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Not to mention the visual pollution it may cause. I honestly don't think this is going to fly pun intended.

What you are describing already exists and it's much cheaper, it just doesn't have macOS in it.

For the same price you can buy a much better "Pro" PC though.

Will there be a similar API for Objective-C?

I wouldn't call anything close to cross-platform if it only works on Apple's products and devices.

For many users high contrast is enhanced when it's dark. See Windows High Contrast Mode as an example.

I must admit I have not been following this case too close. But I get the general sense that most people in the CS community is in favor or Google and against Oracle. I'd like to understand it better.

Can someone please explain in technical terms exactly what Google copied and what is Oracle complaining about? Is it just the Java API declarations? Most of the articles I find try to explain the issue in layman's terms which makes it harder for me to understand exactly what was copied.

Godot has caught my eye a bunch of times but I'm still not quite convinced to use it yet. I guess I need to just try it.

This quote gets thrown quite often in the gaming community but I'm pretty sure it's taken out of context (In fact I can't find the source for it). But I'm sure Miyamoto context was 1 to 2 years max and not 10 years. I say this because Nintendo has a history of brutal work to meet deadlines. See the history of Mr Satoru Iwata and why be became the CEO of Nintendo.

There's also accessibility. If I'm using a screen reader on Mobile such as VoiceOver or TalkBack, how do I pull to refresh? It would way easier if there was a button.

This is probably the most important reason. Microsoft is doubling down on cloud, and they are willing to do anything to get ahead in this game. This is the sole reason why stocks are going up for Microsoft.

As always, accessibility is the last thing people care about.

I guess just drop the comparison with Qt or other similar things. Just highlight that you can build native applications using React syntax. This alone is a good argument, no point on comparing, really. Only if you want to compare performance, etc.

Sometimes I ask myself if the unsettling feeling I felt in Diablo was because I was too young and impressed by the horror. But I believe it's just that people can't make good games anymore.

What you are missing is that they knew about it all the time but did nothing until a big "scandal" like this happened. It's a problem with trust now.

I could probably be considered a "vira-lata" too as probably many other Brazilians that lost hope at their countries. But I welcome any initiative from people that did not. I think that a "better diagnosis" is a step forward to a better "treatment".

I think that the stupid voter behavior is not part of the DNA of Brazilians. It is something that can change even if it looks very hard to do it. A lot of Brazilians are actually very tired of corruption, they know pretty well how bad things can get when politicians steal public money regardless of their level of education. They know it is that bad. Teachers don't get paid, policemen going on strikes, bridges falling, economy in shambles, etc. It affects their daily lives and it keeps getting worse.

I think that the "Rouba mas faz" might be true in some places but not everywhere. Now, think about it: you feel hopeless when you know that it's a problem but you don't know any better how to vote. How could you know? How can you trust 100% on someone else's integrity to represent you, specially in Brazil? It is at this point that the problem needs to be tackled from multiple angles. One of them being this initiative. Changing legislation, which happened, in regards to how campaign are run and who is eligible to become a candidate, punishing those who stole public money (Maluf is still in jail, Cabral is in jail, no everyone is in jail but justice is working now).

Not defending Intel, just trying to understand their position other than just being negligent. Wouldn't it undermine most users if the security flaw had leaked before major OS fixed it? The more you share, the easier it is for a leak to happen. So they could have decided to share only with the major OS first and then later, once fixes have been implemented, expand this to other interested parties?

With buses you would still have traffic problems even if in theory it would help reduce traffic. As long as we have humans driving vehicles, there will traffic. Realistically, this won't change any time soon (probably never).

It is much faster to get from point A to point B with rail (metro, for example) than a bus.

I don't agree, for critical actions such as this it needs some level of protection that can be handled by trained professionals. e.g. You do not want to make it easy to send a nuclear bomb, but you also need to make sure that if there's ever a need for it, it can be done quickly by trained professionals.

As stated in the article, git is also challenging for game development because of the large asset files. Git has limitations and they are part of the reasons a lot of companies and even indie game devs didn't jump into it (Jonathan Blow, John Carmack, being some of the critics). It's more about speed, simplicity, and efficiency rather than "Corp" vs "Open Source" conspiracy.

