Filed under: Business, Developer, Features
Dev Chair : Keep sharp, stay valuable
Oh, sure, the development environment is about as challenging as beating your 7-year-old cousin in a game of scrabble. And, so what if the closest thing you'll be seeing to the "bleeding edge" during office hours is the paper-cut you get from your first paycheck? It's a job, and a well paying one at that, so what could be the harm?
Plenty, that's what. When surveying your list of options while trying to find a new Aeron chair to call home, consider this; You're only as good as the job you'll be qualified for next. Spend 24 to 36 months writing in some long dead or proprietary language and you might as well have taken a sabbatical to study ancient Latin. At least Latin geeks get women. They must do; otherwise, what reason would they have to study Latin?
What if you find yourself in a position where, in the interest of debt service, or family obligations, you've just got to take that high-paying job which happens to be more boring than dry white-bread toast? How can you stay current, while still checking bank at the boring 9 to 5?
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
