Things we never need to hear at another gamedev conference (opens in new tab)

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37 pointsmindplunge16y ago14 comments

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Okay, I can understand why most of these are on the list, but this one stands out like a sore thumb:

6. Don’t trust the client, it is in the hands of the enemy.

When did that ever stop being true or important? In fact, amazingly many people get this wrong, including many programmers I've come into contact with as a consultant. The top suggestion for securing their server/service is typically to use encryption even though they don't control the client. I don't think this fallacy can be pointed out often enough!

jcl16y ago

The author titled his post "50 things I never need to hear at another conference". Presumably he feels he has heard this wisdom often enough to have internalized it.

pmjordan16y ago

I dunno, the whole post read as if he was trying to make some kind of point about accepted wisdoms, fashions and memes of the game industry. This one is more of an indisputable fact.

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tptacek16y ago

The sad thing about this list is that the best barbeque in the country is just 20 minutes south of Austin, in Lockhart.

jcl16y ago

Here's a fun article from Calvin Trillin about an upset in the 2008 barbecue rankings that placed the best to the east of Austin:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/11/24/081124fa_fact_...

tptacek16y ago

How weird that this comment could have been downmodded.

plinkplonk16y ago

"the best barbeque in the country is just 20 minutes south of Austin"

Which is? If I am ever in Austin, I'd like to look it up.

tptacek16y ago

Pretty much any place in Lockhart, though Smitty's and Black's are the two most famous.

I went out of my way last time to find well-recommended, off-the-beaten-track BBQ in Memphis (we did a road trip from Chicago to Austin this summer), and was disappointed. Slate had the same experience.

mahmud16y ago

I thought Charlie Vergos' Rendezvous was in Memphis :-)

tptacek16y ago

Memphis is a third-tier barbeque city, and Rendezvous is a tourist trap.

nathanb16y ago

Would have been more enlightening if the poster elaborated on why each item was in the list. I can make guesses, but don't make me beg your question.

jcl16y ago

I'd guess that these items are on the list not because they are true or false, but simply because they are repeated a lot within the industry.

pmichaud16y ago

I don't need a whiny top 50 [insert inane opinion about inane subject here] story. Bad OP!

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pmjordan16y ago

Okay, I can understand why most of these are on the list, but this one stands out like a sore thumb:

6. Don’t trust the client, it is in the hands of the enemy.

jcl16y ago

The author titled his post "50 things I never need to hear at another conference". Presumably he feels he has heard this wisdom often enough to have internalized it.

pmjordan16y ago

I dunno, the whole post read as if he was trying to make some kind of point about accepted wisdoms, fashions and memes of the game industry. This one is more of an indisputable fact.

1 more reply

tptacek16y ago

The sad thing about this list is that the best barbeque in the country is just 20 minutes south of Austin, in Lockhart.

jcl16y ago

Here's a fun article from Calvin Trillin about an upset in the 2008 barbecue rankings that placed the best to the east of Austin:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/11/24/081124fa_fact_...

tptacek16y ago

How weird that this comment could have been downmodded.

plinkplonk16y ago

"the best barbeque in the country is just 20 minutes south of Austin"

Which is? If I am ever in Austin, I'd like to look it up.

tptacek16y ago

Pretty much any place in Lockhart, though Smitty's and Black's are the two most famous.

mahmud16y ago

I thought Charlie Vergos' Rendezvous was in Memphis :-)

tptacek16y ago

Memphis is a third-tier barbeque city, and Rendezvous is a tourist trap.

nathanb16y ago

Would have been more enlightening if the poster elaborated on why each item was in the list. I can make guesses, but don't make me beg your question.

jcl16y ago

I'd guess that these items are on the list not because they are true or false, but simply because they are repeated a lot within the industry.

pmichaud16y ago

I don't need a whiny top 50 [insert inane opinion about inane subject here] story. Bad OP!

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