@BillB

Construction Set maker. Ex Apple, 3DO, Electronic Arts, Sony Computer Entertainment, Google. The worst day coding is better than the best day working.

 Oakland, CA
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Budge
Joined May 2007
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From now on please call me "The One Big Beautiful Bill."
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I'm still sticking with the benevolent elderly man rather than the malevolent elderly man.
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"Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life or come with me and sell expensive toys?"
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I think at this point we can turn ChatGPT loose on the whole Marvel universe corpus and replace 50% of Hollywood
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USING ALL CAPS SHOWS THAT YOU GIVE A SHIFT.
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The last thing on my bucket list is to get a bucket
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Going with the flow. Unfortunately the flow doesn't seem to be going anywhere.
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Rainbow at OAK
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The Big Bang must have come after The Big Refactoring.
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Oh Visual Studio Code how cynical you are, autocompleting my TODO comment with "yada yada".
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Giving up on JavaScript. Taking the leap and rewriting in TypeScript. I'm a newb but already finding lots of bugs. There is hope...
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If only all programs could be "toy" programs.
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Poking around on amazon dot com this morning in Chrome DevTools, they are loading #Wasm files for their media player. #WebAssembly Article about it here amazon.science/blog/how-prim…

How Prime Video updates its app for more than 8,000 device types

The switch to WebAssembly increases stability, speed.

amazon.science
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Marveling at the system that can deliver a summer fruit salad to me in northern California mid-winter. photos.app.goo.gl/zggLVcBYAx…
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Oh yes, I remember Al Remmers. xitter.cf/tcwpodcast/status/1615…
They Create Worlds@tcwpodcast17 Jan 2023
We just learned yesterday from his stepdaughter that Al Remmers died last year. The founder of California Pacific, he was one of the first real publishers and distributors in the computer game industry and jumpstarted the careers of both @BillB and @RichardGarriott.
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In the end, we had an unhappy split. I decided I could do the publishing part and started my own company, BudgeCo. He took the news badly ("Bill, I don't know you. You're a chameleon.")
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Thank you Al for helping me get started as a games programmer. Rest in peace, buddy.
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