If he did the work in his own time and with his own tools and it's not part of his job description he should be rewarded for it. If someone on my team created a tool that made all of our lives easier, and did so on their own initiative I would expect them to ask that they be compensated; it's only fair. The entire psyche of "I'm too scared to ask for credit where credit is due" irks me. An indentured servant, not an employee with a backbone.

Yep their system of building metadata files for every single asset seems more like a bandaid fix than anything else. It wouldn't be such a bitch if Unity would just attempt to reconnect broken associations for you, or list them in a nice way and let you fix chunks of them at a time, but right now, once you have "missing" where a script name should be you're pretty boned. One of the devs suggested we package things up and put the packages into version control, but the problem with that is that then we'd be relying on each dev updating their packages correctly and not accidentally slipping in some superfluous stuff and causing collisions, not to mention that merging packages on a semi regular basis would make our lives pretty difficult. metadata it is then, for now.

I agree with this, the University I work at runs a game development workshop for 12-17 year olds(ish) that runs for an entire semester, we bring in a lot of big guns from the industry to give them talks as well and next year we're thinking of giving some of the better developers internships at our studio. We've found that Unity3D is a pretty excellent tool for people learning to program, it's also a pretty excellent tool in general, and we use it for our commercial projects as well. I do of course have some gripes with it, for a start the interface is pretty awful (prefabs aren't at all intuitive and nesting them doesn't work right) and source control is a NIGHTMARE - you pretty much need to have the pro version which allows you to turn on the "make my unity project not cause my version control system to tear its eyes out" option or your project's associations will break each time you distribute a new build. - most of the youngsters won't care about that but you're almost guaranteed that one of them will :)

On the other hand, and reacting just as extremely, just what sort of relationship are you in where you never argue, and that the mere thought of arguing implies that the relationship is inherently broken? Never mind that the comment was made in jest, and that you seem compelled to defend your utopian model of a relationship. Let me guess, you wear the pants but she tells you which pair?

Actually my best friend's wife is a girl, plays games, and isn't fat. However there's a downside no one has mentioned... Picture if you will, a husband and his wife playing League of Legends...

"come and help me get the blue buff"
"why are you feeding the other team??"
"for Christs sake! I just want to win a game! Why won't you ever just play normally instead of trying to jungle and getting killed all the time?!"...

Consider the implications of having your girlfriend / fiance / wife partaking in your favourite past time. They will tell you that what you're doing is wrong, they will not be pleased at all if you throw a game on a badly judged gank (even if it would have gotten you that penta kill if only Nocturne hadn't been hiding in that bush). And they will blame you when your team loses AND never, ever let you live it down.

In soviet Russia, you do not go looking for moderators...

Yes credit where credit's due - she probably cooked him some delicious meals!

Good on you, the last place I worked at inflicted similar work hours on one of the senior devs who was just too damned nice to tell them no, so they walked all over him. When they lost the client he was most often scheduled to do work for, they simply let him go. The poster below sums MBA types up pretty nicely, and I'm pretty sure that the company's resident MBA played a role in cutting the senior dev loose.

Why the fuck do you still work for them? You have four year's work experience, time to move on!

So they had to employ 300 people to get just a handful of actual programmers? Yeouch.

Your method of communication; I want it.

Yes but those corpses are quite delicious, and don't carry the unfortunate social stigma associated with cannibalism.

...Some time ago there was a post about a guy who created a wrist strap and holder for his iPod Nano. This seems a lot like it, anyone know if there's a connection?

Found the URL: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1104350651/tiktok-lunatik-multi-touch-watch-kits

From the amount of money pledged I think it can be assumed that he found some fairly major backing

Secondary education is irrelevant when butting heads with anonymous coward.

You're just jealous because the rest of us learnt a programming language with real world application which you are obviously too stupid to learn. Or perhaps your shopping mall based community college only taught up to the Java level. Case in point - you can't discern why startup time would matter to a user. Here's a hint: they don't want to wait all fucking evening for your stupid program to load when John Doe here has built a better version of it in Flash. As for 'BASIC' and 'fills a purpose' in the same paragraph, I'll chalk that one up to your fat chubby fingers skittering across the wrong key combination as you barely struggle to contain your bottomless rage.