, a linux CD, and an internet account, and you have all the tools necessary to work your way to any level of programming skill you want to shoot for.

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Note to self: Pasty-skinned programmers ought not stand in the Mojave desert for multiple hours.

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