A Perspective on D from game industry

[Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d]

On 6/18/2014 3:09 PM, c0de517e wrote:
> On Wednesday, 18 June 2014 at 18:18:28 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 18 June 2014 at 18:17:03 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>>> This is, but that's how it works nevertheless. You don't succeed by
>>> arguing what the reality should be, but by accepting what it is and
>>> act accordingly.
>>
>> Being ashamed of it instead of glorifying such attitude is one way to
>> motivate a change :)
>
> You can't fight human psychology, but if you're -really- smart
> you strive to understand it and work with it.

There's a *big* difference between "human psychology" and "being an 
idiot who makes decisions poorly". For the former, unconditional 
acceptance is the only possible option. But for the latter, 
unconditional acceptance is nothing more than a convenient way to 
justify (and in effect, encourage) idiocy; it's both self-destructive 
and entirely avoidable given the actual willingness to avoid it.

The belief that "No amount of improvement is worthwhile unless it comes 
with some single killer feature" might be common, but it definitely is 
NOT an immutable aspect of human psychology: It's just plain being an 
idiot who's trying to rationalize their own laziness and fear of change, 
instead of doing a programmer's/engineer's JOB of making decisions based 
on valid reasoning. It's NOT an immutable "human psychology" belief 
until someone's DECIDED to rationalize it as such and make excuses for it.

This is something I feel very strongly about. Is is *THE #1* reason the 
world, and especially the tech sector, has become so pathetically 
inundated with morons and idiocy: Because instead of fighting and 
condemning stupidity, it's excused, accepted and even rewarded. That's 
exactly why so much has gone soooo fucking wrong.