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Re:How I Built an RPG In A Week From Scratch With No Budget by pg on Sunday January 18, 2009 @12:31AM (#439072)
Joshua Schachter might be a useful example. He built Delicious while working on Wall Street. One of his most useful tricks was to build something every day, however small. I suspect that keeps your brain working in much the same way that running every day keeps your metabolism high.
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Re:How I Built an RPG In A Week From Scratch With No Budget by brlewis on Monday January 19, 2009 @12:01AM (#440072)
I can attest to this. Most of OurDoings was built on 35-minute train rides.
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Re:How I Built an RPG In A Week From Scratch With No Budget by 11ren on Monday January 19, 2009 @12:47PM (#440689)
That is good to hear. It seems that quality (perfection?) is secondary to actually building stuff, making mistakes, improving it, learning. As said in your essay, determination is more important than intelligence. Though "an incurable tendency to build stuff" sounds less depressing.
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