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  • 30 Jul 08
    • the main point here is software that will be installed and used by thousands or millions of people.
    • Some games are hits, many more games are failures, and if you want to make money on game software you recognize this and make sure that you have a portfolio of games so that the blockbuster hit makes up for the losses on the failures.
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  • 10 Jan 08
    crettig
    Craig Rettig

    In fact there are several different worlds of software development, and different rules apply to different worlds.

    computers programming

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    infrared
    infrared

    "You're a software developer. Me too. But we may not have the same goals and requirements. In fact there are several different worlds of software development, and different rules apply to different worlds."

    engineering programming

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  • 26 Jul 05
    triple_entendre
    Triple Entendre

    Joel makes the startlingly salient point that there are different kinds of software, and each requires different sorts of work to produce.

    =essay development essay insightful software-development extreme

  • 22 Mar 05
    • Whenever you read one of those books about programming methodologies written by a full time software development guru/consultant, you can rest assured that they are talking about internal, corporate software development. Not shrinkwrapped software, not embedded software, and certainly not games.