Comment Re:Scr*w Godaddy (Score 1) 279
GoDaddy keeps thinking advertisements with possibly hot women will cause their audience (nerds) to look past how badly they suck.
I haven't seen much from Tizen beyond their initial press release. And, yes, I subscribe to their mailing list.
I keep an open connection on their IRC channel pretty much 24/7. There's lots of people (or bots) on there but not much activity. Hopefully that means they're busy, not dead.
"The only problem may be that the sauce may come out a little too easily on to their food."
That, and the trace amounts of the slippery stuff coming off the inside of the bottle and coming out with the sauce too. And twenty years later we find out it's more toxic than BPA.
But, hey! We got the last drop of ketchup!
10 print "I was here"
20 goto 10
run
Who didn't do those things when they walked through Sears and saw the empty screens with cursors blinking at them just begging to be tagged?
I enjoyed programming so much, I went to college and got a degree. I always wanted to write my own video games. But here I am in my 40s. It was last year when I found myself in a similar situation as OP.
So I decided it was high time I do what I started out to do all those years ago.
I have installed the Android SDK & NDK. I have gone through the New Boston tutorials. I have picked up a free cross-platform game engine and started designing my own game.
The first thing I did, to avoid the difficulties of designing a game and focus on learning the tools and techniques, was to re-implement a simple game somebody else already designed a long time ago for me: Pong.
It took about 10 hours. You would not believe how stupidly exciting it is for me to be able to say to my friends: "Hey, check this out..." and show them pong followed by an "I made this."
It's rewarding as all hell. And now I'm knee deep in a real game design all of my own making. I don't care if I ever make a dime off of it. I'll release it on Android followed by iOS, then on Windows, Linux, and Macs. All because it's a moral imperative.
Maybe games weren't the thing that got you into programming when you were younger. But I'll tell you what: something made you love programming once. Remember it. And get back to it. Your day job is fine and good. Try to enjoy it but work to live instead of living to work. Make your own time to do what you love.
The major difference between bonds and bond traders is that the bonds will eventually mature.