martijn_himself

This looks super cool, can't wait to try it. Does anyone know why the project is called 'A Logo-like DSL for Godot', it doesn't really mention Godot much except for it being a (runtime?) dependency?

This is cool, and it reminds me of POV-Ray. I wonder if it would be easy to map Blockly syntax to POV-Ray source code.

This is fantastic. I would highly recommend DragonRuby if you like Ruby as a language and would like to dip your toes into 2D game development. The community is very welcoming too.

I agree this is a good attitude and start off point for parents-to-be but I have to agree with other commenters that it is impractical and goes out the window pretty quickly unless you have nerves of steel :). Imagine for example being on a flight with a toddler throwing a tantrum, for the sake of everyone's sanity an iPad is a wonderful device.

Having said that it is all about balance, and limiting screen time is a good way to go about it.

I do see the appeal now, just not when it was announced in 2010 (I think a lot of people didn't at the time).

This is cool but I think technically minded people vastly overestimate how many people would use it even if they knew about it. It's just another thing to remember. I have an iPhone 8 and the 3D Touch version of it is clever but it doesn't seem to activate all the time (I'm not sure if that is a bug or not).

Apple probably collects usage statistics and knows no one (by approximation) uses it so they scrap it. That's sad, but understandable as well.

I don't really get the appeal of folding screens, but then I didn't get the appeal of iPads when it was announced.

One thing I would love is an iPhone / iPad that docks and dual boots into macOS powering a monitor- surely that should be technically possible by now.

> If it could run Xcode natively it would be so much better

That made me think, Apple must have some internal prototype of Xcode for iPad? Creating iOS apps on iPad could be a killer 'Pro' app, convincing people to choose a Pro version over the regular iPad. Maybe they are worried apps created on iPad wouldn't be quite the same standard as apps created on regular Macs?

This is a great read. I absolutely love the iPad, and it's one of the few devices I still find magical everytime I pick it up. I have an older iPad Pro 10.5" with a Smart Folio keyboard and I wonder if his setup is a big step up in terms of ergonomics. I've tried using my iPad for productivity related tasks but I find it too cramped.

That's some really good advice. I must give that a try, thanks.

One thing that definitely resonates with me is his mention of sauces when he explains the differences between star ratings.

Quite often when I visit a great restaurant I find its a sauce that lifts a dish from the good to memorable. I always thought that was because of the stock made from scratch. This is quite hard to replicate at home- store bought stock cubes add very little depth of flavour to a dish and making stock from scratch, well, unless you have a lot of time on your hands its not going to happen.

A tangential question: for someone who has tried to listen to Jazz and Classical music but always found it sort of.. pretentious(?) would you have any advice or recommendations? I find myself less interested in music these days, although I'd say I would be more of a fan of the blues genre. I would really like to be able to listen to something (maybe only in the background) and enjoy it.

This was my thought exactly. It's infuriating and unnecessary.

If UML is useful at all, it is maybe in enterprise software / modelling business processes and even then I had hard time justifying it, so I can completely understand your reaction when it comes to real-time/embedded software.

> My very light understanding of quantum physics is that it does not really translate in words. It s like trying to explain what’s apple times i in English.

This is really one of the best comments I have read on an article like this ever. Having had a cursory introduction to quantum physics in math terms and not understanding much of it, I find it impossible to read any sort of popular science literature on the subject. It's always going to be a very vague description with analogies that raise more questions than give answers. That's not to say I don't applaud the effort of quantum physicists to explain it to a broader public- I just think that most of the time they come away thinking it's some sort of black magic rather than solid science.

Exactly this. I bought a mechanical keyboard and the ergonomics are so atrocious I had pain in wrists and shoulders after a single day of use, and had to go back to a cheap Dell keyboard that came with a refurbished PC I bought years ago.

How do you find an interesting career to pursue outside of the tech industry?

I have no standout passion or interest, like many in this thread I am tired of the industry in general and the job itself.

I am considering doing a part-time horticulture degree to dome something different. How did you find your passion?

I wanted to remove the second paragraph because it sounded unnecessarily harsh but I must be too late- I really enjoy his essays and I have taken a lot of advice from them.

PG's best writings are the ones where he writes about what he knows. He obviously knows a lot about ideas, how to execute on them, raising money, disputes that come with it. This is a very good example.

It's when he writes about things he doesn't know much about that his essays become incoherent and confused.

Tangential question, does anyone have any tips for someone who has lost all interest in video games?

I used to like them as a teenager and whenever I pick up a game now (I'm in my early 40's) I am just completely bored. Part of it I think is because it requires some form of mental engagement after a day's hard work?

Hi Miktor,

I'm really sorry to hear about your situation! I'm in Northern Ireland too and I'm lucky to be employed (for now) and WFH. All I can do is ask around for you if you drop me an e-mail!

Cheers,

Martijn

I'm sure RAID was much more usable than some of the ITIL-inspired monstrosities some of us have to deal with.

Wow, thanks for the insight! I've really only ever used Godot to play around with so I haven't hit any performance issues.

Would your XNA based engine work with MonoGame and/or FNA?

Does anyone know the state of C# support and documentation? I played around with Godot in the early days of C# support, and I found I had to translate from its documented API calls in GDScript which was quite cumbersome.

These are all valid points and it shows my lack of understanding (same with the other comments), even though I use C# on a semi-regular basis I have a lot to learn!

I don't envy any newcomers to the language though, there is so much to take in.

This is neat, but also super confusing.

Is the ability to build class hierarchies not the ultimate reason to use C#, an Object-Oriented language? Which one of the two is idiomatic?

Great, now we have code littered with methods that take objects as parameters, so we have no clue what to actually pass to the method?

C# is a fantastic language but I feel increasingly lost with the barrage of new features added to it.

I don't know Workplace but how is this newsworthy and of interest to anyone outside of CERN? The article sounds quite spiteful, and why, if 'Many people preferred not to use a tool from a company that they did not trust in terms of data privacy' would you use it in the first place? Also, how can you blame a commercial company for charging for a tool?

Are you sure you are talking about the Netherlands? Heating pipes routed outside walls I have seen in the UK, but never in the Netherlands. No soundproofing would NEVER pass building regulations in the Netherlands.

Completely agree with you. I am a Dutch citizen and have been living in the UK for over a decade; I would say the build quality of housing in the Netherlands is far better (if I had to guess probably because of stricter regulations). This is especially evident in apartment blocks.

Yep, and this kind of behaviour can't be fixed by having a formal company culture despite what many organisations think.

Mentoring should be voluntary and should just be about helping someone else on the team.