Comments for YAY! it's Andrew!

Comment on When Alignment Doesn’t Matter by Mannerheim

Mannerheim — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:26:25 +0000

Hi, can you please help us gamers to save and fix your game Battalion Arena, battle maps haven`t been working for 3 weeks, only co-op maps are available for play. Please can you do something, atleast check what`s going on Battalion Arena.
I guess you can be busy, but help us if you can, thanks.

Comment on Vista “Enable Advanced Performance” Benchmark by Vinix

Vinix — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:08:23 +0000

Wow, that’s NEW to me! :O

Comment on You Can’t Afford to Work More Than 40 Hours by Andrew Pellerano

Andrew Pellerano — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 18:18:38 +0000

Thanks for commenting other Andrew!

Emergencies are inevitable, you should have an envelope labeled ‘Emergencies’ to deal with them. Take note of how often you are dipping into that envelope, though. People who are financially responsible rarely need their emergency fund because increased financial planning naturally decreases financial emergencies. The same is true for time.

As for bonuses, money is not a motivator. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc

Comment on You Can’t Afford to Work More Than 40 Hours by Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 16:45:27 +0000

Two minor nitpicks: bonuses and sprints.

Sprints (to use the agile definition) are when everything suddenly gets OMGBUSY. Suddenly you need tasks R-Z done by tomorrow. And you can’t delay any of them. (Example: we need you to deal with these two fringe cases before the new iPhone comes out tomorrow. That literally happened to me on Thursday).

You end up having to work extra, because of you don’t, and you go into production without those issues fixed, you’ll look bad and probably get fired. If you bust your ass, your boss will probably reward you with comp time (you CAN put time back in a different envelope) and hopefully a bonus.

If you sacrifice when necessary, any company that awards bonuses will make note of that and dole out the cash as merited.

Comment on YAY Lefties! by Andrew Pellerano

Andrew Pellerano — Thu, 26 May 2011 03:40:30 +0000

I’ve had weird issues like this before using 3rd party mouse drivers (logitech) and with laptop touchpads. If you have any of those installed and you don’t need them try uninstalling them and letting windows default drivers manage your mouse. If you have extra user accounts try having yay lefties installed on only one of the accounts or making sure it’s set to right handed before switching users.

Sorry the software is so brittle, I wrote it back for windows 2000 and I’m so glad it still works as good as it does all these years later because I lost the source code.

Comment on YAY Lefties! by Jack Strange

Jack Strange — Wed, 25 May 2011 16:22:35 +0000

Since I purch new comp w/Win 7 my yalefties prog doesn’t work right. Cursor stays LH when rebooting but and says it is LH but have to change to RH and then back to LH. Any suggestions?

Comment on Everything You Know About Video Games is Wrong by Andrew Pellerano

Andrew Pellerano — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:33:57 +0000

Unfortunately Discarded has been taken down and can’t be put back online. I’m glad you enjoyed the game though! It was a blast to make and it looked great.

Comment on Everything You Know About Video Games is Wrong by Chris

Chris — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 07:43:55 +0000

I can feel a bit of frustration in your post. You worked on Discarded Online, and I want to thank you for the time you put in there, into the gem.

Is there any way to play that still? I’m a Java Programmer myself (BS in Computer Science, Information Systems) and I would be more than happy to set up a private server for myself and friends to play in our free time. Something for work breaks that I could toss up on our server to kill some time and release some stress. Maybe keep the interns from shooting up the place.

I don’t want to impose, or poke around but I am very curious where it went and if there is any possible way to play it, or get the files needed to play it.

Comment on Vista “Enable Advanced Performance” Benchmark by Winders

Winders — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:10:18 +0000

Great post Andrew. This feature is evil.

However, the Oracle guy (RobertD) is right. The feature DOES do something. It disables write cache flushing. This will especially show up on databases. In a benchmark, it would be reflected in a higher IOPS count.

Daniel Vogel is probably also right, for the reason this feature is evil. Disabling all write flushing also means that when NTFS needs to make sure something is written to disk or else, it can’t. That can lead to corruption.

If you need the speed, buy a RAID controller with on-board battery.

Comment on Vista “Enable Advanced Performance” Benchmark by maxregistrycleaner.com

maxregistrycleaner.com — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:27:11 +0000

Funny! I can imagine opening a screen and seeing that description next to a check box. If only MS had the guts and sense of humor to actually do it, eh? I worked in software development and we used to come up with weird remarks in error messages. Always tricky in case you forget to replace them with the real message when releasing the software!