I recently found a 1.44" floppy with my first serious game, written in, ahem,
Visual Basic. Neverless it still runs and is actually very playable and fun!
Now I wish I knew better then to shove it in a cardboard box and forget about
it for so many years. I could have made some serious $$$ from it.
The worst part was reading the source code and realising that, despite being
written in Visual Basic, the alghoritms are actually smarter and better than
something I wrote very recently.
"With great system resources comes a great carelessness about ones performance"
Unfortunately, many modern hackers (myself included heh) are adopting Edison's method: Build before learn, try everything, bruteforce a solution, skip math. Hackerspaces are particulary guilty of this non-optimal behaviour. The opposite of this is a man of science.
It is interesting how, any mention of Edison on the internet quickly turns
away from his achievements to an impromptu discussion of how he was a dick and
tried to fuck Tesla over. Every single comment in this thread is about Tesla.
This amuses me greatly.
Maybe because those same articles are trying to portray Edison like a genius inventor, which he clearly wasn't.
Tesla was the genius inventor, Edison was "just" a great businessman. There's nothing wrong with being great businessman, but don't try to present him something that he wasn't.
Yes I see the correlation, come to think of it Steve did kind of screw Woz over that breakout game.
Anyway maybe it doesn't suck at all, I believe Tesla needed to learn the customs of the American entrepreneurship if he was about to start his business there. And, um... I am afraid he didn't. :(
It is very Q'n'D and cumbersome but at least it has novelty value.