Name: Janos Bolyai 2014-06-27 21:19
Have you read your SICP today?
As a programmer, you have godlike power to conjure any universe you wish with decadent impunity. Consider the machine at your fingertips. It is waiting for you to create, it is waiting for you to describe a new world, a new universe with unknown possibilities.
Instead, too many are wasting this potential. There are too many skins on databases, too many so-called "games" that seem to think that recreating this world and restricting the vocabulary of the protagonist to just the verb "commit violence" is the highest form of creativity that can be achieved on a computer. This is a criminal waste of the potential of the computer.
Please do more than this. Create universes.
As a programmer, you have godlike power to conjure any universe you wish with decadent impunity. Consider the machine at your fingertips. It is waiting for you to create, it is waiting for you to describe a new world, a new universe with unknown possibilities.
Instead, too many are wasting this potential. There are too many skins on databases, too many so-called "games" that seem to think that recreating this world and restricting the vocabulary of the protagonist to just the verb "commit violence" is the highest form of creativity that can be achieved on a computer. This is a criminal waste of the potential of the computer.
Please do more than this. Create universes.