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Yep. Look no further than the top comment on Hacker News to find a dismissive comment that explains exactly why the case in question is very half-assed. You gu
by marvin 13y ago
Yep. Look no further than the top comment on Hacker News to find a dismissive comment that explains exactly why the case in question is very half-assed.
You guys should really give Notch a break. He's a human like everyone else. It must be incredibly hard to work under the pressure of 100,000 derisive hackers that will use every opportunity to point out why he is inadequate. My reaction on this story is rather to call him up and go have a beer and relax somewhere. That's what you do when someone fails a project. You don't start pointing out all his previous flaws and explaining why his effort was doomed in the first place. That's antisocial. Can you imagine saying something like this to his face? Can you imagine someone saying this to your face?
- marshray 13y ago"Ever since superstar success your work has been half assed" Where does one find such friends?
- hobs 13y agoWhile I think the overly negative comments are overblown, the source (imo) is that there is definitely a group of people that think Notch is the best thing since sliced bread, and the truth is that he had a somewhat meritorious technical accomplishment that went onto be a commercial success, and they cant stand it.
- workbench 13y agoDon't work publicly on it then, problem solved. Think he enjoys the part of the project where he gets fans excited and talks about huge ideas more than actually working on and finishing a job.
- asdasf 13y ago>Can you imagine someone saying this to your face? Yes. And since I am fully aware of my tendency to lose interest in projects part way through and move on to something else, I don't publicize them while they are in the "hey this idea sounds cool" stage. Thus avoiding having people point out the objective reality that I don't finish much of what I start.
- vor_ 13y agoI don't agree with your call for sympathy, because Notch is the one who advertised Minecraft on 4chan and Reddit and sold early access to betas. He's the one who advertised 0x10c as a followup. His work ethic has been criticized in the past because features introduced in one version of Minecraft would be abandoned by the next and remain incomplete. Bugs would remain unfixed for long stretches of time. There wasn't a public bug tracker (if there was any at all), so users had to list bugs themselves on a fan wiki page. To claim that criticm is "antisocial" and that we should instead treat him as a best friend to have a beer with is an odd notion. Unless Notch is your personal friend, he is just a programmer working at a company, and the only relationship you have with him is as a customer. If you sell something, get used to criticism.
- InclinedPlane 13y agoHe made a game, by himself, that was awesome and genre busting and fun to play even when it was in the "alpha" stage. Millions of people played that version of the game and millions of people loved it. Just because it wasn't perfect doesn't diminish that achievement.
- vor_ 13y agoI don't see where in my post that I diminished its sales.
- criley2 13y agoJeb has done much better work than Notch maintaining the project. Minecraft has been better since Notch left his role in active development, and very few players/mod-developers would argue that point. He doesn't have to be a whiz programmer with iron dedication. He just had to have the smarts to hire one to take over the project. Which he did.