It is still very useful for an affordable mocap solution. I recommend buying one now if you ever want to do it.

I've been living in the bay area for about 7 years working as a software engineer. When I arrived, rent was around 1.7k for a 2 bed 2 bathroom apartment. Today, the same place charges you around 3.5k. The cost more than doubled while this is pretty much not true about your salary.

You either need to get huge promotions in 7 years to double your salary which is very difficult (and this is just to keep your living standards) or be forced to move to somewhere farther and face a crushing commute of at least 2 to 3 hours everyday.

Roughly speaking, buying a house is also not a win since houses closer to where you work will usually be more than 1 million dollars. Mortgage would be around 4k-5k with 20% down payment. So again, you'd be forced to buy somewhere farther.

There's really not much to do about it, it's supply and demand and you need to accept it. There are a couple of things though that tech companies could do: either working with local authorities to help improve public transportation or decentralize the workplace.

Companies, however, are doing exactly the opposite: Buying lands which were previously residential areas and building huge mega-structures so everyone can work in a single place while not having the best from public transportation (e.g. Apple).

I naively thought that making the lives of their employees easier would be in the best interests of tech companies but I just see things getting worse every year.

The worst month of employment growth, meaning, growth is slowing down. Not hiring enough + layoffs.

- Microsoft: Gaming has been a first class citizen at Microsoft for a while and I'm not sure if we can say the same about Apple. They just put tons of money into it because they have this competitive advantage. It's not only the games they bought/publish (Minecraft, Age of Empires, Flight Simulator, etc), but the platform itself (Xbox, DirectX, etc). Windows 10 also has a "Gaming Mode" as part of the OS for performance improvement which some games might have it turned on automatically.

- Hardware: PC Gamers usually customize hardware to have pretty decent power (GPU, CPU, Memory, etc) for relatively cheap when compared to Mac. In PC market, there's hardware competition for literally every single part of the hardware. For games that require extra power, you would need a powerful machine and, while they do exist in newer generations of iMacs, it's just damn expensive. Which brings me to my next point: market.

- Market: Although Mac users grew significantly, I'd say it's still pretty small when compared to PC. If you are a game developer, especially an indie game dev, you may find how depressing it can be to publish a cross platform game. It's not super hard given the popularity of game engines such as Unity and UE4. But the issue, in my opinion, is if your game has multiplayer, for example, you're probably going to have a bad time dealing with platform differences. Aside from that, you're going to have to deal with other platform differences in a lot of different levels. At some point, you're going to ask the question: is it really worth the extra investment? You are going to delay publishing your game for probably little gain. Developing for the larger market first might make more sense. Not only for indie devs but for AAA games too.

But that's how development for iOS is too, probably even worse because you also need to buy the whole computer in order to develop in it (I know there are other ways, I'm just considering the way most developers do). But this model still successfully works for Apple.

Developing for Android is really amazing. But the real deal is the phone's market share. It doesn't matter much how good or crap is your experience creating apps for a specific platform. At the end of the day it's about how many users will be downloading your app. Apple and Android has the market. Windows does not have it.

I actually think Visual Studio does refactoring pretty well. It is not a new innovation from Apple. Xcode, in this case, is just catching up with a much needed feature and I still think it's not quite there.

This is really nice, but it would be good if they could release some metrics for their example such as the News Feed. How much did it improve the scroll performance? The main reason is because I'd like to know if the extra complexity is worth the effort. I'm sure that from Facebook scale any improvement is important but how good is it?

It is mentioned in the article that Android documentation does not recommend doing multithreading optimizations since the UI Toolkit itself is not thread-safe, does this mean that Android's own UI Toolkit cannot be used within this context? What is the level of integration that Litho and Android's UI Toolkit can have? Also, in regards to Android's Accessibility APIs, does Litho components handle/have that capability?

I guess I should have done a bit more research/experimentation on Litho, but these are some questions I have. I'd really love to use it though.

It took really long and a lot of community effort for this change.

Recommend buying?

I've started to use python a lot for 3d scripting on Blender and Maya. On Blender this is the only option.