SaturdayMP Show 53: Human Resource Machine (Inventory Report)

In this video I solve the Inventory Report problem in Human Resource Machine game by Tomorrow Corporation. It simulates finding characters in a null terminated string.

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SaturdayMP Show #26: Human Resource Machine

In this episode I play Human Resource Machine by Tomorrow Corporation, a game that simulates programming in assembly. Anyone have any suggestions for optimizing the number of steps in the Fibonacci Visitor (Year 22)?

Thanks to the person on the Dev Edmonton Slack you asked about the game. I didn’t review it but hopefully this video helps you decide if you should buy it or not.

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Just Enjoy the Show

I’m on optimist and generally think things will work out for the best.  I like to say:

The future is awesome!

That said it’s easy to forget how awesome individual days can be.  How many small but amazing things occur each day that we gloss over.  Our day is 99% good and 1% bad but we focus on that one minor bad moment.

Think about your conversations at the end of the day.  Does it focus on the negatives of the day?  That boozo that cut me off in traffic.  The Internet was down for 5 minutes.  I had to stay at work 10 minutes late.  Etc.

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Coming... Later Part 2

Magicka - Red FireI was just talked into and/or talked my friends into purchasing Magicka.  That reminded me I had posted Part 1 of “How the Gold Master was Delayed” and I should look for Part 2. It’s nice to see a humorous look at a very stressful time for both the developer and the client.

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Kids Thinking Outside the Box - Who to Invite to Your Birthday?

My 5 year old daughter is endlessly planning her birthday parties, even 11 months and 30 days in advance.  Her recent planning session focused on who she should invite.  After going over her list of friends she paused and then asked us “can I invite Santa Clause to my birthday?”