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kmoorevs wrote: to the 100 or so people at the undersold event
I'm not a fan of his music, but 100 people is an insult to this legend 
kmoorevs wrote: tied up in a 6 hour zoom meeting
What the... 
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I am kind of vaguely looking for a new job, I stress vaguely, made only 2 applications in the last 2 months...
But, but, but.... got an email for an interesting looking job Wednesday from an HR company.... though it's in goddamn Melbourne!
But work remotely is available and pays well.... got a call from the HR today.. the job is with f***ing EA Games! The publisher! To work with the FrostByte team (the team that create their top of the line gaming engine)!
Additionally, video game / 3D animation is the last one kind of app I never worked on but always thought it would be cool! 
Already did a lot of desktop app dev (WinForm, WPF, UWP), Window Service, Web Service, Web App, Xamarin Phone & Tablet App (iPhone & Android), SQL and Database management, RaspBerry PI-solar inverter driver, but no video game at all yet... 
I can't f***ing believe it! Now I better ace the interview process! 
modified 28-May-21 1:07am.
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Good luck!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Thanks mate!
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Congrats and good luck!
Be ready for some Crunch Time[^] though
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Every years, plenty of dreamy young men (of only 49 years of age! that's me! ) get lured by the siren song of the video game industry!
Only to be crushed by the soulless capitalist machine!
Until the day a hero shall raise to save them all!
CONTINUE?
EXIT?
BTW, thanks for reminding me...
Mmm... we are in Australia here, not goddamn America, should be right? you give me second thoughts.....
Salary is good though, there is that.
modified 28-May-21 4:31am.
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Super Lloyd wrote: Mmm... we are in Australia here, not goddamn America
That only means your chances of getting shot are considerably lower and if you get shot at least you can pay the hospital bill, but at the price of about 0.8 freedoms per bald eagle³ 
The crunch happens even in Europe though.
But don't listen to me!
You should only regret the things that you didn't do
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Yes, even when I worked in Germany the Crunch came because we had American managers involved. 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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The crunch is already happening! 
The little test they gave me to test my skills took a lot more than the advertised 2 hours, it took almost a day!
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Go get'em!! 
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good luck !
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Thanks Matey!
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That's tremendous! Good luck to you.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I had to write a WPF sample pp for them...
Took me a lot more than the hours the HR suggested.. (I am rusty hey, no WPF in like 3 years now)
But the end result code is very neat loved it!
Also.. added some async IAsyncEnumerable and IObservable goodness to handle mouse drag in a 10 line method which looks totally procedural and straightforward.. Hopefully they will be both surprised and impressed!
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Hi All,
Quick question if someone tells you to knock up a quick script to monitor a thing, you would think 'Hmmm, a Python job', I seem to have to use a thing called 'Script Runner' which seems to have a version of what you need, but not what you want. Is it a company thing or is Script Runner in the wild Before I started at my current place scripts were either Python or TCL. Script Runner seems to be a little out date (won't run on Win10 without issues!). So heard of it? I'll bet Dave Auld has!
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glennPattonContracting2 wrote: you would think 'Hmmm, a Python job',
I wouldn't think that because then you'd have to install Python runtime, etc.
I'm thinking you're talking about work so I'm guessing your running Win10 and then I would think either:
1) C# via LinqPad[^]
2) PowerShell
But, if you're running on Linux then maybe something else.
Now that DotNet Core can really do nice Console apps on Linux -- things like FileSystemWatcher etc. can be really easy and then I'd go for C# again.
Or, I might even think Go(lang) because it builds an executable with no need for runtime to be installed.
Just My Two Cents
I'm just thinking out loud and I've never heard of ScriptRunner before.
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Well I'm sitting there going 'Oh it gives out the data over serial, I can put together a .NET program to read it and display it', 'Thats nice but can you use Script Runner, it's more flexible', Have 'they' been taking something. I have done the whole not using .NET as it's evil in the past, don't want to go down that route again!! 
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Ah, yes, h/w and serial connection. Now that makes sense that you want to use Python. I'm assuming there are lots of library choices that help over in Python land and .NET def would not be my first choice for that either.
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raddevus wrote: .NET def would not be my first choice for that either
It is for me.
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Hmmm, I agree but I have LOTS of experience with the Serial Class and for somethings .NET is the only way.
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I haven't used serial communications in .net very much, but have written a serial port wrapper suitable for use with my CommScript[^] class.
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Only had a quick look, seems interesting!
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Thanks.
It looks like I began writing an article on my SerialCommunicator back in 2010, but I never finished it. 
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I love LiqPad and use it all the time.
Powershell is the tool to use in most "scripting" scenarios, IMHO.
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