"Well, it’s hard to make female characters. First of all, in order to accommodate female characters in our pipeline, you’d basically need to re-code the entire engine from the ground up. Because the technology we have today just wasn’t built to be able to handle stuff like that." Matthew Burns answers the hard questions.

"...at the end of the day its 0.1% compsci, 0.9% clever ideas, and 99% duct tape." I am definitely, definitely a duct-tape programmer at best. (actually: no, I'm not; what Spolsky means by that isn't what I thought he meant).