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Towerfall is also on the PS4.

You don't have to apologize. It is difficult to project the correct tone with text and I'd much rather feel a a bit sad and be corrected then to remain ignorant.

It has been over an hour and based on the reaction threads I've read I still think the vast majority of people are "insane".

I am glad that you are satisfied with this response and it brought you back to GitHub. You are one of the open-minded ones. I probably could stand to be a bit more open-minded myself.

I'm glad to hear that. My first sentence was hyperbolic and should have been toned down.

You're right. It was a hyperbolic statement which was going exactly against what I was arguing about. I should have edited it.

And unfortunately this will change no one's opinion. GitHub got tried in the court of public opinion and was sacrificed.

Short of having audio or video or evidence those who backed GitHub feel vindicated, those who backed Julie Ann Horvath will see this as the "Mad Men" culture of Silicon Valley exercising their muscle to supress the story. The small but sane few in-between who were waiting for the full story will never get it because the other two sides are just going to throw hyperbole until the cows come home.

I wonder if we will ever be able to have a sane conversation about the "sexism in the Valley" or the fact that it concerns itself with something that is so technologically intrenched the mob mentality of the Internet will always draw centre stage.

You can also just create a category on UIView that defines a property which could store a object.

@property (nonatomic, strong) id context;

or

@property (nonatomic, weak) id context;

if you are sure the context will always exist.

I have a fear about moving to the US not because I would "lose" my Canadian health care or that the company I went to work for wouldn't have a generous health plan but the fact that I have to care about it AT ALL.

The idea that at any point in time something could happen and I could lose my health plan and I am now at incredible risk scares me.

They have potential access to the password manager on his Mac as well.

If you use a good password manager you should have the time to reset all your password so that if they somehow manager to crack the manager all the passwords in there are worthless.

Also if you immediately ask iCloud to lock your iPhone they can't use the any of the two-factor authenticators without connecting to the Internet which would brick the phone.

Sure they want to know more about it because it looks completely alien to them but when they've tried it on and understand it's capabilities do a lot of those people express interest in purchasing one?

My anecdotal evidence is that I've seen lots of people try on Google Glass and while they think it is interesting none of them actually want it.

Based on this website they are putting A LOT into presenting it to the public as pretty polished http://www.google.com/glass/start/

That isn't a developer website that is a website designed by marketing.

The phone manufacturers have been doing this for so long that they have the process down to an art. While I think Google could gain this ability in the future nothing they have done with hardware so far makes me believe they have the ability to drastically overhaul hardware in a short period of time. If they do radically change the Google Glass hardware so that it doesn't have the "glasshole" look or drastically improve the software I will be shocked.

It is entirely possible that I am wrong. But the look of Google Glass has barely changed since it was unveiled in the beginning of 2012. If they are truly going to try to push a consumer version of a brand new line of products you better be damn sure that when someone puts on Google Glass they instantly become attached to it. They want to know where they can get one. To do that you gotta test the hell out of it and make sure there are no sharp edges. That hardware would need to start getting into people's hands now and if they've just released a new model how much runway are they going to give between releasing the "golden master" version to their tester and getting it to market?

I've used Google Glass personally and seen dozens of people try it on around me as well. Most of the reactions are "Oh that is cool" but none want to actually buy the product. Compare that to the Occulus Rift where the people I've seen use it want to know when they will be able to buy it.

They said they are going to release a consumer version in 2014. Perhaps something is going to drastically change but the vibe that I get is they are beta testing it so they are hammering out bugs and other rough edges not looking to drastically overhaul the hardware or software.

They've said that they are going to release the consumer version in 2014. Sure it could drastically change from what a developer could be receiving in December 2013 but odds are it is going to be stuff like the price that changes the most, not the actual hardware.

I think you're underestimating the Apple marketing machine. Members of my family who hate to open up their computer were asking me questions about iOS 7 before it came out. Apple does a really good job at marketing the latest version. Android basically never mentions it because of 1) the fragmentation but 2) Google doesn't have any control of the hardware so they focus on pushing out app updates rather than OS updates.

The "Lee" character has done it dozens of times.

As someone who played chess as a child but gave up after high school what are some apps that would get me back into the game?

I am looking forward to the day when I can come home from work, make some dinner, sit down and turn on Twitch.tv to catch "the game".

Since getting rid of my cable box I have sorely missed live sports and eSports have the potential to dig their claws in pretty deep.

Is it time to switch back to Firefox from Chrome? I remember when I originally switched around Firefox 3.5.x Chrome was much leaner and faster. Has the pendulum finally swung back the other way?

I don't think that comparison would be completely apt. In the eyes of the public the different name and colours will stir up different buying emotions.

iOS 7 also has a feature that will automatically start apps based on the times of day that you use them. So even if users are constantly dismissing apps from the multi-tasker (which I don't think will happen) the apps that are used the most will constantly be switched back on.

Oh I did not realize there were two different types of campaigns. Thanks for pointing that out.

They can still keep all the money they've raised if they don't hit their target. They just need to give IndieGoGo a large slice of what they have raised.

I'm a big fan of http://www.wtfpl.net/

fever is missing from this list http://feedafever.com/

As a Canadian I'm curious where I can search this information.

Reddit has given me a cynical view when someone points out "This has been posted before!". I apologize jacquesm.

Good call. I hadn't thought of that. Reddit has given me a cynical outlook when someone points out that something is a "repost".

So everyone who started visiting Hacker News 352 days ago shouldn't get to see this on HN?

Neither Sony or Microsoft have told me why I need to buy one of their next-gen consoles.

I own a PS3, Xbox 360 and a gaming PC. The 360 came first and combined with Xbox Live it became my default gaming device. Probably 60% of my games are for my Xbox 360. After a few years with my 360 I bought a PS3 because there were some exclusive games I wanted to play. In 2010 Battlefield 3 came out and I built a gaming PC for it because in my opinion the Battlefield series excels when played with a keyboard, mouse and servers that can accommodate large scale battles.

A strange side affect of building that gaming PC was that I started buying games for my PC instead of my consoles because the games looked and played better on my PC then my consoles.

This next console generation is going to be the most homogenous yet. Developers will be able to make a game that works on PC, Xbox One and PS4 so easily that brand loyalty will mean a lot less.

Unless Microsoft actually releases some TV features that actually work outside of the United States I don't know if I'll be buying one of these new consoles. I'll probably continue buying games for my PC until a platform exclusive game (which are becoming increasingly rare) comes out.