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They have enough money to give building the first ever BFR a shot. If it turns out good and the reusability works, they can do a lot of contracts with it, like servicing ISS, and launching a new big space telescope. From there on the advantages and possibilities of having a reusable high payload system will be very clear, and with 3-4 of them, a moon base would already be possible. We'll see what happens but the plan looks solid at least.

You sound like a good guy to be around :)

I think what he is trying to say is, that developers will be useless dead weight in this kind of post apocalyptic scenario. Everybody will be out of there normal day jobs, but a lot of people can contribute to survival with their skillset. Doctors, mechanics, farmers, caretakers, hand labor, etc. will be in high demand. Office people & developers, not so much.

A bit sensational to call a reference to an unknown product that's likely going to be unveiled in 2 days, as well as some minor feature like Animojis, a major leak. This is what suffering a major leak looks like: http://gizmodo.com/5520164/this-is-apples-next-iphone

OSX is still pretty great. After Snow Leopard, for a while it looked like OSX is gonna turn into "iOS Desktop Edition", starting with Lion. But that never really happened, Sierra is a very nice OS, and High Sierra is basically the same thing with the OS using Metal.

(Now if only Apple would sell a Macbook or iMac with 512 SSD & 16 GB RAM for a reasonable price)

Good links, thanks. At WWDC Apple was saying that Chinese, Japanese & Korean localisations for iOS Apps are often overlooked, and their data shows they should be the first ones to be added after English, even before localising for the more traditional languages.

I was looking into getting my app translated, but haven't even thought about OAuth providers.

Its 125 billions, not 1250 billions. Also US deficit is around ~500 bil now (way less then 1250b, but more then 125b)

It's not that bad. The only thing Google/FB/Twitter gets to know is that a user Y is using app X. Nothing more, and not detailed usage stats, just the basic fact.

For that they handle the complete user registration, recovery & auth process for you, with all the work and pain attached to it.

Granted if your OAuth provider were really evil, they could log into the users App X account and access whatever data he has inside the app, so you have decide if that a concern or not.

Anyone know if there is a good commonly used Chinese OAuth provider? Or Japanese and Korean for that matter?

I've seen tons of people using iPod touches as dev devices. Much cheaper having multiple iPod touches running older iOS, or iOS betas, then having that many iPhones.

Probably a lot less volume being sold on ultra wide monitor panels. Therefore higher price.

I thought these two were pretty good:

“Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.” — Linus Torvalds

That's how I always feel when people have lengthy discussions about spaces vs tabs. Good truth coming from the man himself.

“Sufficiently advanced trolling is indistinguishable from thought leadership.”

Kinda scary true, when you see how some online communities, that started mostly as trolling, became real idiologys over time.

That would be absolute madness. Can you imaging Apple pushing a 137MB file to all active iOS devices over cellular? I'm sure the carriers would appreciate :)

I've been using LibGDX for a small little thing, and honestly can't recommend it. I had the app for a few years, and whenever I wanted to update things after a few months, so many things would just break. Be it the build-system, the APIs, RoboVM or some randoms project settings - it was always a headache to get it running again. When RoboVM shut down, there wasn't even any clear way to get it running on iOS again for a while, leaving me with an undeployable app.

If you're investing into anything serious, I would strongly recommend going with Unity over this.

I wonder if this will have an effect on how kids get into programming. Back when I was a kid we had MS-DOS, my primary motivation was to install and play games, but there was this easy built-in pathway of: Hey, you can do a lot more with this machine if you want, including making your own games.

Nowadays consuming and developing are so disconnected, it seems almost impossible for the younger generations to just stumble upon it like many people did back then.

You can always build your own EmuBox, that does the same job and much more. For people who can't do that, I recommend looking into it, there are pre-build options, which require less effort to get running. Or "hire" a friend to build one.

Nintendo will always be the only one who can legally sell a finished product like that.

The thing is having your app be 200 MB is not actually a big issue in the real world. So why do space optimization? Time is limited and there's always other things to be worked on.

yeah very good argument. you never install anything from the command line or what?

So is this just a big page of links? Are AIs writing blog posts now?

Just collected the black coins in 1-1, and some in 1-2. The black coins seem to be what this game really is about, and damn does it a good job with it. Actually amazed at what it does with just a 1-button input method.

Sad to see so many people critize the $10 price tag. Obviously that was expected, but as an iOS dev myself, it always saddens me too see the rejection of people to basically pay for anything on the AppStore.

Is it? We don't have any conceivable idea on how exactly human modification might work. We like to imaging how we gonna decouple bodies and consciousness, yet we can't even grow organs in a Petri dish or figure out how things like obesity are being caused. For traveling to Mars and beyond we already have some solid conventional plans, its just a matter of committing a huge amount of resources to it.

So this was about the banning of PizzaGate subreddit, and its understandable that a Reddit-Mob can be a scary thing, and needs to be dealt with somehow. But it feels Reddits moderation practices have become increasingly shady over the last couple years, and spez editing comments directly just shows how seemingly lax they are with their powers. You don't really have to be a conspiracy nut to see that places like /r/politics during the election had some very questionable moderation.

Of course Apple wants to sell MacBooks to developers, and I'm sure a lot of devs will happily buy it. Because many of the flaws and issues, that are notoriously being pointed out on HN/Reddit, don't really apply to the individual buyer, or are vastly exaggerated. I mean I'm a dev, and getting a couple of USB-C cables is really that hard and inconvenient? The answer you get from the online collective is yes, but in real life the buyer decides most of these things are non-issues for himself. Same thing with every Apple product as far as I can remember, always lots of controversy, everybody has a opinion on why/what went wrong, but at the end of the day it's a perfectly fine for most people (including devs).

I think at this point the mobile hard- and software industry is simply much further developed and it's harder for everyone to innovate, not just for Apple. We can't expect that magic of 2007 to come back on a year to year basis. That said Apples products continue to be very solid. For me personally, MacBook Pros are in amazing state right now and OSX feels and looks great on high-dpi displays.

Suprised this link didn't go to theonion.com

Well isn't that kinda what Unity stands for, running things on multiple platforms, including in your Browser? So if you want to showcase the engine, showcase the engine.

But anyway I don't want to be overly critical, after all this is probably just an internal demo, they thought would be cool to share with the public.

Why not use the Unity Webplayer?

I agree with you on the benefits, but I did find it quite hard to get rid of added sugars from my diet. As you said it's basically in 90% of products you find at the grocery store, so the only way is to buy raw foods only and do a lot of cooking. I work remotely from home, so I have time to choose what to buy and time to cook everyday, but otherwise I don't think I could do it easily.

Picture on top has new Google logo on it, video at 3:49 shows old Google logo on the vehicle.

It's the first time we get a new interaction idiom since 2007 really. I think it will bring great changes and improvements to mobile app UIs. Adaption gonna take a while though, 2-3 years for it to be considered standard on iOS, another 1-2 years on Android, I'd guess. Also given it's from Apple the implementation will probably be rather solid.