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Lame Programming Words

Spending too many years with chest thumping geeks has really given me a bad case of the grumpies when it comes to lame programming words (LPW). Here’s my curren top five LPW. If you have your own please do share:

Meta

Meta-this, meta-that, meta-shut-up-and-use-a-different-word.

Refactor

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Modern video games can be about as hard to tame as a large fire breathing dragon. It’s usually not until around when the marketing budget is finalized, traditionally around 6 months before release that people start talking about bringing the dragon out of the cave to meet the general public. It’s not wise to allow […]

Mini-Queue Implementation in C

My friend Reed who is enrolled at digipen right now showed me an interview question for a company that he was looking at applying to. Basically, they screen their applicants using a programming quiz that you are supposed to code up and submit with your resume. It was a pretty engaging problem and I started […]