Jul. 15th, 2013

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I can confidently say that I have developed a pathological dislike of Microsoft & its technologies. This is not even going into the libre software issue.

.NET is obscurely and weirdly extensible at run time and compile time, depending on what references are brought in. I have never used a language system with such spooky action at a distance. I spent part of the morning adding references to my project and iterating until all the references were added. This is SO what I had thought I'd avoid with a static language. I think that the way things are done in MS is that libraries modify existing types without inheritance, protocols, etc. I express extreme violence at this foolishness.

IIS: Now instead of quickly editing a file, saving, and bouncing apache, I have to point and click through the config. I thought MS pro tools were better than this.


I'm not even going into the idiotic inability to SSH into remote Windows servers, the confusing and overengineered webdev libraries... AND MORE.

I loathe this system I do not understand how anyone would voluntarily choose it in 2013. Anything seems better than this horrid entanglement of GUIs, bad library design, bad ecosystem design, etc. Yes, I am missing Python, something I thought I'd never say.

Perhaps down the road, I can carve out a "Weirdo" niche in the company where I do weird stuff with weird languages and weird technologies.

I also think I will be brushing up on Java next time I look for work down the road (quite some time from now).
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I am making a virtual pet game. It has these concepts:

* isn't brain-dead stupid

* doesn't require nannying... much

* will have CUTE PICTURES OF MY CAT as the first virtual pet.

* will be something that geeky people would like playing for a long time.

* Targeted at FirefoxOS

* HAS CUTE CAT PICTURES OF CUTENESS.

My deadline (self-set) is Septemberish.

I want to give away some tester accounts for this game.

Full disclosure. The initial business model is: after we're generally happy, I'll launch and then people can buy "base game" for $0.99, which gets you bugfixes and minor upgrades "forever" (i.e., until the server stops and or the business looks permanently cash-flow negative). I won't shut it down without notice. Testers will keep their free accounts.

I'm going to try to figure out how to get a month-to-month cash flow going, but that's not going to be for the basic game. Ads aren't going to happen unless the advertiser can present a compelling case that my users really really want to see their ads in their game, messing their UX up.

The name of the game is BEAST. The possibilities: only cute.

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