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It's easy to forget that the SNES game library was mostly a sewer filled with "character with attitude" platformers. Loads of really, tremendously bad, unoriginal stuff

I suspect you're right, though I'm hoping it was done unintentionally, that he hired a company or acquaintance to "promote" the game, and it resulted in bot-fueled reviews and down…

Think about the CPU landscape in 1984. You had all these 8-bit home computers running at sub-2MHz. The IBM PC was 16-bits running at 4.77MHz, and most of those were actually using …

I felt the same way about Wolfenstein 3D. The graphics were neat, but the game was a big step back from its 2D namesake on 8-bit hardware. It was just run and shoot and rub along w…

This is the end for id. The only thing id has had going for it are Carmack's engines. In recent years his stuff has been as amazing as ever, but so many commercial engines are only…

Was that cut and pasted from some kind of template for empty, verbose corporate-speak?

The "it feels so much faster" comments don't fly with me. The iPhone 4 still feels slick and speedy in September 2012. The 4S was faster, but it wasn't noticeable except for certai…

Can you imagine the pain caused by transitioning away from HFS+? Is there something so fundamentally wrong with it to justify all the compatibility headaches of a new filesystem? U…

You missed a key point: with OpenGL 1.3 you don't need to follow the glBegin/glVertex/glEnd paradigm. You can create a display list or you can use vertex arrays. In fact the reason…

The main thing Apple did with the iPad was make it work without any major gotchas. Sure, you could have stuck a desktop CPU and desktop OS in a touchscreen device. Other people tri…

A good article, thanks for writing it. I'm not convinced that a majority of cyclists understand that they have to follow the same rules as motorized vehicles. It's unusual to see t…

He missed the point of the Instagram logo. The whole purpose of Instagram is to make retro-styled photos, so a retro camera icon makes total sense.

Well, let's be fair. OMGPOP is hardly a bastion of game design originality. For example, dinglepop is a 100% complete rip-off of Puzzle Bobble / Bust a Move, which Taito released i…

This list reads exactly like advice from business books from the 1970s or earlier. And I mean exactly . No deviation. Nothing new. Clearly there's more to the meeting issue or peop…

I'm beginning to wonder if the memory "issue" is psychological. I run OS X Lion on a 2GB notebook. I use Xcode, Python, ImageMagick, Firefox w/Firebug. I've never had noticeable pa…

"most of these sites look stuck in a much older paradigm of thinking about web design" This needs some explanation. The vim site looks dated, but clearly I'm not enough of an insid…

I can't see writing text-based Lua scripts on an iPad as anything other than an anachronism.