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The whole bit about TCP being evil and hopelessly broken made me laugh - its funny to imagine these guys as complete network beginners :)

Its also ironic that people building networked games today are making the same mistakes - and it all starts from a huge misconception of how the internet and its protocols really work.

For as much as we like to think of ourselves "clever", networking is one area where intuition usually leads to terrible implementations :)




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