Yes, he is very lazy. He admits it. I'm lazy. Everyone's lazy to an extent. How'd you like to be coding something 6/7 (6 hours every day +) - even when money is involved? I'm sorry, but CODING for THAT long? Just not happening. That's what a team is for - notch has a very small one, most of them work for scrolls - www.scrolls.com .
While he is lazy, when he does code, he's a god at it, and does very excellently. Excluding all the bugs, he does things fast, and if he actually wasn't in such a rush, and actually wasn't lazy, his god coding skills could be perfected, and be 10x better than terraria could ever be.
I agree, coding for a regular job must be boring. My dad seems to enjoy it though, which disturbs me.
IMO, Terraria is better because it's 2D, so they don't have to account for mobs moving in a third dimension or other things that are harder to do in 3D.
Yes, he is very lazy. He admits it. I'm lazy. Everyone's lazy to an extent. How'd you like to be coding something 6/7 (6 hours every day +) - even when money is involved? I'm sorry, but CODING for THAT long? Just not happening. That's what a team is for - notch has a very small one, most of them work for scrolls - www.scrolls.com . While he is lazy, when he does code, he's a god at it, and does very excellently. Excluding all the bugs, he does things fast, and if he actually wasn't in such a rush, and actually wasn't lazy, his god coding skills could be perfected, and be 10x better than terraria could ever be.
I'm actually kinda tired of hearing "How would you like to code for a living?" as if it were somehow the worst thing in the world. Firstly, in this economy, a job is a job. Secondly, I've worked Customer Service. I'll take coding over that any day of the week.
I'm actually kinda tired of hearing "How would you like to code for a living?" as if it were somehow the worst thing in the world. Firstly, in this economy, a job is a job. Secondly, I've worked Customer Service. I'll take coding over that any day of the week.
Well, it kinda is.
Doing nothing but typing, thinking, and being confused, and taking complaints about how bad a coder you are.
Yes, he is very lazy. He admits it. I'm lazy. Everyone's lazy to an extent. How'd you like to be coding something 6/7 (6 hours every day +) - even when money is involved? I'm sorry, but CODING for THAT long? Just not happening.
I wish I had a job with a big of a pay off as he does money-wise. Imagine, you can sit infront of a computer all day, with a duel-screen and have Twitter or whatever else you want opened in the one screen, and "code" in the other. You have no idea how many people work jobs for 20 years straight with little hope of ever advancing without having to relocate to another city to get a better paying job.
While he is lazy, when he does code, he's a god at it, and does very excellently. Excluding all the bugs, he does things fast, and if he actually wasn't in such a rush, and actually wasn't lazy, his god coding skills could be perfected, and be 10x better than terraria could ever be.
He never had a good batting average with Fixed Bugs VS New Bugs created. These last 1.6 updates just sealed the deal with how much people could take. I have to admit that I saw this coming when he said he was basically "going through the bug list over at the minecraft wiki" and "fixing as many as he's able to".
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Don't even get me started on all the plane trips he's taken. His life is no where near boring.
I don't like working and that earns me £5 an hour LOL
Hell I have facial piercings and I'm too damn lazy to even clean them properly every day.
MY SIN IS SLOTH.
LOL Yeah I can't criticize Notch for that. :mellow.gif:
I'm pretty sure we're all lazy... but I reckon Notch should get more people in on the team tbh. I know he's just one person and there isn't many in his team, however he is pure rich now. He an afford to pay an intern or two to help stuff out.
It would have helped if he tried to keep up with the bugs, instead of fixing all of them now. That's probably what is causing half of the problem at the moment.
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It's hard to follow your dreams when you run from your nightmares. --
The rule of coding = when you fix a bug, there's a huge chance a new bug while come from it.
Which is why you test everything before packaging the entire thing and shipping it out to the masses. Most of the resulting bugs from the bug fixes are worse than the bugs that existed before.
Well, it kinda is.Doing nothing but typing, thinking, and being confused, and taking complaints about how bad a coder you are.
That doesn't sound like a bad job. I mean, maybe compared to Dater of International Supermodels or Hero of Everything, but compared to real jobs that real people have that sounds, well, about par for the course. At worst.
To top it off, it made him a millionaire. He's not exactly living a hard knock life.
That doesn't sound like a bad job. I mean, maybe compared to Dater of International Supermodels or Hero of Everything, but compared to real jobs that real people have that sounds, well, about par for the course. At worst.
To top it off, it made him a millionaire. He's not exactly living a hard knock life.
Busy all the time. Sure, he's got all this money. But he's ALWAYS busy - always doing SOMETHING.
While he is lazy, when he does code, he's a god at it, and does very excellently.
AHAHAHAHA!
Memory leaks! He's got memory leaks! Memory leaks can only, only, only be caused by bad programming. He is putting stuff into memory without ever releasing it. He apparently can't perform proper memory management within his program. This is pretty basic stuff. It shouldn't happen.
I've had my fair share of experience with memory leaks. They're something you have to take a preventative approach to because, once you've introduced them, they're hard to find and fix. You have to go through your code and track the lifespan of literally every resource you load to see which ones aren't properly being released. The good thing is that preventing them is pretty easy. Hint: Destructors are your friend.
The best part is that it's in Java. If you don't know why that's hilarious, then don't talk about programming. Don't pretend you know even the first thing about it.
Also, yeah, I code for a living. Notch has no excuse.
Always doing SOMETHING. Still found the time to play Portal 2 as soon as it came out. Still had time to play "maaany hours of Terraria." But hey, that's doing SOMETHING. Not like those other lucky schmucks with full time jobs. Those guys have all the time in the world.
Memory leaks! He's got memory leaks! Memory leaks can only, only, only be caused by bad programming. He is putting stuff into memory without ever releasing it. He apparently can't perform proper memory management within his program. This is pretty basic stuff. It shouldn't happen.
