People have been saying programming would become redundant since the first 4GL languages came out in the 1980s.
Maybe it'll actually happen some day.. but I see no sign of it so far.
tony
joined 1 year ago
They can't really.. unity itself doesn't have an installer so not sure how they could track 'installs' reliably, the installer is added by the developer. If they add tracking to the library that (a) creates issues for people using app stores as now you have to declare you're tracking people, and that can be grounds for rejection (you need a watertight privacy policy at the very least, and 'we send it to a company in the US' isn't going to fly), and (b) not all apps are installed over the internet, or given internet access. 3d visualisation is more than games.
Knowledge of one field doesn't imply knowledge or even common sense in another.
If you're ever back on reddit, check out 'tales from tech support'.
It's always amazed me of the learning gap.. we learned how to get stuff working by hacking config.sys and our peers can it seems barely spell computer.
It's even worse as people get younger, even though it shouldn't be. How computers work should be in peoples DNA by now, but they still think you've deleted IE if you hide the icon..
Pixel 5 was the sweet spot. Then Google decided to only cater for people with enormous hands..
They can't.. in android the OS defines the navigation. Back works everywhere. You can do wierd stuff to make back do silly things and go to the wrong screen, but that takes a bit of effort.
In iOS, so far I've seen.. swipe left, swipe right, swipe from the bottom, click 'back on a button on the left', tap on the screen to bring up a button then click that..
Some actions are impossible.. you click on a link in mail to see for example a tracking number.. for me a daily occurrence. There is no back gesture available, you have to go back to the home screen and restart the mail app, which is utterly stupid especially when you have to do it multiple times.
On android it's simple. Want to go back? Wiggle your right thumb. Done.
The OS should define navigation. Always.
Definitely waiting for Godot (heh) to step up to the plate, it's missing some stuff at the moment but give it a year and I'm sure it'll get there. We're stuck with Unity for now but things like this mean plans are in place to migrate off it should it become necessary (by and large aren't hit by this yet because we charge a bunch for the app so 20p isn't a big deal.. although we don't and likely can't track installs so no idea how that works..).
The ability to put home screen icons where I want them.
A back gesture that works everywhere, and doesn't require me to hunt and peck because the app developer has invented some random unique gesture 'because'.
Stupid thing is both of these could be added in a minor software update, but I've been holding by breath for a decade now..
As I have to use both platforms for development those are the things that I notice most.
Yeah that was its downfall really.. anyone could run a server, but getting actual stuff onto it, and getting your posts recognised, required peering, which required being on someone's good side. I remember setting up a server back in the day and searching for someone that would do peering, and it just wasn't happening unless I agreed to take everything which on my small connection just wasn't feasable.
Binary groups becoming piracy hubs didn't help either.. it meant most of the small groups that ran servers gave up as the data requirements got too large.
Recycled all the way to landfill..
Keeping an eye on it.. there's no embedding right now so we couldn't use it, but I'm sure it'll get added given the pace of development.
It's a matter of power delivery at the moment. A modern rapid charger you can add about 10 miles a minute so 10 minutes is normally fine.. barely enough time to have a cup of tea.
Getting power to a battery faster starts to become impractical simply because of the thickness of cable you'd need to do it, and the internal heat the battery would generate if you threw power at it that fast.
Think of it like a swimming pool. You can fill it with a small hose, might take an hour or two.. bigger hose, maybe down to 30 minutes.. you want it to be done in seconds? Sure.. let me just turn up with this dump truck full of water...
Most of the things you read are about as useful as potato batteries. 'We've come up with this new compound that can take charge really fast'. Sure. Now make millions of them, the size of a car, for a price people will pay. Oh you can't... there's the rub.
Turns out there are a near infinite ways of combining materials that make a battery, and only a handful that scale to industrial production.