“Game Programming Patterns” is now finished

Re:“Game Programming Patterns” is now finished by pvnick on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @12:23PM (#7634995)

I remember seeing one of Bob's posts earlier about how he struggled to finish this. Congratulations to him, I know how difficult it is to complete big projects (they say there's the first 90%, then when the finish line is in sight, there's the second 90%). His perseverance is inspiring!

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Re:“Game Programming Patterns” is now finished by dudeson on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @12:41PM (#7635117)

True, always the last 10% consume as much effort as the 90%

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Re:“Game Programming Patterns” is now finished by Buttons840 on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @01:01PM (#7635275)

I've always phrased it tongue-in-cheek:

"The first 90% of the work takes 90% of the time. The last 10% of the work takes the other 90% of the time.

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Re:“Game Programming Patterns” is now finished by rockybox on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @01:20PM (#7635420)

That reminds me of the Pareto Principle (20/80):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle

I've found it to apply to many things in life.

Edit: why would this be downvoted?

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Re:“Game Programming Patterns” is now finished by erichocean on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @02:59PM (#7636148)

Because someone tried to upvote you on a smartphone, and Hacker News has a stubbornly non-mobile friendly design, with no undo.

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Re:“Game Programming Patterns” is now finished by MarkTee on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @06:16PM (#7637287)

Does anyone know what the rationale for not allowing users to undo votes is? I'd be happy even if it were only accessible for the first few minutes after the initial action...

There have been several times where I've accidentally upvoted low-quality (sometimes malicious) posts, and I never feel good about it.

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Re:“Game Programming Patterns” is now finished by felipellrocha on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @03:13PM (#7636227)

Lol. Yep. I accidentally do that every so often, and I always feel bad about it.

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Re:“Game Programming Patterns” is now finished by DanBC on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @04:15PM (#7636622)

Individual downvotes are sometimes errors and are usually quickly corrected.

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Re:“Game Programming Patterns” is now finished by jamesbritt on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @03:20PM (#7636275)

"Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical."

   -- Yogi Berra

Same math applies to software and book-writing

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Re:“Game Programming Patterns” is now finished by jo_ on Thursday April 24, 2014 @11:52AM (#7641035)

Writing software is 60% understanding the problem, 25% understanding the tools, 20% understainding requirements, and -5% hacking the solution to make it fit requirements.

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Re:“Game Programming Patterns” is now finished by Raticide on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @06:30PM (#7637347)

    Mental: 64.29%
    Physical: 35.71%

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Re:“Game Programming Patterns” is now finished by kbenson on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @12:58PM (#7635247)

The 90/90 rule fits a lot of things, to the point that whenever I see it, it seems cliche now. That doesn't make it any less applicable and relevant though, which is why we see it so much.

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