Yeah, that too. If someone can seriously tell me how any of these 1.6 "updates" are actually better than 1.5_01's stability, I'd love to hear it.
Busy all the time. Sure, he's got all this money. But he's ALWAYS busy - always doing SOMETHING.
Actually, I think it's just the opposite. He's got all this money, and he's NEVER doing ANYTHING. He's doing whatever he wants, having damn video game sessions with his employees at the office, flying wherever he wants, doing what he wants. And then he Twitters about it constantly, which, frankly, gets on my nerves severely. He surely knows by now that a lot of people do not much care for him, and his freaking Twittering is just throwing fuel on the fire. It's like he's bragging that everyone's favorite game (Minecraft) is being developed in a very unsatisfactory way and none of the players can do anything about it.
Sure, he does interviews sometimes, and uhh... well, setting up his company and office surely took a bit of effort too... I think he still does some occasional coding every now and then probably... Well, the point is that he isn't all that busy. He has it great.
Memory leaks! He's got memory leaks! Memory leaks can only, only, only be caused by bad programming. He is putting stuff into memory without ever releasing it. He apparently can't perform proper memory management within his program. This is pretty basic stuff. It shouldn't happen.
I've had my fair share of experience with memory leaks. They're something you have to take a preventative approach to because, once you've introduced them, they're hard to find and fix. You have to go through your code and track the lifespan of literally every resource you load to see which ones aren't properly being released. The good thing is that preventing them is pretty easy. Hint: Destructors are your friend.
The best part is that it's in Java. If you don't know why that's hilarious, then don't talk about programming. Don't pretend you know even the first thing about it.
Also, yeah, I code for a living. Notch has no excuse.
Yeah, I would like to know how the hell he managed to put a memory leak into a java game.
While he is lazy, when he does code, he's a god at it, and does very excellently. Excluding all the bugs, he does things fast, and if he actually wasn't in such a rush, and actually wasn't lazy, his god coding skills could be perfected, and be 10x better than terraria could ever be.
IMO, Terraria is better because it's 2D, so they don't have to account for mobs moving in a third dimension or other things that are harder to do in 3D.
I'm actually kinda tired of hearing "How would you like to code for a living?" as if it were somehow the worst thing in the world. Firstly, in this economy, a job is a job. Secondly, I've worked Customer Service. I'll take coding over that any day of the week.
Well, it kinda is.
Doing nothing but typing, thinking, and being confused, and taking complaints about how bad a coder you are.
I wish I had a job with a big of a pay off as he does money-wise. Imagine, you can sit infront of a computer all day, with a duel-screen and have Twitter or whatever else you want opened in the one screen, and "code" in the other. You have no idea how many people work jobs for 20 years straight with little hope of ever advancing without having to relocate to another city to get a better paying job.
He never had a good batting average with Fixed Bugs VS New Bugs created. These last 1.6 updates just sealed the deal with how much people could take. I have to admit that I saw this coming when he said he was basically "going through the bug list over at the minecraft wiki" and "fixing as many as he's able to".
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Don't even get me started on all the plane trips he's taken. His life is no where near boring.
Coding with others is quite hard, I heard.
The rule of coding = when you fix a bug, there's a huge chance a new bug while come from it.
It would have helped if he tried to keep up with the bugs, instead of fixing all of them now. That's probably what is causing half of the problem at the moment.
It's hard to follow your dreams when you run from your nightmares. --
Which is why you test everything before packaging the entire thing and shipping it out to the masses. Most of the resulting bugs from the bug fixes are worse than the bugs that existed before.
That doesn't sound like a bad job. I mean, maybe compared to Dater of International Supermodels or Hero of Everything, but compared to real jobs that real people have that sounds, well, about par for the course. At worst.
To top it off, it made him a millionaire. He's not exactly living a hard knock life.
Busy all the time. Sure, he's got all this money. But he's ALWAYS busy - always doing SOMETHING.
AHAHAHAHA!
Memory leaks! He's got memory leaks! Memory leaks can only, only, only be caused by bad programming. He is putting stuff into memory without ever releasing it. He apparently can't perform proper memory management within his program. This is pretty basic stuff. It shouldn't happen.
I've had my fair share of experience with memory leaks. They're something you have to take a preventative approach to because, once you've introduced them, they're hard to find and fix. You have to go through your code and track the lifespan of literally every resource you load to see which ones aren't properly being released. The good thing is that preventing them is pretty easy. Hint: Destructors are your friend.
The best part is that it's in Java. If you don't know why that's hilarious, then don't talk about programming. Don't pretend you know even the first thing about it.
Also, yeah, I code for a living. Notch has no excuse.
Yeah, that too. If someone can seriously tell me how any of these 1.6 "updates" are actually better than 1.5_01's stability, I'd love to hear it.
Actually, I think it's just the opposite. He's got all this money, and he's NEVER doing ANYTHING. He's doing whatever he wants, having damn video game sessions with his employees at the office, flying wherever he wants, doing what he wants. And then he Twitters about it constantly, which, frankly, gets on my nerves severely. He surely knows by now that a lot of people do not much care for him, and his freaking Twittering is just throwing fuel on the fire. It's like he's bragging that everyone's favorite game (Minecraft) is being developed in a very unsatisfactory way and none of the players can do anything about it.
Sure, he does interviews sometimes, and uhh... well, setting up his company and office surely took a bit of effort too... I think he still does some occasional coding every now and then probably... Well, the point is that he isn't all that busy. He has it great.
Yeah, I would like to know how the hell he managed to put a memory leak into a java game.
You obviously never took a job that involved coding. And from the sound of it, you never even got involved with coding in college.