I wonder how the rest of his career went. I hope he joined some dot com and made a killing.
sigh the bit about everybody else thinking you are cheating because you actually know the best way to do it part really brings back bad memories......
I tried to introduce embedded lua at one company....another guy had just spent 2 years, though, developing his own language, which, of course, was buggy, incomplete, and ran just about 100 times slower than lua....
That bit about wondering WTF to do after being laid off AGAIN also hits pretty close to home. You spend your whole life refining your craft, and one fine day, the market decides that its value is exactly $0.00
sigh the bit about everybody else thinking you are cheating because you actually know the best way to do it part really brings back bad memories......
I tried to introduce embedded lua at one company....another guy had just spent 2 years, though, developing his own language, which, of course, was buggy, incomplete, and ran just about 100 times slower than lua....
That bit about wondering WTF to do after being laid off AGAIN also hits pretty close to home. You spend your whole life refining your craft, and one fine day, the market decides that its value is exactly $0.00