I was expecting his argument about how life is a really simulation, still a good read nonetheless.
Atari founder Nolan Bushnell on why life is 'a game'
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Re: Atari founder Nolan Bushnell on why life is 'a game'
#22tar(1) flags as a blackboard prop, that's nice. I wouldn't consider them that complicated to warrant being a background image of such a nature, though.
Complicated? Just easy to forget. Esoteric unimportant details. I can sympathize. I have 4-5 languages I write once a month or so. Each has a different "if" syntax, and a different "for" syntax. Pretty soon I'm going to cave and write myself a little reference note like that. (Yeah, yeah, I'm sure any real ninjapirate worth his salt can perfectly recall every syntax rule of every language he's ever written)
The closer two languages are the harder it is not to mess up with details like that.
Re: Atari founder Nolan Bushnell on why life is 'a game'
#23>"How many companies have you started by the time you're 18? If the answer's zero, I wouldn't invest in you," he says of their entrepreneurial verve. Jesus christ, really? That sounds like a hideous childhood to me. Is this what we're becoming, a race of people obsessed with capital and business and work? Go play in the dirt and ride your bike, kid. Work when you're old.
I'm sure many of us did some sort of business when we were kids. Trading anything with your friends (cards, etc) is a business, especially if those trades make the value of your collection go up or down. Buying these items new (cards in a pack) could sort of be an investment scheme. If you held onto anything worth money from your childhood, you could call that a buy and hold scheme. Creating in-game value by trading,…
> I'm sure many of us did some sort of business when we were kids.
> Trading anything with your friends (cards, etc) is a business, especially if those trades make the value of your collection go up or down. Buying these items new (cards in a pack) could sort of be an investment scheme.
> If you held onto anything worth money from your childhood, you could call that a buy and hold scheme.
> Creating in-game value by trading, selling and acquiring items in an MMORPG is a business if you could cash out that value through trading sites.
The capacity of some posters on this board to redefine simple and well known words into something entirely different in order to fit a very warped vision of things never ceases to amaze me.
Re: Atari founder Nolan Bushnell on why life is 'a game'
#24>"How many companies have you started by the time you're 18? If the answer's zero, I wouldn't invest in you," he says of their entrepreneurial verve. Jesus christ, really? That sounds like a hideous childhood to me. Is this what we're becoming, a race of people obsessed with capital and business and work? Go play in the dirt and ride your bike, kid. Work when you're old.
Yawn! Anyone can say hyperbolic stuff like that. You have to, to be quoted. E.g. there are only two hard problems in computer science etc.
well at least with the latter it implies a third problem that could be very broad and cover everything ;-)
Re: Atari founder Nolan Bushnell on why life is 'a game'
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yawn! Anyone can say hyperbolic stuff like that. You have to, to be quoted. E.g. there are only two hard problems in computer science etc.
well at least with the latter it implies a third problem that could be very broad and cover everything ;-)
There is only one hard problem in computer science. Finding a cheap but very talented software developer :-)
Re: Atari founder Nolan Bushnell on why life is 'a game'
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm sure many of us did some sort of business when we were kids. Trading anything with your friends (cards, etc) is a business, especially if those trades make the value of your collection go up or down. Buying these items new (cards in a pack) could sort of be an investment scheme. If you held onto anything worth money from your childhood, you could call that a buy and hold scheme. Creating in-game value by trading,…
> I'm sure many of us did some sort of business when we were kids. > Trading anything with your friends (cards, etc) is a business, especially if those trades make the value of your collection go up or down. Buying these items new (cards in a pack) could sort of be an investment scheme. > If you held onto anything worth money from your childhood, you could call that a buy and hold scheme. > Creating in-game value by…
You have just described how politics and media work these days.
Re: Atari founder Nolan Bushnell on why life is 'a game'
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Re: Atari founder Nolan Bushnell on why life is 'a game'
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Re: Atari founder Nolan Bushnell on why life is 'a game'
#29Sheesh, this guy has been in the industry longer than most at age 72 and it shocked me when I read, "a handful of young men are eagerly banging away on keyboards late on a Saturday afternoon" - then to top it all off further into the article he says, "How many companies have you started by the time you're 18? If the answer's zero, I wouldn't invest in you," he says of their entrepreneurial verve (after explaining pre…
> it shocked me when I read, "a handful of young men are eagerly banging away on keyboards late on a Saturday afternoon"
It's not so unreasonable to work on a Saturday afternoon. As PG says, "If you’re ever unsure if you should be doing what you’re doing during YC, ask yourself this question: ‘Am I building our product? Am I talking to users? Am I exercising?’. if you’re not doing one of these things, you’re doing the wrong thing."
> Crunch does not make for efficiency. Look at EA if you want to see what crunch does
I don't know much about EA but their stock value seems okay:
https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&...
(Though if the recent rise is due to changed policies around crunchtime, that would be really interesting and I'd love to learn about that.)
Re: Atari founder Nolan Bushnell on why life is 'a game'
#30>"How many companies have you started by the time you're 18? If the answer's zero, I wouldn't invest in you," he says of their entrepreneurial verve. Jesus christ, really? That sounds like a hideous childhood to me. Is this what we're becoming, a race of people obsessed with capital and business and work? Go play in the dirt and ride your bike, kid. Work when you're old.
Investing in monomaniacs can be much more successful than investing in normal well adjusted people.