February 2010
5 posts
Following up on promises to meet up with fans...
Today Andreas W. and his seven year old son Lukas dropped by in Munich. Andreas is an avid console collector living on the shores of lake Chiemsee, some 60 miles / 100 km from Munich. We first met at the Vintage Computer Festival a couple of years ago where he and a buddy of his had all kinds of old school gaming gear on display. Among their items were readily playable Vectrex (incl. the...
On hiring developers: code reading >> interview...
Excerpt from Peter Seibel’s interview with Douglas Crockford. Seibel: When you’re hiring programmers, how do you recognize the good ones? Crockford: The approach I’ve taken now is to do a code reading. I invite the candidate to bring in a piece of code he’s really proud of and walk us through it. […] I’m looking for quality of presentation […] I want to...
Mark's job at game studio The Creative Assembly is...
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When the hacking/writing gets tough, you better...
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The Işık household: Turkish for gf, functional...
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