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I have a BS in Computer Science and whenever I help people pick up programming I notice scope is always one of the toughest concepts for them to grasp.

It could of course be a reflection of my teaching ability, but it always seems to be a tough one.

I'm a FTE by day, hobbyist gamedev by night and some of the best advice I got when learning how to do basic pixel art was to start with a small palette and work your way up.

Working at 16x16 _only_ has greatly increased by skill since I have to be creative and work around the size limitations. Additionally, a small color palette does the same, but I'm not there yet..

Agreed. Was supplied two 4ks for my last job and just ended up using so zoomed in it wasn't even like I was using 4k monitors anymore.

My ideal setup is two 1440p monitors, but even then I tend to zoom in quite a bit.

I also had a coworker who was fine with their laptop screen. People you are finicky with these kinds of things seem to have their focus elsewhere over the actual work done.

Any advice for getting started with Blender? Been making 2D games for awhile and want to jump into practicing some 3D, of course that comes with learning to model.

It's getting there, I think it's missing the top layer of polish. I've been working with it for a couple years now and it has some bugs that really hinder development speed.

That being said, once those issues are fixed I think it'll be a hard choice to not use Godot (for what I do, more 2D work).

I had this opinion when I first began working with Godot, which regardless of language I've just found incredibly intuitive.

I used C#, but kept getting frustrated cause the support isn't at 100% (this is currently expected, I think C# is still declared alpha?). It was pretty easy to fill in the gaps between gdscript documentation vs C#, but certain built in functionality was missing.

My main use case for C# was strong typing, and the community support it has either with libraries or just getting answers online.

Eventually I caved in and tried gdscript. I can develop MUCH faster, and am still able to use types. You can also still use C# in the project, since the languages can communicate.

I think once C# has feature parity with Godot I'll move back to that, but until then, GDscript is great, and really easy to pick up.

good, can't count how many times I've had to mash a touch-screen (not in Honda, so may be different) to get something to "click."

i'm all for physical UX.

You definitely still could if you feel the maintenance is manageable. This was just my experience :) I chose to go with something like Cloud Run.

I don't think I'm in a position to answer this (heavily experienced outside the control plane, but not in), but if I had to answer I'd say:

Once you don't personally have your hand in every application your company is running (in addition to the points the other comments have brought up).

I don't think theres a comparison there (or I'm just unsure of the point you're making with that statement). I agree, they aren't conceptually complex, but Kubernetes is a large scheduler that _definitely_ benefits from having a dedicated team managing it.

That being said, I always recommend using a tool like Terraform to back up infrastructure and the likes.

  If you're not going to build the next Facebook, why would you need so much complexity?

You don't. I think this is a recent point people are trying to make. Kubernetes makes sense at a certain scale, but for smaller startups it maybe shouldn't be the go to.

Genuine question (and hoping for your opinion here), why would I use Kotlin over Java? Outside the obvious like developing on Android.

I haven't had much exposure to it, but it seems like it has a wider breadth of features and has a quicker development speed?

Lol that first read is fantastic.

  const doesn't do shit and we all know it

Was a great intro, and absolutely true. Unfortunately I don't think this will catch on, although I agree with the author that it should.

For others confused like me, this isn't one of the cases reported last Friday that were reported as 'doing well.' Seems this is part of a collection of new cases that weren't reported to the public (and still aren't).