Posted in Management for Geeks on October 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Do you believe in ESP? Precognition? Clairvoyance? Telepathy? Psychokinesis? Assuming you don’t (!!), how do you argue against such things? It’s pretty simple, right: you apply the critical thinking techniques that are essential to science:
Is the theory falsifiable? In other words, what evidence would be required to disprove the theory? To say that a theory [...]
Posted in Game development, Realtime Worlds on October 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I hadn’t really anticipated adding a part 3, but I gave a talk at Abertay last Friday on the topic, and need to make the slides available for anyone who missed out, or who wants to follow up on some links etc. So, here they are. It’s similar material to my previous two entries on [...]
Posted in Management for Geeks on October 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A game developer starts putting bugs in his code deliberately. A teacher helps their students to cheat on an exam. Another teacher throws a student’s exam paper in the bin rather than submitting it. A shoe factory starts producing nothing but size 7, left foot shoes. A customer service representative hangs up the phone on [...]
