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Jen, came in to see what incredible things the engineers and artists had come up with. Everyone was staring at a television set hooked up to a development box for the Sony Playstation. There, on the screen, against a single-color background, was a black triangle. "It's a black triangle", she said in an amused but sarcastic voice. One of the engine programmers tried to explain, but she shook her head and went back to her office. ~ We use software because we have goals to achieve and things to do. The software we use is coded by programmers who have their own goals, sometimes these goals overlap with ours, over time these will diverge. The tools we depend on grow features we don't use or understand, introducing bugs that will prevent us from reaching our goals. We have the choice of trying to understand the code and fix it, we have the choice of trying another program, and we have the choice of coding the software ourselves. All but the last path mean endless seeking, evaluating and furt

XXIIVV - programming Acorn BBC Micro Logo on Famicom 14F06 The dizzying shelves that obliterate the day and on which chaos lies. We use software because we have goals to achieve and things to do. The software we use is coded by programmers who have their own goals, sometimes these goals overlap with ours, over time these will diverge. The tools we depend on grow features we don't use or understand, introducing bugs that will prevent us from reaching our goals. We have the choice of trying to understand the code and fix it, we have the choice of trying another program, and we have the choice of

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