Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • (man humor) Two twenty five year old women in my hotel room, deciding what they

    (man humor)

    Two twenty five year old women in my hotel room, deciding what they will wear to the disco, as if, as an attractive twenty-five-year old female, it matters – and bordering on tears at the smallest hint of imperfection. Me here, my clothes for the night are laying out on the bed, watch, belt and all – and I’m typing up bug reports, laughing at the absurdity of it. It’s all about their status relative to other women, and improving their confidence. And it has nothing to do with men whatsoever. Because honestly,it’s not like any man in the world would say no to ether of them, or kick them out of bed for that matter. 🙂

    Women are fascinating. Humans are fascinating. Endlessly.

    Revel in it. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-18 14:55:00 UTC

  • Editing my glossary. Today it’s letter “C”. Class, Culture, Calculation etc. Cam

    Editing my glossary. Today it’s letter “C”. Class, Culture, Calculation etc. Came across Coercion (which is a common word in my world), and got to work on the Power spectrum: POWER / COERCION / PERSUASION / INFLUENCE / INCENTIVE. Fascinating topic when you combine it with social classes in which each form of coercion produces elites that serve the different social classes. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-18 06:35:00 UTC

  • news but conventional wisdom changes through repetition

    http://billmoyers.com/2014/07/17/scientists-are-beginning-to-figure-out-why-conservatives-are%E2%80%A6-conservative/Old news but conventional wisdom changes through repetition.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-18 06:24:00 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle shared a post

    Curt Doolittle shared a post.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-18 06:20:00 UTC

  • ARTICLE ON THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST GOLD STANDARD

    http://www.coordinationproblem.org/2014/07/yglesias-on-the-gold-standard.htmlGOOD ARTICLE ON THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST GOLD STANDARD

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-18 05:18:00 UTC

  • ARTICLE ON THE CURRENT ECONOMICS OF GAME DEVELOPMENT The world is a lot differen

    http://iveybusinessreview.ca/blogs/lbolukhba2010/2014/07/15/1ups-video-game-studios-keep-dying/GREAT ARTICLE ON THE CURRENT ECONOMICS OF GAME DEVELOPMENT

    The world is a lot different from when I wrote adventure games after work in the 80’s by myself. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-18 05:02:00 UTC

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    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-18 04:20:00 UTC

  • IT WILL HELP. IT WILL HELP A LOT. IF WE SEND BACK THE NUCLEAR WEAPONS WE STOLE F

    http://disq.us/8jb0c9YES IT WILL HELP. IT WILL HELP A LOT. IF WE SEND BACK THE NUCLEAR WEAPONS WE STOLE FROM UKRAINE IN THE FIRST PLACE. )

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-17 21:45:00 UTC

  • IT’S 3:00AM AND WE ARE WORKING. So, I can’t tolerate the heat, so I can’t sleep,

    IT’S 3:00AM AND WE ARE WORKING.

    So, I can’t tolerate the heat, so I can’t sleep, and I’m wrestling with a couple of interesting ideas, and I see a comment on one of my posts from the guys in Cyprus. So I ask them what they’re doing at 3:00AM.

    They’re drinking beer and writing web socket code… Web sockets are very lightweight background connections that let your web page update to reflect changes in the data. So in Oversing if say you’re working on something and someone posts a comment like they do in FB, it will appear on your page.

    So, last time they stayed up drinking beer and programming, they increased performance by about 10,000% (Oversing is now effectively instantaneous – above the threshold of user expectations.)

    So now I have a new business rule. “Give Them Beer”.

    They just sent me a low- light photo of themselves, shirtless, with beer, and laptops laughing like hell.

    lol.

    I know. You wish you had a job like this. Everyone does. 🙂 It’s like being part of a hunting party. Like being stone age mastodon hunters except we have flush toilets.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-17 20:25:00 UTC

  • (worth repeating) —“We have limited cognitive and perceptive abilities, and re

    (worth repeating)

    —“We have limited cognitive and perceptive abilities, and require this multitude of tools to testify that we in fact are conveying OBSERVATIONS rather than IMAGINATIONS. “—

    The purpose of that method we call ‘the scientific method’ is ethical: to ensure that we are testifying to observation rather than imagination.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-17 20:11:00 UTC