“The Escalation programmers come from a completely different background, and the codebase is all STL this, boost that, fill-up-the-property list, dispatch the event, and delegate that. I had been harboring some suspicions that our big codebases might benefit from the application of some more of the various “modern” C++ design patterns, despite seeing other large game codebases suffer under them. I have since recanted that suspicion.” DifferentBigsMightSufferingGamesSeeingModernEventsDesignBenefitsPropertyPatternsVariousListsBackgroundsDespiteApplicationSuspicionProgrammersBoostDelegatesDifferent BackgroundsEscalation Author:John Carmack
“Despite the modern dogma to the effect that women were a subject sex until the nineteenth century 'emancipated' them from history, women in history had demonstrated strong wills and purposes, had made assertions, and had directed or influenced all human destiny, including their own, since human life began.” HumansMadePurposeStrongSexWomenDestinyHistoryModernSubjectsEffectsCenturyIncludingDespiteHuman LifeDogmaAssertionNineteenth CenturyStrong WillWomen In History Author:Mary Ritter Beard
“Real Men no longer drive Corvettes. Despite being able to squander gas with the best of them, even today's least enlightened Real Man finds the notion of a $17,000 plastic car with no trunk somewhat absurd.” MenRealTodayAbleModernCarNotionAbsurdDespiteGasEnlightenedPlasticModern LifeReal MenTrunks Book:Real Men Don't Eat Quiche Source: Real Men Don't Eat Quiche
“Despite its protests to the contrary, modern Christianity has become willy-nilly the religion of the state and the economic status quo. Because it has been so exclusively dedicated to incanting anemic souls into Heaven, it has been made the tool of much earthly villainy. It has, for the most part, stood silently by while a predatory economy has ravaged the world, destroyed its natural beauty and health, divided and plundered its human communities and households.” WorldHumansHas BeensMadeSoulStatesHeavenCommunityNaturalChristianityEconomyEconomicModernToolsEnvironmentalContraryDespiteDestroyedProtestDividedDedicatedSustainabilityHouseholdStatus QuoPredatoryVillainyEconomic Status Book:The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry
“We should seek to free the moral life from the embarrassments and entanglements in which it has been involved by the quibbles of the schools and the mutual antagonisms of the sects; to introduce into it an element of downrightness and practical earnestness; above all, to secure to the modern world, in its struggle with manifold evil, the boon of moral unity, despite intellectual diversity.” WorldShouldHas BeensSchoolEvilMoralStruggleModernInvolvedElementsDiversityIntellectualUnityPracticalsDespiteSecureMutualIntroducingModern WorldEmbarrassmentSectsEarnestnessAntagonismBoonManifoldEntanglementMoral Life Author:Felix Adler
“Among modern occupations, only cult leaders and TV weathermen rival the technological visionary's ability to retain credibility despite all evidence to the contrary.” AbilityLeaderModernTvsEvidenceContraryDespiteOccupationTechnologicalCultRivalsCredibilityVisionariesWeathermen Author:Nathan Myhrvold