haydenlee

Cool to see hear his 1984 analogy a few years before they made it into the famous 1984 super bowl ad.

We are a tiny dev team using Unity on a non-gaming project and we basically have to dedicate 2-4 weeks of the year to updating Unity and all the mess that it entails. But if you don't update then you have to spend even more time the next year catching up. Then we end up being too scared to use their new features cause they aren't supported well or cause bugs. Its lose-lose.

I'd add this the lack of a solid 3rd party developer ecosystem on their Asset Store. The fact that they don't have a subscription model for assets or any support for managing per-seat licenses is ridiculous and is the direct cause of multiple popular assets ending support. It doesn't make sense economically to sell any kind of service on their store.

Yet the support for it still sucks. I spent a few hours trying to set it up the other day and still couldn't get it working. (Unity developer of 6 years here). Maybe I just had one setting wrong.. but this shouldn't be that hard to anybody, and as rightly Garry points out its not necessarily a lack of documentation but the fact that the documentation is so out of date OR correct but only with one unique combination of versions from 2 years ago.

I found the 2nd & 3rd books of The Three Body Problem series to be much, much better than the 1st. IMO the 1st is just a bit of pretext for the real story of the series.

This is news in general. If it's not "new" it's not "news".

Try Bigscreen or Virtual Desktop

This could very well be talking about internal prototypes and internal goals for those prototypes, rather than a timeframe related to consumerizing it.

How long do you think?

I dislike FB as much as the next dev here, but surely it's a widely accepted (and beneficial) practice that employees have special privileges in the apps they build. Imagine using this argument to say that Facebook couldn't shut down a page/group/account.

Using bad arguments is rarely an effective way to get what you want.